trimethylpurine

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901.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
Coach. Winning for yourself is obviously unfulfilling. It takes winning to realize that there's nothing special beyond the finish line and that's depressing. Now that you've crossed it, go back and help others get there. And
902.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
If they added a zero then Google would stop and then they couldn't fine them anymore. It seems you mistakenly thought that punishment was meant to dissuade bad actors. That's not how government works. Punishment is meant for polit
903.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
There is no such thing as anonymous. There is only more difficult. A government that controls enough endpoints (e.g. your country's backbone) can infer identity.
904.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
You said it yourself. "Mainstream media has always been a little innumerate[...]" And now mainstream media has been consolidated to just 4 or 5 conglomerate owners who play especially for politics, despite your desire to avoid tha
905.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
It sounds to me like you're talking about the Republican party that you saw on Democrat TV. Literally a fabricated cliche marketed to the average viewer that describes exactly zero real human beings but has a nice ring to it and allows
906.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
It's not about what juries want. Do you get a royal flush on every hand of poker? Why would you expect that in any given court room in America you'd land a case where the judge is stupid, and the prosecutor is stupid, and juror nu
907.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
The only difference between us is that I'm aware that we're both victims of marketing. You seem to imagine that it's just me, which suggests to me that it's just you. And that only further makes my point. If you're
908.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
Exactly my point.
909.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
That's not what I'm saying. But suit yourself. Let's run with your line of thinking and see how that plays out for you. Let's generalize the other way for the sake of debate. Let's assume you voted Democrat sometime
910.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
What you're saying is analogous to "My horse won't run when I tie its legs together." You'll see what I mean here and hopefully it helps you. Not sure which engine you're using, but for MSSQL at least, the engi
911.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
Yeah, I guess I couldn't find any examples of journalism for profit since 1981. Or maybe, I chose an old example to make a point about how it's always been for profit.
912.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
That all depends on how many years your attorney has been playing golf with the judge.
913.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
You've given me anecdotes and then proceeded to generalize. And called me lazy, which taken together is hilarious. Let's investigate that philosophy, shall we? Generalizing by nature requires the ignorance of certain truths or ane
914.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
You're too generous. It's all media, it's all for profit, and it's all unethical. No editor will willingly submit a piece that makes his/her company, or conglomerate overlords LESS money. That is, unless he/she
915.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
Wait, so you mean a bunch of wild assertions posted on the internet were in fact false? But I did research! Thanks for making my point.
916.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
Sure, all of that's true, so long as you can convince a judge, or a jury of peers selected by a team of attorneys highly paid to make your life a nightmare. The law is subjective, just like your spiteful view of it. And you can bet the
917.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
You expect way too much of HN. Apparently, the average poster on HN doesn't know how jury selection works. There's nothing "average" about a jury.
918.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
Some Republican movements have been authoritarian, but an effort to prevent people from saying that which is undesirable is definition authoritarian just as much if not more so. I don't know what example of authoritarianism you would o
919.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
The very fact that you made this comment implies that you expect the public to understand what it means. Therefore, so would a jury of your peers. In other words, if you get that this behavior is just a twist on botting, it's safe to a
920.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
The opinion of three journalists working for the same retail tech conglomerate is hardly "research." WaPo has suffered a Pulitzer Prize revocation in 1981 for fabricating stories, has continuously circulated advertisements from Ch
921.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
Which SQL engine supports none but ANSI key words? You're implicitly commenting in binary, but you didn't have to do any math.
922.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
I think that's subjective. You can index to optimize for whatever your function is doing. I don't see any reason that the "select" limits reusability. If you define your function with relevant parameters you can create t
923.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
Yes, you can. Thats called a table valued function.
924.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
I'll add that MSSQL at least since 2019 will automatically modify the execution plan to avoid this by the second time the query is executed.
925.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
With most engines, this can be optimized with indexing (or indexed views) very easily to the extent it would be negligible.
926.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
max() is an iso standard function. But you need to think relationally to express exactly which maximum you're looking for, that's true. I can see wanting the language to do that for you, but that would be extremely limiting, since
927.
by trimethylpurine 4y ago
I do this for a living. A lot of people think it's wrong to automate other people's jobs because they will get laid off. What really happens is usually that their job changes from data entry into exceptions handling. The savings i