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New comment by grouseway in "Salmon return to lay eggs in historic habitat after Klamath River dam removal"

grouseway — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 17:33:09 +0000

Maybe that's a thing, but here's a video of a pet beaver making a "dam" out of stuffies and other household objects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ImdlZtOU80

Implications of using GPL-licensed client-side JavaScript (2015)

grouseway — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 18:38:40 +0000

Article URL: https://greendrake.info/publications/js-gpl

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41541873

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by grouseway in "The Engineering of Landfills"

grouseway — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 20:07:34 +0000

Perhaps this is not what you want, but Codie Sanchez did a business breakdown with an indepedent waste collector: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMG6vtscSeI

New comment by grouseway in "Good ideas in computer science"

grouseway — Sun, 05 May 2024 20:47:03 +0000

+Virtual machines

+Automated testing (much newer?)

New comment by grouseway in "Tesla reportedly drops plan to build $25,000 EV"

grouseway — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 20:56:27 +0000

Except Toyota doesn't actually have it's shit together enough to make them in any quantity.

2022 Prius Prime sales: 5353

2022 Ferrari sales: 4922

A Ferrari rare car is not the solution to anything. Last I heard the waitlist on the Rav4 prime was years long here in Canada.

https://insideevs.com/news/676057/us-toyota-plugin-car-sales...

https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/ferrari-us-sales-figures

New comment by grouseway in "Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays"

grouseway — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 08:09:46 +0000

I know this is a tangent, but if anything, western culture is better about this. We're not an "honor" culture, and we don't warp family relationships to "save face". People are not even allowed to apologize in some other cultures because it brings shame on their family/group.

To give a really grotesque example, there is an country run by autocrats that carelessly unleashed a plague on the world because they prioritized their self image over taking descisive action to prevent an epidemic.

New comment by grouseway in "Werner Herzog on beer, yoga and what he would ask God"

grouseway — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 22:55:16 +0000

An AI generated, never-ending discussion between Werner Herzog and Slavoj ŽIžek

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33437296

New comment by grouseway in "Starlink quietly lost over $250M in burned satellites this summer"

grouseway — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 14:42:13 +0000

Is this because they are making a trade-off between surving some amount of solar flare activity vs increasing satellite weight by hardening them to radation?

I imagine it's preventable since the ISS and other large orbiters stay functional forever.

New comment by grouseway in "Show HN: Private, text to entity-relationship diagram tool"

grouseway — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 23:12:27 +0000

A LLM would probably make this better. Instead of asking the user to learn a DSL why not just translate SQL to whatever structure the render functions uses?

New comment by grouseway in "Show HN: Private, text to entity-relationship diagram tool"

grouseway — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 23:09:35 +0000

I see the other comment is marked dead now, but seriously why? I'm having a hard time imagining how a schema is viewed as actual intellectual property or a security risk.

Text Fragments

grouseway — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 00:44:29 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Text_fragments

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34635571

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by grouseway in "Longevity of Recordable CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays (2020)"

grouseway — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 20:53:13 +0000

Outlook may have used Windows structured storage back then -- but then again it could just be my imagination.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/stg/structur...

e.g. https://www.mitec.cz/ssv.html

New comment by grouseway in "The $440M software error at Knight Capital (2019)"

grouseway — Tue, 03 May 2022 03:57:31 +0000

Never? You guys don't use the BEDMAS acronym in grade school for teaching order of operations?

I've only ever called them brackets.

New comment by grouseway in "Poll: Where do you live?"

grouseway — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 20:56:30 +0000

I'm just happy enough that we aren't referred to as the "land mass to the north"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFM1X0o2pnc

New comment by grouseway in "Ask HN: Twilio suspended account because someone sent us a fraud text"

grouseway — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 18:20:43 +0000

For an alternative, maybe relay the texts to a slack channel (that's easy enough to receive on a phone for your coworkers). Zapier can probably integrate twilio/slack quickly.

New comment by grouseway in "Making life easier for newcomers to the .NET ecosystem"

grouseway — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 18:51:21 +0000

SQLalchemy is exceptionally good at all of these -- and I'm not even a power user so I don't know all the tricks.

Re: Composability

You can generate something like the WHERE clause of a query in a function and return it alone (rather than as a SELECT query) or even combine it with another WHERE.

e.g. In SA the "select" and "where" portions aren't tightly coupled.

Re: Expressivity

Right now you can easily build up ef.core queries by chaining IQueryable.Where, which is nice but you can only do that for selects and something like OR conditions are difficult to implement.

e.g. in SA you can just pass a list of predicates to the or_() function.

e.g. in SA you can build a WHERE clause and then pass the same clause to a select or a bulk operation.

New comment by grouseway in "Making life easier for newcomers to the .NET ecosystem"

grouseway — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 18:39:30 +0000

The developers have constrained themselves by refusing anything that falls outside of the scope of a strongly typed unit-of-work implementation.

This means we will probably never get: 1. Ability to pull non entity types out of the database without a whole lot of boilerplate. See the bizarre obstinacy here: https://github.com/dotnet/efcore/issues/10753

2. Any kind of bulk insert/delete/update ability. It's been a "to do" for years now.

3. Much better query composability.

Basically their response is to just use raw SQL for anything that isn't a unit-of-work feature. They're missing a lot of benefits that a ORM could provide when they say that.

The ef.core team feels like a lot of rejects that were stack ranked out to their own team. I know that is mean to say, but they iterate extremely slowly compared to teams like asp.net .core, visual studio code, c# language group, f# language group.

New comment by grouseway in "Some Whales Can Eat Upwards of 16 Tons of Tiny Shrimp a Day"

grouseway — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 03:47:17 +0000

Here's another cool visualization - with different figures however.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/all-the-biomass-of-earth-in...

New comment by grouseway in "The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)"

grouseway — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 20:48:18 +0000

I'm currently reading logs via command line by ssh as you describe for a simple service and not satisfied with this. What would be a step up without a lot of extra infrastructure?

New comment by grouseway in "Canada calls screen scraping ‘unsecure,’ sets Open Banking target for 2023"

grouseway — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 00:33:04 +0000

I feel like the rural coverage issue is misleading and overused. Look at their coverage maps:

https://www.rogers.com/mobility/network-coverage-map?icid=R_...

Most of my province (BC) is not covered. They cover the urban areas and some wider areas along highways in plateau regions. Where is this burdensome coverage that is keeping them expensive?