Digit-Al

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by Digit-Al 4y ago
The studios got greedy, thinking "we should be making all the profit from our shows rather than sharing it with Netflix", so started their own streaming services. But, it seems to me that that the resulting fragmentation, coupled
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I wouldn't necessarily call myself "enthusiastic" about CBDCs, but I can certainly give some reasons why I find this proposal to be "fairly reasonable". Firstly, they start off by saying that they don't think i
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This becomes confounded if you have multiple switches for the same light though.
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
Just to let you know, it should be "scene" in this case.
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
I think we're all familiar with people who say something completely wrong, with full and absolute confidence that they are right :-)
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Everybody promised to disrupt the smartphone – and the smartphone outlasted them(theverge.com)
2 points by Digit-Al 4y ago|0 comments
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
This reminds me of Microsoft having a strong incentive to make sure hardware manufacturers write their drivers correctly, because if a bad driver causes problems the average user will blame Microsoft, as they don't know that MS don&#x2
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live” - John Woods I have a terrible memory. Sometimes I'll look at code I wrote ages ago and think "Wow! I really did a
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
Fair enough. Thanks for replying.
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
Can I ask you a question? I ask this in good faith, as a matter of curiosity, and am not being critical in any way. If you do not want someone to message you, why have you given them your number? My assumption would be that if you trust som
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
I bought a couple of Beyond Meat burgers at the supermarket recently and tried them. Big mistake. The texture was nothing like a real burger and they left an unpleasant pea protein aftertaste in my mouth for ages afterwards.
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
Try reader mode. Interestingly, this page worked fine for me, but when I clicked links to other pages on the same site they exhibited the same problem you are experiencing. This is on Firefox on Windows. Reader mode fixes the problem.
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
Your argument seems to assume that SQL is assembly language; it is not! The query plan or internal bytecode is the 'assembly language' of an RDMS, therefore SQL is more akin to the RDMS version of C, rather than assembly language.
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
It sounds like Malloy might be able to find a niche amongst some casual users, but it will never gain traction amongst DBAs. My reasoning is as follows. Being a DBA is more than just writing queries, you have to be able to maintain the data
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
That is so true! Have you ever used SSIS? A really powerful tool, but even small changes can cause hundreds of changes in the underlying XML, which makes change control a nightmare. Forget branching and merging anything other the most minor
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
As an English person, I can assure you that not many people have a full English breakfast regularly. Cereal, porridge, toast, yogurt, or "nothing at all" are far more popular.
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What are you supposed to do with old clothes?(theatlantic.com)
69 points by Digit-Al 4y ago|176 comments
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I wonder why they had such a thing for pedants.
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I've been saying for a while now that the big tech companies have a strong desire to embed themselves into all our lives, and become a central part of our lives: but the all seem to forget that "with great power comes great respon
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Princess Mononoke: The masterpiece that flummoxed the US(bbc.com)
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I have a Philips soundbar with Bluetooth. A couple or so years ago I was playing music on it from my laptop and the connection started crackling and then just died. I could not get any of my devices to connect, and even tried a factory rese
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
I was going to mention SOMA as well. I was thinking about the poor tormented person that was stuck in a robot body, but had no idea it was in a robot body.
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The Bizarre Bird That’s Breaking the Tree of Life(newyorker.com)
5 points by Digit-Al 4y ago|1 comments
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Possibly Just Consuming Goodwill for Free(troyhunt.com)
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Dude, please use margins. The writing is far too close to the edge of the screen for comfortable reading.
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Our government can't enforce rules on foreign owned websites, but they can force ISP's to block them.
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I have a VM running an old Windows 7 license I have, for the sole purpose of being able to continue to using Microsoft Money Sunset Edition. The only two application I run in this VM are Money and Firefox (only to connect to my bank).
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
I think this is different in that, currently, there are no standards - just a lot of companies doing their own thing.
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Troy Hunt did a series on how he set up his smart home, and finished with a bunch of use cases from his own setup [1]. This article also has links to the other posts in his series, showing how he set it all up and what a mess it all is at t
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
Yeah, but if the big three support it then that gives it a lot of gravity. There are a lot of people who will be much more likely to buy smart products if they can be controlled by their Alexa/Nest/Echo. Anyone who doesn't

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