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by pjungwir 3y ago
Re the stuff about @-moz-document at the end, does anyone remember exploiting IE bugs in parsing CSS to present different rules for IE vs firefox, especially to work around IE's broken box model? I remember actually using this[0] hack
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by pjungwir 3y ago
> I’m glad that some people never develop epistemic learned helplessness, or develop only a limited amount of it, or only in certain domains. What always struck me about famous philosophers is that almost none of them ever changed their
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by pjungwir 3y ago
Something I've been curious about lately is: why do we find elements on Earth clumped together, for example veins of iron or gold? I can understand coal or oil since that comes from something organic that put it there. But what about e
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by pjungwir 3y ago
I've read technical books that say the code samples are actually executed to avoid typos. I wonder if you could use cog for that. Probably there are LaTeX packages that can do it, but what if I'm writing in markdown?
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by pjungwir 3y ago
Impertinent question: why not ask ChatGPT to talk with them? It doesn't have understanding either. I think this would be a great experiment in the meaning of consciousness. Can we train an LLM to communicate with whales, birds, etc.?
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by pjungwir 3y ago
I want to agree, but macOS is a big one. For example `sed -i` has bitten me before.
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by pjungwir 3y ago
It is said that Solon, the most revered law-giver of Athens, made cutting an olive tree punishable by death. I've also heard that because of their slow growth, planting an olive tree is something you do not for yourself but for your ch
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by pjungwir 3y ago
I hope Julia keeps writing about git, because I'm sure it will teach me something! I'm still searching for a way to manage long-lived Postgres submissions, the most challenging git scenario I've encountered. Julia's post
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by pjungwir 3y ago
I can't say much about Atlantis, but my favorite Greek geography tale is from Herodotus, who says the Egyptians sent an expedition around Africa, traveling down the Red Sea then back through the Pillars of Hercules. But he says he&#x27
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by pjungwir 3y ago
If only someone had filed a patent that blocked Word from inserting curly quotes the wrong way, like ‘449.
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by pjungwir 3y ago
Thank you!
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by pjungwir 3y ago
Craig, you really made me feel welcome in the Postgres community. Maybe people have. It's such an amazing group. Thanks for all the pg advocacy you've done!
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by pjungwir 3y ago
Thank you! May I keep you in mind once I have something? My email is in my profile, so maybe send me a note. (I don't see yours.)
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by pjungwir 3y ago
Thank you! It's just a table of contents. :-) And there is a book about temporal data I want to write first. . . . But it's awesome to hear someone is interested. EDIT: to plug a couple other independent-author Postgres books on m
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by pjungwir 3y ago
I am hoping to be part of that "Next Generation"---although I'm already 46. I'm sure there are others a bit younger. My last talk at PGCon tried to fill some of the gaps around what you must know to hack on Postgres, esp
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by pjungwir 3y ago
I remember when working with Oracle 20 years ago the DBA liked to make sidecar tables to hold the big columns, so they were out of the way of most queries. It was awkward but I guess it was worth it. One time after starting to use Postgres
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by pjungwir 3y ago
The last week reminds me of the story of Bardeen & Brattain's invention of the transistor (e.g. in The Idea Factory ). It barely worked and heaven forbid you bump the table. There was even a third slighted figure who wanted credit
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by pjungwir 3y ago
Wallace Stevens, perhaps America's greatest poet, also had a successful career working in insurance for decades. [1] is a nice short biography. It sounds like he was a committed & involved writer already before that though, and eve
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by pjungwir 3y ago
Wow, her "human" output for dig is wonderful. I learned nslookup first, and to this day I still use it because dig's output is such a mess. If dig looked as she suggests, I would have switched years ago.
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by pjungwir 3y ago
Bearish?
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by pjungwir 3y ago
20+ years ago I worked at a small dev shop. The IT folks and we devs had a contentious relationship, and it was hard to get any changes done on the servers. All I had was sudo access to something like `vi /etc/apache.conf`. I don&
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by pjungwir 3y ago
In that case you might enjoy On Moral Fiction by John Gardner. Anna Karenina is his favorite example of a good novel, and he disparages the things you are meh about in Ulysses . I general I agree with you, but to me Anna Karenina was
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by pjungwir 3y ago
This is a wonderful talk about learning. I have pretty much the same process: when being confused gets to be intolerable, I go and learn something. I would just add that once you learn it you should write it down. Personally I keep man page
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by pjungwir 3y ago
And his name means Chickpea. :-) Evidently (since it's the family name) it's because his ancestors farmed chickpeas, but I still like to imagine it as a personal nickname instead.
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by pjungwir 3y ago
These are great suggestions. Adding these words to your own internal vocabulary is totally worth it for self-reflection. Less seriously, a grammatical construction I wish we had in English is the Latin future passive participle, typically
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by pjungwir 3y ago
Oh wow, I learned a little Icon in college as part of a class on different programming paradigms. As soon as I saw the thread title I thought, "That sounds a lot like Icon." We also covered Scheme, Prolog, and . . . Java. :-) Okay
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by pjungwir 3y ago
It was interesting to hear this aside about the MySQL roadmap: > MySQL is pushing towards INSTANT DDL When I need MySQL these days I automatically go for MariaDB instead, but I guess they are going to diverge more and more. Does anyone m
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by pjungwir 4y ago
[1] is an great research paper about supporting temporal data in SQL. It goes beyond the SQL:2011 standard to support temporal outer joins and some other things. Basically they define a temporal variant for each relational operator then sho
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by pjungwir 4y ago
I'm curious if anyone has a similar story but running Linux instead of macOS? I have a DIY AMD 5600X system (128 GB RAM, two M.2 drives) that is fast but warm. In the summer it can be uncomfortable in my upstairs office, despite A&#x2F
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by pjungwir 4y ago
In my experience programmers hate to read each other's code. That's why rewrites are so popular. Do they really want to read an AI's? I bet the AI writes even worse comments your predecessor. One of the more toilsome bits o

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