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From the docs: https://github.com/sqldef/sqldef?tab=readme-ov-file#renaming... You tell it what’s being renamed with a special comment.

Never say never: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87

JetA-burning piston aircraft exist - almost all Diamonds for instance.

Eric Schmidt was a developer - he wrote lex.

Early in my career I wrote Smalltalk in a GUI-based environment (VisualWorks/GemStone), with the browser, debugger, transcript, etc. It was an incredible experience. Later, I used …

Yes indeed - it's actually pretty nice. You just define a message for your configuration schema: message Config { repeated Server server = 1; } message Server { string address = 1;…

By the way, how did a luggage company convince the world they are a tech company?

It's the wing loading (max takeoff weight / sqft of the wing). The 747-400's is something like 155 lb/sqft vs. 124 for the 787-8. In general, the higher the wing loading the better…

C++17 does - it's called std::variant. std::variant options; options = true; bool value = std::get (options); bool has_bool = std::holds_alternative (options); // or test which alt…

Oh brother. People aren't work-producing robots, developers included. Different types of people bring different types of experiences, opinions, and viewpoints. So you'll make bette…

This one’s my favorite: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TecDlpGAhq0 Really beautiful album, especially the 5.1 surround version.

Garmin has quite a few certified touchscreens these days, some intended for panel upgrades (e.g. https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/67886 ) and even some in new light jets (e.g. htt…

This would be impractical for really large monorepos like the ones Google and Microsoft have. They have virtual file system layers on top (MS open sourced theirs) to prevent checki…

Isn’t that true of kids in general?

Clearance can be sent via ACARS, but you deal with it while parked on the ground. It would be much different getting messages to change altitude, heading, and/or speed every few se…

Same goes with “for”, which you sometimes hear in readbacks like “leaving 4000 for 3000”. It should be something unambiguous like “4000 descending 3000” instead.

There are certainly incredible situations with happy endings where ATC has made suggestions or gotten someone with experience in a type on the radio. But I could imagine a company …

M600 has onboard radar (it's the pod on the right wing).

Autoland, as used in a capable airliner, is much more limited than this. For an airliner, it's a procedure with lots of configuration and monitoring done by a pilot, in cooperation…

Very cool! The effect on page layout sounds like it would be pretty similar to Oracle's hybrid columnar compression[1], but they claim average compression ratio is more like 10:1. …

Specifically they run IBM zTPF on their mainframes, which is also used by airlines. Some installations have uptimes measured in decades. https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/tra…

Just bought a ‘99 BMW and I couldn’t be happier. All the important stuff (airbags, ABS, etc), comfort (a/c, heated seats, power windows/top), and beautifully simple controls. Nothi…

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