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Many thanks, this solves integration tests for us!

I love "stupid" stuff like this; you normally learn something small and seemingly inane. It's fun!


Time.

That has been the best way to get returns.

I setup a 212 account when I was looking to buy our first house. I bought in small tiny chunks of industry where I was comfortable and knowledgeable in. Over the years I worked up a nice portfolio.

Anyway, long story short. I forgot about the account, we moved in, got a dog, had children.

And then I logged in for the first time in ages, and to my shock. My returns were at 110%. I've done nothing. It's bizarre and perplexing.


…did you beat the market? 110% is pretty much what the nasdaq has done over the last 5 years

Also N=1


time in the market beats timing the market -> Kenneth Fisher ... i learned it the hard way ;)


Yeah, uh, all I did was buy BRK.B like a decade ago and it's up 172% or something like that.

The only way I have seen people outperform is by having insider information.


This might be my new favourite definition of "failing upwards".


Where did they fail besides Siri? The rest look like fine achievements to me.


Netscape was the market leading browser into the early 2000s, corresponding with JG leaving it.

Never heard of Tellme, but it sounds impressive on a resume.

Metaweb was a good open-source fact database which subsequently got walled off once Google bought it.

Google Search works significantly worse now than it did under Amit, and I say that as both a user and a websearch Xoogler. (JG took over about a year after I left Google).

Siri is the subject of this article.


can you substantiate "works significantly worse"? because obviously JG and whoever else worked on the BERT upgrade would disagree, but i am genuinely interested in contrarian takes.


Unless you work at Cloudflare or have worked at Cloudflare I'm not sure opinions like this help.

You don't know the context, you don't know _anything_ except for what Cloudflare chooses to share.

There are very few companies who deal with the kind of load that Clouldflare does, I dread to think what weird edges cases they've run into because of their sheer scale.


Casually suggesting formally verifying the software too.


Ahh, I thought this was just happening to me. I used to watch a fair bit of YT on my PS4, but a few months ago my home screen was basically empty save a few ad videos.

It was pushing me heavily to sign in; which I do _not_ want to do.

End result was I just stopped watching YT.


If you care about performance, they are required.

https://dev.to/jbranchaud/beware-the-missing-foreign-key-ind...

Again, another thing we learnt the hard way. All FKs now require a index for us.


Logical replication requires a primary key. We found that out the bad way. It _is_ a critical problem.


Logical replication does NOT require a primary key. It requires either a primary key, a unique index or to define a replica identity.

Sure, that still boils down, in most cases, to having a PK (replica identity is normally not a good idea), but there are cases where this would not be the case.


Not sure if it is just me, but the background animation absolutely kill my browser (Chrome) and scrolling is _super_ laggy.


I would highly suggest to block JS while you're only browsing. It loads fast, most trackers won't load and better security as most browser exploits leverage JS all the time


Exactly this. I was surprised to see these comments and then I realized that NoScript blocked the JS (as it should have). The web is so much nicer without JS.


The worst part to me is the lack of a scroll bar. Had to dust off the pgup/pgdown keys to check my progress in the article.


I have a RTX Pro 6000 as my main GPU currently, and this website pins it to ~40% utilization! Never seen a website do that before, some sort of kudos to the webmaster is deserved.

It still renders smoothly though and doesn't go above 40C so I guess it could have been worse.


40% might just mean nothing because your core is probably not running at full clock.


With that website open, runs at 2850 MHz to be specific, it normally idles at 400-500 MHz with ~20 processes (firefox, gnome-shell, alacritty, etc, etc) using the GPU


FWIW it's smooth on my $150 android shitbox.


I'm using a high-end ThinkPad for CAD and it's slowing down the page for me too.


>13 years old hardware, Linux, Chromium-based browser, seems fine to me.


the animation is so useless and doesnt add anything to the actual post


yes, had to use reader mode.


I had no performance problems on my Thinkpad T410.

Oh wait, it's because it is too old to have WebGL support so the background crashed and thus consumed no processing power.


Germany is on a weird path; first the nuclear power withdrawal and now this. It's all a bit topsy turvy.


Germany has had a weird approach when it comes to the Internet for several decades, but sure, it must somehow be related to recent nuclear power policies.


It doesn’t make sense to conflate a decision made by the government with that of a private company, just because they happen to be in the same country.


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