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by sk5t 6y ago
Not liking a situation doesn't automatically push it into the realm of a sunk cost fallacy.
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by sk5t 6y ago
I strongly disagree on the premise that the food itself is not what drives people to go out to eat. It's the experience, the setting, the service, ordering a drink, getting out of the house, and the welcome distraction that drive peop
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by sk5t 6y ago
The challenge with GM is to get them to care about a quality issue when there is otherwise $2 to be pocketed. Like, it's not that GM doesn't know how. The funny thing is to compare a vehicle where nobody would even expect GM to
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by sk5t 6y ago
> The news on Cornavirus is in trending significantly in the positive direction Positive in terms of increasing case numbers, yes.
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by sk5t 6y ago
In the early days of auto racing there were maximum weight limits--it was thought that more weight -> bigger engine -> faster car. Of course now things are just the opposite, to the point that race winners hope to collect enough lo
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by sk5t 6y ago
> I think I've seen people advertising, literally, "Ship your brand new Tesla to me, and I'll get the body work/alignment perfect and ship it on to you" services. Not sure how real, or valid, but something of an
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by sk5t 6y ago
I always internalized postgres's array behavior based on the examples, which include multidimensional arrays on text[] columns. Also, common functions like array_length require an index argument--"which array within the possibly
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by sk5t 6y ago
Do you imagine the same governmental bodies and regulators work on all of trade and antitrust, public health (tobacco), and energy and environmental policy? In other words, does it really follow that the problem of oil is being ignored in
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by sk5t 6y ago
Don't you think this comment represents tremendous whataboutism? Don't cure one tractable problem--which may yet develop into a greater, less tractable problem--because there exist other troubles?
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by sk5t 6y ago
CSV is somewhat okay-ish. Excel, not so much (thanks Excel for discarding the important leading zeros in this field, and for lossily parsing the other as a date... oh, this Excel file is so big it got the "XLSB" treatment which i
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by sk5t 6y ago
Peso does seem to be a decent option. Folks might no longer be familiar with the Italian lira, and "Sky Zimbabwean Dollar" or "Sky Drachmae" don't quite roll off the tongue.
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by sk5t 6y ago
Accumulating value in a vague currency/credit system that some freshly-minted airline MBA dingdong can reset at any point in order to make the quarter's financial report look a bit rosier, over and over again--what could go wrong?
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by sk5t 6y ago
Could it not be that investors came to appreciate the company's prospects for increased revenue and margins in a new light? e.g. "this business seems to be more of a 'sweat of the brow' thing than previously thought.&qu
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by sk5t 6y ago
I'd like to see Subway start selling a sandwich built on a foundation of Zöpf. Without raisins just to start.
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by sk5t 6y ago
I'm not sure "worse is better" is specifically an argument, but it seems to be a decent signal for survival and even broad market success. Like, if you don't need the most compact and fastest possible serialization, isn&
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by sk5t 6y ago
Do you then agree that Coinbase is forcing a certain set of politics on its employees?
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by sk5t 6y ago
Never forget that calls that protests and political expressions aren't happening "in the right venue" or "in the right way" only help one side. Take for example NFL management telling the players not to kneel in sol
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by sk5t 6y ago
Not at all - sort of an oblique argument for the unix way / "worse is better" and reasons why JSON and the disorderly REST-ish array of techniques has come to dominate over SOAP, XML, WSDL, etc. The unix way: text files in &#
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by sk5t 6y ago
To play devil's advocate: why should we have all these weird little files knocking about in /etc, when we could query and mutate everything of interest on the system instead via a Management Instrumentation API?
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by sk5t 6y ago
Indeed there's generally no guarantee that two XML serializers will choose the same namespace aliases, or handle ignorable whitespace the same, etc. You gotta think of XML as an object graph (and not a bunch of tags and text nodes) to
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by sk5t 6y ago
It's the same problem you'd get by looking at a JSON document out of context ("is this array-like thing an array, list, set? ordered or unordered? type bounds on members? are these integers or decimals with no remainder?&quo
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by sk5t 6y ago
Precisely which (printable?) characters do you understand to be outlawed in cdata/pcdata by what XML standard? For what it's worth, I'd not take a charitable view of this bold assertion in the general case.
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by sk5t 6y ago
Dbeaver is quite good. IMHO pgAdmin should be avoided. psql and pgcli are really nice at the command line. https://github.com/dhamaniasad/awesome-postgres
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by sk5t 6y ago
This is the inverse of an existing well known expression, sad to say.
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by sk5t 6y ago
Conversely, I always hated the bloaty, intrusive ReSharper on VS.NET, and find IDEA very much nicer, even though C# is more naturally ergonomic than Java (but less ergonomic than Scala).
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by sk5t 6y ago
This sad outcome is 100% not Java's fault.
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by sk5t 6y ago
To appease the cicadas.
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by sk5t 6y ago
Baeldung's content is IMO uniformly quite deficient. If you want examples of how to do things poorly, which examples may or may not compile, or if there's no other alternative, then I guess read the Baeldung article. Try Scala in
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by sk5t 6y ago
Isn't Xorg technically the Xwindows client?
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by sk5t 6y ago
Verbally planning out a crime sounds like criminal conspiracy to me. Just harder to make the case if no evidence is generated.

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