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by kinjba11 5y ago
An additional subquery and a CTE are both restructuring the query significantly, which is the author's point.
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It is a toy example. Perhaps imagine a more realistic subquery that is much longer. Are you going to duplicate a 50 line subquery to get the salary when all you want is one more value ? No, you'd probably want to restructure the query
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> not what the code in this package does Here's `is-number` ( https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-number/blob/master/index... ): module.exports = function(num) { if (typeof num === &#x2
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Caves of Steel was published in 1953. Back in those times, population dynamics weren't as widely known. The world had just passed 2.5 billion and naive rates would put it at 9 billion over a hundred years later. It seems like old scien
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"Ethical enforcers" is putting it a bit strongly. There is such a thing as soft power, and some ideas take years or decades to percolate through a culture. Like you said > things that were condemned 20 years ago are being celeb
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There is something about corporations that everyone forgets from time to time: corporations are not faceless entities, they are made of people. There is a CEO, a board, a handful of executives running the company. These people set the cultu
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You are right - typically government is responsible for stopping bad behavior. However, in the US especially, there is a widespread feeling that at the highest levels of government where these problems are addressed, the leadership is (take
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I'm in my 30s and baffled by folks in their 30s who don't understand basic ethics and market forces. Businesses respond to bad PR all the time. The CCP is committing human rights violations all the time. Add the two together. It i
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What do you mean by 'bridges change all the time too'? Some of the oldest bridges in the world were built nearly 2000 years ago. That's zero change besides basic upkeep. What is the oldest unchanging software project you ca
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Given the nature of Chinese media - that is, one of aggressive censorship and zero investigative journalism - it will always be as the article says. That is, for the lab leak or natural origin theory: > There is no definitive evidence ei
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Do you have a source for this? I'm not clear how a fire would cover up a logging operation (signs of logging machinery don't just disappear). Unless there were massive corruption - which I wouldn't be surprised, but would sti
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> roughly the size of the state of Oregon That's huge! Right? How big are the biggest fires? Is there someone keeping track of all these extreme events, like we track hurricanes and storms? Oregon is 98,466 mi². In comparison, the w
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I think privacy is one area where legislation should come into play. Depending on consumers to make educated decisions in the face of massive network effects and legions of highly paid engineers working to increase engagement for profit isn
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Looks like it's been extinguished. I wonder how often stuff like this has happens with no consequences or media attention. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/fire-offshore-pemex-...
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> Safari is pretty good at standards (they do support BigInt and fetch) That is why I say "Safari gets them years later". For example: Chrome 42, released April 2015, supported fetch. Safari 10, released March 2017, supported f
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Does GraalVM work with Clojure? I would assume that would solve the startup time issue for a project like a CLI tool.
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The 'amyloid hypothesis' as the protein being the cause of Alzheimer's has been the most popular for a few decades, so it's not surprising you've read so much about it. But there hasn't been much success in dru
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Does this update potentially make Swift on the server side more viable? I'm also wondering if Swift introducing async/await so late will end up like C# in having to support both an async and sync version of legacy APIs, creating a
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Original video triggering the bet for context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyQwgBAaBag Video discussing the bet and going over criticism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCsgoLc_fzI Veritasium is a grea
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Do you have a problem with BigInt? fetch? Push notifications for PWAs? Dozens of other useful web technologies used by millions of apps? Is that "web-standard-of-the-week-insanity"? I agree not all standards are great. But they&#x
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I prefer to see Safari as the new IE: - On the most popular consumer operating system in the United States by numbers (iOS), it is the default browser, which is.. - furthest behind in supporting web standards. It is easy to theorize that Ap
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The story with livestock is complicated. From that same Wikipedia article. > The indirect effects contributing to the percentage include emissions associated with the production of feed consumed by livestock and carbon dioxide emission f
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You are correct. "Vanilla JS" is typically compared to React/Vue as a joke. As in "React.js is 2kb but Vanilla.js is 0kb and super lightweight". "Vanilla C" doesn't have the same context as far as I&#
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> who knows intuitively this is wrong I think you're vastly overestimating the average computer user here :) Most will make no meaningful distinction between a local account and an online one. If they could sign into Windows with th
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Anecdotal of course, but I've had the opposite experience. When I install Windows, the first thing I do is let Windows Update take care of everything. You could say it's "installed automatically". The only drivers I&#x27
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Pixel production has moved at least partially to Vietnam according to some sources. https://www.techradar.com/news/google-pixel-4a-manufacturing...
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"Everyone" in a casual sense. You don't have to use Safari, iMessage and FaceTime on Apple devices, but for all intents and purposes "everyone" does because it's the default. Similar to Internet Explorer on Win
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I'm with you, but I doubt it. To my knowledge, Apple hasn't faced any antitrust pressure from bundling FaceTime and iMessage into iOS/Mac OS.
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I believe Apple is working on getting iOS apps working in future versions of Mac OS. Microsoft being able to run Android apps in Windows is probably in part a response to that.
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> Do you use a smartphone? >> What does that have to do with anything? I would bet 99% of iOS and Android users sign in with their Apple or Google account. Signing into an account for an OS is par for the course in 2021.

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