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by Pxtl 3y ago
The fact that Red Gate is still a necessary QOL add-on for a product that costs that much should be shameful.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
But violating the reflexive property of equality is a good thing because math!
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by Pxtl 3y ago
tl;dr: SQL hates you and it's your fault it hates you. to elaborate: I'm rapidly appreciating that SQL is a "bondage and discipline" language where it is impossible for SQL to fail at any given task, it can only be faile
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Uh, that ship has sailed. Sooooo sailed. It is incredibly trivially easy to write unsargable queries in SQL.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
To me that's the proper evolution. As knowledge of a problem matures, it makes sense to mash the best-practices together into a single monolith that's designed to work together with minimal bubble-gum. The Cambrian explosion of
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Honestly if the resultsets are small-enough, I just dump them to JSON and diff the files. But it has to be fully deterministically sorted for that (in a sane world "order by *" would be valid ANSI SQL).
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I'm just sure there's some important relational theory reason why you're a bad person for wanting to do this and it's not a flaw in the language at all that "check the equivalence of two result-sets" is so diff
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I wonder if he had any relation to Amar Bose of the Bose corporation? Googles Nope.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
This sounds like Patreon. Imho, the "just buy it" or "patreon to access the development discord/forum/whatever for OSS" seem like the best approaches. Like, I'm in Mastodon's patreon, and I'm ha
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by Pxtl 3y ago
The parental controls on Google devices are pretty darned good. I can't see their raw browser history, but I can see what apps are installed and how much they're used, control screen-time, bed-time, ban/grant app permissions
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Evolution is not necessarily slow. The Russian silver fox domestication experiment produced massive personality changes and even physiological changes in only 20 generations. As for humans, current scientific consensus is that 5000 years a
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by Pxtl 3y ago
When you charge $4 a tallboy it'd better be.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I've always been curious about the evolutionary implications of this. Something that big in diet for that long will have evolutionary impact. And since it's mind and behaviour-altering, I often wonder if human minds had to evolve
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Oh I agree the actual mapping framework where it converts the EF/LINQ is deeply flawed. But that's the underlying implementation. I just mean on a linguistic level, I tremendously prefer EF/LINQ/C# to SQL.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
While there's some stuff in C#/LINQ/EF that's more verbose (left joins are often a nightmare) or not-supported, I'll always say that I prefer writing queries in EF than in SQL, at least when dealing with SQL feature
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by Pxtl 3y ago
If you're looking to try a Heinlein book, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is a fun novel about libertarian rebels overthrowing a penal colony on the moon. It tells a great and imaginative story and doesn't shy away from
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by Pxtl 3y ago
That's actually a good question. Assuming need for energy storage, what would be more efficient? An insulated heat-capacitor (eg: a bunch of pans full of ice) inside the AC to be used when energy is in short supply, or a battery?
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by Pxtl 3y ago
The day/night performance of Solar is pretty interesting in the South, where solar's cycle nicely correlates with air-conditioning.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Actually no. He lost control of the domain when x.com merged with Paypal, and even moreso when he no longer had any stake in paypal. He didn't regain ownership of the x.com domain name until 2017.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I find NeverSSL.com is a short, easy-to-remember URL for "oh crap am I in a captive portal or not".
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Anybody who's read their Heinlein and is aware of Musk and his father's fandom of Heinlein books can see the obvious inspiration here. It's not just the private technological innovation, it's also the libertarianism, the
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I tend to think it's more internet-poisoning than yes-men. When he was sleeping in his office and living and breathing his companies, he didn't have time to get corrupted by social media. Then he slowed down once his companies go
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by Pxtl 3y ago
The emperor has no clothes. Whether it's just his natural personality, or serious internet-poisoning, or some kind of substance problem, Musk has a habit of making rash decisions, and buying Twitter for way more than it was worth was
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Okay but don't come crying to me when a bunch of your users get hacked because they used the same password on your site as they use on somecrappyforum.io which leaked their password db.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I agree. I'd much rather "login with Firefox Login" or "Ubuntu One" than Google or Facebook for SSO. But failing that, expecting end users to manage passwords to every site (and every site to store passwords) is s
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Yes. Like I know people that have 100% bought-in to a single architecture -- all Google or all Apple -- who use the suggested random passwords built into the cross-platform-browsers of these platforms. But if you're not a single-platf
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by Pxtl 3y ago
Honestly, unless you're a major cloud/OS provider like Google/FB/MS/Apple, you shouldn't be managing passwords at all. Let the pros do that. You just use an authentication standard via a 3rd party. If you aren
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by Pxtl 3y ago
I saw this pattern done on a forum. You just provided your email, and it would set a super-long-lived cookie. There was a button for "recreate my cookie" which sent you an email - like a password reset function without a passwor
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by Pxtl 3y ago
For vegetarian options their "Soon" ramyun is really good too.
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by Pxtl 3y ago
There's an asterisk there since those are meant to be drained, not soup. But yes, they're amazing. Had a bowl just yesterday with some fried carrots and an egg.

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