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Basic example Friendly syntax Dates Orthogonality F-strings Windows Functions Top n items S-strings Joins Null handling Dialects from employees select [id, first_name, age] sort age take 10 SELECT id, first_name, age FROM employees ORDER BY age LIMIT 10 from order … Read more
Why would anyone want to invest money in the airline industry? As Southwest Airlines chairman and former CEO Herb Kelleher told an amused Stanford audience April 24, “It really is a horrible business! It’s capital intensive, labor intensive, fuel intensive, … Read more
When do we have a scientific fact? Scientists, policymakers, and laypersons could all use an answer to this question. But despite its obvious importance, humanity lacks a good answer. The renowned biologist Ernst Mayr was one scientist—probably one of many—frustrated by the … Read more
This adventure starts with git-lfs. It was a normal day and I added a 500 MB binary asset to my server templates. When I went to push it, I found it interesting that git-lfs was uploading at 50KB per second. … Read more
I know I’m like a broken record about it: defamation requires a provably false statement of fact, as opposed to a statement that cannot be proven true or false, like an opinion, an insult, hyperbole or rhetoric not intended to … Read more
I like to think that I’m an GIF afficionado, but it’s hard to overstate how much this GIF can help one understand about software engineering. Let it wash over you. Watch it a few times. Hal enters, walks to the … Read more
Freenet 0.7.5 build 1495 is now available. Install Freenet for Windows, for GNU/Linux, macOS and other *nixes, or for Android. See the download page for more information and other platforms. This build improves four broad areas: new users user experience … Read more
If you happen to be using Firefox Beta 109 on an overpriced MacBook Pro that has a sticky letter s today (the 29th of December, 2022), this is what the User-Agent string looks like: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X … Read more
Breaking Up With Python December 27, 2022 For years, Python has been my go-to language for a quick bit of scripting where another language might feel too heavy duty. As time has gone by, I’ve grown more and more disillusioned … Read more
Photo by Uzoma Ozurumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, no changes I’m generally a big fan of encrypted DNS for the security it provides with negligible performance impact. But I recently found out the hard way that DNS over TLS/HTTPS can deadlock … Read more