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by forinti 2y ago
I honestly thought Linux would be much better, with a two-digit lead. One additional advantage of using Linux is that you can trim it down or use a very lightweight distro for very old hardware. I recently installed Linux on an old laptop w
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by forinti 2y ago
By the way, those Sun machines would crash if you forked more than 127 times.
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by forinti 2y ago
The Acorn Archimedes had an OS with GUI in a 512KB ROM. That would be your BIOS nowadays.
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by forinti 2y ago
I've got a Pentium 166MMX with 80MB of RAM that runs DSL, but you can't do much with it. In college I used Sun machines that had 8MB of RAM and you could run X. I mostly coded in C. When I think back on those times, I realise you
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by forinti 2y ago
Everybody is born, everybody gets sick, everybody eventually dies. It is sensible to have a universal health care system: everyone pays for it and everybody will use it.
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by forinti 2y ago
They're not prohibiting anyone from feeding these things to their children. A lot of people will continue to do so. The government would have to spend a lot of money on counter-campaigns to keep the public well informed and it probably
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by forinti 2y ago
You can set items from the URL, which you usually can't do with most web frameworks. Of course you can enable Session State Protection, but you have to be vigilant. You can also inadvertently leave a page public.
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by forinti 2y ago
Apex is nice, but it becomes hard to maintain larger applications. It also makes it so easy to create opportunities for SQL injection if you don't have careful coders. And it is also a great target for DoS attacks. Having said all this
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by forinti 2y ago
I'm curious about the economics of this machine. Wikipedia says it could be rented for $1485/mo, and the average salary in 1956 was $3600 or $300/mo, so it would have to replace 5 people (engineers must have earned more), if
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by forinti 2y ago
I think gadgets should have an EOL date on them, manufacturers might even start competing on who gives updates for longer.
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by forinti 2y ago
With a little Perl: https://github.com/glgraca/ora2sqlite
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by forinti 2y ago
It's a great tool. My use-case is a bit unusual: I decommissioned an Oracle Portal instance and decided to keep a copy of the tables in SQLite so that I can recover files people may later remember they need. It's much easier than
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by forinti 2y ago
There are a few good opportunities in both Porto Alegre and Recife, for sure, but most jobs are mediocre at best. If you have any sort of ambition (technological or financial), you should get a government job, start your own business, or mo
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by forinti 2y ago
I've had this lingering regret of not moving to Europe when I was young and nobody depended on me, but I am also sure that I would have had to endure racism and xenophobia there (although I do have a European passport).
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by forinti 2y ago
I actually thought "Blue Mushroom Man" in Poor Traits was alright, although the other "poor traits" were really weird.
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by forinti 2y ago
So my brother was in a zoo somewhere in Europe (I forget which one) and he was watching the penguins. The enclosure had various levels and one penquin was throwing stones at a fellow penguin down below. It would throw a stone and then hide
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by forinti 2y ago
I once played with a DEC desktop that had 2.88 drives, but I never saw any media for them. This must have been the late 80s or early 90s.
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by forinti 2y ago
I had my first one recently and it wasn't really a big deal. I had heard from a few people how horrible the prep was and it really wasn't. It is definitely worth it if you are past 45.
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by forinti 2y ago
That's not a scam, that's grievous bodily harm.
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by forinti 2y ago
I had a hunch that maybe a lookahead might help a bit, but it turned out to be slower: /^(..+?)(?=\1+$)/ Edit: of course, silly me, +? is non-greedy.
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by forinti 2y ago
You could say that Voyager is a celebrity. It even does cameos on sci-fi movies from time to time.
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by forinti 2y ago
I think it matters specially with big queries. When you have dozens of tables, it really helps to separate the joins from the where clause.
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by forinti 2y ago
You might not want to retire, but your body (or mind) might have other ideas.
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by forinti 2y ago
It was probably a matter of not having enough foreign reserves.
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by forinti 2y ago
Are US corporations going to be forced to fire their Russian coders?
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by forinti 2y ago
I live in a state that went from three years of drought to a record 100-year flood. Most people are not going to worry about animals going extinct or about biodiversity in the abstract, but I think people would take the environment seriousl
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by forinti 2y ago
That's not going to be easy with any database.
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by forinti 2y ago
I have always compiled from source so that I can have more than one version in place. The installation takes less than 1GB and is quite easy and fast to compile and I've never had any issues with upgrades. If you forget to compile an e
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by forinti 2y ago
For a while I had a separate version 9 cluster because of one application. But it wasn't really a nuisance. Postgresql doesn't give a DBA much to worry about.
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by forinti 2y ago
I find that upgrading Postgresql is really easy. Testing all the apps that use it, not so much.

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