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I suspect Digicel's marketing dept could give you the realtime PNG population to 6 decimal places. Joking obviously, but only just.

So at first glance this looks pretty amazing, and you deserve kudos for your documentation quality alone! 2 comments. First, if you're going to lead with statements like "faster th…

Larping as a dba now, and trust me many of us do know, and its a source of ongoing suffering, but we're often not developers and don't necessarily have the choice of tooling. Right…

I suspect part of it is licensing games, both in the sense of "avoiding per core license limits" which absolutely matters when your DB is costing a million bucks, and also in the '…

While this true enough, an ironic side effect of my attending a couple of rounds of sales related negotiation training ( compulsory for everyone at that company ), was to really hi…

Perhaps look to your marketing folks rather than engineering. "Purchasing silver sponsership with [org] as a way to grow our brand awareness" is intrinsically understandable to pre…

On of my favourite hardware investments as a teenager trying to learn c and assembly under dos was a caching hard drive controller. It made those post crash reboots so much faster!…

You don't have to change you process, so you can still explain it rationally. Just leave off the "then I multiplied by 10" part. Which I did by accident once ( not by 10, but it wa…

Only on some distro's. Debian variants tend to link dash, which self consciously limits itself to posix compatibility.

Gosh they look interesting. But ridiculously customer unfriendly product naming, and a website that doesn't provide clear information on international shipping just raises so many …

Yup. And teaching yourself and your tools to use them as delimiters is damn near a superpower for semi-structured/tabular text forms ( aka csv/tsv and co ). Issues with field defin…

Small team with a largely overlapping shared knowledge and attitudes. Which is not to say it isn't really nice, but I think the chances of it happening are in some way inversely pr…

Any time I'm doing lego-brick engineering, aka unix style "small tools pipe together", then startup time impacts me most while I'm actively developing the new system. That process …

Ha.. my linebreaks got removed!

\ linebreaks are not something I love,and a while ago I started using chained blocks.. These are usually a step between "overely complicated one liner" and structured script, and o…

Curious as to what's "vastly less practical" in powershell?

That's very, very nice. I live in a world of Confluence tables, but it's nice to know that not everyone is suffering.

So, I guess it's only me who learned from the comments here that the was a difference between em dash and en dash? Or that they might be different from a hyphen or a minus? (In my …

Have you seen vim syntax rules?

I don't think I have ever personally felt older than having someone describe anything docker related as "old-school"

You can buy them in Australia, or at least the bulbs sold here by philips as their "UltraEfficient" range look the same and match the specs of their Dubai bulbs marketing page. The…

How common are RADIUS deployments that aren't EAP/PEAP based though? IDK About anyone else but for a very long time anything md5 has been in the same mental bucket as zip or office…

Having worked at an IBM shop, referring to ibm's x, p, i and z series by letter was pretty common, to the point of standard, and same with "our regular ibm customers". ( even if we…

Pfft. Let's talk about the rent before announcing where I live eh?

Last I looked, powershell's startup time on linux was disappointing. Understandable to an extent given it was bootstrapping a bunch of dotNET stuff that would already be there on w…