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by no-s 4mo ago
interesting, all the ai-generated comments kill my enthusiasm tho
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by no-s 7mo ago
i used to predict Datalog would win out eventually but sadly was wrong. SQLite callbacks let you implement anything you please inside the scope of transactions, triggers, other events etc. To make an app run this way all you need is a start
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by no-s 7mo ago
I said “PICK” when I clicked, and there it was...
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by no-s 11mo ago
here’s a heretical thought: you should have some idea what uniquely distinguishes a entity in your database before you give it a key. Because if the only thing is a arbitrary number you probably should just be using a symbol table instead.
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by no-s 11mo ago
what a lovely resource...
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by no-s 2y ago
> If you had two space stations like the ISS with ascending nodes 180 degrees from each other it would be about as expensive to transit between them as it is to launch a rocket from the Earth to begin with. 1+1 = 2 2/2 = 1; technic
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by no-s 3y ago
I want to build a low cost but comfortable small earthen house in the Sonoran Desert. Currently conducting a series of experiments to discover process that will be effective for my build: - Comparing lime versus Poland cement for stabilizin
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by no-s 3y ago
A tear came to my eye when I read this. When I learned to read, Webster’s and Encyclopedia Britannica were my touchstones. I would roam the pages for hours discovering powerful and cogent associations. Most modern readers of English are not
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by no-s 3y ago
> a lot of things that "have no place at a programming language conference", but surprisingly these are not included in that draft. Why? Rly. Why should petty tyranny or totalitarianism have a seat at a programming language con
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by no-s 3y ago
> The danger is well known, not unknown: it's people with guns. well, apparently not well known to you. The danger is criminals with guns. Law-abiding people carry guns everyday and demonstrably present no significant additional thr
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by no-s 3y ago
> Firearms like Glocks don't have "active safeties" gosh, there’s always some argument about the defn of “safety” when discussing Glock. A Glock trigger has a little spring-loaded tab which is depressed when you hold your
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by no-s 3y ago
I stressed over this and finally gave in and got a P365, which I tore down and measured various things to assure it wasn’t as naughty as a P320. I wouldn’t even carry (EDC) a nice Glock which some PD reverted to, because of the unfortunate
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by no-s 3y ago
Is trying to be the “essential CRDT”? CRDT didn’t spring from the quivering Internet jello fully formed in 2006. I feel this should go further back. I recall doing CRDT-like things for distributed message threading in ’97, and I’m pretty su
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by no-s 4y ago
> EFF is one of those exceptions. For me too. Though they test my patience regularly with leftist shibboleths. I’m pretty arch-conservative too, but we’re all in this together…my zeal knows no limits when it comes to defending against ov
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by no-s 4y ago
> They did not have least testing, they underwent parallel trial testing. yes, let us quibble: not tested to the degree required for regular FDA approval as safe and effective, hence “Emergency Use Authorization”. I think maybe piling on
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by no-s 4y ago
I’m sad for you. Every few years I get an acute case of “I hate computing” which can last for days or months (still not sure if I’ve gotten over that malaise I picked up from Ed Snowden in “citizen 4”) despite the plucky meandering of ApenW
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by no-s 4y ago
a lot of what you’re citing seems disingenuous at best. I wasn’t going to respond because the platoon downvoting discourages further discussion, but some brave souls upvoted so I feel encouraged. You also didn’t directly address my actual p
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by no-s 4y ago
> In my book, it’s impossible to achieve such breakthrough by working alone, regardless who the man/woman is. Another fascinating opportunity for AGI - no sole contributor is all on their own, they can just spin up a community to em
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by no-s 4y ago
> It's funny that all of these weird fantasies people have about AI are about replacing the rank and file workers. When I read about chatGPT passing MBA exams but failing at arithmetic I get a little frisson of excitement. A regular
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by no-s 4y ago
> There are plenty of ways to highlight the risks of gun violence in much more realistic and statistically likely terms for most people, You seem to imply the objective of reporting about mass attacks should be to inform us about the ris
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by no-s 4y ago
I was so hideously amused but I don’t think this is satire.
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ChatGPT Prompts for Scrum Practitioners(age-of-product.com)
2 points by no-s 4y ago|1 comments
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by no-s 4y ago
> “...The fact is that's not what we have chosen in reality, so we must shoulder the heavy burden of choosing the inferior alternative and give it our best shot.” HaHaOnlySerious. A stepping stone on the mysterious garden path of ba
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by no-s 4y ago
> The quasi-legality of state-permitted and federally-prohibited-without-direct-enforcement is kind of an awful trap Perhaps a trap that rises to the level of (HHOS) conspiracy to commit a crime: TITLE 18, U.S.C., SECTION 242 disclaimer:
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by no-s 4y ago
> "If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.” sounds like a framing error to me. “Trickle-down” is a term used by critics to reframe the creation of wealth as essentially a zero-sum game
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by no-s 4y ago
Whilst flying a sailplane I’ve seen a rotor cloud ( a kind turbulence associated with mountain wave soaring ) form in a fraction of a second. The first sign of it was a streak of cloud rising and curling over. It was in front of me and I di
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by no-s 4y ago
> get the itch to do another one. If you really want to satisfy that itch you should try building a Forth computer from scratch. Back in the 80s a friend showed me how to build a Forth CPU from PLAs (might have been some earlier cheaper
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by no-s 4y ago
Back in the eighties I went to a presentation by Moore on VLSI design featuring a GUI design tool he wrote in Forth. The physical user interface was via contacts taped to his fingers and thumb, he would touch them together to navigate the U
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by no-s 4y ago
> predicate pushdown is a problem on both MSSQL and Postgresql Not sure you’re completely on target here regarding CTE performance. I don’t have deep insight into Postgresql (but “create temporary view", yeah!). MSSQL does a pretty
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by no-s 4y ago
> A rebate generally implies a refund of prior payment, so I found your summary confusing. Sorry, it is a “pre-bate”, intended to offset the first x dollars of tax that would be paid on “necessities”, determined by some poverty line&#x2F

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