pophenat

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by pophenat 2mo ago
If you can’t code, you’ll be like a mathematician or statistician who can’t do basic math because they have tools that can do it for them. We don’t tell kids they don’t need to know how to do basic math operations because they have Excel an
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by pophenat 2y ago
To me placing the join predicates immediately after the tables is more readable as I don’t have to switch between looking at the from and where clauses to figure out the columns on which the tables are joined.
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New Molecule Mimics Exercise and Fasting Effects(neurosciencenews.com)
2 points by pophenat 2y ago|0 comments
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by pophenat 2y ago
If drone armies are vastly more powerful than human armies, the latter become insignificant much like unarmed civilians are irrelevant in a war today. If Ukraine loses its army, it will surrender. If an army of the future loses its drones i
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by pophenat 3y ago
I find intriguing their explanation about how to use their FTP service and why it’s not possible to access it with a modern browser. http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/anon-ftp-hints.shtml
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by pophenat 3y ago
The parent comment is about the current operation in the Red Sea, which the Saudi do not participate in. The relevant link is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthi_involvement_in_the_Is...
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by pophenat 3y ago
My understanding is that the Saudi do not participate also because they do not want to be seen as Israel supporters.
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by pophenat 3y ago
"There are a ton of puzzle peaces slowly falling in place left and right." Yet, we do not seem to have a very good understanding of how many pieces there are in the puzzle.
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Research suggests hiring managers discriminate against small business founders(fortune.com)
4 points by pophenat 3y ago|1 comments
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Microsoft had three staff at Australian data centre campus when Azure went out(itnews.com.au)
89 points by pophenat 3y ago|49 comments
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by pophenat 3y ago
Why obviously? It might as well be a passing fad, and all those uses oof ChatGPT might turn out to be a temporary amusement rather than real and lasting improvement of people's workflows. It's interesting how something comes out,
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by pophenat 3y ago
Microsoft SQL Server now also has IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/queries/is-disti...
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by pophenat 4y ago
Well, if you have multiple queries, you'd still have to write the cte multiple times. You could also use views for the same thing, and those are much more reusable.
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by pophenat 4y ago
A small bit of advice from me: consider the weight of the binoculars when buying them. They can be too heavy to hold for more than a minute - especially large ones made for astronomy. You will either want a tripod (which is inconvenient to
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by pophenat 4y ago
While working for one of the largest consultancies, I had to interview an offshore candidate for an onshore position in my team. It was a database development job and I asked the typical SQL questions, data modelling, etc - all over Skype w
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by pophenat 4y ago
There was this case of a foreign student who submitted a perfectly written paper, obviously copy/pasted from some websites. At the interview, he could not answer any questions properly, and that made it even more clear that he could no
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by pophenat 4y ago
While at university, we had one professor who would assess student assignment papers after conducting an interview. It would take him 5-10 minutes per person and cheaters really did get caught out. It is a common practice in some universiti
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by pophenat 5y ago
Well, actually, people quite often mention pay as a reason to quit on forums like reddit. It isn’t the trigger, but low pay and difficulties coping financially, even with multiple jobs, is one of the top reasons that makes people leave thei
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by pophenat 5y ago
It's mostly correct in my experience, but maybe it's because I've learned what it can/can't do. And when it does what it is supposed to do, it can be very useful.