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tomatofrank

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About tomatofrank

software engineer in nyc

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    Comment #46580769

    Depends on your use case but if you want to avoid the syncing problem altogether you can federate queries to Postgres either via the native Postgres connector or over a JDBC bridge…

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    Comment #43336074

    Very pumped to see how this improves the experience in VSCode. I've been revisiting my editing setup over the last 6 months and to my surprise I've time traveled back to 2012 and a…

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    Comment #41795431

    You like thrillers? You like non-fiction? You like absolute page-turning non-fiction thrillers? Check out "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston - it's about the Ebola virus and a strai…

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    Comment #38863821

    Show me five use cases of offline web apps and I'll show you a liar ;)

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    Comment #30218918

    Do you have an example query?

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    Comment #30218903

    I'll check it out!

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    Comment #30218901

    Totally agree. Genius is such a great app. I remember being pretty upset when I read this article a few years ago, which shed light on Google's anti-competitive behavior against sm…

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    Comment #30217206

    The evidence supporting this is the 4 YouTube videos at the top of the list, followed by 3 of those 4 YouTube videos on page 2 (LOL).

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    Comment #30216221

    Yup! The version I was looking for was a slowed & reverb version that I later found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkXCAKgqD3M

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    Comment #30216189

    Haha yeah, I was wondering when someone would suggest this. Last night, after I got the result back immediately from DuckDuckGo and Bing, I returned to Google and added quotes arou…

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    Comment #30216138

    Yeah, Google is still my default browser, though I haven't used other engines enough to develop a strong opinion here. I'll add that I could have been more clever with my query. Fo…

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    Comment #30215980

    "like you didn't care I don't know why lyrics r&b" was my query

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    Comment #30215966

    fuck yeah they did :P

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    Comment #30215961

    Oh that's interesting, TIL.

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    Comment #30215904

    Last night I watched a YouTube video that had a song in the background that I hadn't heard but really liked. I pulled up Shazam but it didn't recognize the song, so I took to Googl…

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    Comment #30212681

    Do employees at game studios have to sign NDA's or something? Like "hey what are you working on at Rockstar these days?" "nothing, definitely not GTA6"

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    Comment #29077003

    I'm getting very close to homelabbing. Change my mind before I light my money on fire.