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In Australia it's $400 Google Store credit with the Pro, $250 with the regular. Pixel Watch 2 starts at $549.

Those prods have existed since phones, but it was previously about not having a ringtone blare out. Now the backlash is against people scrolling tiktok/whatever during a movie. I h…

I've always used this. Any rows returned means there are differences select * from ( ( select * from table1 minus select * from table2 ) union all ( select * from table2 minus sele…

Yeah, compulsory voting is what makes it a viable way to detect fraud. I was also mistaken somewhat when I said "paper ballots". There is certainly electronic voting in Australia, …

In Australia we do paper ballots, no voter ID, you just say your name and it's crossed off a list. Afterwards, if the same name was crossed off two lists, the amount of double vote…

Coming from an Oracle background, both application and data warehousing, I wholeheartedly agree with the articles first paragraph saying that application based dynamic SQL is horri…

A good meta search across book stores is https://booko.info/ It's not global, but serves a few countries

Not mainlined now, and probably not ever given that Linus has said "considering Oracle's litigious nature, and the questions over licensing, there's no way I can feel safe in ever …

I think of the classic sci-fi depiction of "picture phones", and they are almost exclusively a device mounted on a wall, much like the original telephone. Maybe it's just a usabili…

Joins are cheap when joining on indexed columns, but the trade off is extra time maintaining those indexes when writing. As always, it depends on the use case.

I've been using it for a while now getting the password from a file.

Interesting path, he's skipped straight over the Vagrant->Docker step most took (myself included)

Signal doesn't press you to setup (by default) unencrypted cloud backups.

I worked in government where Accenture where brought in for projects. A lot of high level meetings and presentations, then sub-junior level devs. At the end there was a lot of lega…

I'm using the linuxserver container image for calibre, then rsync'ing to my laptop to sync with my kindle. Not really server-only but has everything I want from that https://docs.l…

Other than doom I like some fuzzy raw black metal to drown out noise, like Paysage d'hiver. Thankfully they have quite a large discography.

I just migrated my instance by repointing the webserver container image at the one in this repo. So far, so good.

Tomcat is a common embedded server for Spring Boot applications, and included in the default web stack from Spring Initialiser.

That's only on the cheapest paid plan. You can customize plans and increase the amount of domains, though it adds to the price.

This isn't really "in SQL" as much as "using a product that has a SQL extension/backend".

pivpn now supports both wireguard and openvpn, with wireguard as the default.

The official plugin uses a php port of Mozilla's Readability, which is used for Firefox Reader Mode. There is also the 3rd party FeedIron that is more configurable. https://github.…