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by fipar 2y ago
Don't forget DB/2! And, from the same vendor, IBM still ships IMS for those who find Codd's ideas too exciting.
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by fipar 2y ago
Thanks for the recommendation! In my case, I learned about the existence of the rat wars of Alberta thanks to "Your friend the rat" in the Ratatouille DVD, back when those were still a thing.
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by fipar 2y ago
I draw the line in the sand and say that is different because sleep has been working "forever", while the quote in the parent comment describes a process that, not only does not exist and therefore work now, if it ever gets to wor
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by fipar 2y ago
I second your suggestion. Or, alternatively, do as I did and just have an entry for darkroom-mode in your visibility Hydra :)
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by fipar 2y ago
I think those are just not great examples. There are plenty of examples of black markets for legal things, including food stuff. Example: instead of buying meat at a formal (as in, legal business that pays taxes, has the proper sanitary rev
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by fipar 2y ago
Or just select + update in a transaction, which with IIRC, with the default isolation level will use optimistic locking for the select part, unlike select for update.
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by fipar 2y ago
I’m pretty sure it’s John Cale singing in the movie. A quick search tells me Wainright’s version is on the soundtrack. I’m down with some nasty bug now and on antibiotics so I may be completely off, but I stand by it being Cale on the movie
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by fipar 2y ago
I miss the 90s internet and I think even though some things have objectively gotten worse (most people interact in proprietary networks, as opposed to using open standards), as a parent, I think part of that feeling is still there, since my
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by fipar 2y ago
This may have been common enough that I distinctly remember it as something that could happen when playing Sub Battle Simulator in ‘91 (or around that year): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub_Battle_Simulator
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by fipar 2y ago
I use GNU cash [0]and it has support for securities. I’m on my phone now and couldn’t get a direct link to the corresponding man page to work, but you should be able to find it easily if you search for “Security Editor”. [0] https:/&#x
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by fipar 2y ago
This is an excellent book for anyone that finds this subject interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasite_Rex
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by fipar 2y ago
I used Print Master a lot and had no idea it was a clone of something else, in fact, today is the first time I learn about The Print Shop, so thanks for that link! The sound of the dot matrix printer late at night ...
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by fipar 2y ago
All of what you said is true, but I just want to add a note that I mentioned a support contract with open source developers, not necessarily the authors of the open source software in question. It's like when a company buys a contract
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by fipar 2y ago
> Companies take "we might make an external call with your data" very seriously, and regardless of how much you trust the external entity, adding that in is rightfully seen as a very serious concern in some environments Please
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by fipar 2y ago
While in the case of dogs, behavior changes a lot by breed (ours was a German shepherd), I think it mostly boils down to how much time they spend outdoors and how busy they are. It’s possible to have a healthy indoors cat while this probabl
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by fipar 2y ago
I have cats now, had a dog before, love both, and what you say about cats applies to dogs too in my experience.
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by fipar 2y ago
This reminded me of the following story from John Cage: When I asked Schoenberg to teach me, he said, "You probably can't afford my price." I said, "Don't mention it; I don't have any money." He said, &quo
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by fipar 2y ago
While I don't disagree with your sentiment I have a few comments: "Why are we still dealing with over half a century of cruft?". IMHO that's because we have software running that's over half a century, with organiza
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by fipar 2y ago
That's a false dilemma.
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by fipar 2y ago
If capitalism wants to avoid putting money in with power, then what is lobbying? And there are plenty of examples of companies having and using violence. That in more civilized countries it happens less than before is because of the struggl
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by fipar 2y ago
That’d match the analogy from TFA if it only ran on, say, a 2014 mbp, so while it’s true Logic runs only on macs or ipads (I guess just pros for the latter though I don’t know), I think it’s quite a stretch to say that’s a certain make and
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by fipar 2y ago
In my field (databases), the boomers I’ve worked with (a handful, to be honest) were all keen on sharing their knowledge. They also seemed happy that someone younger was actually listening and not just telling them that their knowledge from
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by fipar 3y ago
While I don't belong to the same group, I've been working remotely for a bit over 2 decades now (not continuously at first, but yes for the last 15 years) so on weekdays I do end up speaking more in English than in Spanish (my nat
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by fipar 3y ago
Yes to all that you've said, and in a completely different genre, one of the greatest comebacks from "barely functional junkie" was John Frusciante, who looks way healthier in his 50s than he did in his 20s. Back to Coltrane,
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Jaquet-Droz Automata(en.wikipedia.org)
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by fipar 3y ago
There are open source ports that have a clear license now: https://github.com/Shen-Language/shen-sources/blob/master/LI... That said, even if I don't use this a lot, I pay for Shen Professional to s
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by fipar 3y ago
Not the same, but this section of the book could work as a quick intro: https://shenlanguage.org/TBoS/tbos_34.html#34 ;
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by fipar 3y ago
It’s not always a computation problem. Unexpected bank holidays (happened to me in 2002 during a financial crisis), official days of mourning, etc. Nothing to compute there: a government declares a holiday and you just enter it into the tab
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by fipar 3y ago
If the source material was mentioned for every generated image then I think it would be more like what you say. No percentages needed since that's not something we used to get from liner notes either.
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by fipar 3y ago
“ Think of your favorite musicians. How many of them give attribution to where each musical idea came from?” Certainly not for every individual idea, but good musicians do a lot of attribution. I got to know a lot of music I love now after

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