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New comment by arunix in "A better SQL in 11 lines of code"

arunix — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:25:24 +0000

ORMs based on the query object pattern don't hide the database, but make SQL more reusable/composable (e.g. SQLAlchemy, JOOQ, etc).

https://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/queryObject.html

New comment by arunix in "No country for mediocre mathematicians"

arunix — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:41:52 +0000

Related: Does one have to be a genius to do maths?

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-t...

New comment by arunix in "Shrimple – A Simpler, Nicer Markdown"

arunix — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:31:24 +0000

Why does Ruby make Asciidoctor horrible to work with?

New comment by arunix in "Solid and Clean Code never felt solid or clean to me"

arunix — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:15:23 +0000

And at the end of that Bob says:

> For my part I'll just say that I have given due consideration to the points you've made, and while I disagree with your conclusions above, I have integrated several of your better ideas, as well as this entire document, into the second edition of Clean Code.

New comment by arunix in "Making Sense of Proof by Contradiction [pdf]"

arunix — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 11:29:50 +0000

I agree that the prime list example is really a constructive proof. But what about the sqrt(2) and log(2) examples?

New comment by arunix in "PostgreSQL is enough (2024)"

arunix — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:59:51 +0000

Can you say more about those bugs?

New comment by arunix in "How to move a beluga across the world"

arunix — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:27:37 +0000

Right at the end of the article:

> Why not release the belugas into the ocean?

> It's geopolitically difficult to return many belugas to their native waters, because many come from Russia, Lott said.

> Sending the Marineland belugas into the wild would have been "inhumane," Trites said. At least half of the animals were born into captivity, so they don't know how to hunt and wouldn't be accepted by the local beluga population.

> "The animals are so social that they can't survive on their own," he said.

New comment by arunix in "Djevops: Self-Host Django Easily"

arunix — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:15:00 +0000

Which VPS?

New comment by arunix in "Japanese verb conjugation the simple hard way"

arunix — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:09:20 +0000

Are there any books you'd recommend that get it right?

New comment by arunix in "Lisp's Influence on Ruby"

arunix — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:31:02 +0000

Is the lack of cons cells a significant limitation?

New comment by arunix in "Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart"

arunix — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:56:51 +0000

Altair looks closer than Alpha-Centauri on this map, although it's actually 4 times as far (probably Z axis squashing).

New comment by arunix in "What have been the greatest intellectual achievements? (2017)"

arunix — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:32:15 +0000

Cantor is mentioned, but I'd also mention the idea that some infinities are equivalent (e.g. Integers and Rationals), but others are not (Rationals and Real numbers).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_paradise

New comment by arunix in "Modern SQLite: Features You Didn't Know It Had"

arunix — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:56:07 +0000

Does StorX have any special handling of concurrent writes, or would the user need to take care of that?

New comment by arunix in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

arunix — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:19:43 +0000

Thanks. Can you say more about why TypeScript with Deno is your scripting language of choice?

New comment by arunix in "Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube"

arunix — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:51:52 +0000

TNG introduced various civilisations that drive much of the plot in DS9.

Season 1: Ferengi

Season 4: Trill, Cardassians

Season 5: Bajorans

Also, Chief O'Brien and his wife Keiko who were recurring minor characters in TNG have more important roles in DS9.

New comment by arunix in "I made my own Git"

arunix — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:17:49 +0000

I remember in a previous job having to enable git rerere, otherwise it wouldn't remember previously resolved conflicts.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Rerere

New comment by arunix in "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (2014)"

arunix — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 11:07:34 +0000

Do you remember which video that was?

New comment by arunix in "What is “good taste” in software engineering?"

arunix — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:21:18 +0000

Do you mean local variables per se, or mutable local variables? Clojure, like most Lisps has let.

New comment by arunix in "I ran Claude in a loop for 3 months, and it created a genz programming language"

arunix — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:38:11 +0000

Recently, I wondered what would happen if two of these systems were set up doing mutual pair programming ...

New comment by arunix in "Do I not like Ruby anymore? (2024)"

arunix — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:29:09 +0000

What does "slow to iterate on" mean?