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by rowls66 23d ago
Card network rules in the US prohibit merchants from adding a surcharge for payment with a debit card. Most merchants are either unaware, or prefer not to care. If you are using a debit card at a business that assesses a card surcharge, poi
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by rowls66 2mo ago
Sounds like a good job for AI. I do fear that the future will involve deploying AI do deal with the mountain of slop produced by other AI's.
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by rowls66 3mo ago
There is no requirement in the Java language to use getters and setters.
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by rowls66 6mo ago
Or when IBM renamed everything Websphere.
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by rowls66 6mo ago
I have not had much experience with DB2, but given that the relational data model and normalization was invented at IBM (Codd) and IBM's implemenation of those concepts was DB2, DB2 performing poorly with a normalized data model seems
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by rowls66 6mo ago
Maybe it’s because you are really a computer programmer. Computer programmer employment is expected to decline by 6%.
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by rowls66 9mo ago
My initial reation was 'What is a CMS'? Naming your company or an initialism and never saying anywhere in the product description what the initials mean is not welcoming. Now I know that anyone who does not know that a CMS is a &#
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by rowls66 1y ago
You don't have to tip an Uber or Lyft driver either.
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by rowls66 1y ago
I think more effort should have been made to live with 65,536 characters. My understanding is that codepoints beyond 65,536 are only used for languages that are no longer in use, and emojis. I think that adding emojis to unicode is going to
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by rowls66 1y ago
This article is nearly 15 years old (2013). According to center on budget and policy priorities, the number of SSDI beneficiaries has fallen from is peak in 2014. So this article was written about a trend that peaked a year after its public
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by rowls66 1y ago
Why would anyone buy their game engine when it is available for free? Seems like a solution for a problem that doesn't/won't exist.
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by rowls66 2y ago
Can a systems programming lanugage use garbage collection? I don't think so.
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by rowls66 2y ago
Seems to me that if Congress would prefer that any disputes arising from the implementation of their laws be handled by the admistrative agency charged with enforcing it, all they need to do is say so in the law. Not sure how the courts cou
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by rowls66 2y ago
I found 'A Philosophy of Software Design' by John Ousterhout to be useful. It contains alot of solid easy to understand advice with many examples.
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by rowls66 2y ago
I think whats more harmful than unit tests are code coverage metrics for unit tests that devs feel compelled or are required to achieve. The easiest way to achieve code coverage goals for tests is to write lots of small tests that test indi
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by rowls66 2y ago
You need to spend $16,666 just to cover the $500 annual fee. That’s a lot for many people especially when many low end retailers don’t accept AmEx. As already state rewards cards are a subsidy for the rich, or at least for people who spend
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by rowls66 2y ago
They can but they generally won’t. Use of the chip on the card shifts fraud liability from merchant to issuer. Burner card numbers are for card not present transactions.
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by rowls66 3y ago
NY state has plenty of room for onshore wind, just not in the places where most of the people are.
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by rowls66 3y ago
Is it really that much different? You still need to handle a Left value, and a lot like handling an exception.
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by rowls66 3y ago
That’s not true. Java has 2 types of exceptions checked and unchecked. Checked exceptions are what this thread has been calling errors, and unchecked exceptions are what this thread has been calling exceptions. Maybe it was a mistake to cal
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by rowls66 3y ago
Here is an example. Go let’s structs be passed by value or by reference. The programmer needs to decide, and that adds complexity that is largely irrelevant for modeling complex business logic. Java does not provide a choice, which keeps it
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by rowls66 3y ago
Not sure what you mean by "the database holds locks for the minimum time needed." Locks are always held until the transaction commits.
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by rowls66 3y ago
In the Lost Updates section, a more straight forward solution is to use the FOR UPDATE clause in the first select statement. This locks the record and prevents concurrent updates.
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by rowls66 3y ago
Is this really a Google OAuth issue, or more failure my many service providers to properly verify the OAuth token assertions before allowing access? Seems to me the latter.
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by rowls66 3y ago
I found a chestnut tree of moderate size on my property this year, and for time thought it might be an American Chestnut. Alas I eventually concluded that it was a Chineese Chesnut. Still a nice tree, but hardly as exciting.
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by rowls66 3y ago
Not at the scale involved here.
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by rowls66 3y ago
This seems to me like an example of how difficult it is to organize a company around a goal other then making money. As a non-profit, OpanAI was not supposed to be a profit maximizing enterprise. But how is a board supposed to opperate, and
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by rowls66 3y ago
How about using Kafka for the WAL? Anybody tried that?
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by rowls66 3y ago
Another sign that the gold rush phase of the web is over. It is no longer enough for companies to just increase their active user base and be rewarded with a rising share price. Google gets paid for showing users adds, so if users aren’t lo
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by rowls66 3y ago
To avoid deadlock, you need to ensure that locking happens in the same order in all concurrent transactions. So account A must be locked before account B and never in the opposite order. So if account B is the account being debited and ther

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