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"PostgreSQL supports most of the major features of SQL:2016. Out of 177 mandatory features required for full Core conformance, PostgreSQL conforms to at least 170. In addition, the…

Companies get away with exposing us to a lot more harm than just toxic waste, e.g., tire and break dust is everywhere; cheap plastic packaging on everything we eat and drink.

I assume nothing is ever deleted on the internet. Even comments you type out, but never submit are most likely saved by all websites (and if you use Windows/Mac, I'm assuming every…

Ha. TIL. Boneappletea.

Agreed. Spend time on substance, not style. I write documents in markdown and use pandoc with templates to handle styling.

KEXP and BBC Radio 6

Snow Crash by Neil Stevenson

Yes this keeps me on Ubuntu. Any problem you run into has most likely already been solved and documented.

Practical Vim is great.

My Thinkpad experience has been a nightmare. I bought a new ThinkPad one year ago and it has been an absolutely terrible experience. It freezes up every 2-3 days requiring a hard r…

Live in a city with good universities to surround yourself with smart people.

It's a defensive strategy, so others cannot enforce vague patents against them.

I don't have a source for this, but I think I remember reading a long time ago that Swartz also downloaded and released a significant amount of WestLaw legal documents. A few years…

Small piece of electric tape over the camera.

Do you have a source for a single person being required to register as a sex offender for peeing in public?

Does it need it? All the site does is show you text.

Ditto. I still have ddg set as default on all devices, but I have to !g almost every single search because ddg doesn't return the results I wanted then, boom, Google just nails it …

What is a solution? Facebook is a private company, so they can do business as they please within the confines of applicable laws and regulations. Those laws and regulations say the…

Leaves from prison (felons) are not common in the U.S. Leaves from jail (misdemeanors) are more common (e.g., leave for work during the day, then back to jail after work).

Ulbricht was not a drug kingpin himself, but rather he created a marketplace for drug kingpins, right? Also it may be beneficial to judge a person's technical capabilities separate…

Please don't give up our freedom of speech rights just because of crazy Giuliani--those rights were really hard to get and we'll never get them back.

Triumph of the Nerds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Nerds

Aren't they all? If you type text into an input field, it's best to assume it's saved, even if you backspace and write something else--it's all saved. Comparing what people type an…

Interesting. Any stats/aggregations on numbers per resource type (e.g., 56k for scotus, 36k for D.C. Circuit Court etc)?