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by kmoser 2y ago
Related: How a 'NULL' License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-ha... And: What Happens When Your License Plate Says 'NO PLATE'? https
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by kmoser 2y ago
Or footprints since some hospitals take footprints of newborns, but it's neither a given that they did, or that they're readily available, or that you can identify which hospital to ask, or even that the person you want to identif
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by kmoser 2y ago
Everybody has relatives. The question is how distant and whether DNA testing will be useful.
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by kmoser 2y ago
Even more scary: without any living relatives, there would be no way to identify himself with that degree of accuracy. Sure, you can disinter a corpse, but that's bureaucratically way more difficult than performing a DNA test on a live
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by kmoser 2y ago
What do you want to see if there's more than one sale date with the lowest price? In any case, you can do this with a subquery and join it with the main table. I don't think there's anything non-standard about it: SELECT
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by kmoser 2y ago
That might be good for newbie developers but for the rest of us it'll end up being the Clippy of AI assistants. If I want to know more about an API I'm using, I'll Google (or ask ChatGPT) for details; I don't need an ass
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by kmoser 2y ago
Not sure what getting the first row has to do with any issues you have with GROUP BY/ORDER BY/HAVING? Each of those clauses serves a distinct purpose, and I'm not sure I'd describe any interactions a "morass" s
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by kmoser 2y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42893627
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by kmoser 2y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42436783
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by kmoser 2y ago
When the market isn't demanding what you're supplying, call in the marketing and advertising departments to get your customers to value what you're producing, rather than acquiescing to your customers' demands.
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by kmoser 2y ago
> As far as we can tell [...] the phish spam attacker used the main password they'd just stolen to register the person for our VPN and obtain a VPN password... Requiring admin approval for VPN accounts would have prevented the phish
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by kmoser 2y ago
> I guess I can see electing to buy into the lower part of the bathtub curve This assumes you know and can control where in the curve you're buying into.
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by kmoser 2y ago
There's nothing wrong with not wanting to take photos (or keep other people's photos around) if that's not your thing. Other relatives and descendants who are into family history and genealogy might find those photos very int
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by kmoser 2y ago
Those videos are destined to be pure family nostalgia gold. I hope you're saving them in a format that can be easily backed up and shared with family members, both present and future. I also suggest taking a few candid snapshots and pu
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by kmoser 2y ago
Reminds me of this purposely over-engineered Java version: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
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The way I see it, the rules are simply constraints and obstacles put in place to see how robust, reliable, and readable you can write your code under those conditions.
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by kmoser 2y ago
I would have thought to create the matrix on the fly with a loop. Not as clever as changing the base, of course, but wouldn't that have been acceptable?
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by kmoser 2y ago
> I used a lossless FLAC copy of the CD album from 2003 to see this. It’s quite possible a lot of this would be missing from lossy copies, such as MP3s, though I haven’t tested that. Aren't music CDs already compressed using lossy c
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by kmoser 2y ago
> Carroll remembers a sale from 2022 as one of his favorites. The Arizona car company Local Motors had shut down and was trying to offload one of the world’s largest 3D printers, big enough to print a car. I guess that finally answers th
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by kmoser 2y ago
Unfortunately it doesn't work for instances of, say, a bank accidentally depositing extra money in your account, or their ATMs accidentally dispensing too much cash.
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by kmoser 2y ago
If anything, the publicity (more mentions of their company name) may have even led to a slight uptick in sales.
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by kmoser 2y ago
You'd think there would be a service that informs you if any of your DNS servers are unregistered, let alone point to a server they shouldn't point to. What's more surprising to me is that every Fortune 1000 company, at the v
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by kmoser 2y ago
I used to collect them but gave up because it seemed to be never ending. Here are some: https://www.kmoser.com/chopsticks/
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by kmoser 2y ago
A liter of coconut water also contains quite a bit of sugar, which might have contributed to your palpitations.
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by kmoser 2y ago
They could be forgiven for writing in print, but I wonder how they will "sign" their signature, e.g. for legal documents. Sure, they could print that, too, but it would be a departure from the many generations before them that lea
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by kmoser 2y ago
Nobody has checked the back of my credit card for the presence of a signature in decades, let alone whether the signature matches. (I also haven't bothered to sign my credit card for this reason, but also because why would I want someb
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by kmoser 2y ago
From https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/register-and-get-... : > Citizen Archivists must register for a free user account in order to contribute to the National Archives Catalog. Begin the registration proces
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by kmoser 2y ago
> Only amend commits that only exist in your local copy or you're gonna have a bad time. "Gonna have a bad time?" I really wish things like this were explained in more detail, rather than with glib warnings that are unhelp
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by kmoser 2y ago
Brilliant! But two phrases I was hoping to see weren't there: "reach out" and "embrace."
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> And why should a 7/11 worker care? Their employer doesn't care about them. Minimum wage / minimum effort and all that. Because their actions affect the customers they interact with, who have no direct bearing on their jo

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