dzamo_norton

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by dzamo_norton 7y ago
Just continue to ask yourself that question each year
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by dzamo_norton 7y ago
> With respect, who actually feels at home with SQL? So many data analysts that each time a new analytical database engine comes out it needs to support SQL or something like it to get any mindshare.
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by dzamo_norton 7y ago
How can a blockchain-based voting system be a good idea if it invites an attacker who can afford lots of ASICs, e.g. a hostile nation who like to interfere, to launch a 51% attack?
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by dzamo_norton 7y ago
I guess some good soul could maintain and host a "Firefox Lite" config file that disables all these unwanted extras so that the work is done once.
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by dzamo_norton 7y ago
Is there some research you can point out that establishes cases where a lower IQ has been advantageous?
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by dzamo_norton 7y ago
Yes I think you're on the right track. It must be some lurking network misconfiguration. Firefox itself is not broken in this way in my experience (which is not short).
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by dzamo_norton 7y ago
Gonna be a big download.
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by dzamo_norton 7y ago
And perhaps it's ontologies like these that you get if you do go with emergence https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/04/27/rare-and-strange-i...
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by dzamo_norton 7y ago
Should we be thinking of Wikipedia alone, or Wikipedia plus all of the fan and other wikis that have sprung up around it? When you consider the collection of all of them there isn't much of a notability restriction and cardinality tak
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by dzamo_norton 8y ago
It's in the works: https://github.com/jobisoft/TbSync/issues/158
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by dzamo_norton 8y ago
If the author signed an exclusivity agreement with Amazon then he'd be in breach and Amazon could seek penalties. Otherwise he would not be in breach and Amazon should expect him to use other distribution channels as the fancy takes h
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by dzamo_norton 8y ago
Quiet often it's add-ons that are are at fault, e.g. the Lighnting calendar add-on can significantly extend launch time. Starting TB in safe mode will reveal if this is the case.
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by dzamo_norton 8y ago
Or you have to write portable software.
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by dzamo_norton 8y ago
Using btrfs on Linux I have a job that takes a CoW snapshot of the whole filesystem every 10 minutes just so that I can undo whoopsies. I don't retain all of these snapshots, only the most recent one.
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by dzamo_norton 8y ago
Quietish
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by dzamo_norton 8y ago
He or she is saying that he's a personification of the well-known and sometimes-accurate manager cliché that engineers love to hate. Think pointy-haired boss in Dilbert. It's become an abstraction that people use for conversing,
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by dzamo_norton 8y ago
In the terminology used to describe logic (i.e. used by logicians and mathematicians), implies = proves
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by dzamo_norton 9y ago
> my own WhatsApp client that's and actual native desktop application. What would it do differently?
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by dzamo_norton 9y ago
with recursive todo_list_sorted as ( select * from todo_list tl1 where prev_id is null union all select tl1.* from todo_list tl1 join todo_list_sorted tl2 on tl1.prev_id = tl2.id ) select * fr
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by dzamo_norton 9y ago
with recursive todo_list_sorted as ( select * from todo_list tl1 where prev_id is null union all select tl1.* from todo_list tl1 join todo_list_sorted tl2 on tl1.prev_id = tl2.id ) select * fr
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by dzamo_norton 9y ago
No, this query doesn't retrieve the items in the correct order in general. It only works for the particular data in GP because the row ordering coincides with the user's ordering there. Try ordering by `prev` on the table below,
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by dzamo_norton 9y ago
Then you fall back to normal surgery.
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by dzamo_norton 9y ago
Same complexity, just less chatty.
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by dzamo_norton 9y ago
> most gmail users never see messages from my personal email address, because google routes them to spam despite my IP never having spammed This is off topic but very briefly: implement SPF and DKIM and get a number of Gmail users (I&#x2
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Forgotten and neglected theories of Poincaré [pdf] (2006)(users.ictp.it)
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by dzamo_norton 9y ago
Where did you go, if I may ask? I'm also interested in alternatives.
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by dzamo_norton 9y ago
You're not seeing it. It is, to some or other partial-but-very-noticeable extent, a Skype killer, an SMS killer, a GSM/CDMA voice call killer, an email killer, a Hangouts killer, a Facebook killer (yes i know they bought it), [in
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by dzamo_norton 9y ago
I don't think that the technical scope of the software or the company behind it were what was being measured against the notion of a "fairytale startup" by the parent, or the grandparent. They spoke of "greenfield tech&
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by dzamo_norton 9y ago
> The recruiter did in fact know exactly what the difference was and he was obstructing the candidate. For a little while I was basically convinced of deliberate obstruction - no sane person would use the arguments employed by the recrui
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by dzamo_norton 9y ago
There's a point there that is obscured by the overreach to "romance novel": it's because it's a one-page encyclopedia article on a highly-technical and esoteric subject not a 300-page introductory textbook to be stu

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