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by davidgould 9y ago
I'm a fan of the DVD service. The large library is great since I like all kinds of odd stuff. But since I don't actually watch a lot of video, I have something like 300+ DVDs backlog in my netflix queue. So there is always a new d
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by davidgould 9y ago
There are settings for choosing between the exhaustive search planner and the genetic planner. The exhaustive planner is better, but can be slow for complex queries with a lot of paths. But, if your query is at all time consuming you probab
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by davidgould 9y ago
Some years ago - never mind how long precisely -I was one of the engineers at Sybase who would have produced that EBF patch for you. More recently I do the same sort of thing for clients running Postgresql. I have worked on the code of both
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by davidgould 10y ago
Usually not. When you reach max connections it does not cause problems for existing connections ie, no "complete lock ups)", it just stops allowing new connections. Also, there are normally reserved connections for postgresql supe
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by davidgould 10y ago
I just read this and it looks pretty cool, I'll try it. Now that Ubuntu is going back to GNOME maybe it will get more interest.
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by davidgould 10y ago
Indeed. An often overlooked point is that good SQL optimizers generate different versions of queries depending on the current state of the database and the actual parameters to the query. That is, the optimal query plan for finding the sal
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by davidgould 10y ago
AgentJayZ is a great resource and very entertaining.
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by davidgould 10y ago
Rolls Royce publish an excellent book "The Jet Engine" with a great deal of information about the design and manufacture of jet engines. I purchased the latest print edition and it's well worth it. However there is an online
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by davidgould 10y ago
The wok. A good 13 or 14" pao wok costs about $15. Add another $20 for a spoon, a cover, an wok ring and a steaming grill and you can make almost anything. The thing looks so simple, but it is part of a whole system and way of cooking
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by davidgould 10y ago
The reality is that most people have never even seen a sharp knife. Unfortunately, sending them in to be sharpened is not likely to give you a sharp knife either, most sharpening services are crap. There is no way to really sharpen a knife
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by davidgould 10y ago
This. The controls design on this car is essentially perfect. And the interior space use is amazing. When we moved my son to go to college in another city we had the whole living room piled with his stuff, yet some how it all went into the
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by davidgould 10y ago
AgentJayZ for the win! I spent weeks watching these, and learned a lot more than I really needed about how to rebuild old jet engines. For fun, check out the river racing boat with the turbine engine vs the V8s video too.
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by davidgould 10y ago
+1 The Art of SQL is pretty old now, but is still the most lucid explanation of how queries should be constructed and why.
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by davidgould 10y ago
> Chevy has plenty of issues too (the Spark EV, for instance). Hey now, take that back! I loved my Spark EV. When the lease ended I purchased a new Spark EV. The Spark EV may have been slapped together as a compliance car or a prototype
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by davidgould 10y ago
View source suggests that your site relies on a commercial conversion service to do all its work. Is there some value you are adding that I'm not seeing?
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by davidgould 10y ago
In programming there is the concept of "technical taste".It applies to cookbooks too: Every Grain of Rice by Fuchsia Dunlop. https://www.amazon.com/Every-Grain-Rice-Chinese-Cooking/dp/0... This is a fant
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by davidgould 10y ago
It may not seem like it there has been much change, but the 800 series and later Roombas are vastly better than the older models. I had one of the early 400 series and it was problematic: it required a lot of picking up and it would get ent