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by tremon 1y ago
Actually, I don't think there's a good argument to add either U+1FAC3 PREGNANT MAN or U+1FAC4 PREGNANT PERSON: expressing gender can already be done with a modifier like how skin/hair color and professions are also expresse
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by tremon 1y ago
You are explictly requesting the bookworm versions, I'm not sure what you're expecting? At least google's got you covered, if you simply ask nicely: $ curl -s https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/dist
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by tremon 1y ago
I'll take a stab as an armchair linguist: Hieroglyphs still represent written language , in the sense that each glyph represents an abstract sound, and glyphs can be composed to form words. Emoji do not represent language, in the sens
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by tremon 1y ago
Software generations are measured in months, maybe that's what they meant?
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by tremon 1y ago
We also know the Sun is going to swallow the Earth and eventually burn up. That doesn't mean we stop building with what we have now.
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by tremon 1y ago
That quote seems to imply that the issues are similar and therefore related?
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by tremon 1y ago
Ah yes. I've also had the joy of telling off a professional account manager because of piss-poor consumer support (in my case, it was DHL). It's a great feeling :)
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by tremon 1y ago
Giro was nice 15 years ago What giro system are you talking about here? Do you mean the postal giro system that has existed in Europe since the 1960s and has been used for postorder shopping since before the Internet existed? That system
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by tremon 1y ago
https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-centers-and-water-co... > Together, the nation’s 5,426 data centers consume billions of gallons of water annually. One report estimated that U.S. data centers consume 449
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by tremon 1y ago
I think the argument is that that cost has been repaid after the war by the people of occupied eastern Europe, that's why they don't "owe" Russia anything. In contrast, western Europe paid a much lower price for its libe
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by tremon 1y ago
It's a good thing then that was not among the rational arguments I was referring to. Do you have other straw men on offer?
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by tremon 1y ago
Scolding and mocking is all we're left with, since two decades worth of rational arguments against these types of hazards have been dismissed as fear-mongering.
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by tremon 1y ago
The counterpoint to immortality is generation ships -- and as witnessed by today's society, humanity can't sustain peaceful coexistence across even a few generations. I would bet that by the time such a spaceship encounters new li
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by tremon 1y ago
"Government overreach" by a private corporation? Let's see what wikipedia has to say about that: > A fascist corporation can be defined as a government-directed confederation of employers and employees unions, with the aim
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by tremon 1y ago
Have you seen a modern car manufacturing plant? Many parts of the production pipeline are fully automated. Granted, most of these machines are not ambulatory but they're still considered robots . Or consider modern freight shipping: m
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by tremon 1y ago
it was 2d acceleration only Not completely true either, it eventually supported most of the normal 3d primitives but gaming performance was never a priority because there were few developers and they weren't employed by AMD/ATI
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by tremon 1y ago
So... like sewage service, or the fire department?
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by tremon 1y ago
Controllable by whom? I don't do any banking on my phone exactly because I don't trust my phone to keep anything I do on my phone private.
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by tremon 1y ago
Another one is https://murena.com/ which (IIRC) is based in France. They don't have their own hardware though, they sell partner phones with their ROM preinstalled.
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by tremon 1y ago
Yes, the issue is still present and worse than [on] Windows I'm not sure about that... over the years I've gotten lots of perfectly functioning hardware from my father because it didn't work for him anymore because of a new
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by tremon 1y ago
I think having http in the standard library is a perfect example of the dead batteries problem: should the stdlib http also support QUIC and/or websockets? If you choose to include it, you've made stdlib include support for very s
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by tremon 1y ago
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by tremon 1y ago
Well, how did they know that the spear didn't belong to the men in the moon then?
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by tremon 1y ago
And nail biting.
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by tremon 1y ago
I understand where you're coming from. But I also think that you're wasting a lot of effort in talking to those useful fools while they're still drinking from the social media and faux news firehose. And that's by design
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by tremon 1y ago
This doesn't make sense to me-- if the regular tables don't capture the true state, then the audit tables based on them will not magically become a source of truth either.
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by tremon 1y ago
Separate schema, no read permissions for the application identity is sufficient. It's not like "separate db" makes it magically unqueryable.
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by tremon 1y ago
1) As soon as reporting requirements get serious, you build a data warehouse. Because odds are, the client will want to combine data from multiple systems in their reports anyway. If not today, then they will tomorrow. 2) such reports never
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by tremon 1y ago
But converting a SQL relation to a set of dictionaries already carries a lot of overhead: every cell in the resultset must be converted to a key-value pair. And the normal mechanics of vertical "slicing" a set of dictionaries is m
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by tremon 1y ago
It has only sailed because we lack competition in the OS space. Any competent competitor could eat MS' lunch by now, if not for the decades of entrenchment that Windows has had.

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