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   by gfody 5y ago

   poll: would you like to see ads in the address bar? 100% - NO
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   by gfody 5y ago

   sql server scales incredibly well with the hardware but so does its price
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   by gfody 5y ago

   John Conway's free will theorem could go here
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   by gfody 5y ago

   so _not_ the strong-interaction material from 3bp? damn
5. 335.▲
   by gfody 5y ago

   he's too busy answering questions - he answered five more since this was posted
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   by gfody 5y ago

   I like to answer sql questions too and it's like being in a quick draw match with Linoff around. he once blogged about how he's able to find all the new unanswered sql questions so quickly, iirc he made his own search
7. 337.▲
   by gfody 5y ago

   it's really the bad policies that ruined passwords ala https://xkcd.com/936
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   by gfody 5y ago

   we've also had kerberos since the 80s, passwords are never shared it's all digests
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   by gfody 5y ago

   mine came as a kit with little packets to mix with distilled water and a squirt bottle, the bottle doesn't seem like anything special you stick the nozzle in your nostril and squeeze it
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    by gfody 5y ago

    I have scar tissue on the surface of my sinus that used to cause me more than my fair share of sinus infections. since I started using a neilmed to blast out my sinuses at the slightest hint of congestion it hasn't been a problem. I
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    by gfody 5y ago

    Hatsune Miku from 2007
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    by gfody 5y ago

    their roles could get more interesting once we give them neuralinks and higher educations
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    by gfody 5y ago

    olap cubes are the main use case for column stores
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    by gfody 5y ago

    people can really get hung up on jargon like this. the real concept is dimensional modeling which is a whole strategy and toolkit of ideas for doing online analytical processing. you can do it with anything, the data warehouse toolkit was c
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    by gfody 5y ago

    I wish someone made a standard 608 (fidget spinner, skateboard, etc.) deep-groove ball bearing entirely out of Tungsten - it would be the ultimate desk trinket and I bet it would have the longest and most satisfying spins.
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    by gfody 5y ago

    my bug: find the absolute root cause and fix it, ideally by changing a single character their bug: I'll need to rewrite most of this, what the hell were they thinking?
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    by gfody 5y ago

    Defender has been killing KMSAuto for years, I wonder what other utils are blacklisted
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    by gfody 5y ago

    it's also a common prefix for powershell-optimized versions of popular cli tools https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages?q=posh
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    by gfody 5y ago

    if you were about to use a uuid as a primary key in a database, wouldn't it always be better to instead use a composite key with explicit columns for sequence, timestamp, node id, etc.? if you really need to accept client side generate
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    by gfody 5y ago

    > Because I almost always need the database layer to continue to work for a time with both the old code and the new code update. that's what the backwards-compatible views are for
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    by gfody 5y ago

    this stuff has always been configurable from the policy editor and I can't imagine that ever going away, but I can imagine them removing the policy editor from the free editions - but then someone would just make a free policy editor (
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    by gfody 5y ago

    based on my own anecdata i suspect that you're an indica user and that all the schizophrenia links are from sativas
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    by gfody 5y ago

    yeah treating every schema change as a db migration might be our industry's worst anti-pattern. transactional ddl allows you to do stuff like: begin tran ..refactor data, drop/create tables.. ..create backwards-compati
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    by gfody 5y ago

    sql server and db2 also support ddl in transactions, oracle still does not
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    by gfody 5y ago

    there are whole other paradigms, eg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tVctB_VSU
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    by gfody 5y ago

    >You can express a foreign key constraint that these tables must link to an employee, but not the other way around. You can’t guarantee in the limited type system of SQL that every employee row has a corresponding employee_X table, and
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    by gfody 5y ago

    til, also found this where he apologizes for hijacking it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9613971
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    by gfody 5y ago

    isn't wtf8 'double utf8' ie the typical utf8 escape encoded in utf8 Ãetc? wobble transform 8bit seems like an unnecessary hijacking of a well labeled error state
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    by gfody 5y ago

    I stick to my point and tbh you should talk to a doctor or get a diagnosis from someone deeply familiar with the dsm and not self diagnose and self treat. fwiw I can appreciate you're carrying emotional pain and suffering and it's
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    by gfody 5y ago

    it's all a subtle misunderstanding of who's doing the considering and what's being considered. the author wants to say 1nf is of no concern to users of rdbms, that they can't actually violate 1nf because the system doesn