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by __bb 1mo ago
Back when I was in college, student union elections had a candidate called RON on each vote. RON was Re—Open Nominations. Basically “none of the above”, which would cause a restart of the election for than role if it got the most votes.
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by __bb 2mo ago
> The manganese nodules that I learned about in geoscience classes decades ago are targeted by miners today who will have no qualms about scraping the seafloor clean This (and the concept of extinction credits) is an opening plot point i
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by __bb 6mo ago
The other replies make fair points, but tillage does still have it's uses. Quick examples: - Inversion tillage (ploughing) to bury green manure crops or bulky organic manure - Subsoiling (deep tillage) can help break underground
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by __bb 8mo ago
Whenever I read about poisoning LLM inputs, I'm reminded of a bit in Neal Stephenson's Anathem, where businesses poisoned the the internet by publishing bad data, which only their tools could filter out: > So crap filtering bec
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by __bb 1y ago
There’s an archive of older versions here: https://files.menial.co.uk/base/
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by __bb 1y ago
This app is great for writing code comments when you hit one of those “1000 words or 1 picture” cases for an explanation of something. Just checked and my most recent document is a diagram of data flows between two services. Highly recommen
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by __bb 1y ago
If the code were available I would 100% expect that someone else would distribute a binary with the paywalled features unlocked and that my original version would be relegated to secondary. I know you could make the argument “the right lice
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by __bb 1y ago
That’s not me. I was quite surprised - in a good way - to find it there.
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by __bb 1y ago
One of the things I found limiting in previous versions was supporting older versions of macOS. I’ve decided this time round to only try to support the latest and previous versions. Since the release of Tahoe is probably quite soon, I’m sta
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by __bb 1y ago
And I welcome the feedback, even if I probably won’t follow it. If everyone thought like you do, then it’d be far nicer to publish the code and maybe charge for support. I’m fairly confident that not enough people feel the same way to make
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by __bb 1y ago
In this case, no. It would be nice if it did though.
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by __bb 1y ago
There’s two main reasons. One is that this is the first paid update in 14 years. The second is that it’s just such a pain to do that on the App Store and I don’t want to have a two-tier system. I’ve tried to strike a balance on the price be
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by __bb 1y ago
To add to what xmprt and msephton have said, people have told me they use it for: - Storing results for scientific research - Local analysis of data exported from server-based databases - Experimenting with database designs before e
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by __bb 1y ago
Thank you. I don't have any other public apps at the moment.
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by __bb 1y ago
Because I don't have the capacity for maintaining compatibility between too many versions of macOS. For v3, I've stated the goal - not guarantee - of supporting the current and previous versions of macOS. Since Tahoe is likely to
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by __bb 1y ago
I realise you’ve hinted at it, but also think it’s worth explicitly pointing out that it’s more about the number of users writing than just user count. It can handle concurrent readers with little bother. For those who’ve not seen it alre
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by __bb 1y ago
Thanks! While it has been quite the career change, I am absolutely up for discussing both dairy farming, software development and their overlap. That’s where Base came from!
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by __bb 1y ago
It's a bit too soon to tell reliably, since I've shipped v3 as a new app and it hasn't settled down yet. For v2 it used to be 60% App Store and the remainder direct/Setapp. So far for v3 it is approximately 60% direct, 2
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by __bb 1y ago
Thanks! Auto-enabling foreign keys absolutely should be an option. I'll make a note of it. I don't know about auto-loading extensions though. Will have a look. That might not mix well with the App Store rules and I'm reluctan
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by __bb 1y ago
Sort of, yes. But mostly that I don't want the app to become the "everything to everyone" style of editor. I want it to remain tightly focused on the features that SQLite provides. It's unlikely that I'll add a form
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by __bb 1y ago
Thanks, I'll make a note of that. It's not a behaviour I've seen before.
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by __bb 1y ago
Thank you for the support :)
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by __bb 1y ago
To my (biased) mind the advantages are: - It fits with the system better and behaves more like other macOS apps - I believe Base has better create/alter table support However Base doesn’t (currently) have support for SQLCipher.
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by __bb 1y ago
A lot of people use it as a step up from Excel. I’ve got quite a few scientists using it for data analysis, a whole bunch of people importing sales data for querying. A good number of folks never write any SQL and just use the GUI to sort&#
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by __bb 1y ago
It's not required, but you can if you want :)
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by __bb 1y ago
As others have said, this is written using AppKit and SwiftUI, which are only available for macOS. This makes for a much nicer app for mac users, even if it does cut your potential audience.
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by __bb 1y ago
That's a good point and something I'd not considered. I'd say the main benefit is that it's tailored only to SQLite's features. You don't have to tweak a UI tailored for remote connections to work with local fi
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by __bb 1y ago
Thank you for the support! It means a lot.
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by __bb 1y ago
I use Paddle ( https://paddle.com/ ) as merchant of record because I don't want to deal with the paperwork of doing more myself. In practical terms, it's a key emailed after purchase.
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by __bb 1y ago
Thank you, that's very kind. I've always like the idea of TUIs, but found it hard to get used to them.

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