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by thelibrarian 6y ago
Why would you use an ecommerce platform instead of a regular SQL database?
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by thelibrarian 6y ago
FYI, dietician > nutritionist. Dietician is a protected term, like doctor, or dentist. Nutritionist is not. Any joker can call themselves a nutritionist. Going to see a nutritionist rather than a dietician is like going to see a toothiol
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by thelibrarian 6y ago
Yes, play by post most certainly is still a thing. Most RPG forums (e.g. https://forum.rpg.net/ ) have a play by post subforum, and https://rpol.net/ is a forum dedicated to play by post.
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by thelibrarian 6y ago
Also "I don't know what I'm talking about".
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by thelibrarian 6y ago
I always find it amusing that people who decry "virtual signalling" seem to be oblivious to the fact that they too are virtue signalling by doing so.
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by thelibrarian 7y ago
The preferred programming environment on an ARM-ed Mac would of course be Armed Bear Common Lisp.
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by thelibrarian 8y ago
If you need to handle XML, xmlstarlet ( http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net ) is fantastic, and much more powerful than the standard line-oriented tools like sed and awk for this task. Similarly jq ( https://stedolan.github.i
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by thelibrarian 8y ago
The legalised abortion argument has several holes in it, the big ones being: - why did the crime rates simultaneously drop in states where abortion was already legal before Roe v Wade? - why did crime rates have a similar drop in similar ti
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by thelibrarian 8y ago
One of Racket’s is explicit design goals is to be a toolkit for designing and implementing new languages, so I would say it is the better choice.
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by thelibrarian 8y ago
At least you have your Bronze Swimming Certificate.
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by thelibrarian 9y ago
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. Bu
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WeTransfer security failure lets anyone send files using your company’s account(tonywebster.com)
1 points by thelibrarian 9y ago|0 comments
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by thelibrarian 9y ago
Yes, I did mean 10.12.6 and 10.11.6.
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by thelibrarian 9y ago
Security Updates were released for 10.6 and 10.5 (2017-002 and 2017-005 respectively).
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by thelibrarian 9y ago
It was released as Security Update 2017-002 and 2017-005 for Sierra 10.12.6 and El Capitan 10.11.6 respectively, not as point version updates.
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by thelibrarian 9y ago
Ticket to Ride is good.
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by thelibrarian 9y ago
No, there is not requirement to show ID when buying electronics in Australia. I suspect that GP's experience was due to them collecting a pre-purchase, and Apple stores having some sort of policy around verifying the purchaser in order
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by thelibrarian 10y ago
There is also the benefit of being able to use one custom domain, and have multiple accounts attached to it.
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by thelibrarian 10y ago
Also, === is the method used in case statement matching.
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Apple’s Penchant for Consumer Security(techpinions.com)
1 points by thelibrarian 10y ago|0 comments
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by thelibrarian 11y ago
Many Android apps include the Google Play Services framework in themselves, as they provide extra functionality that is not in the baseline Android API, e.g. a JSON parser.
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Diary of a network outage(blog.fastmail.com)
6 points by thelibrarian 11y ago|0 comments
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by thelibrarian 11y ago
Out of curiosity, I just tried out v0.19.2 (the latest), and some of these now work: - \dn works - \dm does not - \dt <star>.users now appears to work as per psql - \e works - \i works - \o does not - \copy does not
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by thelibrarian 11y ago
"Happy Eyeballs" (aka Fast Fallback) was created and named by Dan Wing and Andrew Yourtchenko of Cisco. And yes, "Happy eyeballs" is the official name (named because of how happy the eyes of the users will be when they s
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by thelibrarian 11y ago
Just to expand a little on Sanddancer's reply, PC-BSD is FreeBSD, but with a friendlier installer, and comes with X11 and a window manager installed and set up for you. It is designed to get FreeBSD installed as a desktop system quick
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The Research Is Clear: Long Hours Backfire for People and for Companies(hbr.org)
9 points by thelibrarian 11y ago|1 comments
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by thelibrarian 12y ago
In the context of 19th and 20th Century U.S. history, lynching does mean killing - and mostly of black people.
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by thelibrarian 12y ago
> You might compare the sword to a pistol. Indeed, there is a reason that both are generally referred to as 'sidearms' in military parlance.
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by thelibrarian 12y ago
chroot (often referred to as a "chroot jail") limits a process to a certain subset of the filesystem - e.g. you could limit a httpd process so that it can only see /var/www, and it would not be able to see anything outsi
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by thelibrarian 12y ago
Situation like this always remind me a quote from the highly esteemed Goon Show[1]: "He was all things to all men... it was hell in there." [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goon_Show

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