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I took two doses of mRNA vaccine, I still got covid, the fever, the pains it was horrible, I was in a foreign country alone where I didn't speak the language. I say this because that was the scariest moment of my life, I am thankful to the people who invented them.

I honestly believe it would have been worse had I not taken the vaccine.

Re:Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @09:57AM (#48121969)
I think a DuckDB cookbook by them would be excellent.
Does Saudi really want to fight an existential battle alone with Iran over 100B? probably not possible politically too.
> Afghanistan

Mullah omar died of tuberculosis in 2013. Have to say, pashtunwali meant US found no insiders to assasinate Talibani leadership.

Just asking as i dont know, what does the sound represent? prayer?
> The judge took no personal responsibility.

Thats par for Indian judicial system. Simple civil cases run for several decades, the judges are all(yes everyone) is corrupt. Basically nothing works. It has been like this for several decades.

LLM slop is least of its problems.

Re:Iran attacks RAF base in Cyprus, an EU country on Monday March 02, 2026 @03:23AM (#47215224)
> Cyprus, an EU country

RAF base is on "sovereign British land", A vestige of colonialism. Technically not EU.

Re:US Military says 3 service members have been killed on Monday March 02, 2026 @01:49AM (#47214651)
> troops themselves do NOT want this

I thought your empire had a voluntary military?

> Israel had already killed many, many more civilians in Gaza than Hamas did in Israel with that attack.

And how does it justify Hamas killing unarmed civilians? How does it justify Hamas lobbing grenades at Nepali students?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0kllzqk1vo

I think the parent comment is referring to RuPay à la visa/mastercard not Vipps which I say is equivalent of UPI. Although UPI is open unlike Vipps.
Re:Avoid UUIDv4 Primary Keys on Monday December 15, 2025 @12:16PM (#46277315)
In my old company new joiners are assigned an monotonic number as id in tech. GitHub profile url reflected that.

Someone may or may not have used the pattern to get to know the attrition rate through running a simple script every month))

Re:South Korea – A Cautionary Tale for the Rest of Humanity on Friday December 12, 2025 @01:16AM (#46241365)
TFR of my town of million people with $3k percapita income is 1.5
Re:Leaving Intel on Sunday December 07, 2025 @01:46AM (#46179717)
Screaming at Disk drives has been my go-to party trick to break ice the last decade.
Re:Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @12:13AM (#45976093)
This is actually pretty nice and amazing that they publish video format incident retrospectives.
I pay 30$ a year for 2/3 GB per day and unlimited calls. This is more than enough for me.

For broadband I pay 10$ a month for 100 Mbps.

Mobile is terrible at times, Broadband service is amazing, even though it is slow.

Broadband is not that common

Re:Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @04:36AM (#45653734)
One of my previous orgs used incrementing number for Github profiles. While there was no privacy concern about accessing a Github profile of another user, i don't think the org expected someone to calculate tech attrition and layoff count using this URL pattern ;)
Re:The Accountability Problem on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @01:55AM (#45652889)
Does you team hire? Haha. But yeah, In my current team EM also drops the ball for his own growth or agenda. Not sure how one can handle that.
Re:Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran'; on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @05:30PM (#45353004)
Apparently https://www.grepular.com/ is from UK. Wonder how feels if people start blaming him for colonialism.

Govt proscribing access by law is something, but I cannot imagine a guy going out of the way to put ipblocks.

Re:Most RESTful APIs Aren't RESTful on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @05:27AM (#44507913)
There was a post about Garage opener I read here sometime back. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16964907
I don't think it is simple to eat a different rice under normal circumstances once you are used to it. In my case even something which is staple variety 200 km away
Re:Is Iran close to building a nuke? on Saturday June 21, 2025 @08:16PM (#44341703)
I wouldn't trust anything from western media. It is just manufactured consent to bomb a country on the other side of the world.
I realize I procrastinate less when using LLM to write code which I know I could write.
Re:'Russian bombers are burning en masse' on Monday June 02, 2025 @02:05AM (#44156161)
Would be sitting in customs for bribe clearance in here.
We have a system where each pod spins up around 30 scheduled job instances of one job each processing a "partition", then transaction outbox is queried with hash of identifier equating it to partition.

We increased partition counts on sale days and it works well for us.

Couple of gotchas we had were.

1) Using hashtext from postgres is sketchy.

2) Increasing partiton count is an orchestra which requires stopping the partition.

There is no guarantee that ceding land would result in peace.
Please take as many photographs as possible. I never took any pictures while traveling. Partly as I am not photogenic, that inferiority complex stayed with me.

Now for the pictures I took, Me and my daughter spent 2 hours ruminating at those pictures this weekend. Nothing can beat that happiness

Re:Zoho halts $700M semiconductor plan on Friday May 02, 2025 @02:19PM (#43873144)
They sell machine tools. The cordless one I have is VFM. https://www.karuvitech.com/products/copy-of-cordless-drill-k...

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