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by ompogUe 1y ago
Snowflake forces this, so you would also never get CamelCase w/o always quoting the column name in your queries.
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by ompogUe 1y ago
Depending upon how you organize the words within them (*_id, *_name, *_percent), snake case allows you to parse the column names dynamically for things like santization and formatting.
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by ompogUe 1y ago
Aha, I see what you mean. On all three accounts.
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by ompogUe 1y ago
Been having fun with this one https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/read-aloud/ Read Aloud allows you to select from a variety of text-to-speech voices, including those provided natively by the
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by ompogUe 1y ago
"you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come" - 1 John 2:18 (Father of Lies Edition)
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by ompogUe 1y ago
> BTW, your "source" is an AI generated article by a local blog. It's not news Actually, it is AI generated + Human edited (with links to StatsCan for the numbers), and is very interesting "news-to-me" wrt the br
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by ompogUe 1y ago
At the SIGGRAPH '96, where they launched the N64, SGI had an awesome stage show: there was an MC and a user with a VR setup on, some Onyx refrigerators behind them, and a big screen showing the VR view. It was awesome - they were basic
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by ompogUe 1y ago
I, unarguably, agree. My all time favorite part is "Psalm". Love the story behind it, too: They had just moved from the city to Long Island, and he said it came fully formed into his mind. He then spent days and days in solitude i
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by ompogUe 1y ago
Had me laughing, too, and I haven't touched a flute in two years :0)
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by ompogUe 1y ago
(From the developer who brought you the PuTTY SSH tools!)
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by ompogUe 1y ago
First fell in love with Groove Salad. 100% #1 BEST Christmas/Holidays playlists. Topped off with 4 hours of a "Auld Lang Syne" playlist starting at Midnight NYE!
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by ompogUe 1y ago
<< in enterprise you spend most time in wait states blocked by slow internal processes So True! Glacial. Even with "ultra important asap" items
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by ompogUe 1y ago
Snowflake has been rolling out all sorts of stuff. Also, been using claude/grok/copilot/whatever for dbt/sql. Haven't found a lot of need for it in replication/orchestration so far.
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by ompogUe 1y ago
The most useful value of RSS for me was >20 years ago. craigslist let you create rss feeds with params, so I made a script that got me subscribed to feeds for every location they had in north america where someone was looking for a &quot
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by ompogUe 1y ago
Nope, they see the oil money as the important thing, and renewables aren't in their portfolios. The bigger economy and end-users are immaterial. See also what happened when Stephen Harper became PM of Canada: they stopped science fundi
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by ompogUe 1y ago
I discriminate adulthood 2 ways: "legal"/"federally protected" adulthood - 21 - can vote, drink, etc. "biological" adulthood - brain is not fully developed until ~25, and takes a few years to "activat
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by ompogUe 1y ago
Having watch an embarrassing amount of old movies: Rich people always had tailored clothing: tuxedos were expected for men at dinner Poor people didn't: lots of "unfortunate pants" and dresses made from sacks
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by ompogUe 1y ago
Maybe they're thinking, if they "accidentally" break the dam and let the waters rage downstream, they can flood Dharmashala and no one will know it ever existed?
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by ompogUe 1y ago
Speaking of C - a thing to me that made PHP take off was (in addition to "LAMP everywhere") was it made it easy to convert C code into extensions
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by ompogUe 1y ago
I agree with you, however, to me, the local language has often been what I saw as an important factor in this. Not just he semantic structure of adjectives/nouns/verbs, but what the parts of different words mean that were obviousl
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by ompogUe 1y ago
This. Learn how to learn. And the more you learn, the more (and faster) you can learn. I hit a wall with rounding in Qlik the other day, in 30 minutes of experimentation I had it nailed (as stupid as it is). That said, I started programming
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by ompogUe 1y ago
See you added the above comment to your article... I clicked the hn link because wanted to see if it was ironic or illiterate. Now I know.
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by ompogUe 1y ago
Reminds me of Apple's "Sosumi" system sound.
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by ompogUe 1y ago
we discovered back when IE3 came out that you could crash windows by leaving off a table closing tag.
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by ompogUe 1y ago
Canadian site with flyers and coupons from stores across the country
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by ompogUe 2y ago
I'm a data engineer for a "very large warranty group". We manage the pipelines for downstream analytics. We have combinations of data and actuarial scientists doing this analysis, so those would be good things to look into. O
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by ompogUe 2y ago
Semester 1 when getting a BFA in painting the prof told us to do this to help tighten composition
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by ompogUe 2y ago
Was extolling my love for Supercollider last night. Not the best for composition, but for all sorts of synth and effect building, cannot be beat. Doing stuff like algorithmically making bell frequencies, then playing 100s of bells at once i
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by ompogUe 2y ago
After DEI reversal at Walmart, can't bring myself to read it no matter how informative.
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by ompogUe 2y ago
Reminds me of one of my sophomore crushes: Leonardo @ MIT: https://direct.mit.edu/leon

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