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I'm confused. Systemd has separate 'wants', 'requires', 'after', and 'before', which sounds like what's being asked for here?
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Surely "text-colour"?
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MS SQL Server still has a few things up its sleeve which can be valuable in specific cases: 1. Incrementally updated materialized views (in MS SQL Server, these are called 'indexed views'). 2. SQL Server Management Studio is bette
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I saw a lemur (in a zoo) without a tail once — it couldn't jump.
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This is incorrect. The Japanese were trying to negotiate surrender through the Russians, with their sole condition being that they could keep their Emperor. The Russians had not informed the USA. The USA knew all of this, because they had c
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Immoral? Is this a variant on a "taxation is theft" argument? (Legally enforced coverage for people with disabilities is reasonably close to taxation and redistribution, I would say.) It seems to me that if people don't colle
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Oh, also, I forgot. Learn Excel properly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c When you're properly automating things you'll want to use programs and command line tools instead, but you should still know Ex
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You've got a lot of answers here, and quite a few of them overlap what I'd suggest. You're not going to be able to pursue them all. Personally, I tend to learn things that are relevant to my job as I'm doing it. Aside fr
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I think it's OK not to know the best tools. There's a lot of things out there, a lot of the best ones take some time to learn, and bad ones can ride a marketting wave to stay popular for a good few years. It's also understand
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I don't see how you would distinguish this from a guess? Why prefer this over any other of the millions of possible explanations? Ecosystems are complicated.
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I don't think it's deliberate gatekeeping. In the process of learning a tool thoroughly you forget what it was like to not know how to do it. So, it becomes hard to write a good beginner's tutorial. And you forget why the thi
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Those are fun and interesting corrections, thank you.
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Magnetic striping on the sea floor [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics#Magnetic_strip... ] is probably our best clue. It's the piece of evidence that sealed plate tectonic's place as the dominant th
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The people who built Stonehenge probably didn't have wheels or domesticated horses. Also, Wales is hilly [ https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wales&t=ffab&iar=images&iax=images... ], and there is a the choice of a eit
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I actually think that my writing improved more during my CS degree than my history degree. In CS there was an emphasis on clarity, succinctness, and thinking about how well you've communicated your ideas to your intended audience. Havi
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I wasn't directly involved with NPfIT, but was working for a small healthcare IT company in the UK at the time, and did have some opportunities to talk to some of the lazy incompetents involved. I can tell you at least that Accenture w
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Intelligent Design, being a religious theory, usually carries the implication that the designer was infallible and made no mistakes, unless they were deliberate mistakes.
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As someone who really, really hated previous versions of Spring, and had vowed never to work with it again, is Spring Boot different enough to be worth a look?
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The interest can be treated as finance cost, and amortized over time. Rather than going straight on the balance sheet, it goes on the income statements (which are change in balance sheet) a little bit each statement period. This makes the c
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Having a different life experience, encountering different attitudes? That said, I've just emigrated from the UK to Australia, and we didn't really even consider the US when we were picking countries.
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So there's a potential problem here. Yes, you can technically just drop and replace all your stateless things (views, triggers, stored procedures, user defined functions). But, if one of your migration steps happens to depend on a part
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I think for C compilation, Tup is probably better than make. It also has a couple of small syntax improvements compared to make. In particular, it's much better with commands that loop over targets and dependencies. However, as someone
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How do you interview someone more experienced than yourself? In the last set of interviews I had to do, I've ended up doing the role of talking to people about the technologies listed on their CV and asking them detailed questions to
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I feel like JavaScript is already a sort of functional language, so going in this direction is ok. It's the object/class additions where I think it's all going a bit C++. Start with prototypical inheritance, but with a Java-s
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Is there a reason you need to be sponsored by a company? Australia has a skilled independent points-based visa which gives you the permanent right to live and work. I've actually just been granted mine about a week ago. I take it that
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Isn't there already an application of neutrinos: to detect nuclear material (so weapons inspection and so on)?
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I played the Discworld MUD about the same time you started, or maybe a little before. One Summer holiday night, having played pretty constantly for every day of the previous week, I dreamed in highlighted terminal text of being beaten up by
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It may be worth knowing that you don't have to kill an embryo each time. Once you've harvested a stem cell line, you can use it repeatedly.
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To some extent the map is showing your population density. But yes, fishing is a big part of the cultures of many European countries. Having said that, my favourite bit of US cuisine is Jambalaya, which seems to feature shellfish at least.
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You might be interested in this article from Alessandro, the guy who makes Spatialite: https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/spatialite-tools/wiki?name=gr... It talks about the errors in Open Street Map data, and the con

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