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In an Enterprise, you almost never buy 'a database'. There's a solution/application that you buy, that will have a supported DB backed (usually Oracle or MSSQL). That solution is mostly picked on business capabilities and functionality. The technical component is only one aspect of the requirements, which cover business capabilities/features, technical fit within existing environment, data migration/compatibility, vendor support, vendor credentials, the amount of training required, the amount of business change needed, etc.

These projects often cost $10m+, once you factor in the technical implementation and integration, business process changes, training for business staff, training for IT staff, transition costs, etc.

So if you want to argue that the business should get the solution that fits their requirements the second best, because the 'best' one has an Oracle backend, you had better come up with a shit-hot reason that can't be solved with 'hire a couple of Oracle engineers'.
Seems like there exists a win32 hdparam port

http://axh.mbnet.fi/hdparm-win32.html

Fwiw hdd spin up / spin down is an ACPI function and you might want to research ACPI tools to see if that's possible using these tools.
Until external forces turn these monoliths into heavy liabilities and block adaptability.

Another important factor is today's engineers are tomorrows architects.
Not 100% true, there are plenty of instant book properties on AirBnB which do not require any interaction between host and guest before the purchase.
> Trump is banning visa and Green Card holders from returning to the States. This is notably different.

From a foreigner's standpoint, that isn't notable at all. In fact, it's nothing more than closing a loophole.

When the US government specifically dictates that a kind of foreigners are banned from entering US soil, the exceptions to that rule doesn't change the rule or even the spirit of the rule.

The US government wants those foreigners off their land, and that's it.

I agree that it's a silly rule, but it wasn't implemented overnight.
Trump supporter here.

Get less of us to vote for him in 4 years.

Pick objective ideologically-neutral metrics that we can all agree are good for the country when optimised. Focus on these.

Things like GDP growth, unemployment, child mortality, life expectancy, crime rates, terrorist attacks, etc.

If unemployment is going up, GDP growth is faltering, and there are continued terrorist attacks, then he will certainly lose support.

You need to test your beliefs with objective facts. And these tests need to be applied equally to avoid bias.

Everyone is susceptible to bias. You should have some objective measures for which you would admit Trump was good for the country. If you don't have these, then you are not be rationale.

The President has a job with performance targets, and if they are not met they are gone.
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Knowing how to work around weird quirks caused by bad UI design != Knowing how to use a computer.

The wifi-switch on the side of laptop is a classic one (or even worse: fn+F7). While i personally do appreciate having a physical switch for it, how is an average user supposed to know that my laptop has a magic switch that can turn on or off the internet when the only error message they get is "Connection error". This is the type of error that can have so many fault sources that it should have a checklist that the average user can easily go through themselves. Now if such a list exists and the user doesn't have the attention span to read it - then they don't know how to use a computer.

Simply using linux doesn't teach you how to use a computer. Unless you are interested in knowing why certain things work and can troubleshoot yourself, using linux will simply teach you how to use linux.
Vouching parent comment. The last time I looked at Postgres, I was really happy to see that BDR was now doable without a patched Postgres. But, I believe transactions affecting multiple tables didn't fully work yet.

Postgres is my preference over MySQL/MariaDB, but I wouldn't have pushed for it back when I worked in traditional corporate IT: Stability, and having a third-party to blame, really wins there!
You mean the account of someone who clearly works in the tech industry and has stumbled on cool things companies have done once or twice? Because that's all I see from "[looking] at this account"
Dare I guess that these people generally get paid minimum wage?

> Tech companies don’t like to talk about the details of content moderation, so it’s difficult to judge how well they’re caring for the psychological health of moderators.

The number of such stories which include said companies declining comment (not this one, but anecdotally that's how it seems to be) is kind of a red flag though.
> corporations change is slow because there are significant sums of money invested in people and procedures.

That said, IBM DB2 is very much in the same boat.
In the extremely unlikely event that CA actually attempts to secede from the States, I'd say there is a non-zero chance that WA and OR will probably come with.

That ends up being about $3,000B of GDP lost, and more importantly, it means that the US no longer has a west coast. The implications of all that go well beyond that as well. I think there is a very real chance that a second civil war would break out as a result. The States wouldn't want to lose the West Coast and it seems super unlikely that they'll just let it happen without some kind of intervention.

All this is contingent on CA actually making a move to leave the Union though, which by itself is very unlikely.

I guess we said that about Trump presidency a year ago as well, but here we are...
Ubuntu actually only keeps the current and the previous kernel as necessary and give the user the option to purge all the old kernels. These old kernels will be marked as autoremovable and by setting a flag in unattended upgrades config you can make it autoremove those. On desktops this happens automatically.
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See also: https://twitter.com/courtneymilan/status/825393465995456517

Most EOs in the past (incl Obama's) have been about relaxing laws, not inventing new restrictions.
> then it takes a hardcore Stalinist

Hyperbole like this is what makes those arguments ridiculous.

Or perhaps you don't know what Stalinism, Socialism and Communism is and see it everywhere, like witches in the Middle Ages
No you don't. Ubuntu's default partition map is one big / and one efi(if necessary).
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New rule: if post starts with "this is not a hyperbole", the chance of it being hyperbole are >95%. So far confirms very well.
Illegal immigrant?
http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2017/01/29/indian-american-who-...
I used this to increase cardiovascular and lung efficiency and volume. Start at 3-1-3, then progressively train to go to 3-2-3, 4-1-4, then 5-2-5, etc, inserting shortened (say 3-1-4) but deeper inhales or skipping the hold when getting short on breath. Inhaling has a natural tendency to slightly increase your heart rate while exhaling does the opposite, so the trick helps a lot in getting in control of a racing heart.
In Germany a completely black traffic light has no meaning, rules are as if it wasn't there. Most traffic lights have the usual signs for priority roads for this situation.

But a broken traffic light is a situation that is unfamiliar to drivers, and at peak hours the crossing is guaranteed to be either difficult to navigate or to have suboptimal traffic patterns (otherwise there would be no traffic light in the first place). And of course pedestrians have to improvise (and Germany has a lot of pedestrians compared to the US)
Thing is, what guarantee does your opponent have that you will care about muslims when there is a democrat in the White House?

It's like a game theory problem. Rhetoric becomes meaningless: there needs to be a track record that shows that you cooperate.

That's why hypocrisy is invoked in the debate; rather than an argumentative tool, I see hypocrisy accusations as "flags" that say "I can't cooperate because of your low credibility"

If this sounds harsh, I sincerely apologize.
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Wow.

So your great-great-grandparents moved to America, killed most of the local population and now you think you own the place? The USA is made of immigrants.

The sad thing is, those with the most options, who pay the most taxes, will do just that. They'll take their expertise and productivity and contribute them somewhere else. And the racists will congratulate themselves on how smart they are while the country continues its crumbling slide into fascism.
Ha, I interpreted the yellow line crossing as a timed fallback.
Yes because that didn't happen, check the dates and profit reports.
More than you know.

The CBP was ignoring the court ruling in some airports (Dulles, at least). Federal Marshals were called upon to enforce it. https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/825571882586013696 (and others.

This is a true constitutional crisis, the worst in at least several generations.
> If you’re telling a programmer that a particular piece of source code simply “does not work”, then you should no longer consider yourself a programmer.

I found this article unnecessarily rude. Sounds like someone got grumpy after answering too many SO posts. I agree with what others have said: If someone says that, either they are inexperienced and you can teach them some useful debugging skills, or their brain is on fire and you could try to be more helpful than sending them away.
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> This is a discussion of a likely illegal, unconstitutional, dehumanizing, and ill-considered executive order that affects the lives of many people on HN and related to them.

It is also a policy which was specifically supported by a significant portion of the US electorate to the point that a presidential candidate managed to win the US presidential elections by promising just that.

Additionally, it appears that the same policy was already implemented by former US presidents, except with some nuances regarding current visa holders.

As a non-US citizen whose career may quite possibly involve emigrating to the US, I can tell you that regarding these immigration issues the only thing that actually changed with Trump is this newfound sentiment against the US's immigration policy, which quite frankly appears to be motivated solely by an unwillingness to accept the outcome of the US presidential elections.
I dare say anyone who plays a musical instrument does exactly this. I for sure do not explicitly count the bars when playing (save for some longer pauses) as it would only get in the way. On the surface it seems to work fine via feedback from hearing myself/others playing, movement (fingers/arms/body) while playing etc. Not that much different to counting out loud to be honest (just another feedback channel).
I am not sure why this posted here, but I found it fascinating. I understand a little better why writers are the only unionised "creatives" in the film and TV industry.
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Anti-Trump person here, although not from the US.

The majority of America has made it very clear they do not want this fascist to be their President and the only reason he got through is because of Russian hacking our election to try and throw our country into chaos

While it is extremely clear that Russian propaganda helped Trump, it doesn't explain now the Republicans ended up with majorities in all houses, and also have a majority of governors.

I think Democrats need to confront some hard truths: The popular vote means shit (because CA and NY). Pretending otherwise means nothing.
Both MySQL and PostgreSQL have commercial entities backing them. Funnily enough, MySQL's is also Oracle.
You are clearly advocating for something beyond a more appropriate processing of green card and visa holders.

In fact you seem to be arguing that the US has some sort of obligation to accept millions of immigrants, refugees, and 'undocumented migrants' because ...? The US hasn't had an open border policy like that for over 100 years. Freaking out about Friday's policy changes with overwrought and hyperbolic language isn't very persuasive towards a different policy.

There is a very reasonable argument based on due process that the administration's implementation of these visa changes was bungled terribly and that it will create some considerable hardship for people in-transit or out-of-country. I hope that this situation gets quickly addressed and that the administration takes a bit more care in its administrative logistics going forward.
I found that more often than not, instead of trying to impose rhythm on the breath, observing with genuine curiosity whatever the current rhythm is (deep or shallow? short or long?) and focusing on the feeling of the breath itself as well as assorted bodily sensations such as the chest raising and falling does wonder to calm down. A gentle letting-go of resistance fares better on the long run towards acceptance and relief than downright coercion, which can have a nasty swing-back boomerang effect.
He is being tough. Promoting America first. He did what he intended to do.
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True, but I think you may be underestimating the need for a public company to grow in order to survive in its current form.

Relentlessly squeezing existing customers that have no way out will only get you so far.
What do you mean? There's a producers guild, screen actors guild, musicians union, AFTRA, and like a dozen others. It's a heavily unionized space.
I've always thought the same about our complacency.

But if Trump makes a habit of "sending in the Feds," as he's threatened to do in Chicago, I don't see that ending peacefully. Maybe not actual civil war, but certainly violence.

And I think it would have some official local backing too, as cities and states tell the "Feds" to GTFO. If it's the Army, it becomes a constitutional issue, and I don't see Federal law enforcement being big enough to make a Trumpian dent.

And as for a civil war, it doesn't have to be about secession. I don't see why I should have to secede just because there's an ... I don't know what to call him, in the White House. If there were troops quartered on the high school soccer field across from me, I'd definitely be walking over there and asking them "Man, WTF? Is this what you signed up for?"
I think that a key explanation of Oracle success is that the complexity of their database administration has created a generation of full time jobs: DBA. These people are like salesman working for Oracle to defend the future of their job. They are well paid, but this cost nothing to Oracle. At the opposite, Oracle can sell training.
A word of caution about him: I spent some time recently researching into his method, and there were too many red flags coming up.

These included not summiting and having to be evacuated in poor condition from mountains that he was claimed to have climbed (often the claims are not made by him directly, but also not contradicted by him). Having run a half-marathon distance while a full marathon is claimed. And acting evasive in interviews, while seemingly trying to hide it with excitement.

On the plus side he does hold documented world records in withstanding cold -- although his twin brother that has not trained is also reported to have higher than normal ability, but I didn't find details about it. He has also participated in a scientific study about his method, although the results of it are exaggerated by his followers.

The breathing method/trick itself is hyperventilation followed by long periods of holding the breath (a trick I suspect most kids will discover at some point). He claims that this somehow charges the body with oxygen and has various amazing health effects.

As far as I can tell (without medical training), the actual effect is to suppress the CO2 level in the blood. This disrupts the automatic breathing reflex which is driven by the blood CO2 levels, allowing you to hold your breath for extended periods. This is the same method used by free-divers, and many people have drowned after passing out due to lack of oxygen (including people specifically following the Wim Hof method).
Oh, I'd be inclined to believe anyone with an ounce of experience in the area over me!

That said, after another hour of research, I think I got it now :) I think I wasn't wrong, just my point about the judgement was totally moot. The deportation issue only arose because when the executive action came into force there were already flights with confirmed passengers (either in the air, or soon to leave). So they'd gone through the pre-flight checking under the old rules, but landed at immigration under the new rules. But the way of enforcing the action will be to prevent people flying in the first place. Passport details are required to be sent to DHS before a passenger boards a plane to the US, and have been for a long time, nothing new there. And DHS routinely prevents people flying at source. So the deportation issue shouldn't arise for new passengers (modulo edge cases like someone on a transatlantic cruise who'll ship up in New York at some point). So if I'm now right, the journalists are correct, this judgement will only apply in practice to those who are currently being detained for deportation.

But again, I'm happy to emphasise that I have done roughly 2 hours of online reading in this area now :) I'm posting here to try and figure it out, not to claim expertise!
People also feel it's "unfair" when they don't have any options for establishing their track record today. They don't have 8 years to build up credibility, and they hope to instead convince people of their good intentions verbally, mortgaging their supposed future protests against Democrat-era abuses.
I think you overestimate how often most companies changes their web fronts.
They are really struggling with the cloud.
This isn't going to help Oracle at all.

They might be able to stick around for a while because their legacy system is everywhere. But....
I really wish there was.

I did forensics for a couple years, working with the police force to access and/or recover incriminating evidence.

I really, really wish that a machine could replace a person in that circumstance. And to a certain extent, it is possible.

One of the really unfortunate parts of the process, is to know a video is incriminating, someone at some point has to see that video.

It was part of my job to analyse and catalogue the evidence I recovered, such as saying who was in a video, and what happened to who inside it.

ML will hopefully take over this at some point, but it is difficult for a computer, at this stage, to tell if say, penetration, is involved.

It's moving in that direction, and that is absolutely fantastic.

No person should be required to witness this crap. Hopefully, we can offload it to something that can, one day, be better than us at it.
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True but if they raise prices too much people will dumb.

How many Oracle ERP users have made the move to the cloud? Very few.
"That solution is mostly picked on business capabilities and functionality."

Exactly - cost of support/hosting/licensing the relevant database is a factor but, in my experience, it is a pretty small part of a large ERP or CRM implementation.
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> Also the problem isn't the "amount of power", the problem is using that power badly.

Actually, the problem is precisely the "amount of power".

You can't grant someone the power to do something and then proceed to assume that no one could actually do it.

If it's supposed to be impossible to implement, don't build the tools to do it.
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Mine has most of that. before i started it was 6 months between alerts. 1 day off and 1.5 to 2 times the alert period and recovery period with good mins and good people.

the only downside is a small rotation (3 people 1 week each) and some serious scaling issues which have made the pervious few months much worse than earlier ones. though we also have management buy in to fix the less than good parts.
I would dare say nothing of worth being done stop child abuse anywhere in world would compounds the effect of being exposed.
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Here's Dijkstra arguing the case well:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EW...
Please try to be more substantive in your comments. The equivalent of "+1" or "me, too" doesn't add much to the conversation.
"explain what business capabilities it aligns to"

Well, that is rather the point of buying a large complex business application - it has to align with business processes!!
I hope you have read the entirety of my comment because I explain why I see things that way.

I did not claim Obama was a saint, but his record on this specific matter is already far better than Trump's.

P.S. the downvotes for the parent comment are unwarranted.
Dual citizenship with one of the listed countries and another country (including close allies like UK and Canada), not dual citizenship with the US.
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I recently bought an XPS 15 with a 4k display. I have a 1080p external display but there are horrible scaling issues on linux because the two displays have different dpi.

So I'm considering buying a 4k monitor and I can't find anything affordable (~$300) (I'm in India).
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> Is skipping the context switch enough to make a meaningful performance different?

Only in (very) high-bandwidth cases and (maybe!) for low-power cases. For most things it's just added complexity for no benefit.
Since when are diversity and multiculturalism part of our fundamental values?

There's certainly an argument to be made that diversity of thought and behavior has a net positive effect on society.

However, it's become apparent that the dogma of multiculturalism is causing major problems where a certain religion is concerned. We'd be foolish to ignore this fact.
Two centuries of peaceful transfers of power? How time flies: I would never have guessed that it was 2065 already. :-p
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If you do this please then release the % of users who've been told "you've been chosen to host a Muslim refugee" and have accepted ;^}

It's easy to pretend you're hospitable and generous when you're not paying the toll of your actions. You're not providing "free housing", the actual owners of the houses are. This is a unilateral announcement because you don't know if hosts will accept.
There's this by Yahoo:

https://github.com/yahoo/open_nsfw
Oracle is much better at handling huge amounts of data. Oracle also has support for all kinds of really niche features that are really important to some people.
It will be fun if Oracle is investigated relating this practices