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by kruador 2y ago
If you look at Tim Berners-Lee's original NeXT Cube that he developed WorldWideWeb on, you can see that it has a US keyboard layout. https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/original-next-comput... There's obv
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by kruador 2y ago
I would recommend "Programming Server-Side Applications for Windows 2000" by Jeffrey Richter and Jason D. Clark. Richter also wrote "Windows via C/C++", which was previously titled "Programming Applications for
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by kruador 2y ago
That reminds me of the Windows Mobile 6.5 device with built-in GPS receiver, where on the 31st day of the month, the API would actually output the date as the 0th day of the following month. This wouldn't have been a problem, except th
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by kruador 2y ago
You get XML for estimated execution plans if you use SET SHOWPLAN_XML ON. You get the actual execution plan XML along with your results if you use SET STATISTICS XML. You can see cached execution plans in the sys.dm_exec_query_plan dynamic
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by kruador 2y ago
The Mac could originally only run one major application at a time - although you did have 'desk accessories'. Andy Hertzfeld relatively soon wrote 'Switcher', a hack to allow multiple applications, which was released som
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by kruador 2y ago
Oh - and if you're URL-hacking, the episode IDs are in binary. Episode 101 (binary) is episode 5 (decimal). Cute but not terribly usable.
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by kruador 2y ago
Part of this podcast: https://microarch.club/episodes/101/ linked previously at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39989427 Previous excerpts from this podcast: https://news.ycombinat
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by kruador 2y ago
Subdomains that are operated by other entities: TfL, the Met Office, and a number of local councils.
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by kruador 2y ago
The identified domains are: * Transport for London * The Met Office * A bunch of local councils TfL has been partially advertising-funded for decades, going right back to the London Passenger Transport Board in the 1930s. They've alway
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by kruador 2y ago
Part of the problem is people who write up CVEs simply to get them on their resume. ("Curriculum Vitae Enhancement"?) The SQLite maintainers refuse to engage with the CVE process, partially for this reason: "While the origina
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by kruador 3y ago
The Git protocol is also substantially more heavyweight than just downloading a tarball. 'Dumb' HTTP involves requesting `info/refs` which lists all the references (branches and tags) available. The client has to find the tag
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by kruador 3y ago
We do already know exactly what will be in this QR code. My software has been supporting GS1-QR for several years. The content will be exactly the same as in GS1-128 (formerly known as EAN-128: a special interpretation of Code 128) and in G
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by kruador 3y ago
In Microsoft SQL Server you should use MONEY or DECIMAL. In Oracle you should use NUMBER. In Postgres you should use MONEY or NUMERIC. In MySQL you should use NUMERIC or DECIMAL. In IBM DB2 you should use DECIMAL. These are all backed by in
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by kruador 4y ago
No, it makes no difference. Git doesn't look at the full history when performing a merge, it just looks for similarity between the paths and files in the commits being merged, and the common base commit (which you can discover by runni
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by kruador 5y ago
We use the grunt build tool. More than a handful of times, I've tried to get grunt to do a merge, or git to build the app.
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by kruador 5y ago
Relevant video: Technology Connections, "The US electrical system is not 120V", where there is a (long) discussion of how the breaker panel works and how you get 240V. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMmUoZh3Hq4