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by flukus 7y ago
Because once you get beyond select and where clauses database diverge a lot in capabilities and syntax. If all you want is a common interface to send arbitrary text to an arbitrary RDBMS then ODBC mostly solves this.
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by flukus 7y ago
Part of the problem is that the IPCC in most of the more conservative scenarios were assuming humanity acted on climate change and limited CO2e emissions or that their growth at least tapered off (they did for a while after the 2008 crises)
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by flukus 7y ago
I was speaking from my perspective with a comfy developer salary which would be roughly double that and yes that should be more than enough for a reasonable standard of living. > Does that include things like heroic medical care for end-
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by flukus 7y ago
> So at what point do we start seeing the benefits of this "replicator" (in the limit) technology? When we stop consuming more and more. For the most part I could work a single day work week (at 1/5th of my comfy developer
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by flukus 7y ago
It's more like google is a dystopian spyware company trying to suck in as much data as possible. Not that the news sources are great, but google is genuinely far worse.
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by flukus 7y ago
> Eyeballing the numbers [0][1] I would expect one bitflip between once every year and once every 100 years on 128GB of memory. I'm willing to take those odds. Throw in the likely hood of the flipped bit being consequential and the
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by flukus 7y ago
> Now, if you just dumped your other ad networks and ran everything through us, I bet it would be load much faster and that badge might magically disappear... My experience with everything google has touched lately suggest that this woul
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by flukus 7y ago
At least some of their key patents ( https://patents.google.com/patent/US20130128230/en?oq=inassi... ) are nearly halfway though there lifetime, so at best those patents will have a decade of value before they get a
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by flukus 7y ago
On the other hand there are many times where I wish I could convince other programmers of that statement. Lots of repetitive boring code is usually better then convoluted meta frameworks to solve the same task. I just spent my morning diggi
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by flukus 7y ago
More desalinated water would be handy, but typically it's not needed anywhere near the salt water and where it is needed more electricity isn't.
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by flukus 7y ago
I don't think I've had it happen in running software but back when I was learning I wasted many hours trying to find where my error was with super unhelpful c++ errors, usually to find the problem was the crappy books I was learni
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by flukus 7y ago
That's the common theory, but it's not like sex with other primates or even more distant relatives is unheard of (warning graphic and tragic): https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7829159/the-horrifying-story-o.
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by flukus 7y ago
> It’s mostly a thing in certain Protestant sects Catholics have a lot of grey area too ( https://www.catholic.com/tract/adam-eve-and-evolution ), they struggle with the random mutation and natural selection aspects t
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by flukus 7y ago
I've had a 5 hour working day for my entire career. It's the 8 hour sitting day I've never been able to break free from.
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by flukus 7y ago
They are a service provider and we are their customers, it's up to them to adapt to our needs and adapt to our culture.
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by flukus 7y ago
> Maybe four or five green vegetables. It was like a grocery store in some third-world countries I have visited I'm curious which third world countries? The only one's I've visited have been Melanesian, some with people li
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by flukus 7y ago
Depends on the country, but in mine the breakup coincided with the internet boom that resulted in improved quality and reduced prices. Then they let the infrastructure rot for 20 years and the government had to step in to rebuild it.
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by flukus 7y ago
Apart from the schools, the roads, the post office, the hospitals? No I can't think of many. Electricity and banking would have been on that list before they were privatized though. As for Venezuela, they've also been subject to U
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by flukus 7y ago
> outside of specialized/embedded systems. I think you're conflating platforms and dependencies. The OS it runs on is a platform that the the user already trusts, left-pad is a dependency the developers are responsible for. The
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by flukus 7y ago
Not full knowledge. But you should know about every single dependency, know what they do and if they're from a trustworthy source. Being able to say with confidence that you aren't installing malware on your customers machines is
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by flukus 7y ago
They're non-obvious and can bite you in several ways. A lot has been written about why triggers are bad (random example: https://www.itprotoday.com/development-techniques-and-manage... ). Back before service layers were
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by flukus 7y ago
> I think this is a really elitist and unsympathetic statement I think that describes the attitude of electron developers toward their users, you're putting your time and convenience over them.
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by flukus 7y ago
> The logic that says you need this vaccine is the same logic that says you need to carry a weapon. Assuming both are as common, but they aren't. Most people will have multiple sexual partners and engage in oral sex, few people get
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by flukus 7y ago
You can have insert/update trigger on views. You shouldn't but you can. More realistically, stored procs would do the CUD parts.
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by flukus 7y ago
> In the section on "What drugs did you administer?" we had to choose from a scrolling menu of perhaps 100 items for each drug we used I've seen a similar thing at a medical insurance company, not sure if this one was acce
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by flukus 7y ago
Agreed. The worst thing about all these * as a service things it that you're locked in to a single client for that service and many of them have awful and annoying UI's. The netflix UI isn't great, the audible one is abominab
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by flukus 7y ago
Technically there's things like this: https://makezine.com/projects/water-rocket-launcher/ and some chemical equivalents, but I think the payload is probably a bigger issue than the launch mechanism.
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by flukus 7y ago
Someone linked me to this on HN a few days ago: https://neocities.org/browse . It definitely brings back that old geocities/webring vibe the internet used to have.
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by flukus 7y ago
> Both parties are pro-globalism and pro-free trade. Well a recent president tried to stop US workers competing with an underclass of illegal residents with a border wall and tried to help the competitiveness of US workers with increase
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by flukus 7y ago
I'm not sure if a cloud version could ever replace access. Access is already paid for, works with on premise data, is easily deployed (no browser version madness), is ubiquitous, is easy to recover from bus factors (search the victims

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