xarope

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1. 601.▲
   by xarope 5y ago

   I worked on DB2 UDB in the 90s, and learnt a lot about DBs through all the improvements in isolation levels. Those were the days when you'd actually have to make some judgement calls about setting specific isolation levels to improve
2. 602.▲
   by xarope 5y ago

   and sunscreen (SPF) calculations...
3. 603.▲
   by xarope 5y ago

   I always felt the last good keyboard on a laptop was the one on the thinkpad x220. I wish someone manufacturer would pick that up.
4. 604.▲
   by xarope 5y ago

   Human nature, sadly, is such that "It is better to be a warrior in a garden than to be a gardener in war". You will find similar sentiments with Machiavelli, Zen, Art of War etc.
5. 605.▲
   by xarope 5y ago

   +1. I use the postup/postdown settings in wireguard to add/remove iptables configuration, but it would be nice to have a more user-friendly setup.
6. 606.▲
   by xarope 5y ago

   This article really hits the mark. I had to spend 2 months writing an auth system for my current project, which had to deliver both ACL permissions (am I allowed to call this API) as well as data filtering (am I allowed to work on the data
7. 607.▲
   by xarope 5y ago

   With some crosswords I do, F would be the Capital of France... or Euro (depending on era, perhaps the franc)
8. 608.▲
   by xarope 5y ago

   this is one of the tenets of the Art of War (The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat), you are truly a master!
9. 609.▲
   by xarope 5y ago

   Another +1 for Miéville. Perdido Station and Railsea really reminded me of Gibson's "style".
10. 610.▲
    by xarope 5y ago

    back in the days when I used to have to wear a suit and tie, my wife bought me a laurastar. The hook was that they had a fan built into the board, that could suck (it could also blow and hence billow the material instead) the shirt to the
11. 611.▲
    by xarope 5y ago

    Specifically I use pydantic for validation, so yes, I expect pydantic to iterate over a list of 10000 elements and verify these are all ints.
12. 612.▲
    by xarope 5y ago

    bingo?
13. 613.▲
    by xarope 5y ago

    I guess that physically proves they are on the red team? /j
14. 614.▲
    by xarope 5y ago

    as an ex-IBMer, tragically yes...
15. 615.▲
    by xarope 5y ago

    I did that when I was CIO at a non-tech firm; all IT costs for hardware, software and services (including ISP lines) were apportioned to the various floors and depts by seat basis. 10 years later, my ex-CFO still thanks me for what I did, a
16. 616.▲
    by xarope 5y ago

    Would you have any documentation on how to install EdgeDB and connect to an existing postgresql database then? From browsing the current documentation, I can't seem to find anything similar to sqlalchemy's: meta = MetaData()
17. 617.▲
    by xarope 5y ago

    would you be able to use EdgeQL to introspect an existing postgresql database and run queries on it? Asking as I have a project ongoing where I don't really have the time to recreate everything in EdgeDB, but wouldn't mind spendin
18. 618.▲
    by xarope 5y ago

    I always thought that was what hadoop had in mind with HDFS, i.e. move the storage and query engines closer in terms of spatial and temporal locality, albeit only if you partitioned/clustered properly. Speaking of which, what has happe
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    by xarope 5y ago

    I'd agree with this. Despite hating databases whilst studying for my undergrad, I've come to realise after almost 30 years in the industry that expertise in SQL and database optimizations are key, and all the various frameworks I
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    by xarope 5y ago

    I guess you are referring to this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots This, for example, is a perennial favourite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey However, I'd
21. 621.▲
    by xarope 5y ago

    I have a pet-theory (see what I did there...) about pets; they remind us to appreciate and keep dear to us, not just pets, but the people around us.
22. 622.▲
    by xarope 5y ago

    if you measure in terms of percentage, sure. But not everything is statistical... considering that this 40 year old has not planned to be not-around so soon, these few extra years might allow this 40 year old to sort out and settle certain
23. 623.▲
    by xarope 5y ago

    When does linux not "just works"? I have been running linux on my thinkpads (x200, x220, w540, T470, T480s) etc and "it just works", with appreciably much less fiddling around than I would on a similar windows desktop w
24. 624.▲
    by xarope 5y ago

    Corporates are constrained by application dependencies (not OS), and will likely be the last to adopt Win11 (given how long it took to migrate off win7 to win10 the last round).
25. 625.▲
    by xarope 5y ago

    Who says germans don't have a sense of humor (OK my austrian friends do, but you know those austrians...)
26. 626.▲
    by xarope 5y ago

    I would think critical systems and updates should also have some form of out-of-band access channel?
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    by xarope 5y ago

    You must have had the same cats as I did, mine would figure some way to get into my room (either by hitting the door to dislodge the latch, or climbing up the roof to my 2nd storey window) and "ask" (demand?) me to feed them at 5.
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    by xarope 5y ago

    Thinkpads have always been good. I even have a T480s upgraded to a 4K screen (not my work) that works fine.
29. 629.▲
    by xarope 5y ago

    Interesting, this reminds me of the cube weapon in the Gibson novel "The Peripheral"
30. 630.▲
    by xarope 5y ago

    Ditto for me (postfix, dovecot, opendkim, spf etc), took me about 3 months to get it working, and for the last 6+ years I haven't dared to touch my postfix configuration! I am severely tempted to give maddy a try now...!