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megapatch

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About megapatch

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/jramb; my proof: https://keybase.io/jramb/sigs/Rh9YHnV31tt0NVguJ5J0ZB5tpCRzV-4yUIXg3Sx5Lgk ]

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    Comment #37520803

    No surprise a hungry cat will eventually be found inside the bin.

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    Comment #36642069

    Maybe it is time to consider INvers, irrational number versioning, as used in eg TeX https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX In TeX the version approaches Pi, every new version adds a …

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    Comment #35743324

    Remorse maybe?

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    Comment #33616970

    Question: How large is the largest star in the universe? Answer: The largest known star is Earendel, which is 1,500 times the mass of the Sun. It is 100,000 times the diameter of t…

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    Comment #32885720

    It is common knowledge that rabbits stack rather naturally.

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    Comment #32603694

    Totally +1 this. Buy a domain (= "rent" it long term) and be free.

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    Comment #32596768

    Then you don't use that service.

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    Comment #30567097

    It is a modern version of displaying the current first page of a newspaper to prove something has not happened earlier than the displayed reference.

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    Comment #29671468

    This is why it is much more natural to use RPN. Solves all these problems: 1 2 / -9.8 * Or 1 2 -9.8 * /

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    Comment #27093572

    So you store the password and the TOTP in KeePass? Seems that you have 1FA, hacking your KeePass is enough to own you.

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    Comment #24957637

    This is the first time I felt that the title "Everything you need to know about..." actually was correct. I learned something and the text contained everything I ever might ever ne…

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    Comment #23836068

    One should not forget that a big corporate is not made out of great people, but actually only of normal sized people... just, well, a lot of them! If you hire a lot of people, they…

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    Comment #23582551

    It is missfeatures like this which make me seriously doubt the competence of the site provider. They then loose me as a customer, and everybody else who I can influence.

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    Comment #22501238

    This is already implemented, modern bash offers completion and suggestions, which look exactly like shown (text only though) when you press Tab. This includes parameters, flags (wi…

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    Comment #22340420

    Even most IT specialists I have spoken to seem to be unaware of this. Is your corporate https really what you think it is?

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    Comment #21490293

    Confusing. Foreign keys are a vital part in RDBMS and very useful. He is talking about foreign key constraints , which can be problematic as described.

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    Comment #20177418

    It took me some time to realize that this is not part of the music... :)

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    Comment #18425420

    Actually they pay about the same commission for cash (yes!) when they take it to the bank.

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    Comment #15624414

    Reinventing plantuml and dot I guess. Go have a look at those as well, they have their uses and are awesome.

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    Comment #15342929

    It would have been cool if they instead had reduced the number och characters!

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    Comment #15206079

    Yes, please! This applies to many other lists as well, not only restricted to JSON. Besides, imagine a world of Java, Javascript, C-like anything, where you would be DISALLOWED to …

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    Comment #15160322

    One could also use white tape as well...

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