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by sjwright 7y ago
If every gun owner took their ownership as seriously as you, I’d say you had a point. Until then it’s a narrative that doesn’t map to the overwhelming bulk of reality.
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by sjwright 7y ago
And if you could keep all your guns safely locked away until then, that would be great. –thanks, everyone else.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Even if that is correct, you still need to have a couple hundred grand in reserve in case the judge is a dumbass and you lose.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Am I missing something obvious, but can’t the perception of being open be solved by having bright shop lights next to your store window?
965.
by sjwright 7y ago
> I feel like this is a case of "where I live, drivers are worst". If that's what you got from my post then I've failed in conveying my intent. If anything I think that the median Australian driver is among the best i
966.
by sjwright 7y ago
(Or you can and you get the Python 3 debacle for a decade.)
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by sjwright 7y ago
As an Australian who has driven extensively in many countries, my observation is that the quality and attitude of drivers around the world maps fairly closely to the style of the built environment and regulatory environment. Australian road
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by sjwright 7y ago
An even better solution would be to focus on the stuff that matters. A given question in a typical mathematics or engineering type test generally falls into three categories of testing— 1. Ability to identify the right methodology; 2. Memor
969.
by sjwright 7y ago
I've written many apps and I've never experienced what you've described. I write my queries to return exactly the right data in exactly the right format in exactly the right order—so I can go straight from the generic data st
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by sjwright 7y ago
>> —and they change the way you think, > I am going to pay more attention to this Everyone thinks about things in their own way I suppose, but perhaps a way to parse it could be to think about whether you're approaching data f
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by sjwright 7y ago
That’s just a semantic game. If your language returns the result of a query as a generic array of generic dictionaries (or whatever), that isn’t mapping, nor is it object oriented in principle.
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by sjwright 7y ago
As a well-travelled Aussie who married a brit with the archetypal dry British humour and pessimism, I'm surprised that I missed it.
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by sjwright 7y ago
> There's a middle ground. > Micro ORMs. And there's the mystical fourth option of simply not bothering with objects in the first place. No objects, no need to do object-relational mapping.
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by sjwright 7y ago
This. After contemplating my distaste for ORMs more carefully, I've come to the realisation that my objections aren't so much to do with the concept of an ORM but rather object orientation itself—and the fetish of treating it as t
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by sjwright 7y ago
All very good responses. Thank you.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Whereas I find doing too much business logic related data manipulation not performed by the database to be an anti-pattern that creates significant risks with testing and a source of data bugs. My model of thinking is that any copy of dat
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by sjwright 7y ago
I don't disagree with anything you've said. Though I might raise a very minor objection to the unspoken implication that the "most" database schemas which are currently trivial should be trivial. You're right that
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by sjwright 7y ago
ORMs that I've experimented with tend to fall into one of two categories: either they treat the object model as prime, or they treat the relational model as prime. The former almost invariably spurt out inefficient queries, or too many
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by sjwright 7y ago
One of the biggest reasons why I don't use ORMs is because I try to avoid using objects at all unless there's a really good reason to do so. And when I forget to follow that principle it has always turned out to be a mistake; de-o
980.
by sjwright 7y ago
If the object reasoning inherent in ORM design isn’t influencing your structure, either your structures are trivial or you don’t know how to use the full capabilities of your engine yet. ... or both. Both is always a possibility. Welcome
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by sjwright 7y ago
Even more advanced programmer: writing the ‘boilerplate’ queries out manually takes barely more time than composing them in an ORM, means less indirection, saves me a major dependency, and encourages me to think intelligently about each que
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by sjwright 7y ago
Apple isn’t anti-advertising or pro-advertising, but it is pro-privacy. iAds failed because Apple refused to allow invasive tracking.
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by sjwright 7y ago
If there is an unwanted and wide-open AP within range of an antenna-less smart TV, you have an unusual problem with countless fun and creative solutions.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Or maybe grounding it? I bet if you mash a little ball of tinfoil into the connector, any residual chance of it working will evaporate.
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by sjwright 7y ago
A pi-hole only works against adversaries that rely upon DNS, or haven't been coded to connect directly to "trusted" public DNS servers. (I'm almost astonished that advertising networks haven't switched to using raw
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by sjwright 7y ago
Pretty much, yes. Because respecting my privacy fits their business model. Consider that even the most trivial thing that makes Apple look bad gets leaked. If Apple was selling your private information, it would have leaked long before now.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Unscrew the back of your TV, the internal Wi-Fi antennas may well be be easily identified and disconnected. e.g. https://emfaction.userecho.com/communities/1/topics/124-disa...
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by sjwright 7y ago
A website that catalogued the misbehaviours of the various smart TV operating systems (and the easiest methods of defeat) would be handy here. E.g. Some TVs will honor wifi off setting. Or alternatively setting the TV to use the Ethernet po
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by sjwright 7y ago
There shouldn't be any overlap between TVs used for entertainment and TVs used for medical purposes.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Maybe insurance companies could be our ally here. Warn them of the risks and get them to ensure all hospital TVs do not get internet access.

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