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That also includes codebases running on languages that teams don't always associate with AI coding tools, such as C, C++, C#, Java, PHP.
What a strange comment for them to make. Why wouldn't I expect CC to work well with those languages? What languages would I associated it with? Python and Javascript?
You only need a BMI of 30 to get a private subscription. That's a pretty large portion of the population (no pun intended).
At least some bits of it do. I was writing something to pull logs the other day and the redirect was to an azure bucket. It also returned a 401 with the valid temporary authed redirect in the header. I was a bit worried I'd found a massive security hole but it appears after some testing it just returned the wrong status code.
There's a model aircraft club near to where I live (UK). They have a runway and people use it most days. In the summer they have a two day festival where people come and camp and do model plane stuff. Presumably it's the Glastonbury of model aircraft. It's quite fun to watch them fly around for a couple of hours.
Anyway, my point is that if I didn't live just around the corner, I would never have known it existed. I'd imagine there are similar setups around the country. You do need quite a big space and a runway is presumably helpful, so it probably makes sense for them to be collectively run.
Our VPN restarted about an hour ago and caused a bit of excitement, on the whole it's been a lot less _interesting_ than the last one thankfully.
Seeing various issues with GCP right now.
a few weeks to get to the point of not wanting to smoke again
That's a shockingly short amount of time for smoking. For me, after a few weeks I'd say some of the worst cravings had passed. But for a good year or two afterwards they'd occasionally come back, albeit briefly. I quit about 15 years ago, but given the right situation I can still feel it.
Good reminder that we need a backup real time messaging app.
I'm quite enjoying the quiet. There's still video or email in an emergency.
Babashka is truly wonderful and has taken over almost all my scripting projects. But the author started by saying they didn't want to use a language without types so Clojure is probably out!
I spend way too much of my working life with package version ranges. It took me a minute to understand why this was wrong.
I've been at an organization that went from Java to Clojure about 12 years ago. I think there were two main things that allowed us to make the move:
* No one was in love with Java. It was fine but we were doing the whole spring style super verbose Java and it felt like a lot of ceremony to get anything done. There had been an experiment with Scala previously but that hadn't taken off.
* We had a service-oriented architecture which meant we could try Clojure out on a few new services and see how it felt.
We ended up going from 2 services to moving the whole org over really quickly. A lot of excitement built up and people didn't want to be left out. At the end of things only 2 people decided they didn't want to learn Clojure.
A few other things we did:
* Bought loads of books and left them lying around
* Started a Clojure club where we booked an hour a week and did some exercises in Clojure
* Had a big meeting where we convinced everyone that Clojure was worth an experiment
* Brought in 3 consultants to do some Clojure training for everyone
* Probably strong armed everyone into watching simple made easy - it helped that lots of people had already seen it live that year
There are a few talks about it floating around although they are very very old now and I'm not sure they're worth the time!
https://whostolebenfrog.github.io/clojure,/deployments,/clou...
We've also had those macro nutrient warning flags on all packaged food for quite a few years in the UK. The sugar tax is on top of that.
One of the main effects of the sugar tax was that so many manufacturers just changed their recipe to avoid having to raise prices. So the option to pay more in the shop isn't even there. Coke and Pepsi are the notable counter examples.
Yes this is completely my experience too. I spent most of yesterday battling with the query planner. Sometimes you can't express with table statistics something that you know to be true for the exact query that you're making.
There are a lot of arguments about query hints etc becoming stale and the performance changing as the table grows but I'm less worried about that - it would be a gradual degradation of performance. What worries me is that the table stats cross a threshold at 3am and suddenly the query planner chooses something crazy.
I've also wondered if an approach of trying a bunch of query plans could be fun. Get it to pick the top 10 possibilities and just run them all and record stats on which was fastest. Doubly so if it ever decides to run a seq scan where there is an index. Please. Just try the index! That said yesterday I was definitely at the point where I just wanted to express the exact query plan myself.
The fact that it's a router and not a PG extension is helpful if you are using cloud hosted postgres and don't want to get into the business of managing backups etc yourselves.
Only azure supports Citus as far as I know.
The makers of Peppa Pig made another program aimed at slightly older children called Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom that was much much better than Peppa Pig. It was much funnier and the characters were so much better and more likeable.
I do think they're right that the footpaths and rights of way are underappreciated here. Whilst I would appreciate a proper right to roam, it would be more about being able to legally wild camp. In terms of actually getting to places there aren't that many interesting places that aren't already accessible.
There's barely a field around my house that isn't crossed by a footpath.
There are a loads of fantastic long walks to take on. Personally I'd recommend the south west coastal path. In particular the wilder Exmoor section, although there's barely a dull moment over the whole 1000km. There is definitely something incredibly mindful and calming about just spending time walking.
Around 2001 pretty much all my friends had one. I owned 3 over that period (a friend destroyed one, the other me: skating falls were tough on them!)
They were easily the best format for portable music until mp3 players got their capacity problems sorted out.
They were amazing for copying music and making mixes. No one ever bought a new release on MD to my knowledge. You bought the CD and copied it onto MD. We also used them to record our band practise sessions.
Matthias Wandel (woodgears.ca), who was an engineer at blackberry throughout a lot of this, reviewed the film a few months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yuqdr_1iRg
They had an article by Michael Howard last week about it being a success:
https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2023/07/06/thames-wa...
Although they went quite far to be clear it wasn't written by them.
That said I've not found the economist to be dogmatic when it comes to privatisation. They typically come across as quite practical to me.
This is a fun tool. It took me a minute to realise how to add chords as I though the chord root part was talking about the key or something.
I found a bug: for one of the generated progressions it had 4 chords but played multiple chords at the same time. Progression was G9, Am11, D13, Bm9. But it played G9 and Am11 at once, the D13 and Bm9 at once and cycled between these two states. Clicking stop and play again and it plays normally.
Yeah same in the UK although it doesn't sound like we take it as seriously. That said I think it's quite rare to find people that can't swim, even if they are very out of practise.
I used the rust one a few weeks ago to shred my almost 17 year comment history. I was quite sad to do so but someone started harassing me for stopping them from scamming on the sub I moderate and I realized that it was just a liability.
On another note the Reddit admins wouldn't ban them despite them literally and repeatedly scamming money from users by pretending to need food. Despite them also posting at the same time about the weed they just bought. And also harrasing me and others across the site. One of the admins kept pushing it for me but apparently the team in charge thought it was a difficult case and only sent them a warning. The whole thing was just disgusting.
A few years ago I saw go go penguin perform their imagining of the koyaanisqatsi soundtrack live. It was one of the best things I've ever seen. I was spellbound from start to finish.
Bergen is one such place funnily enough.
Excision still isn't supported for cloud, it is / was on their plan but there was never any movement in that direction.
It was the 15 year anniversary recently.
But I think it's just general hackernews language waves. Someone posts something, it does well, other people get interested, find things post them and onwards.
Yes, this was exactly my thought. An ashtray to my mind is a beer branded plastic type thing. They also weren't entirely fireproof so they were often slightly melted if someone left a lit cigarette on it, or the contents set on fire.
My grandparents ashtrays were ornate glass structures though.
It's just a clumsy sentence. They are trying to say that modern lifestyle leads to obesity, not fasting.
I would love the right to wild camp in England. That said I do wonder how well it would stand up to our much higher population density. The current system does kind of work despite its lack of rules or clarity. I think our trespass rules are a good compromise.
It usually depends a lot on both the culture of the area and how often the paths are used. Where I am in Somerset there are an incredible number of paths, there's barely a field without a path through it. The routes are well marked and have good gates or styles for walkers. They are well used which helps keep the weeds down. Most of the Forrest also goes above the required footpaths and rights of way and keep a lot of permissive paths open too.
Land owners have a responsibility to keep the routes accessible and I think they are paid a small amount for it. Grants are available for gates etc. That said they are rough routes so are fairly muddy at this time of year. I love them and base most of my running around them.