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by ansible 5y ago
I take it that opening multiple database connections to the same server is not usually viable? I realize there are usually limits to open sockets / file descriptors and such, and that multiple connections will consume more memory on ea
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by ansible 5y ago
It would be neat to have a library that has the same API as Sqlite3, but then acts as a network proxy for a remote PostgreSQL database. You could then use that plus the above network proxy to move a Sqlite3 database off of the local system
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by ansible 5y ago
> Plus, if we are talking about drivers, then surely if you're going to be using SQLite, you should be using SQLite drivers because they will be inherently simpler and smaller than the Postgres ones because of the much reduced feat
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by ansible 5y ago
Yes. I don't see the harm in the PostgreSQL wire protocol becoming a defacto standard for sending SQL statements over a network connection and getting results back. SQL itself is only a vague standard these days, as almost every singl
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by ansible 5y ago
> When working in person, one thing this selects for is people with perfect vision. Elderly programmers need not apply! ... prescription for 20" focus ... I went the other way. 42in 4K TV placed further back. Big font. Zero eyest
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by ansible 5y ago
I don't have a linky for this, but I'm sure people have tried to teach apes & chimps to throw. Aside from chimps teaching themselves to throw poo at zoo visitors. But in general they don't have the neural hardware to prec
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by ansible 5y ago
> There are specific companies, people, actions (governmental and corporate) that have caused problems. If you take the leadership roles, you can't abstain your responsibilities to the weak. You... need to take a long hard look at
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by ansible 5y ago
> We are not the strongest, nor the biggest, nor the fastest, nor the best hearing, or the best seeing species. That is not strictly true. Even leaving aside the tools argument (a human on a bicycle is vastly more energy efficient ove
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by ansible 5y ago
> > Right now it is us that is destroying life around us > > Speak for yourself. I'm not destroying anything. By your very existence you are destroying life, or at least preventing it from existing. This is true for the
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by ansible 5y ago
Part of me wants to throw up my hands in the air and cry out "Why, God, why?" when I encounter yet another UI with flat design. It is like a mass delusion or something that some segment of the population seems to think it that fla
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by ansible 5y ago
I have a Dahon Briza, with 24in wheels. The main thing was that a couple of them can be easily loaded in my car. Otherwise I just ride near my home. I am not totally satisfied, but it is OK. I'll probably change the crank gear to be la
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by ansible 5y ago
I understand the desire and the attachment to particular media properties. There are a few movies that I would rewrite if I could. All I can say is that there are good games that are very open to the mod community, and they would welcome mo
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by ansible 5y ago
I agree. I used to worry more about DRM, at least when it came to books. These days, it is all about convenience. And the realization that I'm not going to live forever, and how many more times am I really going to read this particular
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by ansible 5y ago
I just have a 42in LG TV that I use as my main work monitor. It was around $220 a few years ago. After working out the kinks with using it (because a TV is not a monitor), it's been pretty good. I also position it further away from m
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by ansible 5y ago
> Encoding space is almost infinite on Intel though. Yes... if you willing to tolerate ever more complex and slow instruction decoding. This is a very bad tradeoff.
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by ansible 5y ago
I don't know that such a heavy investment in the toolchains for RISC-V are actually needed. If you look at generated code, it seems fairly straightforward. There aren't a lot of tricks or anything.
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by ansible 5y ago
> The cost of implementing the 2 overflow bits is absolutely negligible, 2 gates and 2 flip-flops. Much more extra hardware is needed for decoding a few additional instructions for flag testing and clearing, but even that is a negligibl
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by ansible 5y ago
> The clean solution from a micro architectural point of view would be to have an overflow bit (or whatever flags you wanted) in every integer register. That's what the Mill CPU does. Each "register" also had the other u
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by ansible 5y ago
> If Rust is going to "replace C" for systems work, as the more grandiose claims would have it, it's going to have to replace all of C. ... and people complain all the time about Rust fanatics talking about rewriting eve
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by ansible 5y ago
Uh, I don't know about that... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_(2005_film) On a more serious note, anything that's going to affect behavior is going to have a dosage range. Too little absorbed, and the
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by ansible 5y ago
The article assumes that full development of a new chemical weapon would require more development effort. With regards to military usage: storable at room temperature, relatively easy to manufacture from commonly available precursor chemica
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by ansible 5y ago
> No. You can just...refuse to subsidize them. Seems to be working fine for Seattle, where IIRC the renovated stadium for their new NHL team was privately funded. This also works for the Green Bay Packers (American Football). To raise
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by ansible 5y ago
It would be nice to have an overall scorecard for a library. It would show a bunch of stuff related to the crate: existence of unit tests, fuzz testing, and measures of the test coverage, if the code passes clippy checks, which edition of R
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by ansible 5y ago
It was taken quite a while ago: https://crates.io/crates/crust Seems to be an actually useful P2P networking library, not name squatted.
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by ansible 5y ago
From what I understand, Subway is also very strict with the franchisees. At least as far as food suppliers go. It is all in the name of "quality" or more truthfully "consistency". Even so, unless you're a relatively
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by ansible 5y ago
And yet being illegal doesn't stop people from constantly trying it. They do try to be more clever about hiding it as time goes on.
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by ansible 5y ago
Oh I know that McD is at the top when it comes to controlling franchisees. But if 13% of restaurants have the ice cream machine non-functional at any given time, that means half or more of them are having the problem at some time in the las
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by ansible 5y ago
It depends on how the kickback is routed. General franchisee revenue goes in a big bucket allocated across the entire corporation. A specific kickback might be going into one guy's pocket... If that one guy has sufficient political cl
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by ansible 5y ago
You would think that the McDonalds franchise owners would push back on McDonalds corporate about this issue. They would rightly be complaining that they are losing revenue because the Taylor ice cream machine has low reliability. Even one s
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by ansible 5y ago
> It is no different to saying Linux would take over desktop in the 90s because it is free. We are in 20s and coming up 30s. It is still not happening. The desktop? Maybe not. But Linux has done well with laptops in recent years (Chrom

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