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by enormousness 3mo ago
Accountants have specialized domain knowledge (laws, regulations, procedures, bureaucracy etc.) that goes well beyond what a calculator can do. If we apply the same argument to software engineering I think it's a good point... just may
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by enormousness 3mo ago
>Domain knowledge can be learnt much quicker than how to apply good engineering principles. Can it? I'm of the opposite opinion. You can improve methodology much faster than gaining specialized knowledge. You can enforce and fast-tr
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by enormousness 1y ago
Does your definition of "universal answering machine" include the answers being correct? If it does, statistical predictors can't help you because they're not always correct or even meaningful (correlation does not imply
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by enormousness 2y ago
Ours also had Fox Pro, and we did all of them (one per year). They also had optional Novel, Linux, UNIX and Mac courses (with certifications). Late 90s - early 2000 were a hoot.
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by enormousness 2y ago
Here's Microsoft's blog post on the topic of Redis relicensing btw: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/redis-license-update-...
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by enormousness 3y ago
In order to be able to take a project close-source the lead would have to employ methods that are a giveaway; use a revokable license, use a dual license, require contributors to cede copyright, ask contributors to agree to a license chang
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by enormousness 3y ago
I'd love to quote Hanlon's Razor but I really think Occam's is more appropriate in this case: they're obviously complicit and doing it on purpose.
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by enormousness 3y ago
Ergodox EZ is ortholinear. Ortholinears by their nature tend to not have spacing issues but they require (extensive) retraining. There's a very good chance that the above poster was looking at staggered layouts if it's their first
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by enormousness 3y ago
Debian has a humongous package library, the biggest of any distro if I'm not mistaken. They need full drop-in compatibility between libressl and openssl if they hope to replace the latter any time soon for all those packages.
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by enormousness 3y ago
You can't do what OP is looking for without a custom PCB. The switches and caps and mappings might be customizable but their physical position and size on the board isn't. Despite pushing the envelope in many ways, custom keyboard
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by enormousness 3y ago
It's very difficult to find Linux apps that work well with touch controls.
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by enormousness 3y ago
The fact they are planning to drop the cache feature makes you wonder if Search might be heading for the Google Graveyard eventually. I know it seemed unthinkable for most of Google's history. For the longest time Search was Google.
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by enormousness 3y ago
>Sell your domain business and force your customers to migrate.
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by enormousness 3y ago
Firefox uses the fontconfig settings only and ignores desktop environment settings. So you need to change the rgba setting in your .fonts.conf.
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by enormousness 3y ago
Is not any single query in Postgres a transaction? I don't think individual rows would be visible outside that transaction until all are updated.
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by enormousness 3y ago
We use architects for what you've described. It's a distinct technical track from developers and from team leaders. They're usually senior developers with outstanding experience in multiple technologies. They deal with techni
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by enormousness 3y ago
They use a VM so I assume you'd simply edit offline then redeploy the machine.
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by enormousness 3y ago
This approach is also ripe for an XSS exploit.
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by enormousness 3y ago
You can install the specific older version of the Linux package that the zfs package needs. You can also pin it so it won't get updated by regular upgrades.