emmanuel_1234 (u/emmanuel_1234)

emmanuel_1234 commented on What I wish someone told me about Postgres challahscript.com/what_i_... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

munk-a · a year ago

While postgres is indeed case sensitive usually writing queries with keywords in all caps is an effort to increase legibility for visual pattern matching. It absolutely isn't needed but if I'm debugging a query of yours I will send it through my prettifier so that I can breeze through your definitions without getting hung up on minor weird syntax things.

It's like prettification in any other language - visual structures that we can quickly recognize (like consistent indentation levels) make us waste less time on comprehension of the obvious so we can focus on what's important.

The only thing I really object to is "actuallyUsingCaseInIdentifiers" I never want to see columns that require double quotes for me to inspect on cli.

emmanuel_1234 · a year ago

Any recommendation for a prettifier / SQL linter?

emmanuel_1234 commented on Jerry Seinfeld, Social Anxiety, and Meditation camhashemi.com/posts/medi... · Posted by u/1penny42cents

FollowingTheDao · a year ago

"I see Jerry as a no-nonsense personality, one who’s reached the pinnacle of success in a competitive field. So hearing him emphatically praise meditation perked my ears."

"He focuses on how meditation creates sustained energy throughout the day, which is crucial for his productivity and his daily enjoyment of what you’d otherwise call “a grind”. "

First, on Seinfeld. Are we really taking meditation advice and believe the benefits from billionaire's now? You mean if a poor black woman in the Bronx with two kids and four jobs just say and mediated all their anxieties would go away and they would be more productive?

Now, on Cam. Am I really supposed to believe a vacuum cleaner salesman when he tells he how good his vacuum is? The guy is setting of on a new career as a "personal coach". And this is what they all do, they suddenly realize that "mediation is the answer." They made money off of tech and now they need a new easier way to make money.

https://x.com/camhashemi/status/1834569286028845125

When I was a Theravada Buddhist I meditated for up to two hours a day. The people telling you meditation will make you "calmer and more productive" are selling you snake oil to tempt your ego mind, they are not helping you realize what it is.

emmanuel_1234 · a year ago

+1, strongly. Anybody selling meditation as a silver bullet is deluded or selling something.

emmanuel_1234 commented on Air Quality Monitors Compared: AirGradient One vs. Airthings airgradient.com/blog/airg... · Posted by u/ahaucnx

emmanuel_1234 · a year ago

I unplugged my AirGradient a couple days ago. It's quite the useless piece.

The CO2 sensor does not read CO2 levels, and recalibrates automagically. I have completely wacky readings from it, from 200ppm to 2000ppm.

The VOC sensor also apparently does not read VOC levels, see discussion here: https://forum.airgradient.com/t/measurement-values-for-the-a....

All in all, I'm frustrated I fell for the regular free advertising they get on HN.

emmanuel_1234 commented on Passengers at EU Airports Not Allowed over 100ml of Liquids on Cabin Luggage schengen.news/passengers-... · Posted by u/vasco

bookaway · a year ago

Is the tıtle purposely ambiguous for clicks? They obviously mean each liquid bottle has to be max 100 ml, not that the total amount of liquids allowed is 100 ml, right?

emmanuel_1234 · a year ago

What's with the weird 'i' in "tıtle"?

emmanuel_1234 commented on Which Electric Cars Have Bidirectional Charging (V2L, V2G, V2H) zecar.com/resources/which... · Posted by u/teleforce

iSnow · 2 years ago

Pretty sure this list is missing brands like VW who make cars that have V2H. I believe Polestar as well.

emmanuel_1234 · 2 years ago

edit: none of this seem to be true, big-ass pickup trucks are just not popular in Europe.

Isn't it for Australia only? Are those models even sold there? I know F150 are not sold in Europe because (I think) they're not road legal, because they're monstrous killing machine.

emmanuel_1234 commented on New gel breaks down alcohol in the body ethz.ch/en/news-and-event... · Posted by u/geox

throwup238 · 2 years ago

> In the future, people who take the gel could reduce the harmful and intoxicating effects of alcohol.

I understand harm reduction but what is the point of reducing the intoxicating effects of alcohol? What's the point?

emmanuel_1234 · 2 years ago

From alcohol, I love:

- drinking it: I really enjoy the feeling of just ingesting beer, wine or spirits, especially with friends or family

- having a nice buzz from it.

However, those two things are, for me, incompatible. If I start drinking a little bit, I usually don't stop until I'm way beyond the "nice buzz". As the joke goes, "one beer is not enough, two beers are just enough, three beers really aren't enough".

Having something that would allow me to keep drinking without jeopardizing my body, my mind, and the day after would be a huge game changer.

emmanuel_1234 commented on Everyone Hates Workday businessinsider.com/every... · Posted by u/gulced

emmanuel_1234 · 2 years ago

Workday may be bad, but it has nothing on Taleo.

emmanuel_1234 commented on Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny reuters.com/technology/mi... · Posted by u/comebhack

chollida1 · 2 years ago

I'v read this thread and there are soo many rants on teams.

What specifically are teh workflow issues people have with teams?

My experience is that someone books an online meeting, i get a teams link. When the meeting comes I click the link, everyeone's face shows up, we have the meeting and then close teams.

I've never had any issue with teams, not even once.

What are the issues people have with teams because there are a lot of rants about teams but no specific issues are mentioned.

As a meeting tool its perfect, its there, just works and then goes away.

Are the rants directed to it as a chat app? or a company wide messaging app?

Because I use teams4-5 times a week and cant' think of a single time its failed me or crashed or slowed down during a meeting.

its the definition of a tool that just works and then goes away until I need it again.

What is making everyone so angry at the tool?

emmanuel_1234 · 2 years ago

I personally love teams. I don't particularly like my job, and Teams is so buggy that I can blame it for all the miscommunication.

Example: I've not responded to a message. Is it because I was away for 2 hours, or is because Teams shat the bed again? You'll never know!

It also makes my severely limited, monitored and controlled work laptop even more sluggish to the point that it takes a whole minute to simply start a shell, and 10 seconds to run any command on it (before the command actually runs). When coding, any keystroke takes a second to register. Is my productivity shit because I hate my job, or because my laptop is a dumpster fire in large part because of Teams? You'll never know!

emmanuel_1234 commented on Heat Pumps Take on Cold Climates spectrum.ieee.org/cold-cl... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

goalieca · 2 years ago

A huge chunk of canadas population in Quebec, Ontario, prairies, and BC see -20 for weeks on end. -40 is more rare but happens every year. Huge chunks of the mid-western USA see those as well. At -30 my furnace is basically on continuously.

emmanuel_1234 · 2 years ago

A bit late, but maybe someone will read this. I live in Toronto and installed a heat pump this year. We've been through the worst of Winter, I believe, and although the cost ramps up on the coldest days, the heat pump worked perfectly at -15C (it claims a COP of 2 at that temperature). I watch the auxiliary circuit, that is triggered if the heat pump fails to heat to the required temperature, and it never ran for the whole season. Yes, Winter can still get a lot worse and a lot cooler, but my house also has insulation and there is no scenario where I will freeze to death.

In terms of cost, it's a lot cheaper than gas + electricity (it evens-out on the coolest days, and is cheaper otherwise). It will not amortize the cost of the heat pump itself for a while, but that's a cost I'm happy to eat right now.

emmanuel_1234 commented on How smart do you have to be to get a degree? cremieux.xyz/p/education-... · Posted by u/noch

smeej · 2 years ago

Your insight into what's going on in a head like mine is spot on, and I have wished for a long time that my parents would (ever) have made an effort to put me in rooms where I wasn't the "smartest" person there. When I was young, I was often the least experienced, but throughout school even, it was obvious to me and usually to them that I was smarter than my teachers.

It sounds like a humble brag but it's not. It's more like a cautionary tale. Smart children need the experience of having to work to understand things, of knowing there are things other people know or that humanity in general could know, but not instantaneously.

Intelligence could be a powerful tool, but there are precious few people teaching children (or, heck, adults for that matter! I would pay serious money for a remedial "how to work hard for things and make incremental progress" classes as an adult!) who have it how to use it.

emmanuel_1234 · 2 years ago

Why not consider non-intellectual work? Woodworking is a humbling and gratifying experience when it comes to "working harder for things and making incremental progress".