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A few years ago I start a dashboard project that was mostly raw SQL. I then saw the team wanting to convert it to ActiveRecord, which they started. But lots of queries had to use A…

You either start with or without an ORM, depending on your assessment of whether the project is gonna need one. If you start without one, you still have to partition your code well…

And I answered to that already on my second paragraph. Taking the nuclear option after merely "seeing [something] as" risky without exhausting the much-cheaper remaining options is…

> Your good developers are often the ones who like to tinker with frameworks, patterns and complexity. Note: good developers don't force this down people's throats, but they're alw…

Nowhere in the grandparent's post says that it was a "walled garden", or even that it was closed source. The fact that only one person was needed doesn't mean there's only one pers…

> Apple disagrees. They don't run promotions of that sort, or promotions, in fact. The price is the price, it's core to the brand. That's not entirely true. I got my M1 in a promot…

> Wow, really? That is an interesting choice. It is interesting but very pragmatic for this situation: until somewhat recently most computers and chargers only had USB-A ports.

Funnyly enough Apple's Brazilian PR team completely fumbled their response to the Ministry of Justice: > Existem bilhões de adaptadores de energia USB-A já em uso em todo o mundo q…

Firefox mostly, but that also happens with Safari in my other PC.

Businesses want to make money, and dating apps can make heaps of money by retaining users and making it pricier for them to find a relationships. Users that want relationships want…

One of the main criticisms I see is that low-Elo people also get show mainly high-Elo people. So there's much less chance for two low-Elo people matching with each other, the algor…

Well, if the government wants to help people meeting offline, it's gonna cost a helluva lot more than a website... to the point it doesn't sound like a waste anymore. I don't see s…

Isn't that exactly how Tinder also works, or at least used to work? I remember Tinder being heavily criticised for using Elo ranking.

Is it? To a complete outsider it feels as if Hinge is just becoming the new Tinder. Anecdotal of course (mostly from women friends), but partly supported by the growth of Hinge lat…

> it supports css based thread collapsing I didn't knew but I love it... I wish more developers took interest in such things.

> Old Reddit Important distinction. New Reddit also fell prey to bad development practices and is without exaggeration unusable for me. It often "crashes" and the whole page goes d…

Well, first, it's not reliable. If the network goes down and it doesn't have some form of recovery, you gotta start from scratch. Second, it's not bookmarkable (except for the odd …

And you're absolutely right, despite the downvotes, but here's the coldest of all hot takes: it doesn't matter if it's shit. It just has to be there. Doomscrolling and modern web p…

I find it personally hard to date stuff that came out or that I watched during the pandemic. To me it felt like I consumed 4 or 5 years of content in the span of each year. My sens…

That would be very interesting to know! Especially considering the two studios he mentioned aren't exactly close to each other: https://goo.gl/maps/MLw3twvRi9GumYeX8

True! And that applies for every case. Even if you have 100% isolated mains with solar or battery, you'll get 50hz from neighbours (especially apartments) and power lines close by.…

I remember consumer devices from the 80s that allowed transmitting audio using mains. They were already outdated by the time I saw them in the 2000s. Me and some friends tested the…

An on-line UPS like those used in datacenters or music studios is probably enough. They basically have rectifiers and inverters in them. Some of them have phase-locked loops to syn…