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mwcremeron A better SQL in 11 lines of code

Thanks, I had not spotted that. I guess "better SQL" claim makes it seem like it is something more novel.

mwcremeron A better SQL in 11 lines of code

Looks a lot like 6NF (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_normal_form)

mwcremeron PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history

Lakes Powell and Mead would like a word...

mwcremeron Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS

Appears so: https://beyondloom.com/decker/lil.html

mwcremeron Systems and Delays

Reminds me of The Beer Game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_distribution_game

mwcremeron United Wizards of the Coast recognized by NLRB

Might also be a reference to the Homestead strike et al. Pinkertons were often employed as strikebreakers.

mwcremeron How the Government Deceived Congress in the Debate over Surveillance Powers (2013)

“I work hard to avoid ~~even~~ only the appearance of impropriety.” —-Not Rep. Richard Hanna

mwcremeron Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board

Sorry, did you mean "Summers unironically wrote" or "capitalist economist types unironically believe" ?

mwcremeron Trump pardons convicted Binance founder

Proclamation 4311.

mwcremeron Mister Macintosh (2004)

And the baby food jars of Parmersan and chili flakes, with nail holes poked in the lid.

mwcremeron Mister Macintosh (2004)

To point 2, even regular user interface can be hazardous: https://www.folklore.org/Do_It.html

mwcremeron Infinite Mac: Resource Fork Roundtripping

https://folklore.org/The_Grand_Unified_Model.html

mwcremeron Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything

At least it gets you out in the fresh air.

mwcremeron Service members deserve the right to repair

For the record, the movie was comedic but the book was not.

mwcremeron Show HN: unsafehttp – tiny web server from scratch in C, running on an orange pi

Reminds me of Jef Poskanzer’s micro_http: https://acme.com/software/micro_httpd/

mwcremeron The Two Ideals of Fields

I had a calc prof who was in the middle of a lecture, "...and as any fool can see, X is..." He stopped, turned around, and said, "You know, sometimes when I say, 'It is intuitively obvious', or, 'As any fool can see', I realize it may not be intuitively obvious, and any fool may not be able to see. But as any fool can see, X is..."

mwcremeron How to professionally say (2022)

Reminds me of https://collinpark.blogspot.com/2009/06/east-coast-to-west-c...

mwcremeron When will we fix the tools that run the world?

Maybe it is harder than it seems: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

mwcremeron The Parker Solar Probe will make its closest approach yet to the Sun

The title refers to the distance the _Nautilus_ traveled while submerged, not the depth it reached.

mwcremeron US fertility rate dropped to lowest in a century as births dipped in 2023

Interesting paper exploring possible causes: https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.36.1.151

mwcremeron Just use fucking paper, man

As @kabdib says, "You can't grep paper."

mwcremeron What Happened to Perl 7? (2022)

"Perl combines the power of sh with the speed of awk and the clarity of sed."

mwcremeron Engage your audience: get to the point, use story structure, force specificity

Recipes generally cannot be copyrighted. But the filler text, that definitely can be, and is. So if I wrap my recipe in a pointless anecdote, I make it that much harder for The Unscrupulous Gourmet to use a web scraper to steal my recipe.

mwcremeron My mother declared my bedroom a disaster area (1984)

This is one of my favorites:

https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/i-am-unable-to-accept-your-...

mwcremeron Nearly all of California's reservoir's are above their historical averages

I see what you did there.

mwcremeron Comparing 6502 Multiply Routines

That same thread seems to indicate Repose's code is mult15.a, which indeed holds the cycles record at 206.60.

mwcremeron You are never taught how to build quality software

TOI?

mwcremeron A lost X-Files song

Somewhere I saw a clip of David Duchovny revealing the never-before-heard lyrics of the X-Files theme song:

  The X-Files is a show
      With music by Mark Snow
  The X-Files is a show
      With music by Mark Snow
  ...

mwcremeron The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]

To be fair, the web as a whole is like that these days, in that HTTP explicitly includes the user as part of the error handling (404, 500, 503). How many times have you hit "Reload" today?