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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
So companies burn it onto a DVD and stick it in the post. Customer pays for post + blank DVD.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Maybe proper releases, running on different machines, might be a better option most of the time.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
1) fair enough. Should the negative empty comment I was referring to have been flagged for your attention? I appreciate the answer may very well be "no, you're wasting our time with the little stuff", and I'd agree. 2) I
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Indeed. So let's be consistent "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something". How did the comment I responded to say anything useful, constru
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
I'm going to have to be a bit contrary here. How often do you expect to make the schema changes? I mean I quoted this bit "...make schema changes sometimes on a daily basis" – is this realistic, or a kind of business insanity
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Maybe I should have stopped after the first sentence, but there's always, every bloody time, someone there to drag you down with negativity. How wiki is shit, stackoverflow is shit, the web is shit, society is shit – they never offer e
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
This seems irrelevant
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
I've not met planetscale before and didn't understand why you're doing this. From the site: "Changing a table's schema is one of the most challenging problems in relational databases, and in MySQL in particular. In
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
OK, ISWYM. I wouldn't make the claim it's settled but someone did and you're right. Upvoted.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
I'll check the wiki link, but how is perplexity different from the measure of Surprise, in terms of Shannon's stuff?
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
"... the html.js file ..." Jesus. As a lover of plain HTML and a hater of JS, my head just burst and painted the walls.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
There's a bit more to this story "Shelley wrote the poem in friendly competition with his friend and fellow poet Horace Smith (1779–1849), who also wrote a sonnet on the same topic with the same title." https://en.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> Ultra progressive ... progressive users ... fanatics You say more about yourself than anyone else. > ... think this is a known-quantity / settled science. I don't think anyone thinks it is settled. Personally I don't
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> Before the authorities came to seize the shipment, corrupt cops tried to bribe the port custom employees to gain temporary access to the container (basically to steal part of the shipment before it'd be officially weighted). Link
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
'perplexity'?
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Did you read his links? At least he gave some, you didn't.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> Drake equation is a probabilistic argument or simply science fiction of the intelligent kind. It is not science. it's a parameter-pluggable model . ISTM it's science, just needs params. I think you're dissing stuff beca
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
"all the Japanese art I've seen with calligraphy that is unreadable to me" I've heard from an Arabic speaker that that beautiful Arabic calligraphy also suffers from a lot of rearrangement to get the appearance, also mak
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Can't see what it actually does that's special. 'Watch the videos' isn't as helpful as writing it down.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Yessssss. Thank you. There is an HN convention though.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
if they diverged from standards that's on them. What is WHATWG anyway, and what is a 'living standard', and is it a standard at all, or a lack of standard?
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
[video] please
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Perhaps you've forgotten what they did at github
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Yes, personal project (large! In C#) I love it, it is reliable . Also a bit clunky compared to stuff supporting LSP, but now emacs has native LSP I should spend even less time in vis studio. Emaacs ain't perfect but emacs does not suc
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Poster here - I am an atheist. I can still be sympathetic to and to an extent even understand others' belief without sharing them.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
I think the very effort, the manual investment, was a form of sacrifice and honouring of god in itself. Ergo, this would be cheating. (atheist)
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
shrug And I won't be visiting. The only thing I care about is useful content well presented. I always disable JS for security reasons (that, and because pages load a hell of a lot faster and with far less memory). Yes, things break b
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
I thought plebeian meant commoner. Seems it's a bit more complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plebs#Noble_plebeians
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> The hard part of reading ancient Greek for me was not the grammar but the sheer bizarreness of their structural assumptions, which are rarely visible in translation. FFS do not do this to me! Don't dangle such gems before me so c
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> In Rome, ... teaching was all done in the home Really?? I am very surprised to hear that, I never thought there could be any other way but having schools in a structured and developed society like theirs. > OTOH the roman soldiers t

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