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Re:Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields on Saturday October 03, 2026 @05:53PM (#49948171)
Very neat.
Re:Hacking IKEA Furniture on Sunday August 30, 2026 @04:18PM (#49502349)
IKEA is trash. Let’s not pretend otherwise.
Re:U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model on Thursday June 04, 2026 @10:03AM (#48398821)
This is a hidden gem in the Bay Area. Go check it out if you live near by.
Re:Railway Blocked by Google Cloud on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @12:02AM (#48202943)
“Deletion of private cloud subscription…”

Who deleted it?

An idempotency key enables exactly-once semantics in a distributed system.
Re:Appearing productive in the workplace on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @06:36PM (#48042822)
I had a feeling I wasn’t the only one witnessing this madness.
Re:Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45% on Saturday April 18, 2026 @02:54PM (#47818452)
Not sure if this equates to more spend. Smarter models make fewer mistakes and thus fewer round trips.
Re:EFF is leaving X on Thursday April 09, 2026 @03:28PM (#47708575)
Elon is a grumpy old bastard now. That’s all he is, really.
Re:Xbox UI Portfolio Site on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @02:15PM (#47051724)
Awesome
Re:Luce: First Electric Ferrari. Designed by LoveFrom on Monday February 09, 2026 @03:43PM (#46950963)
Very functional.
Re:The rise of one-pizza engineering teams on Friday February 06, 2026 @08:26PM (#46920371)
When was product and design never the bottleneck?
Re:Snow Simulation Toy on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @11:49AM (#46782552)
Addictive
Re:JSDoc is TypeScript on Sunday December 14, 2025 @07:45PM (#46268906)
Aside from the following, JSDoc is absolutely TypeScript.

Discriminated unions, conditional types, mapped types, template literal types, recursive type aliases, higher-kinded type patterns, generic constraints with conditional inference, the infer keyword, never type exhaustiveness checking, const assertions, readonly tuple and array inference, exact object types, key remapping in mapped types, indexed access types, variance annotations, assertion signatures, strict null checking with flow-sensitive narrowing, definite assignment assertions, the satisfies operator, declaration merging, module augmentation, symbol-typed properties, type-safe enums

…and not written via comments

Re:Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @09:03PM (#46226772)
It looks AI won’t replace software engineers after all.
With AI, this is about to get a whole lot worse.
So don’t use Wikipedia then. Problem solved.
Have you actually tried to tag, edit, or leave comments when you come across questionable content?

I’ve found that the system works pretty well. It’s not perfect, but I can’t think of a better solution.

My favorite offenders are the CJS to ESM (only) conversions.
This is actually very nice, thanks for posting.

Not sure this will save you time and money, but it is very comprehensive.

Re:Reflections on Palantir on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @02:07PM (#41861913)
It’s Salesforce v2. A ridiculously expensive proprietary “easy-to-build” application platform with an ecosystem of ridiculously expensive consultants.
Great way to promote yourself. Well done!
Re:SQL Tips and Tricks on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @12:45AM (#41643779)
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Re:How to Succeed in Mrbeast Production (Leaked PDF) on Monday September 16, 2024 @12:56PM (#41558055)
Never really occurred to me why Mr. Beast content doesn’t appeal to me (nor have I thought about it much)… their sole purpose is CTR. Makes sense. Lame.
Re:Google's New Pipe Syntax in SQL on Thursday August 29, 2024 @03:03AM (#41388115)
For autocomplete, FROM first makes a lot of sense. For readability, SELECT first makes more sense because the output is always at the top.
Got it in 11
Re:Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript on Friday July 26, 2024 @01:48AM (#41076089)
Good for annotating js files here and there, but lousy dx.
I’m glad I don’t use forks
Data import via customer self-service onboarding.
My thinking as well.
Re:At 50 Years Old, Is SQL Becoming a Niche Skill? on Thursday June 27, 2024 @09:42AM (#40810415)
NoSQL application databases still a thing?

No data warehouse?

From a language/interface standpoint, there is no alternative.

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