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cwbriscoe
3y ago
Just use Brave, if you don't like crypto, just completely ignore it. It isn't even in your face unless you want it to be. The browser is just like Chrome without the "phone to google". Plus it has a more performant ve
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Iomega was so hyped back in the day. Many people lost money on that play. Kind of glad I was too broke to invest at the time.
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They haven't blocked Brave yet apparently.
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3y ago
My first modem was 300 baud on my Commodore 64 as a kid. 56k was like heaven a few years later.
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3y ago
Both my wireless keyboard and mouse are USB-C. I use the C connection for charging them.
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3y ago
Yeah, that point is wrong in my opinion. I don't think programmers back then tried to build things to last any more than programmers today do.
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3y ago
COBOL ONLY USES 2 CHARACTER YEARS IF THAT IS THE WAY IT WAS CODED. PEOPLE DIDN'T THINK THEIR 60'S - 90'S CODE WOULD STILL BE RUNNING IN 2000. COBOL DOES SUPPORT lowercase LETTERS. GET WITH THE TIMES!
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3y ago
I am talking about 'select ' at the top level, they can be harmless in exists, sub-selects and CTE's. The number of columns sent to the client (the program) will change when you add a column to the database. If you don'
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If you have a table with two columns and you do a 'select *', adding a column to the table can break code that is only expecting 2 columns.
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How are Goto's invisible? They are pretty explicit. Also, just because your (not talking to you, just a pet-peeve of mine) CS101 professor said that Goto's are bad, doesn't mean it is true in 100% of cases.
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You are right. I used to work on one. Yay COBOL.