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Much more principled (and hence less of a foot-gun) way of handling conflicts is making them first class objects in the repository, like https://pijul.org does.

Shameless plug: https://github.com/mkleczek/pgwrh automates it quite a bit.

From my experience the issue really is, unfortunately, that it is impossible to tell if a particular detail is irrelevant until after you have analyzed and answered all of them. In…

At least in case of the kitchen contractor, you can trust all the electrical equipment, plumbing etc. is going to be connected in such a way that disasters won't happen. And if it …

I am Polish and I was 15 in 1990 when the Berlin Wall fell. Lately I was thinking if it was only me or my fellow Poles remembering 90s as times of freedom and hope. Thanks for conf…

Indeed. The organization changed in the passing years. My worry is that there is more will to just dissolve it instead of working on improving it.

This. It looks like it goes in cycles: after major catastrophic event subsequent generations that don't remember the catastrophe are willing to engage in another one (I think of WW…

> The economic interest is the US ability to as rapidly as possible convert those shipyards to military shipyards during a large scale prolonged war. Nah, that doesn't add up. US n…

> Insofar as the country being conquered and Americans being slaughtered wholesale would be against our economic interests lol > There are clear national security reasons for the g…

The question is: how do you define "national security" and "other strategic value"? At the end of the day both really mean economic interest. Especially in case of US. So if someon…

With current military technology it is not really possible, is it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdppYYfQJgg describes it really well. So the question is more about what part of …

The theory is that in both cases (ie. with and without tariffs) shipyards are going to die sooner or later. It is better for the society to let them die as soon as possible and dir…

This. In-RDBMS computation specified in declarative language with generic, protocol/technology specific adapters handling communication with external systems. Treating RDBMS as a c…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432107 I wonder if (when?) elites are going to use and support Bitcoin. Oppressive governments will force citizens - even such powerful as ju…

Here on HN I will be downvoted to oblivion but well... let's be it: There is no other way for us mortals than to go back to cash... Or start using Bitcoin. Be your own bank. Vote w…

> I don’t see how this is true. There is a Bitcoin seller B, a thieve T and a victim V. T proposes to buy Bitcoin from B. T offers a new iPhone for a very low price to unsuspecting…

> * Based on the data they identify > * easy to remember (which means human readable and related to the actual information which makes them easier to remember) These actually are t…

> This hacker news article was given a surrogate key, 46272487. From that, you can determine what it links to, the name/date/author of the submission, comments, etc. > Do not encod…

> Your notion that you can avoid sharing internal ids is technically true, but that didn’t mean it’s a good idea. You’re trying force a philosophical viewpoint and disregarding pra…

I am not sure you are arguing against my claims or not :) I am not arguing against surrogate keys in general . They are obviously very useful _internally_ to introduce a level of i…

The article only discusses reasons why formal verification is needed. It does not provide any information on how would AI solve the fundamental issues making it difficult: https://…

Any piece of information that can be used to retrieve something using this index has to be available "outside" your database - ie. to issue a query "give me piece of information id…

> The UUID would be an example of an external key (for e.g. preventing crawling keys being easy). This article mentions a few reasons why you may later decide there are better exte…

> "Internal" is a blurry boundary, though Not for me :) "Internal" means "not exposed outside the database" (that includes applications and any other external systems)