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Re:Tell HN: Merry Christmas on Monday December 25, 2023 @12:06PM (#38764196)
Sounds like you're not a Scrooge after all.
Re:JSONB Has Landed in SQLite on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @12:15AM (#38540685)
Because it seems to not be common knowledge on this thread: JSONB is a format offered by Postgres for a while now, and is recommended over plain JSON primarily for improved read performance.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-json.html

Re:Okta Says Hackers Stole Data for All Customer Support Users on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @12:43AM (#38455969)
We use Userfront and it's been solid
Re:When the Government Tried to Flood the Grand Canyon on Sunday August 13, 2023 @09:39AM (#37109946)
What did John Muir do for you to label him a "horrible person"?
I have one that has the FTX ad on one side and on the other side says "In hindsight, it was inevitable."
Re:No Lodash on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @10:16AM (#35056232)
That would be Nonederscore
Re:No Lodash on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @10:13AM (#35056191)
Missed a golden opportunity to call this Nodash.
Re:Can Duolingo actually teach you Spanish? on Friday December 09, 2022 @11:27PM (#33929840)
> No online course can ever teach you to become fluent.

I get your point, but with the pace of AI, there's a good chance this statement is not true in 5 years!

I'm not a fanboy, and there are many things you could call Elon Musk, but incompetent isn't credibly one of them.
Re:Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers on Friday September 02, 2022 @06:26PM (#32696396)
I think they meant the charge lasts for 4 years, not the phone itself.
Re:Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers on Friday September 02, 2022 @01:51PM (#32693683)
> Maybe my cardiologist is just trying to make me feel good, but he says my leads will likely last 30-50 years. Intuitively that seems unlikely, but we'll see. It's got to be one of the most engineered cables in existence.

One of my favorite learnings in school was about the "Endurance limit".

Some materials, like aluminum, will eventually fail under cyclic loading even at tiny, tiny loads. This was a big problem when they built the first passenger jets. Other materials, like steel, have a threshold at which they can be cycled indefinitely without issue.

For something like a pacemaker, I like to imagine they dialed the materials and forces to be within such a threshold so you can keep on ticking!