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by dcminter 3mo ago
Is there a reason why two-phase commit can't work with a DB and a message queue? DB2 and MQ Series used to support this (though they called it "XA" transactions and you had to compile support into the drivers which felt a bit
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by dcminter 4mo ago
I think my favourite aspect of the tale (at least as Harris tells it) is that Kujau was such a bad forger, and the recipients wanted it all to be true so badly that they skipped several opportunities to actually check! I shall see if I ca
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by dcminter 4mo ago
Why not both? But that said, my understanding, very likely wrong, was that those were mostly tax records and other lists - which don't fire my imagination in quite the same way as works of philosophy and literature snatched (almost lit
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by dcminter 4mo ago
Any time something of popular historical interest like this pops up I think about that. If you've not read it then Robert Harris's (factual) book about the affair is entertaining, not least because such a broad sweep of dislikeabl
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by dcminter 4mo ago
Indeed. So far as I recall I had a greyscale monitor that couldn't do more than 800x600. I think it was a 486sx and I probably still had a 32GB MFM hard disk at that point so it was a very underwhelming machine. I think 1MB of RAM in a
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by dcminter 4mo ago
You could run X11 in 4Mb at one point, although I rather wished I didn't.
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by dcminter 4mo ago
The City of London, aka "The City", aka "The Square Mile" is not the same thing as Greater London or even what's usually called "Central London." I don't think "Central London" has an agreed
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by dcminter 4mo ago
The UK does, or used to, and yes, it was on the plastic wrappers on sliced bread. Sweden has a wire encased in plastic thing that crimps the opening shut instead. Both types are re-usable at least for the expected lifetime of a loaf of brea
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by dcminter 4mo ago
The "signature verification" in the fix being CRC32 is pretty hilariously clueless.
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by dcminter 5mo ago
Have you ever encountered the atheist version IRL? Not just in internet bickering? Maybe it was regional - I wouldn't know which region they were from off the cuff. My family is mostly C of E and I don't recall any of them ever br
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by dcminter 5mo ago
You’re just hand waving over the question of “How did god just happen?” God just magically appeared? See? It's a crap argument.
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by dcminter 5mo ago
From the excellent "A Quarter Century of UNIX" (by the late Peter H. Salus): Heidi would bring her dog with her to class and to her office. He was a very friendly dog, and a lot of the students enjoyed throwing a ball for him dow
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by dcminter 5mo ago
Why is "God did it" a better answer than "it just happened" ? If you prefer the "God did it" you then have to account for where God came from and end up with a set of answers that could just as easily be applie
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by dcminter 5mo ago
I do see, mostly from Americans, self introductions of the form "I'm so and so... and I love Jesus" in contexts that have nothing to do with religion. I've never had anyone bring up their atheism or agnosticism in that
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by dcminter 5mo ago
For me at least the post wasn't loading on mobile (Firefox on Android) and looks like others had the same issue. Skimming the article just now on the laptop (Firefox on Linux) I see in the images that the author is using a trackpoint o
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by dcminter 5mo ago
Fair, although I used to prefer the old chonky Thinkpad keyboards to anything else. There was (is?) a Model M style buckle spring keyboard with a trackpoint, but it had the numeric pad, so no good to you. I guess one could do a project-keyb
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by dcminter 5mo ago
You're likely thinking of trigraphs - alternatives to some characters: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1234582/purpose-of-trigr...
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by dcminter 5mo ago
You know the Lenovo Thinkpad Trackpoint Keyboard II is a thing, right? It would seem to meet that requirement. What's missing? Edit: Oh, they're pricey - so that, I guess?
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by dcminter 5mo ago
Occasionally it scrolls me over to a different continent...
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by dcminter 5mo ago
Years ago I used to read his blog on Django and found it quite interesting despite being neither a Django nor even a python user - this must have been at least 10 years ago and perhaps more. When he resurfaced in my feeds as an AI commenta
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by dcminter 5mo ago
> The problem is: Implicitly presupposing the existence of philosophical zombies implies the duality gap. Sure, but if you're going to posit a philosophical zombie, don't posit one that has a rich inner life, experiences qualia
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by dcminter 5mo ago
Pre-internet the commercial phone book was actually fairly useful. The "problem" was that most people didn't need it updating as often as the phone book company would have liked.
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by dcminter 5mo ago
> can I believe my own conclusion of having this mysterious non-physical experience, knowing that if I were a zombie, I would be convinced of the same without actually having it? The point of the philosophical zombie is that they don&#x2
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The jobs apocalypse: a (very) short history(economist.com)
3 points by dcminter 5mo ago|1 comments
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by dcminter 5mo ago
Ha! This is so delightful. I vaguely remember chipping in some paltry sum on some early plea for donations for this, and getting a random manual duplicate in the post as a perk. Since then I've occasionally wondered how it's going
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by dcminter 5mo ago
Yes, we stayed at one near ORF a few weeks ago. We thought the staff were weirdly enthusiastic about a not very good mass produced cookie actually. Might stay there again, but not because of the gimmick.
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by dcminter 5mo ago
I don't think this is a good principle to apply comprehensively. The "if you’re often over-committed or too scattered" qualifier is very important. Sometimes you need to get out of your comfort zone, which absolutely means
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by dcminter 5mo ago
Kafkaesque, a wire-protocol compatible Kafka mocking service. https://github.com/dcminter/kafkaesque Worth kicking the wheels if you're currently using embedded or dockerised Kafka in your tests.
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by dcminter 5mo ago
I look forward to today's Money Stuff!
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by dcminter 5mo ago
I hoped as much! Delightful.

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