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by catblast01 5y ago
Why does utf-32 not require a bom?
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by catblast01 5y ago
> Infinite self-joins are not elegant in relational algebra. Somewhat ironic comment given the name of this site. SQL stinks as a language in many ways, won’t argue there. However for many cases even PostgreSQL does just fine with recurs
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by catblast01 5y ago
For one, Neo4j is an implementation and SQL is not. As for clarity, SQL, although by far the most widespread query language is a shitty language in many respects... again a separate issue from the relational model. In any case you’re confla
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by catblast01 5y ago
> Honestly, i think graph db being more powerful is one of their more reasonable claims. Graph db trade off a more flexible data model (which some people would call power) You can represent graphs in the relational model so that’s simply
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by catblast01 5y ago
Matter of perspective I admit but it also could just be a weird pastiche of elements of C, COBOL, M, Ada, and JavaScript. Nothing here seems particularly ambitious really.. idiosyncratic however. A good counterpoint might be Go. The author
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by catblast01 5y ago
Nope. The guy posts with his real name on YouTube so this is like TempleOS and the creator is non anonymous, quite active on Reddit, and not very young (as if the style of graphics wasn’t a dead giveaway, like a time machine to the early 90
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by catblast01 5y ago
> not very RISC but extremely useful.. load and store multiple Who was it that said that R and RISC as a nomenclature was always hogwash. A more apt name would be “load-store architecture” Onne random thing I remember about LDM/STM
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by catblast01 5y ago
This is really low effort to look up from reputable sources if you don’t believe it. Electronics have far higher sales prices than clothing, I can’t even begin to fathom why that is a relevant benchmark.
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by catblast01 5y ago
GNU is heavily skewed to developer tools and infrastructure, and gcc is no counterexample. There are so many classes of software where this does not work. Pretty much anything for heavily regulated industries is not well served by FLOSS. Th
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by catblast01 5y ago
cf Smart Pipe https://youtu.be/DJklHwoYgBQ
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by catblast01 5y ago
Is everyone here too old to remember MapQuest or CD based car navigation systems? Apparently. We had decent turn by turn in the 90s. In the US mapping data was heavily derived mostly from public Census TIGER data, which had flaws but was go
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by catblast01 5y ago
Look up “protein coffee” and maybe try to lay off the snark a bit if you don’t know what you’re talking about.
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by catblast01 5y ago
Seriously though, the article was very well written. I knew it was a cheap shot. Sadly for some of us 1994 doesn’t seem like that long ago.
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by catblast01 5y ago
> This is the oldest and most well-known query execution model, and was first proposed in 1994. Is the author younger than 25. Not picturing a world of databases before 1994? Did the world even exist? I kid but regardless of when a pape
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by catblast01 5y ago
Unfortunately this is always an unrealistic request for anyone with a public profile. Those that have no desire to speculate won’t, and it’s not going to stop the curious. Frankly I tend to agree it is moreover an unreasonable request as lo
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by catblast01 5y ago
Pedantry in this case to be sure but Rs-485 lives quite nicely and cleanly at the physical layer of the osi model. All the stuff you mention like collisions and addresses and shit starts to be layer 2 and above.
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by catblast01 5y ago
Maybe that is what the issue is? Some, well many, DNS providers provide value add transparent additional features like redirect and email. If their web infrastructure is down then that might not work even though the core DNS shit does.
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by catblast01 5y ago
This is really reaching. Channelization as being referred to upthread in reference to SSH or RDP is a protocol level abstraction, rs485 bussing is at the electrical level for multiple physical devices and also doesn’t specify any addressing
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by catblast01 5y ago
> (A harder problem is Japanese — Japan really got screwed over with Han unification, so choosing Shift-JIS over any Unicode encoding is often best.) This statement needs more support. I think “screwed over” is a bit harsh, since I’m not
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by catblast01 5y ago
How does that make it an RS-232 with channels? You’re confused. RS-485 just like RS-232 is an electrical specification for serial signaling (with multiple access), nothing more nor less. There are USB to 485 converters that basically operat
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by catblast01 5y ago
It has some features that zfs lacks such as a dedup story that is actually usable, plus more flexibility in reshaping. Other than its native raid 5/6 story what major features is it lacking in comparison to zfs? I agree the tooling is
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by catblast01 5y ago
That makes no sense of course. You’re innoculating the whole body, especially bone marrow and lymph nodes, not a small area of muscle.
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by catblast01 6y ago
I think I addressed that: “how they’re organized in the spec”. They’re distinct, but outside of internal references in the spec the distinction between language and library doesn’t really matter. To a user of C++ it’s all one spec with dist
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by catblast01 6y ago
This is really a false/meaningless distinction though. The C++ spec covers the “language” (it’s one of the first sentences), and that includes the standard library. The spec uses the terminology language and library but there is no for
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by catblast01 6y ago
I don’t deny any of that. But where is most of the hardware for just about any network and computing equipment manufactured? Questioning if tplink is made in China is pretty low effort and pointless. A thoughtful analysis would ask why an o
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by catblast01 6y ago
> An intel goldmont won’t use much more power and can easily do gigabit sqm and wireguard/IPSec without breaking a sweat. Can any of these nearly 2 decade old MIPS/ARM designs come close? I don’t understand the hype for the har
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by catblast01 6y ago
It’s just silly to suggest this when quite simply not all IPs behave equally and the differences are not subtle. It’s annoying when “bad” IPs get reassigned and change, but that is a relatively infrequent event - and certainly CloudFlare is
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by catblast01 6y ago
> I think you forget how many people live in poverty in the USA. FWIW, I work in public healthcare in Appalachia. In any event, I have no idea what the relevance of this statement is. I made a statement of fact.. market wages for enginee
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by catblast01 6y ago
Don’t work in tech for a living anymore so no real horse. But wow. Market entry level pay in Low low COL (like not SV or Boston) 20 years ago when I got a job - about 55k. And this was no Microsoft or Apple. I’m aware FAANG and some unicorn
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by catblast01 6y ago
Why? Bluetooth isn’t perfect but it the fidelity is not so poor as to reverse the “warmth” of the analog distortion, and even a cheap ADC won’t either... it should reproduce it pretty well. What people get wrapped up in cognitive dissonance

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