mcdonje

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by mcdonje 5mo ago
Whataboutism. Which is funny because it's literally the same problem. It's somewhat intractable at this point unless or until we can figure out how to structure society in a way that can actually prevent it. Not sure we have the o
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by mcdonje 5mo ago
His ability to use his wealth to influence the government and the populous would be significantly reduced. There's a big difference between "rich" and "rich enough circumvent democracy."
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by mcdonje 5mo ago
They got captured
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by mcdonje 5mo ago
"would"? There is currently a disparity in how rich and poor people are policed. I get the point that there should be some limited immunity so they can do their jobs. Debatable, but worth the debate. The argument about the repercu
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by mcdonje 5mo ago
seL4 is an operating system that uses capabilities
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by mcdonje 5mo ago
True. Radix economy.
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by mcdonje 5mo ago
I thought about mentioning nulls, but it's a complicated subject. Not all columns are nullable. Null handling rules differ. It's not always ISO/ANSI.
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by mcdonje 5mo ago
A bool can be represented by a single bit. A tern(?) takes 2 bits or 1 trit to represent. Alternatively, a bool takes a trit to represent. So, in terms of radix economy, ternary computing is the most efficient, but you're leaving infor
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by mcdonje 5mo ago
In one respect, boolean logic is popular because of bits. If we had ternary processors, ternary logic would be more popular. In another respect, boolean logic is popular because it's easy to reason about. The truth tables are relativel
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by mcdonje 5mo ago
A souffle has not been made
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by mcdonje 5mo ago
Prescient
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by mcdonje 5mo ago
Yeah, they often call this to mind: "Better ingredients. Better pizza. Papa John's."
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by mcdonje 5mo ago
EPUB is the ebook standard, outside of Amazon-land, so it has staying power in its space. I think it would be good for the ecosystem if it broke containment and got tooling in enough places to challenge PDF.
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by mcdonje 5mo ago
Man, Access could've been so good if they just made an app around SQLite. Or since it's Microsoft and they need to do everything their own way, it would've been so good if they made a flat file DB à la SQLite, but with T-SQL
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by mcdonje 5mo ago
PII sniffers are pretty good at dealing with excel files. Excel is seen more as an analyst tool than a dev tool. Any place that bans Excel needs to either let analysts use some other turing complete data tools, like python or R or something
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by mcdonje 5mo ago
Why are you making my screen look dirty? lol
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by mcdonje 6mo ago
We're not going to have a rehash of the McDonald's coffee settlement argument here, are we? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punitive_damages
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by mcdonje 6mo ago
It does have types if you define them in the schema. Not every format needs to be self-describing. It's often more efficient to share the schema once outside of the data feed than have the overhead of restating it for every data point.
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by mcdonje 6mo ago
You're just saying when there's no filetype transfer, you don't have to deal with issues related to filetype transfer.
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by mcdonje 6mo ago
No, it's Excel trying to be too clever. It does the same thing with manual imput if you don't proactively change the field type. You can import a DSV into Excel without mangling datatypes in a few different ways. Probably the best
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by mcdonje 6mo ago
That's Excel's type inference causing problems. Not an issue with CSV or any other type of DSV. It is possible to import a CSV into Excel without type conversion. I just tested it two different ways. While possible, it's not
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by mcdonje 6mo ago
You're blaming a lot of normal ETL problems on DSVs. Like, specifying date as a type for a field in JSON isn't going to ensure that people format it correctly and uniformly. You still have parsing issues, except now you're du
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by mcdonje 6mo ago
While some may lament the departure of the phallus bird, nobody can be sad about the arrival of the giant fierce mythical bird.
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by mcdonje 6mo ago
I imagine an ada dev would find the pattern grating over the decades, so it reads like an expression of that experience.
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by mcdonje 6mo ago
Normalize the app, denormalize the reporting.
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by mcdonje 6mo ago
>I don't know what that proves. It proves something, but not much. Those models with those inputs (mostly HN articles) were benign or even a net positive for society. Other models with different training (upstream of the blogging us
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by mcdonje 6mo ago
While generally a fair critique, the site does have "SQL" in its name.
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by mcdonje 6mo ago
There's some good stuff in here. I didn't know about the issues an aggregation in a CTE can cause and haven't used EXISTS much. Regarding recursive CTEs, you might be interested in how DuckDb evolved them with USING KEY: htt
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by mcdonje 7mo ago
That's a pretty good training plan. There's been some research about sprint interval training (SIT), which seems to be popular these days, but low heart rate training (LHRT) is also popular. Seems like your training was closer to
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by mcdonje 7mo ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I just fiddled around on that site a bit and it's good! They're not walling off features or asking for money, so I'm not sure if it's owned by another company or a FOSS project or something els

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