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by jpitz 4y ago
> I too often was slowed down by this kind of stuff when wanting to use anything on top of glib, like dbus for instance. These things want your program to be written in a certain way, rather than your program being able to call the libra
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by jpitz 4y ago
Don't teach fear. How about that?
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by jpitz 4y ago
Not everyone has portability as a first-class requirement for their scripts. For 95% of what I write, bash 4 is entirely appropriate.
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by jpitz 4y ago
Truly relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/1168/
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by jpitz 4y ago
IBM Visual Age C++ on OS/2 installed an extension dll for the system Notepad to add syntax highlighting and jump-to-error, among other IDE features. In 1991-ish, it was very cool to me.
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by jpitz 4y ago
Where would you like the compute to run?
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by jpitz 5y ago
Do US contributions to ITER come out of the DOE budget?
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by jpitz 5y ago
You can choose to see this as a curse or an opportunity, a la https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by jpitz 5y ago
Contrary opinion: the Unix philosophy advocates a level of granularity larger than you posit - grep has a single responsibility, but is not a "tiny function"
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by jpitz 5y ago
> there's no excuse for not understanding those norms and why they exist, short of some kind of cognitive differences. Yes, and, those exact kinds of cognitive differences are exactly the kind that this profession is known for.
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by jpitz 5y ago
By "still" I assume you mean "steel"?
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by jpitz 5y ago
I thought that his point was "there's no substitute for understanding why" ?
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by jpitz 5y ago
They're not always synonymous. Much of the time it's a little of column A, little of column B. Even so, I try to ensure that my contracting engagements demonstrate my value as a consultant.
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by jpitz 5y ago
Yes, and to that end, the draft defines QUERY as both idempotent AND safe.
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by jpitz 5y ago
GET is allowed to have side effects, just not beyond the first invocation of a given request.
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by jpitz 5y ago
There's also creating a template database that exists at a known good state, and using that database template to CREATE DATABASE from. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/manage-ag-templatedb...
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by jpitz 5y ago
If you bought the switch from them, their support is pretty good. I would recommend reaching out to them. Otherwise I guess reach out to who you bought it from.
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by jpitz 5y ago
Jimi Hendrix may not have had a conventional education in music theory, but it seems obvious to me that he had an internalized model of it.
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by jpitz 5y ago
Well, for this feature, it means if meeting a and meeting b share any point in time ( except their boundaries )
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by jpitz 5y ago
The reflog is 1. garbage collected 2. local only
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by jpitz 5y ago
They've been around quite a long time, but yeah it seems like only SQL89 gets taught. Window Functions and CTEs are both major force multipliers in the language, so I always encourage folks to go learn them.
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by jpitz 5y ago
You're correct - I was in a hurry to express the idea, and I failed to check the where clause.
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by jpitz 5y ago
Minor nitpick: Nested subqueries ARE awkward, which is why I would express SELECT device id, sum(abs_delta) as volatility FROM ( SELECT device_id, abs(val - lag(val) OVER (PARTITION BY device_id ORDER BY ts)) as abs_delta
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by jpitz 5y ago
Didn't the VisualAge IDEs do this with their built-in version control? This was 20 years ago, and I seem to remember that the version control was at the method level, not file level.
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by jpitz 5y ago
Mine sits on the desk 20 inches from my head, and I've never heard it.
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by jpitz 5y ago
Agreed.
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by jpitz 5y ago
If your organization produces safety critical components, then one individual's mistake should not be able to impact delivered products.
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by jpitz 5y ago
I thought polyunsaturated fats ( fish, soybean ) were fairly prevalent in Japanese diets? How does that square up with the lower prevalence of obesity there?
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by jpitz 5y ago
Remote updating doesn't provide apparent power measurement, a power measurement chip does - this does require an upgraded meter, yes, but does not necessitate a smart one, although the economics of upgrading a fleet of meters probably
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by jpitz 5y ago
Why would you need a smart meter?

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