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by forinti 4y ago
We already have dual fuel "flex" engines that run on gasoline, ethanol or any mixture of them. However, ethanol is too expensive south of São Paulo, so it is hardly ever used. Anyway, a flex/eletric hybrid would be very usef
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by forinti 4y ago
I find it hard to believe someone who codes doesn't know this. Bits, bytes, words, doubles, floats, ints... This information is everywhere. Every coding book starts with this.
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by forinti 4y ago
For every technology there are scenarios in which it is a poor fit. You don't want to install Postgresql or Oracle on an embedded system nor would you want the extra weight of administering them for a system that has few users. The SQL
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by forinti 4y ago
A lot of things don't need to scale (and never will) so using a simpler solution is more economical and efficient.
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by forinti 4y ago
There is an additional ingredient which is very important in Latin America: the very rich see their countries as cash cows and are not particularly interested in changing things. There is practically no industrial class in Argentina any mor
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by forinti 4y ago
Argentina is practically an extractive and agrarian economy now. It's hard to keep a good standard of living for 45 million people with that.
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by forinti 4y ago
In 2009 my card had a 6-digit PIN and I went on holiday to Argentina. The card readers there only accepted 4 digits and they validated my card with the first 4 digits of my PIN. That was a bit disconcerting.
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by forinti 4y ago
I play around with fractals a lot and once I fiddled with mandelbrot and found something that resembled a pig running on two legs. I guess it would be called the running pig fractal. This might be a message from god: don't eat pork.
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by forinti 4y ago
Couldn't the overall cost be lower if the government has to spend less on car infrastructure?
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by forinti 4y ago
In my city a big deal is made about the public bus service requiring a 50 million subsidy and no one thinks twice about spending 250 million (plus maintenance) on a single overpass.
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by forinti 4y ago
I keep a backup of my travel photos there.
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by forinti 4y ago
In my neck of the woods these were very hard to come buy. During the 80s, people mostly had 8-bit micros at home. And Windows 3.1 only appeared in the 90s. ATs and even XTs could have handled a GUI well. It wasn't for lack of memory or
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by forinti 4y ago
Makes me wonder why we had to put up with DOS for so long.
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by forinti 4y ago
My youngest used Teams for school for most of the pandemic on an old Core 2 Duo laptop with 2GB and later 3GB of RAM. Mind you, it ran on Ubuntu Mate and used about 1GB of RAM. I'm not saying I like it, but it didn't fail.
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by forinti 4y ago
Surely the choice of OS cannot depend on a single day. CP/M seemed much nicer.
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by forinti 4y ago
From the little I know of US media, I would guess The Young Turks and Democracy Now! are probably the furthest left you can go.
947.
by forinti 4y ago
I still think it's best to use something outside of the database, unless you don't have a large volume of docs, don't have complex searches, and don't have a lot of concurrent searches.
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by forinti 4y ago
It's much better to use elastic (or solr) and keep your text indices out of the database. They have more features and you keep the load separate. This is important if you suddenly have to index a ton of new documents or even recreate y
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by forinti 4y ago
What an interesting coincidence, I was just watching a video on how people keep their cars warm in Yakutia, and this is the sort of thing they use.
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by forinti 4y ago
The quality of news generally is just awful. You could pick a newspaper from any day of the year and you'll have the same articles: crime, soccer, some hardly disguised ad for a new movie, etc. There's no reason to read it. TV new
951.
by forinti 4y ago
I was once tasked with writing a very important system and so started to attend meetings with higher-ups to discuss what had to be done. I had no idea what they were talking about 90% of the time. After 5 or 6 very long meetings, I decided
952.
by forinti 4y ago
I had 64MB and was very happy. I still have the machine, but it now has a whopping 80MB and I'm certainly trying this distro.
953.
by forinti 4y ago
Seems like a good tradeoff to me: you have a machine readable part, but you keep the traditional stamp part.
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by forinti 4y ago
I am doing French and Russian, and there's so much more material for French. I wish there were stories in Russian, at least. Anyway, I try not to look at the points or streaks, my real motivation is to learn the language.
955.
by forinti 4y ago
I've been doing web development for more than 20 years and it has become more and more complex. Also, people's expectations for sites are higher (sometimes needlessly - intranets don't have to have state of the art design, bu
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by forinti 4y ago
In Bogotá there is a fantastic museum called Museo del Oro (Museum of Gold). It houses artifacts made by the indigenous people of Colombia. I hope the cargo of this ship ends there or maybe in a museum in Cartagena.
957.
by forinti 4y ago
That's not a good analogy, because the people living in Crimea are mostly Russian. When the Spanish came to America, the people living here certainly weren't Spanish. It was even discussed if the indigenous peoples were human or n
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by forinti 4y ago
It would be great to have the option to move easily between databases. SQLite would be best for development, testing, and small sites. MySQL would be better for production . And SQLite would be be great for archiving old sites.
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by forinti 4y ago
If you do an SQL dump, it will end with "-- PostgreSQL database dump complete". If you use -Fc, you can make an SQL file from the dump using pg_restore like this: pg_restore -f db.sql db.dmp Or straight to stdout like this:
960.
by forinti 4y ago
No. To be precise, it was 9.6.6 or 9.5.3 (I don't recall which one exactly because both were installed) to 14.0. And then I upgraded to 14.4, but that only required a compilation.

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