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by didgetmaster 5mo ago
It depends on the data. I heard that ones are heavier than zeros.
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by didgetmaster 5mo ago
Answers are free. Correct answers cost extra!
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by didgetmaster 5mo ago
I have taken a road somewhere between FOSS and paid software. I have a data management system that has been in a 'free open beta' for a few years now. Anyone can download it and try it for free. Right now it can be used as a great
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by didgetmaster 5mo ago
I remember driving by a refinery years ago and it had two or three towers with big flames that were just burning off waste gas. This seemed wasteful to me. If it can burn, then it seems like it could be used for something productive. Do the
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by didgetmaster 5mo ago
The article does a good job of showing how a typical barrel of oil is converted into a dozen or more distinct usable products. It would be helpful to also have a chart that shows how much gasoline or diesel as a percentage of each barrel is
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by didgetmaster 5mo ago
I have long thought that all content (local and remote) should be properly labeled with metadata. Just like the cans of soup in the supermarket, you don't have to open it to find out if it has peanuts, lactose, or MSG in it; you should
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by didgetmaster 5mo ago
It is my experience that most people work hard to 'get ahead' and not to merely survive. Yes, we will work for subsistence wages if no other option exists, but the goal is to thrive. Some who are opposed to capitalism seem to thin
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by didgetmaster 5mo ago
Did you read the notice on the git hub site? I think he clearly states that he wanted to continue to work on the project, but could not justify it after sources of funding failed to materialize.
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by didgetmaster 5mo ago
The project is being abandoned because the maintainer is tired of working for free. They said that they hoped someone would fork it, change the name, and pick up where it was left off. Why would anyone do that? If the person who was most pa
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by didgetmaster 5mo ago
I also still have an unopened box (still shrink wrapped) of OS/2 Warp sitting on my shelf.
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by didgetmaster 5mo ago
When I started working at Novell in October 1988, I was on the OS/2 team. The version I installed first was 1.0 so I remember that there was no GUI. A few months later we got the update (1.1) with the GUI. What I remember the most is t
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by didgetmaster 5mo ago
I guess I was overqualified. Didn't get the job.
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by didgetmaster 5mo ago
Reminds me of a Dilbert cartoon where the pointy haired boss tells his team they were going to start paying the developers to fix bugs. Wally tells everyone that he is going to code himself a minivan.
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by didgetmaster 6mo ago
I once interviewed at Microsoft. The hiring manager asked me how I would go about programming a break point if I were writing a debugger. I started to explain how I would have to swap out an instruction to put an INT 3 in the code and then
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by didgetmaster 6mo ago
I agree that some topics can be dominated by outspoken 'experts' who don't have very good social skills. They can be hostile to newcomers as they try to keep their little club exclusive. They can also ridicule anyone who trie
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by didgetmaster 6mo ago
One thing the age of the internet brought us, was the ability to easily connect with people over a broad area, who have an interest in something very niche. You might be the only person in your neighborhood, school, or even town to have a d
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by didgetmaster 6mo ago
Realize that the tech industry lives on hype. Every new piece of technology is 'going to upend everything'; according to those building it. Us old programmers have live through about 100 of these hype cycles; so experience tells u
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by didgetmaster 6mo ago
It is very difficult, especially if you need it to be an instant success (i.e. replace your salary before you are homeless). I have a project (a new kind of general-purpose data management system) that I have worked on for over 10 years. In
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by didgetmaster 6mo ago
Let me guess..you have an equal disdain for people who own hotels, rental cars, or work as an UBER driver. All these things involve renting out something to fill a temporary need.
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by didgetmaster 6mo ago
Better title: I just want local storage with a simple S3 interface.
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by didgetmaster 6mo ago
Posts with links to paywalled articles should be identified somehow. (Flashing red title??) I would prefer to just skip them, but they are not easy to spot.
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by didgetmaster 6mo ago
Cancel culture is alive and well. There are many people who will boycott businesses, shun performances, or refuse to associate with someone whose views differ from their own. This happens even if the product or service has nothing to do wit
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by didgetmaster 6mo ago
If your dataset is small enough to fit in an Excel spreadsheet, then you probably are not looking for an alternative. But if your dataset has millions of rows and you need something quick to help you slice and dice the data in a variety of
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by didgetmaster 6mo ago
Creating interactive pivot tables from large relational tables. Many people know that a handy data analysis feature in Excel is to create a pivot table from a spreadsheet. But spreadsheets are limited to just a million rows. You can get aro
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by didgetmaster 6mo ago
You claimed that you had no choice but to become a Democrat. If that wasn't caused by coercion, then it certainly was a choice. If I claimed that I had no choice but to become a Republican, I would be justifiably laughed at (even by fe
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by didgetmaster 6mo ago
I think you totally proved my point. Both conservatives and liberals will almost always look at pardons by a president from their own party much differently than those by a president from the other party.
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by didgetmaster 6mo ago
Who exactly 'forced' you to become a Democrat? If that were real, I'm pretty sure it would have made the news.
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by didgetmaster 6mo ago
That's all we need. Every election followed by a dozen impeachment trials initiated by the losing party.
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by didgetmaster 6mo ago
Do you know ANYONE who thinks the same way about Biden's pardons as they do about Trump's? I certainly don't.
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by didgetmaster 6mo ago
Like most political arguments, if you listen carefully; those who advocate for or against pardons, only want them to go one way. A pardon is only a protection against a 'vengeful administration' if that administration is not your

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