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by zasdffaa 4y ago
I'm a dev and I see my job very much in contrast to what you've described. My job is to solve business problems, typically using code, but it all the things around it like requirements gathering etc. It also definitely includes tr
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
This is the kind of comment about art that is measured, constructive, non-absolutist, and too rare on HN in posts about art (and urban dictionary has an entry for 'reverse monet' cos I wondered, but I'd skip that one if I wer
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
People who are precious about art will keep defining it away from anything that upsets them.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
> any new deep truth What is a 'truth' in art. Also, what is a 'deep truth' specifically. > factual understanding of the real world Can you name me a few factual understandings that art has brought.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Please give an example.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
So you do that on 100 different tables - then what? Join them, return them to the client, what? Stuff's missing here.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
> No, these are all highly coupled to the underlying data structure Difficult to be sure what you mean, but I think you're wrong. You can select from any table source (edit: result set, if you prefer that term). > Select an aggre
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
What would you prefer to see instead, bearing in mind that anything you will suggest is likely to bsave minimal typing but introduce new complexity into sql which everyone agrees is already creaking like a constipated elephant.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
As others have said, any decent optimiser will prune out values that aren't SELECT'ed. I don't think it's that complex either - find the unused columns, remove them from subviews, recurse all the way down. Try it on MSSQ
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Please never allow this into production. I believe it is deprecated, it certainly is fragile in general.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Very interesting. I don't have experience with copilot, but with my own programming I tend to abstract heavily until repetition is removed and there's little to repeat (that said there are places where the language, C# in my case,
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
That is highly tangential to the issue of economic viability, and the energy crisis.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
I'm curious, did you already know what a Eytzinger Binary Search was?
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
The 2nd vid I downloaded. 18.5 meg. A transcription would be maybe 2K? And I could read it at my own speed instead of having to skip back when it covered things too fast, and there could be URLs to useful stuff like papers and wiki pages (l
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
That 2nd video is awful, it's just a talking head with the content repeated as text. It's the worst of both video and text.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
In the UK we have standing charges on meters. These are fixed charges regardless of how much energy you use. You pay extra on top for your energy. I use very, very little gas. Currently my standing charge is about 4 times the cost of the (t
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
I try to write good questions for stackoverflow (which I'm certainly not dissing, I think it;s a great resource used properly) and I usually miss something out and have to throw in an edit. Fair enough, but it amazes me the number of p
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
In Nottingham is The trip to Jerusalem. It's age as a pub is debated but it's carved into jurassic sandstone, so by one measure ~165 million years old. wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye_Olde_Trip_to_J
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Ah. But I see miniscules. I also run without js which may be something to do with it. Seems web dev is so highly developed that showing text is becoming passe I guess.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
OK, I see what you're getting at now. Given my experience with horrible messed up installers though, I maintain my plea for simplicity.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
> Which you realistically don't Phone numbers are nothing like programs. The comparison is false. > The point isn't the initial install, it's the subsequent lookups (including update, uninstallation, etc.). Well perhaps
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
The comparison is fatuous. If your mates had names and there was a button on your phone, one for each acquaintance by name, you wouldn't need a way of looking them up. BTW I also worked on a small in-house system that was just a run-it
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
An aside. > It will literally turn a "sum of i from 0 to N" into "n(n+1)/2", among others[1] Yeah, seen that on a godbolt youtube vid. Question is, should it do this? Or should it force you to use a library, by r
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Checked it; emacs and ascii tables say lower. Chars 115 and 108 decimal. Puzzled.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
To the downvoters: I block everything and disable js totally. Choice is yours to make.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
There's always a choice. I have no problem with any popups/banners/videos etc. Zero.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
OK, from < https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/08/28/nasas-newest-ro... > "The Space Launch System (sls) is the first step..." does 'sls' look upper or lower case to you?
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
UI research is a thing. Aside of that, allowing the user to alter the UI to their tastes might also be a thing. Customising, it used to be called. That way it can be good for both of us - or even the same person who's level of experien
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
If your websites are just for you that's good, if not, you are designing for the end-user. What you've just said seems to amounts to a big F.U. to the user. Not a good approach to improving a UI.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
If you have unlimited human chattel, who needs machines? (qv. maybe this applies to the Romans as well).

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