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by fipar 6d ago
Same for me but on the Spectrum's illegitimate South American cousin, the TK-90X :) The language is still alive but I think Scratch has mostly taken its place.
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by fipar 11d ago
I’ve only seen videos of this keyboard but never played one. With that disclaimer out of the way, the price is comparable to mid-range clavinova models. The clavinova does have a piano-like body, very very good built in sounds (including bi
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by fipar 13d ago
“For example, if a philosophical zombie were poked with a sharp object, it would not feel any pain, but it would react exactly the way any conscious human would” Doing non-verbal thinking has nothing to do with not feeling pain, I don’t thi
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by fipar 18d ago
Yeah, looking back at my first reply I did get the order wrong: first the alter, then the empty noop. But once you run the alter and have a primary key (though the author clarified the table did have a PK already), I’d just use pt-osc to ru
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by fipar 18d ago
That makes sense then. If the table had a primary key, in case you ever face such a setup again (hopefully not!) then I think pt-online-schema-change to add the auto increment primary key while using ROW would probably be a better choice th
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by fipar 18d ago
The "relational" in relational databases is not about department number in employees referencing departments. What the model calls relations are sets of n-tuples where each attribute value has a domain. SQL databases call their ve
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by fipar 18d ago
I think it happened right after the alter table, but it was discovered after the upgrade. It's normal to have more eyes on the system after a DB upgrade, and also common to blame the DB for post-upgrade problems. Turns out this time th
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by fipar 28d ago
I think that's a good approach, whether it works on not probably depends on the nature of the work you want it to do. In my case, given I work with databases, there's little that agents can do on their own except in the explorator
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by fipar 28d ago
Thanks, I'll pass. I do pre-approve read-only tools though, and some very specific tools that can change state (append data to a specific file). That's what works best for me so far: start with open-ended exploration with me appro
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by fipar 28d ago
This isn't terminator. I use Fable and Opus daily, so, not OpenAI, but comparable. They're great, and they're also very wrong at times. If I'd ever let a coding agent run loose with them without approving every tool use,
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by fipar 29d ago
I didn't know, thanks, you've sent me down a small rabbit hole reading up on this!
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by fipar 29d ago
Nope, just a late 90s pentium running linux. I went through a rough patch from 2002 to 2009 and couldn't afford new hardware, other than when I was finally able to get a second-hand laptop. Before the laptop, I'd go visit customer
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by fipar 1mo ago
Even as late as in 2008 I had such a slow machine that when I had to use NetBeans and I wanted to listen to music at the same time, I'd just play music CDs with headphones plugged into the headphones port of the cdrom drive :)
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by fipar 1mo ago
The way I remember the turbo button it just halved the clock speed when not depressed, but it didn't bring it back to the original IBM PC's speed. I do remember using it to make older games play less bad, but, as you say, this rar
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by fipar 1mo ago
> “What a shame to come to love the land that will never be mine.” This reminded me of a song about the related job of arriero, aptly titled "El arriero", which includes these lyrics: "Las penas y las vaquitas se van por l
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by fipar 1mo ago
haha, when the weather is really bad, the bathroom with the lights off and headphones is great . Growing up with a single bathroom, a multi-bathroom home is just amazing. I do wonder if having a single bathroom as a child played any part i
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by fipar 1mo ago
I understand your point completely, as I used to feel the same way in the past. Then I realized it's just that being forced to do a commute for work makes it OK to potentially put extra load on your spouse, or to leave your kids with s
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by fipar 1mo ago
Yeah, I'm more like you. I also agree with "to each their own" and like that we're so different that someone like the author enjoys going to an office and struggles with phone/device usage when working from home, an
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by fipar 1mo ago
We had a similar time service in Uruguay and, whenever we had an important appointment (e.g., a medical one) we’d call the number to make sure our clocks and watches were on time. It was a female voice that said something that could be tran
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by fipar 1mo ago
Yeah, I see now my writing was confusing (it happens to me ...), as I meant to say Pirsig probably picked up the term from Stewarts. In any case, great book. Gave it as a gift to my dad who was a mechanic when young and also rode a motorcyc
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by fipar 1mo ago
Interesting. Well, I'm glad you enjoy working from an office, but just so you know, while I'm sure the set of antisocial people intersects with that of people who like remote work, they're not equivalent. In my (admittedly an
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by fipar 1mo ago
Pirsig mentions this in his first book, and I always related to that part, as I'm the kind of person that "feels" the pain when someone turns a screw more than it can go, etc. Searching on the pilot you mention and the date o
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by fipar 1mo ago
That's funny. As a remote worker (on and off since around 2003, exclusively since 2009), I guess you'd consider me an antisocial, and yet you're the one who wants to force people to do something. I'm fine with people who
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by fipar 2mo ago
I did that with my grandmother after she had a stroke, and I would not have offload that to a robot, had one been available. It wasn't nice, but not everything in life has to be nice. What was important to me is that she felt loved and
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by fipar 2mo ago
Why do you think this will happen? I have a different opinion. I agree senior programmers will be in demand again, but not at junior price. Possibly even at a premium senior price. Why would we fix the vibe coded systems for less pay? My th
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by fipar 2mo ago
There’s a big problem with hype now, that’s for sure, but what you’re describing also reminded me of the companies that were asking for 5 years of Java experience in 1999. I guess maybe they were all trying to hire Gosling and his colleague
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by fipar 2mo ago
I think you're on the right track, only that you don't really need large grass fields available. You just need places where kids can play ball without the risk of getting run over. I live in Uruguay and, as soon as one kid in a gr
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by fipar 3mo ago
It can also be used if you want part of your monorepo to track something open source from the world. Say, to rebase upstream MySQL changes onto a fork in the monorepo (in a random, non-specific example)
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by fipar 3mo ago
I think it’s very common for parasites to affect their host’s behavior. If you find this topic interesting, I recommend the book “Parasite Rex”
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by fipar 3mo ago
I didn't have this one (I had a TK-90X, and a TK-95 after that; both could be described as improved Spectrum clones) but I briefly used one at a place where I took some programming course in the 80s (they had these, and Coleco Adam) an

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