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by hcayless 1mo ago
The Greek font is terrible—it’s using the Modern Greek “acute” accent which looks weird, and commas aren’t supposed to have spaced before them. It’s cool that Perseus did the work that makes this possible though. More info about what editio
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by hcayless 3mo ago
On the one hand, I empathize with the desire to keep as many books as we can, but on the other, librarians have to practice collection management, and they have to do it in the context of dropping budgets and greater demands for student mee
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by hcayless 3mo ago
Many mid size to large companies are hilariously inefficient and the executives have no idea how work actually gets done. This means you can (in theory) fire a decent percentage of your workforce without affecting your output. You can then
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by hcayless 7mo ago
If it can’t be copyrighted, then no. Licenses rely on the copyright holder’s right to grant the license. But that would also mean it’d be essentially public domain. I’m not sure there’s really settled legal opinion on this yet. Iirc it can’
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by hcayless 10mo ago
You might enjoy Sophocles' Oedipus: Evidence and Self-Conviction by Fred Ahl ( https://a.co/d/ditCwg5 ). It explores this idea, concluding that Oedipus’ investigation is flawed, but the audience is primed to believe
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by hcayless 1y ago
This sounds fantastic! Thank you for your work. Now I gotta go learn Rust :-).
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by hcayless 2y ago
I was at a large public university in the 90s / early 2000s that used Oracle. The database product itself was absolutely rock solid if well-administered. They also kept trying to sell us enterprise services built on top of the database
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by hcayless 3y ago
I remember a sysadmin at the company I worked at in 2006(?) remarking that this would be the third time he had migrated to and then away from Lotus Notes.
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by hcayless 3y ago
Of course not. What does that have to do with anything? People with different lives and experiences will have different perspectives that are likely to be helpful. We all care deeply about the things that directly affect us and our loved on
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by hcayless 3y ago
Binaries are cool and all, but maybe it's better for your organizational health to have (for example) your company look something like the population they're selling to? Maybe not everyone gets the same level of boost in their edu
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by hcayless 3y ago
It’s astonishing to me how obviously intelligent people can just be put into the mental equivalent of an unrecoverable flat spin by ideology. The essay is interesting, but then just flips into silly mode. DEI is not the Spanish Inquisition.
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by hcayless 3y ago
But QI still exists, and Uvalde happened. It wasn’t fear of reprisal, but fear of being shot. So your argument doesn’t work.
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by hcayless 3y ago
More to the point 2/4 countries in the UK voted remain and got dragged out of the EU anyway.
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by hcayless 3y ago
My favorite thing about Hibernate is that it’s sophisticated enough that it has its own query language, which is very, very similar but not identical to SQL. Makes me want to take a drink just thinking about it.
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by hcayless 3y ago
That’s good. It really did feel like they were fighting each other sometimes.
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by hcayless 4y ago
This is the thing I find really puzzling. Being able to read between the lines of virtually any kind of communication (but especially business communications) is kind of a superpower. I can only come up with cynical reasons why it’s depreca
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by hcayless 4y ago
It’s interesting to me how comparatively impoverished Anglish seems. Here’s to promiscuity!
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by hcayless 4y ago
I had an interesting experience as a child. I grew up in Barbados, where circumcision is not a common practice. In Biology class on day, the teacher talked about the practice, and basically everyone in the class went “Eww”. I moved to the U
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by hcayless 4y ago
I was you until a couple of years ago. Could have rolled naked in the stuff. Then it got me. And Lord, it was horrible. Weeks of agony. I’m super careful with it now.
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by hcayless 4y ago
Yes, but: a programmer who has made it to age 25 without learning how to ssh into a server where their code will end up running is to me demonstrating that they are remarkably incurious about the larger ecosystem within which they’re workin
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by hcayless 4y ago
I thought the expansion of YAML was YAML Ain’t Markup Language?
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by hcayless 4y ago
Title needs correction: that’s a Greek letter mu, μ, not a u. Addendum: though it is clearly a u in the URL. Someone may be confused...
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by hcayless 4y ago
No need to be salty about it.
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by hcayless 4y ago
They really had no choice about that part. The spike (beyond their control) in energy prices was set to bankrupt hundreds or even thousands of small businesses and put many people in a situation of deciding between heat and food. The tax br
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by hcayless 4y ago
Christ Jesus, yes. I mean, there can be reasons why not, but why use an RDBMS at all if you’re not going to take advantage of its features?
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by hcayless 4y ago
Came here to mention CiTO. See also https://sparontologies.github.io/cito/current/cito.html . It’s been around a long time, from when the Semantic Web was the next big thing.
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by hcayless 4y ago
I think there’s something a bit deeper going on, and it’s implied in the post. Small companies (on the whole) are more fun than big ones for a certain kind of person. At a small co. you get to wear a lot of hats and have a much more holisti
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by hcayless 5y ago
Heh, it’s probably been over a decade since I regularly had to do this sort of thing, but literally my first thought on seeing that query was “Hmmm, I’d try rewriting that to force a different execution plan” and lo and behold, that was the
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by hcayless 5y ago
Serious question: I keep seeing opinions about the inflation and supply chain problems being purely the result of the stimulus, and they feel, well, ideological. To what extent is this simply the effect of the pandemic? In my own family, we
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by hcayless 5y ago
In this kind of context (residential university) where you’ll have a concentrated group of people living and working together and where the consequences of an outbreak would be extremely disruptive, I think it makes perfect sense.

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