degamad

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by degamad 2mo ago
I think the idea is that the stored procedures ARE an Application Programming Interface, as an alternative to a REST API. (I agree with you that for some use cases, an API consisting of a set of stored procedures is just as good as an API l
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by degamad 2mo ago
Yes, this! The ancient wisdom which advocated for stored procedures, which modern developers find distasteful, were really advocating for microservices close to your data, which encapsulated security, business logic, and data persistence so
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by degamad 2mo ago
The result page has links to the source of each real photo.
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by degamad 2mo ago
While it's not exactly blackberry-alike, a hopefully soon-to-be-released option is the clicks communicator[0] phone. I just ordered their bluetooth keyboard attachment for androids/iphones with magsafe backs, but if it's any
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by degamad 2mo ago
It sounds like you might be aphantasic and were not aware of it for long time. I remember when I first realised people had real pictures, in my 20s. I had a friend whose technique for studying involved putting notes on his wall. He claimed
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by degamad 2mo ago
Ditto! I tend to hear my internal voice beat-boxing music rather than humming it, though...
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by degamad 2mo ago
I agree, but often corporate policy overrides most people's preferences, which is why such processes exist - to ensure that travel arrangements match corporate policy rather than individual preferences.
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by degamad 2mo ago
Because some people do. Corporate travel is an example. In many organisations, you tell someone in the travel department "I need to be in Tokyo for this conference from Tuesday to Sunday, and charge it to this cost code", and they
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by degamad 2mo ago
> What do you mean by bearing no real responsibility for its actions? If you give an "intelligent agent" offered by one of these model providers a task of updating the content of your website, and it updates it with inappropria
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AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too(hermit-tech.com)
194 points by degamad 2mo ago|174 comments
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by degamad 3mo ago
It's a CGM with added ketone sensing.
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by degamad 3mo ago
It sounds like their point is that it's not Firefox at all, inasmuch as you can't use the most popular Firefox extensions.
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by degamad 3mo ago
Surprisingly not. I have catch-all emails on several of my domains, and rarely get common name spam. I've blacklisted less than a dozen names on my domains in over 20 years.
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by degamad 3mo ago
Headlines have long had their own grammatical rules only roughly aligning to English in the limit...
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by degamad 3mo ago
> I find eating healthy cheaper. Being poor is very expensive. > You can prepare delicious meals for under $1 each. If you have the time and resources to do so.
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by degamad 4mo ago
> A: "Hey, we have a bunch of evidence that someone called Jonathan BaskinsRobbins did a bunch of crimes with an axe - can we figure out where he lives?" > B: "Yep, the phone book says Johnathan BaskinRobbins lives at 1
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by degamad 4mo ago
> ... tokens for debugging and JIT research
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by degamad 4mo ago
I'm so glad this exists, I've been considering doing something like this for a few months. I recently got a TV based on VIDAA os, a locked-down linux-based OS where everything is rendered from Web pages. It has a built-in browser
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by degamad 4mo ago
I think that's because you can usually smell when food is close to being rotten before you can see it... EDIT: reading the WardsWiki reference from that Wikipedia page, there's also the point made by early users of the term that s
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by degamad 4mo ago
The author doesn't say you can't use features with 98% (or even less) support. What they say is that you have to ensure that your site still works for the remaining users, through graceful degradation. If people have new fancy bro
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by degamad 4mo ago
Hypothetical: Pepsi starts using AI in some magical way that allows them to increase their margins. This allows them to reduce prices while increasing profits. Price-sensitive customers switch from Coca Cola products to Pepsi products. Coca
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by degamad 4mo ago
He was not opposed to paying for the software. He was opposed to being limited in what he could do with it after it was paid for.
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by degamad 4mo ago
Important nit-pick: Copyleft was created to protect users of free software from authors/distributors who tried to use copyright to control the software running on the users' computers.
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by degamad 4mo ago
Yep, I found that one too - this paper < https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12710904/ > assumes immunocompetent mice, while the sepsis one was in a patient who was immunocompromised (both by the cancer a
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by degamad 4mo ago
Cheese!
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by degamad 4mo ago
That would be part of the non-functional reasons mentioned in the next paragraph.
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by degamad 5mo ago
Details of acquisition of assets which may incur tax or legal treatment on disposal? Ongoing contracts (e.g. life insurance policies may last 40+ years). I did work for an insurance company once, and they had active policies started prior t
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by degamad 5mo ago
Are you talking about this tax system? < https://nordisketax.net/pages/en-GB/taxation/?country=finlan... > Because that is a marginal system, (and unless they've messed up the calculations, which the
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by degamad 5mo ago
> ... unless it is made directly to an origin server that has previously indicated, in or out of band, that such a request has a purpose and will be adequately supported. You left out the important part.
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by degamad 5mo ago
e.g. < https://github.com/dtnewman/burn-baby-burn >

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