eftpotrm

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by eftpotrm 10mo ago
Aside from the other commenter's point about this being a misleading comparison, you didn't need to reinvent the whole XML ecosystem from scratch, it was already there and functional. One of the big claims I've seen for JSON
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by eftpotrm 10mo ago
What makes XSLT inherently unsuitable for an interactive application in your mind? All it does is transform one XML document into another; there's no earthly reason why you can't ornament that XML output in a way that supports int
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by eftpotrm 10mo ago
I'm aware I'm in a minority, but I find it sad that XSLT stalled and is mostly dead in the market. The amount of effort put into replicating most the XML+XPath+XSLT ecosystem we had as open standards 25 years ago using ever-changi
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by eftpotrm 1y ago
Passed with the support of the current governing party, it should be noted.
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by eftpotrm 1y ago
BMW tried that with the i3, it wasn't particularly popular. An engine, fuel system and a generator are all relatively complex additions compared to just putting the same cost and vehicle space into more batteries, and the public chargi
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by eftpotrm 1y ago
I can't help thinking more startups need greybeards around. (Of which, realistically, I'm now one.) Largest table 100 million rows and they were paying 6 figures for database services annually? I have one now that sits happily eno
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by eftpotrm 1y ago
And yet it happens. A doctor in my family told the story of a patient they were treating in hospital who medically needed to lose weight, and who they found unable to get any reduction until they dropped below _200_ calories a day. Metaboli
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by eftpotrm 2y ago
That's it! Thanks :-)
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by eftpotrm 2y ago
HP did the same when migrating away from the PA RISC architecture. IIRC as part of their testing they set it up so it would ingest, recompile and output code for the same architecture, and found that it could produce speed improvements due
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by eftpotrm 2y ago
Nikon aren't doing much better on letting third-party lenses into the ecosystem, sadly - speaking as someone with three Nikon DSLRs and Sigma glass I'm very happy with.
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by eftpotrm 2y ago
I'm a software engineer not a firefighter, but my understanding is that it's significantly an experience thing. Lithium battery fires clearly aren't trivial to deal with and do burn hotter than petroleum fires, but they'
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by eftpotrm 2y ago
Sure, it's a market with massive abuse potential, but we have a world full of them and we regulate to control the abuses. The underlying service is clearly of societal benefit and would clearly be profitable to all parties, so it'
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by eftpotrm 2y ago
That's incredibly short-sighted, not least because the number of fires per vehicle is orders of magnitude higher for combustion vehicles. I'd be astonished if that made actuarial sense if actually investigated. I've seen and
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by eftpotrm 2y ago
Agreed, but they're not that complex to retrofit to a parking space. I can foresee a future where each space has a port and an account card reader - they'd make the buildings more valuable, the supplier to that space has a basical
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by eftpotrm 2y ago
Yes, but it's also a breaking change to a very large legacy codebase. I can't see it ever happening, sadly.
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by eftpotrm 2y ago
All Tesla's global sales cars are due for replacement, and none are in the offing. Tesla are circling the drain, fast, and are very unlikely to be around in their current form in 5-10 years time - the replacement product they'd ne
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by eftpotrm 2y ago
Because there's existing implementations that would interpret that as aliasing column names. ``` SELECT Field AS Renamed, OtherField AS AlsoRenamed ``` and ``` SELECT Field Renamed, OtherField AlsoRenamed ``` are semantic
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by eftpotrm 2y ago
I remember hearing Callum Skinner talk about the British track team preparing for the Olympics, and how the biggest problem they had was strength - I remember the number 2400 for their best track sprinters, I forget if that was in watts or
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by eftpotrm 2y ago
Nikon defaulted to DSC_0001 for some time now, may still do but I don't have any Z series gear to check.
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by eftpotrm 2y ago
No, but the volume of hydrocarbons SpaceX are burning to provide a broadband network by cluttering low earth orbit with shiny things is hardly an obvious win.
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by eftpotrm 2y ago
Elon who's company SpaceX are firing large quantities of Methane-powered rockets into the sky?
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by eftpotrm 2y ago
Speaking for where I know, immigrants have been substantially higher net contributors than non-immigrants while the research on wage suppression suggests it's almost certainly not true except in some very small, very specific scenarios
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by eftpotrm 2y ago
I wish Commodore had had a quarter of Apple's marketing skills. More powerful, cheaper hardware with a significantly more capable and extensible OS could have made the Mac a footnote if executed properly and would have supplied some in
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by eftpotrm 2y ago
IIRC the major factor in that was found to be that left-handed people within the age ranges where significant numbers of them are dying of natural causes had usually been brought up to suppress left-handedness, so are reporting as right-han
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by eftpotrm 2y ago
For who though? If you're a user of whatever-data-format designing your new application, you could always use the subset you actually cared about. No-one forced you to use all the complex bits in XML. If you're a library author -
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by eftpotrm 2y ago
I'm not going to argue that XML hasn't been used badly and excessively in a lot of places, it really has, and using every part of it religiously will tie you in knots, fast. But I can't help noticing that Json is gaining more
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by eftpotrm 7y ago
I once worked on a project that only existed because the end users had seen the SAP web UI and rebelled, hard. In fairness I don't blame them; when we dug down it was easily the worst HTML I've ever seen and some impressively weir
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by eftpotrm 8y ago
You can check that the reporting app tells you that you voted for who you think you voted for. You have no way of asserting that that was the vote that was actually counted in the reported result.
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by eftpotrm 8y ago
And the per person-mile carbon footprint of a machine powered by multiple VTOL jet engines is...?
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by eftpotrm 8y ago
That only strictly applies during the regulated period of a campaign. As there isn't presently a relevant election ongoing and there isn't a candidate or referendum vote that it is directly promoting, they don't technically h

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