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by mwcremer 18d ago
Thanks, I had not spotted that. I guess "better SQL" claim makes it seem like it is something more novel.
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by mwcremer 18d ago
Looks a lot like 6NF ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_normal_form )
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by mwcremer 1mo ago
Lakes Powell and Mead would like a word...
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by mwcremer 2mo ago
Appears so: https://beyondloom.com/decker/lil.html
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by mwcremer 2mo ago
Reminds me of The Beer Game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_distribution_game
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by mwcremer 3mo ago
Might also be a reference to the Homestead strike et al. Pinkertons were often employed as strikebreakers.
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by mwcremer 7mo ago
“I work hard to avoid ~~even~~ only the appearance of impropriety.” —-Not Rep. Richard Hanna
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by mwcremer 10mo ago
Sorry, did you mean "Summers unironically wrote" or "capitalist economist types unironically believe" ?
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by mwcremer 11mo ago
Proclamation 4311.
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by mwcremer 1y ago
And the baby food jars of Parmersan and chili flakes, with nail holes poked in the lid.
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by mwcremer 1y ago
To point 2, even regular user interface can be hazardous: https://www.folklore.org/Do_It.html
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by mwcremer 1y ago
https://folklore.org/The_Grand_Unified_Model.html
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by mwcremer 1y ago
At least it gets you out in the fresh air.
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by mwcremer 1y ago
For the record, the movie was comedic but the book was not.
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by mwcremer 1y ago
Reminds me of Jef Poskanzer’s micro_http: https://acme.com/software/micro_httpd/
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by mwcremer 1y ago
I had a calc prof who was in the middle of a lecture, "...and as any fool can see, X is..." He stopped, turned around, and said, "You know, sometimes when I say, 'It is intuitively obvious', or, 'As any fool ca
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by mwcremer 2y ago
Reminds me of https://collinpark.blogspot.com/2009/06/east-coast-to-west-c...
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by mwcremer 2y ago
Maybe it is harder than it seems: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
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by mwcremer 2y ago
The title refers to the distance the _Nautilus_ traveled while submerged, not the depth it reached.
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by mwcremer 2y ago
Interesting paper exploring possible causes: https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.36.1.151
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by mwcremer 2y ago
As @kabdib says, "You can't grep paper."
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by mwcremer 2y ago
"Perl combines the power of sh with the speed of awk and the clarity of sed."
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by mwcremer 2y ago
Recipes generally cannot be copyrighted. But the filler text, that definitely can be, and is. So if I wrap my recipe in a pointless anecdote, I make it that much harder for The Unscrupulous Gourmet to use a web scraper to steal my recipe.
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by mwcremer 2y ago
This is one of my favorites: https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/i-am-unable-to-accept-your-...
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by mwcremer 3y ago
I see what you did there.
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by mwcremer 3y ago
That same thread seems to indicate Repose's code is mult15.a, which indeed holds the cycles record at 206.60.
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by mwcremer 3y ago
TOI?
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by mwcremer 3y ago
Somewhere I saw a clip of David Duchovny revealing the never-before-heard lyrics of the X-Files theme song: The X-Files is a show With music by Mark Snow The X-Files is a show With music by Mark Snow ...
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by mwcremer 3y ago
To be fair, the web as a whole is like that these days, in that HTTP explicitly includes the user as part of the error handling (404, 500, 503). How many times have you hit "Reload" today?
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by mwcremer 3y ago
Its definately a loosing battle.

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