simula67
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Comment · 8 months ago
RFC 4180 [1] Section 2.6 says:
"Fields containing line breaks (CRLF), double quotes, and commas should be enclosed in double-quotes."
If the DMS output isn’t quoting fields that contain commas, that’s technically invalid CSV.
A small normalization step before COPY (or ensuring the writer emits RFC-compliant CSV in the first place) would make the pipeline robust without renaming countries or changing delimiters.
That way, if/when the DMS output is fixed upstream, nothing downstream needs to change.
Comment · 10 months ago
I am glad to hear that there was someone who argued for the right course of action in the Amazon Prime organization. I don't know why this is not being fought by other regulators. I also paid for Amazon Prime, expecting to get ad-free content, and then they started to add advertisements. This may not be fraud, but it is definitely lowering my opinion of Amazon.
Comment · 1 year ago
> The bank is not printing money new money, no matter how many times this idea gets repeated by people who are, ironically, pumping crypto coins that were printed out of thin air.
It is now widely accepted that bank lending produces new money[1][2]
[1] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
Comment · 1 year ago
I hope they at least split Office and Windows into seperate companies. Hopefully, then we may get Microsoft Office on Linux.
Comment · 2 years ago
The worst part of it is that the "true Internet" is probably still out there, but we can't find it anymore. The search engines have gotten way worse over the years and we no longer have good enough filters to ignore all the nonsense.
Comment · 2 years ago
Even today, Perl is the only scripting language with more than 200K modules and no Global Interpreter Lock.
Comment · 2 years ago
While you may be able to create amazing experiences in JavaScript, JavaScript still has multiple problems:
1. It is inconsistent [1]
2. It does not have many features that programmers love and other languages have.
3. It has a community that holds different values from what other programmers value themselves.
If people want to continue development in JavaScript, they can. But since JavaScript has a monopoly on the (fairly large) 'frontend development for the web' market, there will always be attempts to find an alternative.
Comment · 2 years ago
Is there a Mac app to copy Windows' windowing behavior?
I want different virtual desktops to behave like they are different computers with a shared clipboard, i.e., I don't want to see apps from other virtual desktops showing up on 'Alt-Tab', dock bar to show all open apps, etc.
Comment · 2 years ago
It is unfortunate that the company that became incredibly successful, at least partly, because of the hackability of Linux and open source software is now actively working to suppress hackability.
I recently had to unroot my phone since it was too much pain. Almost all apps were constantly fighting to not be allowed to run. After a while, I had a variety of root-hiding modules installed on Magisk, and every time I downloaded and installed a new app, the dread was there that it would not work because of root.
War on General Computing[1] is here. For some reason, most people do not seem to care that they do not have full control of the devices that they bought with their own hard-earned money.
It is one of those rare cases where 'your choices affect my choices' and therefore not meshing with the idea that maximum individual freedom is always a good thing. Therefore, I don't think this can be solved by market forces- we may need some regulation. I think it would be fair to ask the companies to allow the apps to run on a rooted device so long as the user takes responsibility for any resulting losses. Any service provider should still be responsible for securing their own systems though.