YouTube design changed almost every year until 2020! Wild.
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degenerate commented on Why Do Kind Strangers Return Our Wallets? nytimes.com/2024/07/19/wo... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect
"empathy" "right" "help" "hope" "same"
None of those words appear in the article. I can deduce that the author of this article would never return a wallet. If they are this perplexed at the good deeds of others, and need to turn to science for a reason, they are as dense as a brick.
Reasons:
- because kind strangers have empathy
- because kind strangers want to do what is right, and help others
- because kind strangers would hope the same thing is done when they lose their own wallet
I never play games but this was actually fun. Are there PC games that have a similar concept that can run on not a very powerful laptop?
You would likely enjoy Myst: https://www.gog.com/en/game/myst_masterpiece_edition
Related HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18058991
degenerate commented on Postgres vs. File Systems: A Performance Comparison (2022) enterprisedb.com/blog/pos... · Posted by u/eatonphil
In our production environment, we use XFS to run various databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc. It delivers performance that is either superior to or on par with ext4.
I'm interested to see if there're some ZFS users.
Are you testing performance with pgbench or something more custom/advanced?
There is a fantastic BBC Horizons documentary from the 90s called Snowball Earth that was easy to find on YouTube the last time I looked, but just now I see a hot mess of search results and if it's still in there somewhere I can't find it.
EDIT: found it on dailymotion and its a great story of how the radical theory was rejected then accepted. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7o0b66
I briefly searched and couldn't find it either - here is the IMDB for others to reference: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0605181/
degenerate commented on Claim: the ideal PR is 50 lines long graphite.dev/blog/the-ide... · Posted by u/samscully
Split the reformatting and real change. Make the reformatting change first and have a policy of merging those change fast.
Some teammates agreed to do this, but it's not known what files will be edited ahead of time, so a large job often has formatting edits anyway.
degenerate commented on Claim: the ideal PR is 50 lines long graphite.dev/blog/the-ide... · Posted by u/samscully
I'm probably in the minority here, but personally I'd much rather review a 300 line PR instead of 6 50-line ones if the change is a single context.
I briefly worked with a hard line-count-limit for PRs and I thought it made everything much worse. It is fine for changes that are actually small, but when you need to go back and re-open 4, 5 merged PRs in different tabs to get the full context again, the time to review increases tenfold with tiny PRs that don't really make complete sense by themselves.
I have worked with co-workers that have the complete opposite preference, though, and anything over a set amount of lines wouldn't even be reviewed.
Interesting to see the numbers on the article, however. My anecdotal experience would make me guess the opposite. I feel like work slows to a crawl once the PRs are artificially limited and broekn up like that, specially in fast moving companies and startups.
Lines with actual code changes aren't a problem for me, it's the automated IDE indent/spacing/bracketing that really drives me up a wall and fatigues the hell out of me.
But this might only be a problem with those of us working on legacy codebases. The kind of PRs I see in OSS projects I could review 1000 lines at a time - it's so clean!
degenerate commented on When America first dropped acid newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/jseliger
paywall blocked
Better than commenting "paywall blocked" is to provide an archive link: https://archive.is/vH7vF
degenerate commented on Stellarium: Software which renders realistic skies in real time github.com/Stellarium/ste... · Posted by u/tosh
I’m interested that this project, and many other visual projects, don’t have example images in their readme.
I imagine some OSS authors don't consider someone visiting the GitHub readme before visiting their website. I can't fathom thinking like that, but it must have never crossed their mind.
Here's the screenshots: https://stellarium.org/screenshots.html
degenerate commented on ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format blog.arxiv.org/2023/12/21... · Posted by u/programd
doesn't work great with long author lists...
The PDF is worse, so there is no simple answer to this: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.12907v1.pdf
At least the HTML version pairs each author with their affiliations, instead of the PDF which has all the names on page 1, and all the affiliations on page 2. That's completely unreadable.