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by barking 7y ago
Interbase might not have open-sourced by 1999 but they were using MVCC from the early 80s.
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by barking 7y ago
Didn't mean to trod on anyone's toes. I think interbase (from which firebird forked) was the first successful/important database system to use MVCC. I just mentioned MGA because that was how I first and commonly have heard MV
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by barking 7y ago
Postgres like most other databases pretty much copied MVCC from Interbase/Firebird. I found the following explanations for Transactions in Firebird very helpful in terms of understanding MVCC aka MGA (multi-generational architecture)
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by barking 7y ago
Sometimes it's no harm to have eyes from outside a discipline have a look at things.
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by barking 7y ago
That's a pretty judgemental comment all the same.
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by barking 7y ago
Fair point, there probably was an element of trying to prolong machines' lives longer than usaul going on, all right.
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by barking 7y ago
Yes that's the one, well done for finding it!
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by barking 7y ago
I watched a youtube video where a passerby was being vox-popped for tv about football. He says something to the interviewer and you can see a lightbulb go on in his head and he then looks at the camera and says "that's actually a
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by barking 7y ago
For every previous version of windows you typically bought a new licence only when you purchased a new PC. The fact that MS allowed upgrades to Widows 10 on old machines should not have affected their revenue to any great extent, those mac
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by barking 7y ago
I feel like all these discussions should make some mention of how the US government felt this was their land to give
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by barking 7y ago
I'm disappointed too! I was going to ask if this might work for us humans.
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by barking 7y ago
It's on a forty something inch tv we generally watch netflix and maybe because we don't watch terrestrial tv at all any more, we don't notice the lower quality. As long as I don't have buffering I'm happy. Anyway w
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by barking 7y ago
I have Netflix playback settings set at Low quality, which is <= 300 MB per hour which is 10% of High or 5% of ultra HD. Seems fine to me.
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by barking 7y ago
You're better off sticking with the long established names of your culture. My parents picked really boring names (as I thought) for our family. We were named after our grandparents. We used to regularly chastise them for this when we
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by barking 7y ago
It's OK to claim an adjacent territory, bring in settlers, oppress the natives, etc, just not OK to cross water to do so. is that your position? Hardly?
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by barking 7y ago
The company has actually redeemed its reputation by continuosly releasing updates, afaik. Not fair to malign them like that.
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by barking 7y ago
Are Chinese people white 'cos if so then maybe? Xinjiang, Tibet, South China Sea.
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by barking 7y ago
I can understand that, I fear they are fighting a losing battle though. I listened to a commentator over the weekend talking about this whole business. He said that China have very many economic levers they can apply to HK to get their way
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by barking 7y ago
I thought they should have stopped the protests when the administration suspended the extradition bill. But then again as it is, people are disappearing from HK and reappearing in Chinese jails, so maybe they are right to push on. It'
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by barking 7y ago
So, like any good geek solution, it doesn't actually solve the user's original problem at all. Brilliant!
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by barking 7y ago
Hadn't people spread out from Africa, longer ago than that?
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by barking 7y ago
The Blog has its own domain but is actually part of Medium.com? I don't think I've seen this before.
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by barking 7y ago
You could reject some very good free apps then. But I kinda agree with you. It's partly the phenomenon of attaching little value to something one gets for cheap/free. And conversely, people can bend over backwards to be impressed
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by barking 7y ago
The written article is mostly behind a paywall but there is an audio link that plays entire article (20 mins +).
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by barking 7y ago
Or if it's an "Art Installation"
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by barking 7y ago
I tend to agree with you and I'm not a churchgoer. Roy Hattersley an atheist former English politician wrote about the relief of Hurricane Katrina The Salvation Army has been given a special status as provider-in-chief of American dis
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by barking 7y ago
Good point, lol. Unfortunately for me I need convert to stones to get a feel for weight
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by barking 7y ago
This is a great achievement for such a densely populated countries. I'd thought Tigers in the wild were on a terminal decline.
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by barking 7y ago
Why would you give a weight in a combination of imperial AND metric units?!
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by barking 7y ago
Well done, 75 lbs (or 5 stone, 5 pounds in real money) is incredible.

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