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by redler 6y ago
An aptronym.
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by redler 6y ago
An "exception proving the rule" is a colloquial phrase that can be interpreted in several ways. Yours is one of them. I'm using it here as a fun way to underscore the decades of consistent greatness of Postgres[QL], and the f
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by redler 6y ago
Judges should adjudicate from the bench -- decide matters in dispute. To "legislate from the bench" would be judges creating laws -- the province of the legislative branch, not the judiciary. It's certainly true there's
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by redler 6y ago
Postgres is truly an exception that proves the rule. "Sure, not every second system falls prey to this phenomenon, but you practically have to be Postgres to avoid it."
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by redler 6y ago
The term "Democrat Party" (and, more generally, "Democrat" as an adjective) is both a shibboleth signaling opposing tribal membership, and an epithet signaling contempt for the Democratic Party — the actual name of the o
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by redler 6y ago
He would get credit if an outcome like this were his intent with the appointment — which it certainly was not. It would surprise nobody if words like "traitor" or "turncoat" were echoing through the White House halls thi
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by redler 6y ago
I certainly hope so, considering all the IBM customers that are going to have to explain this to their customers in turn.
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by redler 6y ago
And here's a real-world build of the Animusic Pipe Dream project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCIkbr9HCcw
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by redler 6y ago
Yeah, that's not good. Sometimes you can find it through some combination of ensuring that app is frontmost by clicking its icon in the dock, choosing "hide others" from its menu, and triggering "show application windows
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by redler 6y ago
To the extent Europe has avoided American-style mass layoffs, it's been through direct and indirect government funding of continued employment. Businesses and employees are being kept warm — they're in the cache. In the US, this i
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by redler 6y ago
The PR value to Microsoft of making him whole, and of reinforcing the impression of a newly ethical and positive force in the community, would have positively dwarfed the fraction of a rounding error it would have cost to do so. This was su
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State and New CDC Data on Covid-19 Testing Don’t Match Up(theatlantic.com)
12 points by redler 6y ago|1 comments
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by redler 7y ago
> The key mechanism seems to be VERY robust and can take a lot of pounding. Usually the particles jamming the mechanism (e.g. food crumbs) can be broken up by repeatedly banging hard on the offending key. I've done something similar
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by redler 7y ago
In Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep, traders traffic in cubes of material that acts as a super dense source of pad data. Your communication partner on another ship would have the twin cube, and the two would be synced up and then pr
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by redler 7y ago
Is the Obey logo trademarked?
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by redler 7y ago
There is also "co-insurance", which can be in the range of 20 to 50 percent of the billed amount, depending on one's plan. It should go without saying that 20 to 50 percent of the bill on almost any substantive medical proble
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by redler 7y ago
One architectural difference is that the single-paying entity's job would be primarily to pay. The job of the many current entities is to not pay -- and to develop labyrinthine, nondeterministic, unknowable structures of great complexi
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by redler 7y ago
I accidentally left my iPad in the seat-back on a recent flight — my case, it turns out, is a perfect match for Delta-leather-blue. Even though this is an iPad with cellular, I'd switched it to airplane mode and thus was unable to loca
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by redler 7y ago
SO questions and answers do sometimes seem ossified now, the ever-shifting flood plain of restrictions and gatekeeper culture having muted and chilled what used to be a more dynamic forum. I increasingly find more valuable and timely inform
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by redler 7y ago
Perhaps a "Wisdom" stat that's influenced, in part, by the age and positive signal of substantive reputation that's old enough to have decayed.
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by redler 7y ago
I'm interested in this (closed) question/answer. Do you have a link to it?
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by redler 7y ago
The more targeted the discrimination, the worse it feels. They're targeting your ability to pay, but also your weaknesses. Imagine highly accurate, pervasive, and real-time user profiling (and sharing of information among big companies
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by redler 7y ago
The kinds of higher-level job-holders who might be sitting on other boards would likely have employment agreements that are negotiated to specifically carve out those exceptions.
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by redler 7y ago
Your point is a fair one, and I admit unfamiliarity with Corretto, specifically. But they're telegraphing, right on the tin, that this new service will indeed recommend solutions of the form "we see a problem pattern in your code;
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by redler 7y ago
One of their screenshot examples flags inefficient code in crypto libraries, and the suggested "fix" is "Evaluate switching to the Amazon Corretto Crypto Provider ACCP". I don't know enough about the subject matter
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by redler 7y ago
For what it's worth, on the Acela, there are a few areas where it exceeds 150mph.
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by redler 7y ago
We might call it Soros’ Law, but that could be inflammatory. Which may be perfect.
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by redler 7y ago
> Only regret, it cannot be used as an external monitor. You should check out Luna Display. In the wake of being "Sherlocked" by Apple's new iPad Sidecar feature, they've added support for using Macs as external displ
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by redler 7y ago
The fact that governments change, sometimes radically, is an important point in arguing against escrow. For example, in the current supreme court case R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. EEOC, the case was brought under the Obama a
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by redler 7y ago
The origin of Keynote is supposedly the requirement to create Apple-keynote-ready presentation software that would pass the extremely specific and persnickety Jobsian requirements for aesthetics and attention to detail in an age of Powerpoi

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