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Well, it depends on what they need.

Do they write a lot of queries? The breadth and depth of SQL features MSSQL supports blows MySQL out of the water. I work mostly with MySQL now, and it's painful to go back. For example, I really like windowing functions and table-valued functions. But there's a lot, lot more.

Do they want much better query performance? MSSQL again.

Are they a business type? They will probably like stuff like SSRS, SSIS, and SSAS, and all the additional tooling around them.

There really is no comparison between MySQL and MSSQL. Postgres is great, and generally what I use if I have a choice because it's free and better in many respects than MySQL, but even there I have problems thinking of things that Postgres does better than MSSQL, though there are a few. There's just _so much_ MSSQL does and so much it does right, and the stuff it does wrong is generally getting fixed (no more XML PATH, they finally added STRING_AGG!!!).

But if they're happy with what they're got, well, it'd be silly to spend the money on an MSSQL license.

IME, MSSQL is pretty google-able - that's really how I learned it. Do you have any specific problems with its googlability?
Makes sense for the title to reflect the article content, but isn't it normal for the measurement to be updated several times after such incidents? I thought it was based on estimates from nearby locations, with full data only arriving and being analysed after several days. I often see multiple different numbers, and separated by more than 0.1.
> Even if you only take 2-3 trips per year it already makes sense to get the 25% or 50% discount cards.

I'm not sure how you're calculating that, but when my wife did the math she ended up ditching the 25% card because it would have only been profitable for her if she took at least one trip a week.

I guess you're thinking ICE (inter-city high speed trains) not RB (regional transport)? I guess at >€100 per ride the numbers work out but most "normal people" I know think of ICE as equivalent to travelling by plane, i.e. something you may do for vacations but very much out of the ordinary for regular travel.

> in my experience only people travelling with DB once every one or two years are complaining about it

I take a two and a half hour commute roughly twice a week (in addition to a daily tram commute of half an hour or so). There's no direct route and one of the two stations isn't serviced by ICE.

I could take an ICE to the interchange station but that would barely save me any time due to the long transfer wait, so instead I'm travelling by RB or RE.

The trains haven't been replaced in ages (I'd say on average at least one door is out of order on every train I've used). The RBs often don't even have working toilets. Outside periods with extremely light traffic there is generally not enough seating to accommodate all (2nd class) passengers (though 1st class is nearly empty because there's no practical difference between 1st and 2nd class service outside ICEs).

And of course trains are routinely late or delayed. Delayed trains often add insult to injury by being delayed further when they have to wait to be overtaken by an ICE. So because I know I have to switch trains I always plan for an hour longer in case I miss a connection or end up having to switch trains again.

Let's also not forget that unlike with long distance busses, "WiFi" doesn't mean "Free WiFi". There's only WiFi on the ICE and it's decidedly not free (nor significantly better than cellular) and requires you to jump through hoops if you're not already a Telekom customer (which seems anachronistic in the times of Freifunk & co).

I'm very happy that UK's National Express recently started servicing two lines in my region (RE7 and RB48). Their trains are brand new, they waste very little space on first-class seating (which is still enough for the few people travelling first-class on REs and RBs) and they provide wall outlets for charging laptops and mobile devices.

DB's ICE lines may be somewhat laudable (though still disappointing compared to the Thalys) but DB Regio's service is ripe for disruption.

Let's also not forget that DB has a track record of letting stations and infrastructure fall into disrepair to cut costs, especially the smaller stations not serviced by ICEs or ICs (which btw, look about as vintage as Locomore).
> Slow? Okay, we don't have as much high-speed rails as France, but e.g. Hamburg-Munich (775km, once across the whole country) is 5:40h, while traveling by car is ~8h.

You don't have real high speed at all: 775km is more or less the same as Paris-Marseille and that's 3h20.
I assume it shares the same insane licensing model. I genuinely do not understand how people put up with that (outside of enterprises that normally overpay for everything).
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It does now :)
I can only think he is joking when he says he develops software using Python. Yes, you can connect to a remote computer via SSH or use a an unofficial (and non-free) Python port. Noawadays developing software also involves using IDEs... just in case the author forgot that part.
Two things the iPad Pro completely replaced for me:

- TV
- Wacom Tablet

For most people it is a 100% replacement for everything they do on a computer, if they get an external keyboard.

Prior to the iPad Pro, I used my iPad exclusively for a number of months thanks to remoting in to my desktop. It slowed me down a bit, but it wasn't bad and I got a lot of work done during that time.
could you cite an example?
I stopped using automatic anti-viruses.

SPECIALLY AVG and Avast.

Last time I tried to use them, they immediately deleted without asking if I allowed it, 80% of my tools and binaries.

It is clear that anti-viruses on Windows are usually more dangerous than the viruses themselves. (in the end, the virus I wanted to track down, was in my router, not on Windows :/)
Anyone care to elaborate on how well it has aged? When I last used SQL Server in 2010, it was indeed pretty cool, especially the awesome ecosystem (SQL Studio, Reporting Services, graphical Query Planner, etc.).

Then I went to MySQL because my startup couldn't afford a database and it was a pretty large step down.

Then at the next startup, I got used to PostgreSQL and by now I'd have a pretty hard time to not being able to use JSONB, window functions or CTEs - made me realize how bad most other DB systems are by now. That is, except for a really nice GUI for PostgreSQL I'm a pretty happy camper by now.

How has SQL Server kept up in the meantime?
Even in creative fields. All those young actors spending years on underpaid bit parts on off-Broadway and low budget Hollywood productions. Most of them make less than an average blue collar job.

See also college athletes. A lineman at a top-tier football school in the U.S. ends up with all sorts of chronic injuries, possibly including brain damage. Very few of them make it to the pros. None are supposed to be paid at all except in kind for degrees, room, and board.
Why does "Docker and Heroku inherently cripple the value the Virtual Machine can provide" ?
It's not as dubious as you may think. Unless they are actively running their own power plants they have to source the energy from somewhere and they're naturally limited by whatever suppliers feed into the grid. As long as they offset the energy they consume with renewable energy being produced, they're net neutral.
I think I dislike underworking as much as overworking.
By the same token the amount of effort required to break not one but hundreds of thousands even millions of different home grown crypto becomes orders of magnitude higher.
I was under the impression that JVM, CLR and probably e.g. V8 are reasonably secure. I'd like to learn more about recent sandbox-escaping vulnerabilities in these runtimes. Got any resources?
That may be true, but many other countries are weathering the storm of falling oil prices just fine. Venezuela simply doesn't have enough of a free or business friendly economy to allow them to diversify enough. If Maduro came out today and said "all price controls are off, all taxes are cut in half, all business regulations are on hold for 1 year", things would rebound very quickly. It would take awhile to generate food but once that trains starts, to the extent that the government and crime don't interfere with it their people will have no problem finding food.
The last autocratic government in Berlin threw the towel 26 years ago. I'm pretty sure that not everything stayed totally static since then.

Besides, central planning and large public works projects might actually be a good approach when it comes to the public transport of a large city.
I am still surprised that the Japanese and Germans did not figure out their codes had been broken.

There must have been a lot of people who had suspicions.

But consider: for many years, US citizens who talked about ECHELON were considered crazies. Later, Bush's enormous surveillance expansion was mostly denied or dismissed. The 2016 Russian hacks of the DNC and the propaganda machine were brought up on national television during the debates. Yet there was denial, dismissal, and very little concern.

Without a plan for responding or reacting, denial is a very appealing way to deal with upsetting news. The Germans and the Japanese who were in a position to suspect that their communications had been compromised were also embedded in a totalitarian military chain of command, more focused on preserving the relative power of the people at the top than anything else. Questioning the efficacy of the system is easily cast as disloyalty. What could anyone do?
4. The US had some other means of tracking subs.
This looks a lot how many Arabs write using Latin keyboards.

Example : "أهلاً بكم", becomes "ahlan bekom"

I find it a cook 'quick-an-dirty' trick to start speaking/writing with locals without worrying much about proper grammar (which is EXTREMELY complex)
No, the point is that vulnerabilities in MRuby (the scope of this bug bounty) are now less impactful for them.

They are still paying for them even if you don't have a sandbox escape, but less because it's. Ow less critical for their security.
I was going to ask "why?" before I read in the overview the reason being helping non Arabic speaking learners of the language. It still defeats the purpose of learning a language to be able to read literature written in original script and communicate in writing with the language readers. The only case where I see this useful is when verbally communicating using words memorized using this Latin script as tourists do when visiting a foreign land.

As an Arab I also hope that the motivation behind this is not ideological. Like how the Turkish language was transformed to use a Latin-based script system.

Edit: As of the claim of it being useful to Arabs, please no! Arabs when use "Arabish" tend to use it badly with no vowels making pronouncing words hard and sometimes ambiguous. The "Arabish" trend was popular in the 90's (in the infancy of Internet or at least Internet penetration) and has declined dramatically in the 2000's. Arabs lazy enough to not write in Arabic script would also be lazy enough to not learn the proper usage of this Latin script.
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Could you please -- by way of the principle of charity -- assume that readers here know what electricity is?

1) It does not help the German people if green energy is generated in Norway or someone puts up a solar panel in the Sahara if they get to breathe emissions from coal power plants.

2) Any overly complex scheme is likely to be gamed. Any German household can order "Öko-Strom". I don't believe for a second that enough real "Öko-Strom" is available to fulfil that demand in a legitimate manner.
Very funny
It kind of baffles me that the only long distance trains that are still being done on European scale are prestigious high speed trains (usually connecting Brussels to X) that are much more expensive than plane tickets or anything else really.

I wouldn't mind to take a trip to Paris from Amsterdam in a slower train for 20-30 euro, but this is really impossible unless you spend almost a day piecing badly connecting trains together.

Especially when it's slightly more entertaining with draft beer, coffee, wi-fi and such.
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By the way, those keys (or at least the content they protect) are subpoenaed on a regular basis, so…
This, exactly. It takes me at least two and half hours, though generally more like three hours (if I don't miss a connection) to travel the same distance that would take me an hour and a half by car. ICE is great if you want to e.g. travel from Cologne to Berlin to Munich, but that's not what the majority of train trips in the nation look like.

Even Flixbus etc offer a better and cheaper experience.
> Would you prefer three of those five people being engaged in a riot and the other two, on gov't payroll, beating the shit out of them?

I'd prefer them doing something productive instead of standing around wasting tax money.
Nobody is secure against their home country government, which has the power to both:

-- Mount black bag attacks on your premises.
-- Snoop the networks of internet service providers.

On the other hand, most or all of the following are true of my keys-to-the-kingdom email account (the one from which most other passwords can be reset):

-- It is very unlikely to be hacked by any information guesses of my password, social engineering of my "secret question" information, shenanigans with my mobile phone, etc.

-- It is with a provider who seems less likely to get hacked than even Yahoo.

-- It has security that would be hard to brute force.

-- It has a unique password that I don't use on other, more vulnerable accounts.

Even so, I assume that all my communications are available to the US government, at least by after-the-fact subpoena if not actually real time.
Do we have a name for reverse Poe's law yet?
By the time statistical evidence could have grown strong enough to shine through the careful layers of deception, they were far to busy not noticing that they were losing the war to notice that they lost the encryption battle. In a world of believers, only traitors quantify bad news.
...the conventional encryption techniques are also potentially widely exploitable by state-level actors.

That really depends on how you define "conventional encryption techniques." As is so often the case, this proposed line of attack isn't against the crypto proper, but against habitually poor implementation details. Human laziness, really. They're not picking the locks, they've found a way to steal the keys.
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> a continuous wave function is equivalent to a countably infinite vector space

I think you mean that the function is a point in the vector space. More precisely, it is a point in a particular separable Hilbert space, i.e., a complete vector space equipped with an inner product that has countable, dense basis.
or send the signal to other less well intentioned parties who see the value of owning vulns to popular underlying libs
I don't understand your remarks at all. In your first paragraph, you establish yourself as someone who believes that women deserve equal treatment in the workplace.

Yet you spend the rest of your remarks trying to destroy her credibility, and I think this hurts your credibility much more than it hurts hers.

>> The tone of the blog post leads to a lot of skepticism in me about the veracity of the events.

>> The contradiction is glaring, and she throws around these words pretty thoughtlessly without thinking how it reflects on the believability of her story.

>> Another pet peeve of mine is that she conflates misogyny with sexism.

>> Many men and women are sexist.

>> Very few are misogynists but they are sickening and scary, and need to be eradicated by any means necessary.

>> This was laughable, and also reflected poorly on the author.

>> It seems like she doesn't have a high EQ

Remarks like this make it almost impossible for me to believe that you really think women deserve equal treatment. Your post spends most of its time trying to invalidate everything she wrote by means of character assassination.

What gives?
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Crypto-breaking hardware is very different from your average server farm. The best crypto-breaking algorithms are parallel, and you need to spend a few hundred million dollars on a suitable ASIC setup to brute force 128 bits symmetric crypto. https://cr.yp.to/snuffle/bruteforce-20050425.pdf

While the likes of Google Amazon and Facebooks may have that much hardware, they most certainly don't have that much crypto breaking hardware.
So it isn't really functional at all. It just hides the side effects behind a lot of complexity.
Languages (or language families) that are influenced by Arabic (Turkic family[0], for example) `interpret` Alexander as such, albeit with slight modifications (Iskender[TR], İsgəndər[AZ] and so on). If you listen to the pronunciation[1] of Alexander in Arabic you could witness that this is indeed the case.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkic_languages

[1] https://translate.google.com/#en/ar/alexander

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Hi from Argentina. We change money every 10-15 years, so we are use to strange things.

This is very strange. When we change money we usually have a longer period while both kind of bills are valid.

For example, now we have two designs of the ARG$100(US$7) and ARG$50(US$3.5) for political reasons and two designs of the ARG$10(US$0.7) for security reasons. They are used together and the ATM can provide any of them at random. The two ARG$100(US$7) bills have coexisted since 2013 and there is no problem.

We also have ARG$2(US$0.15) bills and coins since 2011 without problem. Actually all the ARG$2(US$0.15) bills are very old and not very well conserved, so you must treat them carefully to not destroy them, but you still can use them.

So it's very fishy that they are forcing to put all the bill in the bank with a in a extremely short time. I suspect something shady like a Corralito, but I still can't discard plain stupidity. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corralito )
That's quite a big if. Okay, under the assumption that the energy industry is always honest and never games the system, we have true green energy.

I don't understand why people here try to explain very basic things that just don't work out in the real world as they would in a 9th grade math textbook.
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no. it's up to locomore to join, they just don't want to. same with HKX, in the beginning they didn't want to join, eventually they did.
It's strange to me when someone says they only know backend or frontend. Does that mean they literally never worked on the other side, like not even knowing Javascript or other language?

I've never worked as a developer and learned how to make apps for my side projects, so from the start I had to learn a bit of both. Obviously not as deep as someone who calls themselves exclusively a front or back end developer.

Does just knowing one side signal that you only do development for a job?
The only thing the privatisation originally did was eliminate DB's accountability and allow them to cut costs like infrastructure maintenance. I think the mistake was to turn a state monopoly into a private monopoly.

I'm still not convinced privatising infrastructure like rail passenger transport is better than socialising it and at least on the communal level I'm convinced socialised public transport would be a better approach (i.e. treat trams and roads equivalently). But DB only really cares about their high speed trains, so it's good to see someone try to improve the rest.
True. I heard India did it with a notice of 2-3 hours.
There has been a command-line client as long as I can remember (OSQL.EXE first, and later SQLCMD.EXE).
My problem with Rosling is that he furthers one of the problems with our modern discourse; the assumption that a given dataset inevitably leads to one conclusion. It's not true. I wish it were but it isn't.

The same statistics about mass incarceration of African American males in the US that leads me to conclude that we have an issue of systemic racism leads far right people to conclude that African American males have an inherent tendency toward criminality. I would call that a gross misrepresentation of the data, but it is what happens.

Rosling, in my mind, is guilty of misrepresenting some data, and I'm sure in his mind my conclusions based on the same data are equally ill informed.

But Rosling tends, for me, not to make convincing arguments. He tends to throw up some graphs and say "Look! It's obvious we should do what I say!!"
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I ask similar questions if somebody says he/she is python expert. failing that is not an immediate issue, but i would continue probing by asking other questions on this level.
to figure out what the "expert" label means according to my own experience.
I'm not ignoring password problems I didn't make any mention of passwords one way or the other. You seem to be ascribing views to me that I just didn't state, I'm guessing this is you assuming my world view, a common issue with Internet discussions.

I didn't say passwords were good, I said that people often overlook the weaknesses of managing SSH key based deployments. key proliferation is a real issue and as passphrases on SSH keys are susceptible to offline attack, without very strong passphrases they can present a risk. Also in my experience centrally managed key rotation and expiry is rarely included, thus the risk that if a key is compromised, detection/revokation/re-issuance are hard.

To provide some background I've been an IT security professional for 15 years, I know the ups and downs of various authentication mechanisms, I was just pointing out a rarely noted downside of SSH key based auth. given you seemed from your comments to view it as an unalloyed good.
While the GC will run under load, the JIT is treated as a luxury and as far as I'm aware, it will only run when there's spare CPU (it makes sense to not interrupt the program while it's busy).

If you follow the Build -> Test cycle, the JIT won't kick in (the JIT will run about 10 seconds after heavy load, even while it's running).

It's true that the JITted code it cached, this is lost every time you rebuild the application/ library). Speaking of cache, one thing I only came across recently is that if you install the library into the GAC, the JIT seems to be even more aggressive - the code runs faster than a standalone DLL (even with identical stress-testing/ wear-in).
It kind of baffles me that the only long distance trains that are still being done on European scale are prestigious high speed trains (usually connecting Brussels to X) that are much more expensive than plane tickets or anything else really.

When I travel for work within Germany or just to a neighboring country, I want to get to get from A (which happens to be near Stuttgart) to B as fast as possible. Taking a plane from Stuttgart is even faster, but since climate change is real, I am now trying to avoid flying as much as possible. Hence, Deutsche Bahn. Going by high-speed train is also very comfortable if you reserve seats and do not have to transfer often.

I should also point out that if you book timely, you can often get German train tickets very cheaply at the 'Sparpreis', which starts at 29 Euro. When we had less money, we would often reserve tickets in the minutes after the 'Sparpreis' became available.

tl;dr you can travel cheaply in German by high-speed train. You just have to plan your trip and book tickets timely.
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There is a difference between questioning someone and proceeding with the investigation to ascertain proof and actions if necessary. One assumes there are concerns that need to be looked into, the other one implies the accuser is lying ... the former is good faith and the latter is dissuading someone from proceeding.