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  1. Comment on Godzilla Minus Zero | First look teaser in ~movies

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    Okay. That's enough to convince me. I need to finally bite the bullet and watch Minus One, because this is looking like it's going to be fantastic. For no reason at all, really, I've been putting...

    Okay. That's enough to convince me. I need to finally bite the bullet and watch Minus One, because this is looking like it's going to be fantastic. For no reason at all, really, I've been putting off Minus One for years.

    7 votes

  2. Comment on Things you didn't know about (Postgres) indexes in ~comp

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    This is a blog post I wrote after having a couple of work projects lead me to learning far more about indexes than I'd ever bothered to in the past. In particular: Functional, Partial and Covering...

    This is a blog post I wrote after having a couple of work projects lead me to learning far more about indexes than I'd ever bothered to in the past.

    In particular: Functional, Partial and Covering indexes had never appeared on my radar. I felt like I couldn't be the only one to have slept on the capabilities of indexes beyond the more obvious single and composite index we use all the time.

    I'm sure this is less interesting to seasoned database engineers, but perhaps more so to software engineers that have not yet gone very deep with database optimisation.

    4 votes

  4. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Honestly, this makes Go my absolute favourite language for anything more than a short lived script. Statically linked binaries in a type safe garbage collected language is just magic. Not my...

    Honestly, this makes Go my absolute favourite language for anything more than a short lived script. Statically linked binaries in a type safe garbage collected language is just magic.

    Not my favourite syntax and it breaks me that we can't have (proper) enums or ADTs. But it wins so strongly elsewhere.

    4 votes

  5. Comment on Proton Meet isn't what they told you it was in ~tech

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    I have to lead with this: I hate this trend of articles using scroll fade. It's horrendous. I couldn't get through this without relying on reader view. I have lost all interest in Proton's email...

    I have to lead with this: I hate this trend of articles using scroll fade. It's horrendous. I couldn't get through this without relying on reader view.

    I have lost all interest in Proton's email products. Early days, I was a huge fan. It was exciting to see a Google competitor picking up steam. And privacy by default too? Chefs kiss.

    But I find the whole thing fundamentally flawed. As pointed out here, if you're not receiving from another Proton user (or someone encrypting before send) then you're no more secure from the provider than with any other service.

    And when sending to a non-proton user, you must consider anything you said compromised as soon as it hits a Google server (or insert other big tech provider) in plain text.

    That all said, I don't actually think Meet is as flawed a product as the article makes out. My understanding is that a government agency would be able to see that you used the product but not who you interacted with. I think Proton could be far more transparent about the limitations.

    2 votes

  6. Comment on Adding live reload to a static site generator written in Go in ~comp

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    Thanks talklittle, this was exactly the kind of feedback I was hoping to receive. I really like your suggested approach of writing in plain English without code, before adding examples back in. I...

    Thanks talklittle, this was exactly the kind of feedback I was hoping to receive.

    I really like your suggested approach of writing in plain English without code, before adding examples back in. I might even take that slightly further and have the code snippets collapsed, or condensed with the option to expand for those interested.

    I have a link to the full code in a repository at the end. Are you suggesting it might be better to have the full code written directly into an appendix?

  7. Comment on Adding live reload to a static site generator written in Go in ~comp

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    Hey folks. I'm sharing a guide I wrote mostly as a form of self documentation or "Blogumentation", a word I've recently come across and liked. I've never had a blog before, as I've never felt I...

    Hey folks.

    I'm sharing a guide I wrote mostly as a form of self documentation or "Blogumentation", a word I've recently come across and liked.

    I've never had a blog before, as I've never felt I had much reason to keep one. But writing more is one of my themes this year, and so, now I have one.

    I'd be really keen to hear feedback on any of: my writing style; the technical content of the post; or even the site itself, which is generated with the software I'm writing about (the dreaded "build a static site generator and then write about the process" trope).

    I feel a little bit ick about posting a link to my own site here, but it seems to fall within the guidelines and I don't know how else I'd find anyone to read it other than share it on forums I frequent.

    4 votes

  9. Comment on I'm going to Thailand next week. Looking for advice on clothing. in ~travel

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    Thanks. A lot of your advice here is the first time I've come across much of it. Particularly the part about speaking against the monarchy and negative reviews. The latter could have really caught...

    Thanks. A lot of your advice here is the first time I've come across much of it. Particularly the part about speaking against the monarchy and negative reviews. The latter could have really caught me out!

    When are you coming?

    Today!

    cosmetics and moisturizers here in Thailand are skin bleaching

    Just, what? This has prompted further research. I didn't know that was a thing.

    Finally, welcome and congratulations to you both! Many happy years and smiles.

    Thank you!

    3 votes

  10. Comment on I'm going to Thailand next week. Looking for advice on clothing. in ~travel

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    A scarf is something I'd never have considered. Thank you!

    A scarf is something I'd never have considered. Thank you!

    2 votes

  11. Comment on I'm going to Thailand next week. Looking for advice on clothing. in ~travel

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    And somehow, I didn't stop to consider I could actually buy some clothes out there. Honestly though, I'd rather avoid going shopping whilst we're there. I don't like shopping at the best of times,...

    There’s also Uniqlo, H&M and decathlon in Bangkok.

    And somehow, I didn't stop to consider I could actually buy some clothes out there. Honestly though, I'd rather avoid going shopping whilst we're there. I don't like shopping at the best of times, let alone whilst on holiday! But this is very handy to know.

    As for clothes, there’s a very slim chance you need long pants except for visiting temples

    This is the only reason I'm packing my linen trousers.

    There’s laundry services all around, you either pay per load and hang dry yourself or you just hand your clothes in and get them back the next day (or that evening)

    Great to know. I've been told it's very difficult to dry clothes for the next day, thanks to the humidity, so planning to do the overnight service where available.

    I would not wear synthetic clothes because from my experience they make me sweat too much.

    I will sweat horrendously either way. If I wear cotton, the clothes will just remain sweat soaked, where the synthetics will dry out at least. I would vastly prefer to wear organic materials, but I think it will be a disaster.

    I really appreciate the advice.

    3 votes

  12. I'm going to Thailand next week. Looking for advice on clothing.

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    I'm very excited to be taking a trip to Thailand with my wife for our honeymoon. I'm going to do some clothes shopping this week and keen to take advice from those who live in or have travelled to...

    I'm very excited to be taking a trip to Thailand with my wife for our honeymoon.

    I'm going to do some clothes shopping this week and keen to take advice from those who live in or have travelled to SEA or specifically Thailand before.

    I'm going for a minimal approach, so I'll be taking as few clothes as possible and having them laundered whilst I'm there.

    For underwear, I'm settled on stocking up on Uniqlo's airism boxers as they're already the most comfortable I've ever owned and I'm certain they'll hold up well to the tropics.

    In that vein, I'm not sure if I should also go for the airism t-shirts, or if there's an obviously better choice. I hear lots of mixed opinions on cotton vs merino vs synthetics. I sweat too much for cotton, and have never got on that well with merino (outside of jumpers/sweaters). Given I'll only be there for a couple of weaks, I'm feeling that synthetics are the way to go. But I'm happy to be convinced otherwise.

    For footwear I'm going to wear my Altra Escalantes. I'm currently training for a marathon and will have to do at least a few runs while I'm out there, so these will serve as my running shoes and for anywhere I might appreciate plain black shoes (or something more supportive than sandals). Otherwise, I'll be living in my Birkenstock arizonas.

    I'll be packing two linen shirts, one linen trousers and then a couple of very lightweight shorts. Again, I'm avoiding cotton with the shorts. I have some ABC WovenAir pull-on shorts from Lululemon that I think will be very comfortable, but I'd be keen for recommendation for another pair or two. I've been told the pacebreakers from Lululemon are great, but not sure if an order from there will arrive on time.

    I'm based in the UK, so any recommendations would ideally before for shops we have here, or international brands like Decathlon, Uniqlo, H&M etc.

    I understand this is all very personal, but I like hearing different preferences.

    18 votes

  13. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Hey, this is pretty cool! I've toyed with making something similar myself, but eventual settled on self-hosting Linkwarden, which fits my needs adequately. But I still yearn for the simplicity of...

    Hey, this is pretty cool!
    I've toyed with making something similar myself, but eventual settled on self-hosting Linkwarden, which fits my needs adequately. But I still yearn for the simplicity of something like yours on occasion.

    1 vote

  14. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I've been interested in the IndieWeb as a broad topic for a while. More recently, I've become interested in the Micropub standard. The basic concept is that you can have any number of servers that...

    I've been interested in the IndieWeb as a broad topic for a while. More recently, I've become interested in the Micropub standard.

    The basic concept is that you can have any number of servers that follow the standard, and any number of clients. In theory, any client should be able to work with any server.

    You write your blog posts, or other types of content (see microformats), and the server will then integrate with whatever backend it's been setup for to publish your content. A pretty typical backend is writing plain text markdown and then having a static sit generator run to generate your new web page.

    There's plenty of implementations out there, but I've been infatuated with Gleam lately, so I've started writing my own server using that. I'll share the project once it's at the MVP stage.

    Speaking of Gleam, I'm very excited to be attending their first ever annual conference in a couple of weeks, in Bristol. It will be my first time attending a tech conference.

    7 votes

  16. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    I'm really sorry to tell you that the quality of the Cradle series does not hold into the later books of the series. It grows exponentially. You'll rapidly consume the remaining books, soon...

    I'm really sorry to tell you that the quality of the Cradle series does not hold into the later books of the series.

    It grows exponentially. You'll rapidly consume the remaining books, soon finding yourself at the end. And then you'll be empty. Nothing will fill the void. But you will be ok with that.

    Enjoy!

    3 votes

  17. Comment on I'm back in ~talk

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    I feel like I have quality para-social relationships here. Many usernames here have become so familiar that i have built a sense of trust and joy with them, despite never interacting directly much...

    I feel like I have quality para-social relationships here. Many usernames here have become so familiar that i have built a sense of trust and joy with them, despite never interacting directly much with most of them.

    4 votes

  18. Comment on Do you have your invite request email? Post it and let's find out what drives people to want to be a part of Tildes. in ~tildes

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    Like a few others, I just posted in one of the Reddit recruitment drives during the API debacle. I think I wanted a like-for-like Reddit replacement initially, but quickly found that Tildes is far...

    Like a few others, I just posted in one of the Reddit recruitment drives during the API debacle.

    I think I wanted a like-for-like Reddit replacement initially, but quickly found that Tildes is far more to my taste.

    5 votes

  19. Comment on Why do RSS readers look like email clients? in ~tech

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    I did see that. I will have a play with the search filter and see how well it works.

    I did see that. I will have a play with the search filter and see how well it works.

  20. Comment on Why do RSS readers look like email clients? in ~tech

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    I do something similar. How do you achieve this? I currently have a category called "Discovery", used the same way as yours, but I just manually mark each feed within it to not appear in my main...

    I do something similar. How do you achieve this? I currently have a category called "Discovery", used the same way as yours, but I just manually mark each feed within it to not appear in my main feed. This way I only see feeds of this category by manually opening it. I really wish FreshRSS let me set that by category rather than individual feeds (although not enough to relearn PHP and make a PR myself, apparently!).

    2 votes