Readit Newsaleksei commented on Web Scraping Is Vital to Democracy themarkup.org/news/2020/1... · Posted by u/atg_abhishek
>"a complete logical oxymoron: they want data to be public but also select who gets to see it."
I think you're proving too much here. Your argument applies to all published authors, and would strike a crippling blow to their copyright.
First of all I should think copyright only restricts publishing, not reading. Obviously if you put a price on your book I have to pay it, but that's a different issue.
Secondly the Internet is best viewed as a public noticeboard purely because of the way the protocol works. There's just no getting around that. I think you'd agree that putting up a notice on a street corner and then getting offended when people read it would be viewed as rather odd, if not something else.
Am I the only one who just keeps their hands/wrists straight on a regular unsplit keyboard? I've always naturally done this and never had any problems with strain.
The best way to describe it is that the home keys aren't ASDF, but more like WEFV with my forearm angled so it's straight from elbow to fingertip. This exaggerates the effect but demonstrates it clearly; the real home positions are more like intermediate points between keys.
Yeah, same. I find keeping my fingers on the home keys makes me twist my wrists outwards, which gets uncomfortable pretty fast. I mostly try to minimise wrist action in general.
I've actually had a Planck EZ for a few weeks now and I agree it's probably not very ergonomic for the classic qwerty touch typist, or at least not much better than a normal keyboard barring the programmability.
But since I don't do that anyway I find the keyboard to be pretty nice in terms of customisability and avoiding stretching.
In general I feel my hands are used most naturally in close proximity to each other (at roughly abdomen height) so I'm drawn to small keyboards with lots of modifier keys. A spherical keyboard would be pretty interesting to try out.
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aleksei commented on SQL queries don't start with SELECT jvns.ca/blog/2019/10/03/s... · Posted by u/protomyth
For updates, and deletes on the other hand I try to start with the where clause. Learnt the lesson after running a update query once before i typed the where to cause something like 40k worth of damage
Start every update and delete with BEGIN; and never fret again.
aleksei commented on The Octopus: An Alien Among Us lithub.com/the-octopus-an... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
While satirical, this doesn’t really make sense as an answer to question at hand. Natural selection dictates that intelligence, if possessed, will be put to use to further survival and reproduction. There are some limits to this — humans in many cases clearly have other goals — but it should be true to a large extent. The wheel, New York, and wars are pretty clearly aligned with this goal.
If the octopus possessed sufficient intelligence, something along the lines of an octopus city would presumably be in the cards. Or if they do possess such intelligence, the question again is why not form civilizations (which would presumably boost survival and fertility rates)?
Octopuses have been around for 300 million years, I think they've got survival and reproduction covered at this point. I would be careful of conflating shared culture with intelligence, especially in this context given octopuses are mainly solitary.
aleksei commented on GraphQL Performance Monitoring Is Hard medium.com/@__xuorig__/wh... · Posted by u/tepidandroid
GraphQL is basically well structured RPC calls. So everything you wanted to do with SOAP, with none of the headaches and really nice instrumentation and documentation thrown in as part of the protocol.
I'm usually surprised with all the comparisons to REST. It's far more practical and way less dogmatic.
> I'm usually surprised with all the comparisons to REST.
I'd say that's because you should mentally substitute RPC whenever you see REST. Basically everyone talking about REST APIs mean RPC over HTTP with nouns in the endpoints.
If I had a nice weather-protected path to walk to work (like the underground networks in some major cities), walking would be far preferable to driving.
My argument, nay, my observation, is that some type of transition between work and home appears to be vital to my well-being. I suspect that the time component for that transition is just as important.
For example: What if I built an office in my garage? That would give me a physically different space, but I'd be deprived of that transition time to switch mindsets.
What I don't know is how much time is needed for the same effect. Would a 5 minute walk suffice? Could it be even better? Who knows?
First, you should have a dedicated work space. A room is preferable, but you can make do by erecting sight barriers to your desk for example. The main idea is to make it easy to leave your work 'at work' and not be reminded of it in your free time.
Second, clothing. If you feel your day lacks structure make sure you're not lounging about in a tracksuit all day. Put on clothes you would wear to the office before work, and take them off at the end of your day. Wear shoes.
Third, take a walk before starting work and afterwards. A 20 minute walk will allow you to plan the day ahead and get in work mode, and will let you unpack the day and unwind after work. Ignore the rain.
So basically, make going to work a ritual (as foolish or unlikely to work as it may sound). You should also minimise distractions and control impulses to do non-work related things while 'at work'. If you can, consider getting out of the house for lunch or eat at your desk and not at the dinner table. Lastly, take part or try to instigate remote water cooler chats with colleagues to keep sane.