NostraDavid @ NostraDavid @programming.dev

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Does multiple research papers count? All of them related to the Relational Model, the foundation for relational database management systems. I'm also currently digging through the Postgres manual (only 3000 pages short).

While yes, the way I had it structured looked like a CSV if you squinted a little, I do fully agree AWK can't be used for just any old JSON.

jq is dope, but that language still feels pretty confusing IMO.

Yesterday, when I had a file with a list of JSON objects, and I wanted to move the date field at the end to the beginning, so I used regex find and replace to move it. Something like \{(.*?), ("date": ".*?") in Search, and then {$2, $1 in replace (or something close to it).

Yes, I refactor code and data using regex. I can't be arsed to learn AWK (even though I should).

You might also want to check the latest Ladybird update: https://youtu.be/cbw0KrMGHvc

Source: BaalBuddy

He's pretty gooood!

I just sometimes wish there was a little more content getting posted.

Well, that's a problem that's within your power to fix! Start posting!

Oracle was never really innovative on a technical level

Even their RDBMS and SQL was copied from ideas that came from IBM. And I recall either E. F. Codd or one of the SQL guys making a remark about Oracle's less-than-saviour sales tactics, even back in the 90s.

Nonprofits can “own” for-profits.

One of the saner reasons for this structure is that the non-profit owns the things the for-profit works on. If the for-profit goes under, all things are still owned by the non-profit, so some large tech company can't swoop in and yoink anything available.

This includes any and all data generated by the for-profit, which means your data is "safe".

This is why we have journalists - worst case, take this information to some newspaper, who will likely LOVE to poke the bear.

OK, maybe that's a little idealistic, but at least you can try, eh?

I was able to do it for a restaurant once, where I was the first one to do so. I got 1.6+ million views on one image of the (then empty) restaurant. I'm pretty sure that's the peak of my online presence. It's all downhill from there.

weird dude who writes raw HTML

Eyy, that's me! Good excercise to learn actual HTML, instead of directly trying to jump into

<insert random JS framework>

Anyway, I ended up switching to Hugo as a static site generator, because it was too damn hard to keep all my

<header>

<nav>

<main>

Now I can just write a markdown file as an article, or switch back to raw HTML if I so need (like rewriting Alan Turing's paper " On computable numbers" in HTML because I can't use TTS on the PDFs I found; I still haven't finished writing it, because I am now reading E. F. Codd's papers on the Relational Model, which is pretty wild how we already figured that shit out in the 1970s!)

Ubuntu is a gateway drug to Arch.

Soon, Firefox can block ads better than Chrome. Ads are annoying. I see Chrome losing at least a 5% of the market, if not more, to Firefox, just because they're going to break uBlock Origin, and Firefox isn't.

Just ask whether they can provide a phone as well.

Why all this when prayer would keep him safe?

You're thinking of American Baptists and Evangelicals. Catholics are a little bit more practical, in general. Like protecting pedos, instead of ejecting them. Very practical.

Anyway anyone who feels attacked by the whole I’d rather a bear thing needs to stop being a pansy little shit.

I mean, the casual misandry stung a bit. Not sure why that'd make me a "pansy little shit", lmao.

Anyway, the whole thing was ragebait and a big part of the internet fell for it (me included, at least initially).

Bears do not want to kill you. They want to be left alone.

I'm not a bear, but same.

"Gedeelde smart is halve smart" (shared sorrow is half a sorrow) is a classic Dutch saying. I've never thought of the positive form. Good to learn.

That's obviously a randomly generated string.

A bot-ass username would be FirstnameLastnameFourdigitnumber. Sheesh.

I just checked his Wikipedia page for his credentials. Worked for 9 years at NASA, of which 7 working on the Curiosity rover (yeah, the one that's on Mars now).

I'd say that's credentialed enough.

I too wish he did more complex stuff.