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Scientific notation bug in MySQL left AWS WAF vulnerable to SQL injection(gosecure.net)
124 points by fipar 5y ago|41 comments
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Databases, Types, and the Relational Model: The Third Manifesto [pdf](dcs.warwick.ac.uk)
178 points by fipar 5y ago|93 comments
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by fipar 5y ago
Yes, I agree with all you say, especially the choice of ‘relation’ as the name. The fact is[0] that even though Codd’s contributions effectively created the field, they were also vague in some key aspects. [0]: that may come across as arrog
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by fipar 5y ago
Mostly because of SQL. Among other problems, it’s not set-oriented: there are duplicates in SQL, but neither in relational calculus, nor in algebra. Column order has meaning in SQL but not in the relational model (another consequence of SQL
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by fipar 5y ago
I think they're the default because the relational model is either the most, or perhaps even the only logical data model with a solid theoretical foundation that makes it suitable to solve a wide range of database problems. While there
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by fipar 5y ago
That's wrong. Since its inception, on of the main points of the relational mode is physical data independence. No assumptions on how or where the data is physically stored is made by the model. Besides, it seems more plausible to me th
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Mellotron(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by fipar 5y ago|0 comments
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by fipar 5y ago
I think that analogy is not the best for at least two reasons: - The cars we're discussing here are anything but "older tech". Ferrari has been consistently at the vanguard in terms of making fast cars. I guess you could argu
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by fipar 5y ago
ICE vehicles are more affordable for the people that buy cars and motorcycles to get to work without having to depend on public transportation. Also, notwithstanding Dinoco, oil does not come from dinosaurs. I'm concerned about all the
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by fipar 5y ago
Here in Uruguay we had the original Spectrums, but Microdigital's clones were more affordable. The TK-90 was my first computer, upgraded a few years later to a TK-95. Those are the computers I learned to program in, so I'm gratefu
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by fipar 5y ago
Not parent, but I get the same message connecting from Uruguay.
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by fipar 5y ago
It may be a truism but a lot of people still pursue happiness in their job. My focus has always been my family and instead of flying them everywhere (that did happen once though: I had to do a client on-site and I said “either my family com
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The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy(karl-voit.at)
175 points by fipar 5y ago|265 comments
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by fipar 5y ago
43 years speaking Spanish, not in Spain, but certainly aware of different accents from Spain (both from speaking to other people and watching Spanish movies), and TIL that the name for that sound is “ voiceless-dental-fricative”. ¡Gracias!
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by fipar 5y ago
There have been several minor releases in the past 3 years: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/8.0/en/
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by fipar 5y ago
My understanding is yes to both, but I can currently only find a citation for #1: https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/toxoplasmosis/epi.html (strictly speaking, the cat must eat an infected pray, so a domestic cat could
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by fipar 5y ago
That's to avoid trademark infringement. It used to be the same case with CentOS early on. Check out the "CentOS Overview" section in this version, with references to "a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor&qu
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by fipar 5y ago
Agreed! Aesthetics is item g) in Knuth's list of example applications for 'Numbers that are "chosen at random"': "A little bit of randomness makes computer-generated graphics and music seem more lively" (T
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by fipar 6y ago
I agree on the need to educate people, but disagree on the age group criteria. I've met enough people under 40 who believe whatever they read online, especially if it confirms their existing set of beliefs.
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Wendy Carlos on Bob Moog (2005)(wendycarlos.com)
123 points by fipar 6y ago|57 comments
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas [pdf](utilitarianism.com)
2 points by fipar 6y ago|1 comments
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Project Azorian(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by fipar 6y ago|0 comments
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The Non-Psychopath's Guide to Managing an Open-Source Project(queue.acm.org)
1 points by fipar 6y ago|0 comments
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by fipar 6y ago
I don't mean this ironically, but I think Slack did not actually know how to handle it: they outsourced the handling of this; they passed the buck. This usually works well, under the rationale that "upstream provider does this for
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by fipar 6y ago
I have not read the full description of this project yet, but it does mention the use or raft for consensus, so in your example, I would expect Charlie to not be able to add any records while being disconnected, because, if my understanding
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by fipar 6y ago
Actually, that shouldn't be the case since 5.7: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/server-system-variab... (and related: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en&#
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by fipar 6y ago
I checked again, and the guidelines with Oracle are similar to what they were with MySQL AB: https://www.oracle.com/legal/trademarks.html Specifically to your example (I think), see "Company, Product or Service Na
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Re-Introducing Hash Indexes in PostgreSQL(hakibenita.com)
2 points by fipar 6y ago|0 comments
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by fipar 6y ago
Last time I checked, no, you couldn't. You could instead call the offering "Eznzt Service for MySQL". A long time ago I had an open source project to manage mysql replication topologies, and I called it mysql-ha. At some poi
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by fipar 6y ago
> Seems challenging to implement without losing significant performance to the abstraction layer. Agreed, it seems the tradeoff would only make this worthwhile when you need to optimize for throughput, and a lot of the workload is ad hoc

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