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Site.objects.annotate( distance=Degrees(ACos(Cos(.....))), latpoint=float(lat), lngpoint=float(lon), ).order_by("distance")[:5] for function calls, look at django.db.models.functio…

The one thing I really appreciate with the ORM is that you really can get the ORM to make... more or less any sort of SQL query you want. It can take a while to wrap your head arou…

Could someone explain to me in practice how one would use these to do… a thing? Like a straightforward use case? Having trouble figuring out what these are for

> Most of the lots are empty. Is this not the same for the data centers? Have data centers solved parking provisioning in a way office parks haven't? > Second, no, these jobs are n…

Drastically less parking, so way less jobs in the local area right? Like maybe the municipality doesn't care because a lot of jobs are filled by people coming in from an hour away,…

> nobody moralizes office buildings I do not believe this to be true! I have the impression you keep up with zoning discourse etc in your area based on your posting history... you …

we had a whole discussion at work around whether to not to use pg for queues at a reasonable size (in particular for doing some notion of fair queueing distribution across tenants)…

Hey areoform, I just read your post on hacker news about people using The Sentence, and couldn't agree more!

Best emails I've gotten are terse (nice subject line getting to the point) and a no-nonsense body. I think trying to make a "playful" personality turns off some people and is more …

sorry, you're right and I didn't express my idea well > For python - https://github.com/aspect-build/rules_py parses a UV lockfile and does not use either UV or pip at build time. …

https://pixelpoint.io/blog/how-to-craft-personal-design-tool... the blog post announcing this > If you need another graphic like that in another place, doing it manually is simply …

It's not about the package managers not being polyglot. It's about, for example, witnessing that `pip install` installs binaries with absolute paths and then writing a patch _for p…

so then my glib question: what is the purpose of this project? It does look like for some projects it's almost entirely "just declare the dep tree" ( https://github.com/allyourcode…

there's a wonderful blog post about this that I wish I could find and can't. I feel like it was a github gist. The gist of it is something like: - Bazel community hits a problem wi…

I'm a bit worried this is intro'ing the classic problem we have in Bazel land, where everyone is having to show up with their own sort of packaging scripts etc instead of using ups…

The sort of real thing is that it's not just about no-downtime deploys, but also stuff like rolling back smoothly, general continuous deployment or even just generally being able t…

> Unless it's a web site that can tolerate no downtime at all during schema updates, SQLite in WAL2 mode is more than enough. I do think that people really underestimate how quickl…

> We now have LLMs which, combined with proof irrelevance, promise to be an extremely capable form of proof automation. With sufficient amounts of automation perhaps you don't need…

This framing of the banners as cookie banners is a dodge. It's not about cookies. The cookie banner isn't about the usage of cookies, it's about _the underlying tracking_. You're a…

while what you're saying is true in theory, you still have to make sure that e.g. your form responses do the right thing. You might think "just return the full page!" but it's extr…

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