orthoxerox

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   by orthoxerox 4y ago

   The kids should know where the food on their tables comes from.
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   by orthoxerox 4y ago

   Yes, SQL isn't good for data analysis. I recently had to help one of our data analysts port some code from Impala to Hive, and the query they gave me was terrifying: a dozen CTEs strung together in a query that was literally hundreds o
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   by orthoxerox 4y ago

   My previous employer ran Oracle on POWER. Is still running, actually.
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   by orthoxerox 4y ago

   Tailscale is a zero-friction VPN. You just install it on every machine, login on every machine and you get your own private network that just works. When I click on one of the machines in the admin console, I get a list of things it takes c
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   by orthoxerox 4y ago

   > To run more wire, you've got to get out the (I think?) jackhammer. Don't they leave conduits and junction boxes in the walls when they run the initial wires?
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   by orthoxerox 4y ago

   They do. Finland and Russia love their timber houses (although Russia still mostly uses solid timber walls due to the lower quality of lumber and the lack of skilled labor).
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   by orthoxerox 4y ago

   The biggest issue with stick framing is the building envelope. It's very sensitive to the quality of the air/water barrier. Lots of subpar contractors around that don't care about taping together different pieces of house wra
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   by orthoxerox 4y ago

   The same author also made a Battleship game featuring a Russo-Ukrainian War as its setting. The idea sounded completely ridiculous back in the 90's.
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   by orthoxerox 4y ago

   Outside. Basically, there was a broad swath of territories where smallholder peasants thrived and wouldn't agree to collectivization without state terror. It included most of Soviet-controlled Ukraine and a large chunk of southern Russ
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    by orthoxerox 4y ago

    Think of it as England and Ireland. The Wikipedia category [0] is massive, but there's a difference between how the Irish and the English view their two nations. A modal Englishman could say, "the English, the Welsh, the Scottish
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    by orthoxerox 4y ago

    "Tank is an armored vehicle originated in the UK, char d'assaut is an armored vehicle originated in France, Panzer is an armored vehicle originated in Germany." It's fine to call them all "tanks" and it's
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    by orthoxerox 4y ago

    > I really don't see any reason why you would need 10k€ cash payments if not for tax evasion. To avoid banking fees?
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    by orthoxerox 4y ago

    100% gross
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    by orthoxerox 4y ago

    > If it cannot render in GitHub it's not real. If it's harder for me to write in the 99% case then it's not worth it. If it's harder for me to implement within my application then I'm too lazy to switch. There&#x
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    by orthoxerox 4y ago

    > with MongoDB compatibility Does that mean no encryption and no authentication by default?
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    by orthoxerox 4y ago

    Namespaces. I know why they were introduced, but they still were an incredible pain to use, especially with SOAP. You want to pass a <Customer> to the update method? No, it must be <Customer xmlns=" http://example.
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    by orthoxerox 4y ago

    No it isn't, you're imagining things.
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    by orthoxerox 4y ago

    That's Lizardmen
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    by orthoxerox 4y ago

    > The Windows 10/11 "settings" are a hole pile of shit. Hear, hear. Every time I want to do something with my networks, I have to guess which settings window I need. Win 10 settings window? Network and Sharing Center? Chan
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    by orthoxerox 4y ago

    Can you uncombine taskbar buttons in Win 11 yet?
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    by orthoxerox 4y ago

    From what I know about CLOS, it's a great tool if you have a tight-knit team of seasoned devs, but it's a giant sack of footguns otherwise. You can redefine so much about the object system that your codebase will instantly become
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    by orthoxerox 4y ago

    Have you ever done shuttle runs? You put your leg forward, foot turned slightly inwards, use it to absorb your kinetic energy by pivoting on the ball and bending the knee and hip joints and when you have completed your turn, push with it to
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    by orthoxerox 4y ago

    Yes, and it's hot enough that your drill starts heating up and getting the same texture if you're not cooling it aggressively, which is hard to do so deep down.
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    by orthoxerox 4y ago

    Yes, Lua is like the good parts of JavaScript without the bad parts, but with worse lambda syntax and one-based indexing.
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    by orthoxerox 4y ago

    And it's all made by humans (other than creepy cartoons and listicles). I had to take apart my vacuum cleaner to debug it (turns out the power cord got frayed inside the bobbin) and the websites were full of autogenerated crap. YouTube
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    by orthoxerox 4y ago

    > The device is mine. I paid for it. I should be able to do whatever I want with it. You are absolutely right, of course. It just doesn't mean Microsoft should help you run whatever you want on it.
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    by orthoxerox 4y ago

    Location: Moscow, Russia Remote: Maybe Willing to relocate: Yes, please Technologies: C# (ASP .NET Core Web API, Roslyn), Oracle PL/SQL, Postgres, docker, k8s, Lua, tcl, had to fix other people's Java and Scala code.
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    by orthoxerox 4y ago

    > What's that I hear Hacker News and Reddit cry? "It's a Dev Kit for Windows, you moron!" That may be the case, but Microsoft "Loves Linux", and clearly has worked hard to make WSL2 available out of the box
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    by orthoxerox 4y ago

    I think this landing page design has been made popular by Bootstrap.
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    by orthoxerox 4y ago

    Douglas Coupland is super polished, the lines just slide straight into your eyes.