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by bazoom42 15d ago
At least a much more plausible explanation than the “ancient observatory” theory.
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by bazoom42 16d ago
Stonehenge is older than the pyramids though.
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by bazoom42 16d ago
You dont need giant rocks to observe the sun and moon though.
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by bazoom42 16d ago
The BBC does not actually claim that.
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by bazoom42 16d ago
Of course the the theory is wrong: > new investigations since the 1960s have discredited Hawkins' ideas.
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by bazoom42 18d ago
> the further back you go, the less historical they become This makes zero sense.
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by bazoom42 18d ago
It is unknow whether it is based on a real historical person, but is there any question the oldest known version of the legend is Welsh?
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by bazoom42 24d ago
They decided to break px because web designers used it for things like setting text size. Why did designers use px rather than pt which was supposed to scale? Because early browsers interpreted pt differently across platforms, so specifying
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by bazoom42 28d ago
As far as I can tell, some engines will implicitly coerce types so “7” = 7
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by bazoom42 29d ago
What happens if a query compares a string to a number?
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by bazoom42 29d ago
Isn’t sql weakly typed? Or does this depend on the engine?
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by bazoom42 29d ago
The comment mentioned partioning schemes which is defined using SQL but belongs in the physical layer. Indexes are also defined in SQL.
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by bazoom42 29d ago
A core idea of the relational model is to seperate the logical model from the physical layer including optimizations, indexes etc. So it makes sense to only expose the logical model at the ORM layer. The problem comes if you want to define
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by bazoom42 29d ago
Or “the worst query language ever, except for all the alternatives”
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by bazoom42 29d ago
I would like to see that example then. I’m all for improving on SQL, but this syntax does not even solve the dangling comma issue as far as I can tell from the example.
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by bazoom42 1mo ago
> Even if it's 1% of the population, this would be enough to end Hollywood Why? Hollywood would still have 99% percent of the population as audience.
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by bazoom42 1mo ago
Most people will not want to create their own unique movies, even if it is technically possible. They want to watch movies other people watch with actors they know.
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by bazoom42 1mo ago
Why would it be impossible to emulate quantum effects?
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by bazoom42 1mo ago
But why would Hollywood be screwed? They would have new tools at their disposal. Movies with sound put theatre musicians and some actors with unfortunate voices out of a job, but Hollywood thrived.
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by bazoom42 1mo ago
But why is Hollywood screwed then? Same thing was said when cameras became cheap, when editing became cheep, and when internet made it possible for anyone to distribute movies: Now the movie industry is screwed because anyone with talent an
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by bazoom42 1mo ago
By that standard, no prediction can be wrong.
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by bazoom42 1mo ago
Anyone remember when YC declared they would replace Hollywood?
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by bazoom42 1mo ago
Have someone refactored it into a more concise and modern version?
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by bazoom42 1mo ago
The readability should be compared to alternative ways to solve the same problem. Sure, regexes are not the most intuitive syntax, but it is compact and declarative. What is the alternative? Substring searches? Looping over characters? Hand
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by bazoom42 2mo ago
Doesn’t sound very hippie to assume by default , without knowing anything about the issue, that the big corporations are in the right.
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by bazoom42 2mo ago
What is json-esque SQL?
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by bazoom42 2mo ago
Because we call someone using a programming language a programmer. But certainly many professionals who arent full-time programmers write Excel formulas or queries. The intention of SQL was to be used by domain experts rather than computer
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by bazoom42 2mo ago
This article is not about null but about NaN, a special case floating-point value which is the result of diving by zero.
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by bazoom42 2mo ago
> So what we have is writings written hundreds of years later documenting an event with no earlier writings verifying that documentation. Unfortunately, this is the case for much of ancient history. Doesn’t mean nothing happend, just tha
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by bazoom42 2mo ago
Try applying the same criteria to say the battle of Thermopylae. What does the Persian sources say?

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