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Re:Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself on Thursday August 06, 2026 @08:00PM (#49204316)
If you sweat in this though, would it grow from the moisture or get killed off by the salinity? either way could lead to new and unexpected failure modes for clothing
Re:Combustion Engine Web-Based Simulator on Saturday July 11, 2026 @12:11AM (#48868651)
I had just been daydreaming about a v12 with tiny pistons and wondering how that would behave … now I can find out … turns out it would be terrible at low speed
Re:Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision... on Saturday May 09, 2026 @12:53AM (#48071939)
No that kind of critical data would be sent to pendo so it could be reported on or shown in a dashboard!
Re:CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font on Monday March 30, 2026 @12:42PM (#47576577)
Comic Code Ligatures for me :D
Re:iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @04:40PM (#45893253)
I checked the url a couple of times to make sure it really was legit... I was certain there'd be like 3 p's or a non visible character in there...
Re:DARPA program sets distance record for power beaming on Sunday June 15, 2025 @09:50PM (#44286100)
The key thing they aren't saying is how much power it took to "send" 800 watts 5.3 miles...
Choose how ablated you want your chicken
Re:SQL style guide by Simon Holywell on Friday November 15, 2024 @12:14AM (#42144128)
You can always alias to a singular … like

join users as user on user….

Then do as you please without the that if you are dealing with a user or leave it plural if multiple…

And if we’re talking personal preference I really dislike caps in reserved words in sql, even before highlighting was everywhere it still just feels archaic for no good reason

Re:Database "sharding" came from Ultima Online? on Sunday August 25, 2024 @06:42PM (#41352173)
Ha re: audio cues for debugging… your pc speaker is truly an underused tool when debugging something infrequent… for example our system processes a lot of xml data and usually it’s fine but for our test suite hearing beeps and knowing there are server side issues immediately is a great thing
Re:Show HN: What Beats Rock – AI Rock Paper Scissors on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @12:54AM (#40912645)
lol

Fire Bucket Hose Candle Power failure Welder Shovel Scissors paper rock

As a corollary to 2, management tends to love graphs… whatever your using to build should have a plugin that could show unit test success counts and generate even a simple line graph… that alone might be enough incentive to add more testing
Re:Show HN: Conway's Game of Life in TypeScript's type system on Friday September 08, 2023 @06:21PM (#37440063)
Just a ui bug, the presentation layer doesn’t match the data layer
Re:The Amazon Prime Day 2023 AWS Bill on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @07:05PM (#37155053)
You’ve talked me into running some load tests around and before these times… around thanksgiving I’ll give it a shot too… I wonder though if it’s just a redirection of traffic… if regular business sites are less busy because people are shopping it would just slightly shift the load from one “side” to the other

Hmmmm….

Re:Squeeze the hell out of the system you have on Friday August 11, 2023 @07:54PM (#37095456)
Lotus notes is wide… I imagine their scope creep checker was just a sticky note that said Absolutely!!
Re:Squeeze the hell out of the system you have on Friday August 11, 2023 @07:53PM (#37095443)
That’s awesome …. I’ve gotta remember this when our PO’s want to add things that have absolutely no business being in our software…
This exactly… I’ve had several devs come to me with things like “react won’t let me do this” … which is really typescript and really it’s that they are doing something wrong in any lang and it is just good news that the type system caught it
Re:Is ORM still an anti-pattern? on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @02:24AM (#36503031)
It’s unlikely that you would be using different db vendors.. not different databases for different environments, that you absolutely should be doing … but pgsql in one and mssql in another is super unlikely
Came here to suggest the same.. great fast running all the things you want a front end text to be

Also can run coverage reports that are usable in ci (I think it exports to clover format but whatever it is there is a Jenkins plugin that works with it)

I snorted at the Jenkins suggestion… and you’re right… spooling an agent all that nonsens… lol I imagine telling “the business” that your customer requests are handled timely by a jenkins job queue
Not my project/not affiliate but Evolve is wonderful for handling db migrations
Re:Hacker News Parody Thread on Sunday November 20, 2022 @12:17PM (#33682945)
Ok that’s it then it’s time to run doom on my toaster, rendering onto bread… input will be tough though
Re:Blip: A tool for seeing your Internet latency on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @10:52PM (#33446378)
It’s more of a cargo check, you fly all the way there to see if they’ll let you take some cargo back with you

*cargo isn’t really the right analogy… but close enough

Re:The Perfect Commit on Saturday October 29, 2022 @10:29PM (#33390420)
It also will track changes you don’t want… like if you have something you’ve changed for testing that can be kept in a separate change list (I call mine “ignore-for-now”) and the n future changes to that file would be in the regular changes, just minus the other stuff… also not affiliated, another fan
I'd point you to many smaller retailers...

https://outlawaudio.com/shop/

https://emotiva.com/collections/amps

and parts-express...

I've owned things from all of these places so there's that I guess :)

Re:90s Cursor Effects on Monday August 29, 2022 @09:59PM (#32645832)
Ooo I’m going to add some of these as Easter eggs
Audience participation!

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Re:Vite 3.0 on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @07:12PM (#32089890)
Replying to emphasize this comment...

For dev, vite _doesn't_ bundle, it sends your site basically unmodified (as individual files) to the browser since most browsers are already capable of running anything you're using anyway... so if you change one file, that one file is patched, not the whole bundle that depended on it..

since there's no bundling, the initial start time is nearly instant...

webpack hot reload is NOTHING like this hot reload

Re:Programming Fonts on Saturday July 09, 2022 @12:59PM (#32037043)
Ok who else starred comic shanns? I’m going to at least try that one for a week
I am.. my use case is a computer with two devices in the same building and they share data over webrtc datachannels..

There are some quirks in getting all the signaling working but there’s now more of a standard to do that process the right way…

Anyway since the devices are on the same network latency is nearly 0…

I do have an ack and retry process … I should add logging to see how often that happens though

I like you, pay off mine at the end of the month... It seems the percentage of people who do that is around 40%... which seems maybe high...

ALso don't forget, credit card companies charge at least 1.5% of a fee to the retailer, this is why some places (usually gas stations) will have a cash price and a card price...

But yeah... lots of the perks are paid for by the rest of people who aren't paying off the balance...

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