Maybe the "query optimization works because sql is set-oriented"?
The types of operations in SQL are limited to sets, therefore allowing certain optimizations.
Readit Newsidiocrat commented on Query optimization doesn't work because SQL is declarative scattered-thoughts.net/wr... · Posted by u/jamii
idiocrat commented on Google.com search now refusing to search for FF esr 128 without JavaScript · Posted by u/superkuh
Or use free SearXNG: https://searx.be
Good that there are also non-EU instances of searx.
Here is an extended list:
idiocrat commented on Goodbye from a Linux Community Volunteer lore.kernel.org/netdev/2m... · Posted by u/ajb
I'm not sure why you think this is comparable at all. These aren't Russian immigrants or descendants living in the west, they're Russians living in Russia, and working for Russian companies on the sanctions list. As a result, they've been stripped of their maintainership status, so they can still contribute, but they have to go through the regular send-a-patch process that any other random contributor would have to. It surely doesn't feel good to them after their history of contributions, but international law and politics cause things like this to happen.
Yes, what you are saying is fair enough.
I can imagine technological "divorces" will happen more often going forward, as the polarization between the G7 and the BRICS++ members grows.
idiocrat commented on Goodbye from a Linux Community Volunteer lore.kernel.org/netdev/2m... · Posted by u/ajb
This reminds of the Anti-German sentiment during WWI.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-German_sentiment
"The Justice Department attempted to prepare a list of all German aliens, counting approximately 480,000 of them. The Committee of Internment of Alien Enemies recommended sending them to internment camps, though the idea was opposed by the War Department and the Attorney General. More than 4,000 German aliens were imprisoned in 1917–1918. The allegations included spying for Germany and endorsing the German war effort.
When the United States entered the war in 1917, some German Americans were looked upon with suspicion and attacked regarding their loyalty. Propaganda posters and newspaper commentary fed the growing fear. In Wisconsin, a Lutheran minister faced suspicion for hosting Germans in his home, while a language professor was tarred and feathered for having a German name and teaching the language. The Red Cross barred individuals with German last names from joining in fear of sabotage. One person was killed by a mob; in Collinsville, Illinois, German-born Robert Prager was dragged from jail as a suspected spy and lynched. Some aliens were convicted and imprisoned on charges of sedition for refusing to swear allegiance to the United States war effort. Thousands were forced to buy war bonds to show their loyalty."
And then the next paragraph of the wikipeida: "In Chicago, Frederick Stock was forced to step down as conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra until he finalized his naturalization papers. Orchestras replaced music by German composer Wagner with French composer Berlioz. After xenophobic Providence Journal editor John R. Rathom falsely accused Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Karl Muck of refusing to play The Star-Spangled Banner and triggered a trial by media in October 1917, Muck and 29 of the orchestra's musicians were arrested and interned in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, until well after the Armistice. "
idiocrat commented on Goodbye from a Linux Community Volunteer lore.kernel.org/netdev/2m... · Posted by u/ajb
This reminds of the Anti-German sentiment during WWI.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-German_sentiment
"The Justice Department attempted to prepare a list of all German aliens, counting approximately 480,000 of them. The Committee of Internment of Alien Enemies recommended sending them to internment camps, though the idea was opposed by the War Department and the Attorney General. More than 4,000 German aliens were imprisoned in 1917–1918. The allegations included spying for Germany and endorsing the German war effort.
When the United States entered the war in 1917, some German Americans were looked upon with suspicion and attacked regarding their loyalty. Propaganda posters and newspaper commentary fed the growing fear. In Wisconsin, a Lutheran minister faced suspicion for hosting Germans in his home, while a language professor was tarred and feathered for having a German name and teaching the language. The Red Cross barred individuals with German last names from joining in fear of sabotage. One person was killed by a mob; in Collinsville, Illinois, German-born Robert Prager was dragged from jail as a suspected spy and lynched. Some aliens were convicted and imprisoned on charges of sedition for refusing to swear allegiance to the United States war effort. Thousands were forced to buy war bonds to show their loyalty."
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I've been passively searching, sending a resume, hitting click-to-apply here and there. For the 100 times or so Ive done this since March I've had only 2 responses and they were both automated replies of "not interested". I have a lengthy and compelling resume that has always served me well. I've never had any trouble finding a new position, save for 2008 and I still did well then even. From my perspective its as if the world has ceased to function or I've been put on some fictitious black list. I have never seen anything remotely like this.
A quick thought: You could try to peek into the new world. They are not calcified (yet) and thus growing quickly, covering half of the world population. Surely they could appreciate your extended experience.
I would be for the employees returning to office, if they could make Windows UI flexible and customizable.
After all, there is at least some minimal efforts to modernize the Win11 UI: it seems not impossible (after many years of trying) to make taskbar icons small, or align the taskbar icons to the left.
idiocrat commented on Leak claims RTX 5090 has 600W TGP, RTX 5080 hits 400W tomshardware.com/pc-compo... · Posted by u/quxinxin
Finally a valid reason for those 1000W platinum PSUs.
Their highest efficiency is at 80-90% utilization, but the efficiency drops off when underutilized.
Yesterday I wanted to rewrite a program to use a large library that would have required me to dive deep down into the documentation or read its code to tackle my use case. As a first try, I just copy+pasted the whole library and my whole program into GPT 4.1 and told it to rewrite it using the library. It succeeded at the first attempt. The rewrite itself was small enough that I could read all code changes in 15 minutes and make a few stylistic changes. Done. Hours of time saved. This is the future. It is inevitable.
PS: Most replies seem to compare my experience to experiences that the responders have with agentic coding, where the developer is iteratively changing the code by chatting with an LLM. I am not doing that. I use a "One prompt one file. No code edits." approach, which I describe here:
https://www.gibney.org/prompt_coding
One idea would be not to have the code as the result of your prompt, but the result itself.
Why not to let the environment do everything integrated, according to your prompt?
Else you have the disconnect between the prompt and the generated code. The generated code need to run somewhere, need to be integrated and maintained.
That stringdiff function is a part of the bigger environment.
So ultimately you should just be able to request your assistant to make sure all the work assigned to you is done properly, and then the assistant should report to the original requestor of the work done.