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Cheap bidet attachments only spray water, fancier models spray water and soap, and blow-dry your butt. Though, I guess the issue here is comparing bidet to no-bidet. The bidet is s…

Bidet attachments usually have a self-cleaning mode, ie you push a button and then it sprays water over the sprinkler. I bought mine off Amazon for like $40 and it does that. BTW I…

They do mention (but apparently do not recommend) that you can roll your own SSO. This is really about having SSO, not about Octa or Google.

Sounds great in theory. What we see in reality is that append-only database is unusable without making additional "projections" or whatever you call them, databases that are ready …

I have a startup, we have a nice new product -- and obviously, there are some product specifics ,so we have our own support team, that we train to learn the product, and be able to…

So, how does immutability matter if we deal with the database -- which is what holds the state, and is obviously mutable.

>> It's an old open source project that isn't really actively developed. Is it actively used?

>> There may be a valid reason to sign such an agreement without actually meaning it Hmmm, I thought that if you sign an agreement... it does not matter whether you "mean it" or no…

That's what minifiers/uglifiers do? Perhaps OP did not want to use them.

>> NULL doesn't really mean unknown; it means that instead of having a pointer to a result-set, you have no such pointer. NULL in SQL has nothing to do with pointers. It means that…

"SELECT NULL IS NOT DISTINCT FROM NULL" ?column? ---------- t That bothers me. It is like saying that "infinity" (+inf) equals other infinity. Which is just wrong. Some other SQL d…

>> Our platform uses dozens of hosts >> We're currently at 1/10th of Amazon. Curious, where is the "1/10th of Amazon" coming from?

Sure but you will still be paying property taxes, utilities bills, food and so on. It is not clear just how one would just "stop spending". Unless you want to spend your retirement…

>> They load Google Tag Manager, Google Retargeting Pixel, Segment, Facebook Connect, and SmartLook (which looks like some kind of analytics package). >> This should not be controv…

What are you going to do about it? a) just use parenthesis like everyone else, or b) turn the time back to 50 years ago and change that? Seriously, the article was just a rant. Yea…

What, where is the source for that? I've read "2x" and "3x" but never "tens of times".

I see. Curious about the latency between your GCP apps and the database on AWS - is it like 1 ms or 100ms? Does it affect the product?

"simple systems have less downtime" That is not much of an insight. It is as insightful as saying "water is kinda wet.". Well... sure it is. What we need to deal with, is not "make…

Could that tool magically reduce the number of options? That would be quite a tool.

Sure, but how much money could they make off of it? 17,000 theatres X some # of movie-goers per theatre per month, times 12 months a year, times $money a moviegoer would pay for mo…

Is there a better way? Can we make gcc with less options, while still catering to all the use cases.

Interesting, I would like to know how you could turn quoted "17,000" screens into any amount of money that would matter to AOL - by buying MoviePhone. Most of the money go to studi…

464? I run mine at just 450 and I was so proud of it. Now, this 464 -> 450 explains (I hope so) why I lost so many online Quake 3 battles ;]

>> if the CCP had been better about seeing the truth they could have eliminated the virus when only 100 people had it Are there any "better" governments that eliminated e.g. cold o…

So, I wonder about these cardboard/paper containers that e.g. juice, milk, etc are being sold in. Are they biodegradable?