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by sqldba 9y ago
Unfortunately I've watched at least one person go off the deep end with salvia. Permanently. I guess some people get addicted easily. I think it's best to stay away. But that's me.
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by sqldba 9y ago
I recently enabled Little Snitch on my Mac. It has a lot of system rules enabled but I disabled them all just to see what happened. I knew that OS X has a lot of cloud interaction and phones home often... but it's staggering just how o
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by sqldba 9y ago
LOL. Disgusting. They turn it from "sickness" to "preventing injury". In Australia it's called personal leave (though many bosses don't) because it covers not just you being sick but also family being sick. I t
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by sqldba 10y ago
What I feel is awful is the lack of information stored against each update. It's all just "security" or "reliability" and possibly a link to a KB which says the same. Some large organisations still have stalwart IT
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by sqldba 10y ago
Not to mention they bypass their own hosts file to make sure you don't override anything that might stop their data theft.
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by sqldba 10y ago
Most complaints about the newest one are that it's slower, palms keep activating the larger track pad while typing, and of course the lack of memory. Most people who enjoy the touch bar are video designers rather than devs etc who use
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by sqldba 10y ago
You have to login to view this bug. No thanks.
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by sqldba 10y ago
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by sqldba 10y ago
> except to painfully block in hosts Are you sure that's working for you? Microsoft ignores the hosts file for most addresses used in phoning home.
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by sqldba 10y ago
GFE is garbage. I have a GTX10x0 (I forget exactly which one but one of the faster ones) and it insists that the 'optimum' settings for games are wayyyyyyy lower than what I use. Like medium settings or something. I switch it to u
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by sqldba 10y ago
"Comments are closed" says everything. The if ($null -ne $blah) one is STILL RELEVANT. In PowerShell for example it differentiates between an empty array and either retrieving an array's contents, or only the nulls from an ar
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by sqldba 10y ago
> But why are we willing to pay for electricity, gasoline or air travel, but not for roads? Because we already pay for roads through taxes, and car registration fees, and drivers license fees! Meanwhile the money that gets put into tolls
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by sqldba 10y ago
I'd love a laptop like that but all of Lenovo's spyware scandals and backdoors have made me wary. Also their trackpad doesn't look anywhere near as fancy as a Dell 9560, which I just spec'd to half the price with double
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by sqldba 10y ago
What's gateway?
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Why do NET strings override == and Java strings don't?
2 points by sqldba 10y ago|1 comments
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by sqldba 10y ago
Microsoft missed their February patch release cycle. It's likely due to that.
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by sqldba 10y ago
Physical or online?
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by sqldba 10y ago
I sit in a very small half dozen person team in an office and still need to fight non-stop to be told what's going on.
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by sqldba 10y ago
This sounds right to me. As a DBA containers appear to be a nightmare. I'm employed as an absolute expert in my product. A developer may know how to use Docker but are they an expert? Now... * Who is going to look after the middle grou
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by sqldba 10y ago
It's about more than just money though. What about rent inspections and being able to improve anything?
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by sqldba 10y ago
People live in suburbs and use automobiles though - and the price of houses in suburbs is still too expensive to buy (unless you're talking > 1-2 hour of travel time per day). Boonies aside (that's not the suburbs, that's
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by sqldba 10y ago
Holy cow. You are me 5 years ago! Australia. 31. No assets. Partner finishing her studies. Couldn't afford a house. No kid. Needs to lose 20kg. Can't give up Coke (Zero anyway, I don't touch the real stuff because of the calo
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by sqldba 10y ago
I'd love to read a book like that but I don't have any maths, and I presume those things are full of maths.
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by sqldba 10y ago
Any undergrad degree or only CS ones?
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by sqldba 10y ago
You'd be surprised (or maybe not) on the number of experts who fight out about security through obscurity these days - because it's cool to do so. One particular example is using non-standard database ports. I have to fight all th
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by sqldba 10y ago
The thing is that in most companies you're far more likely to fall victim to a simple and random malware emailed or ran by your employees, than you are to be carefully targeted by a worm based on AV vulnerabilities. With that said I pr
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by sqldba 10y ago
DBA jobs haven't been entirely offshore'd. It happens in cycles. * Offshore to save money. Databases are a car, just follow the script / maintenance manual and everything will be okay right? * Discover the awful quality, secu
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by sqldba 10y ago
Sure it is.
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by sqldba 10y ago
What are they meant to do? They build a secure phone. It gets ripped off by the manufacturer and resold by anonymous eBay people who can install whatever backdoors on the phone. Then the people using them are being snooped on - exactly what
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by sqldba 10y ago
It looks GREAT but... I always see these things posted while they're still being written and then I never go back to see them when they're completed. And nobody posts when it's completed. I'd prefer the posting not be do

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