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Re:Buy wisely Whenever I buy things I try to prioritize cost per use on Sunday October 01, 2023 @03:27PM (#37729594)
This is why I put a lot of games I’m not sure about on my Steam wishlist. Then when a game is “cheap enough” I buy it.

If my hunch was right and the game is only “ok”, but I got a few hours of enjoyment out of it for only a few bucks, I don’t have any buyers remorse.

Re:Show HN: A JavaScript function that looks and behaves like a pipe o... on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @10:50AM (#37675464)
Proposal from 2015 to add pipes to JS:

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator

Re:Show HN: A JavaScript function that looks and behaves like a pipe o... on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @10:49AM (#37675449)
Just an FYI to folks, there has been a proposal to add pipes to JavaScript for a few years:

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator

Re:Is 20M of rows still a valid soft limit of MySQL table in 2023? on Monday May 22, 2023 @09:59PM (#36038918)
check out gh-ost migrations: https://github.com/github/gh-ost
Re:Microsoft Freezes Salaries for 2023 on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @02:11PM (#35891147)
This may help explain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_wages