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Re:Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020) by cpa on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @05:10AM (#26709723)
Funfact: PQ is short for toilet paper in French So libpq always cracks me up. But then again there's a theorem prover called Coq (which is indeed pronounced as you imagine, it means rooster) and it's been named by French researchers at INRIA!
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Re:Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020) by zdkl on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @05:13AM (#26709753)
libcaca, also french: http://caca.zoy.org/
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Re:Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020) by gonzus on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @12:35PM (#26713984)
Ok, let's talk about this... pico, the editor and SI prefix, means "dick" in at least some Spanish-speaking countries... Source of endless nerd jokes.
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Re:Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020) by mst on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @04:54PM (#26717265)
Not to mention the (un)surprisingly low sales in spanish speaking countries of the car known as the Vauxhall Nova ...
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Re:Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020) by brandmeyer on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @12:16PM (#26713735)
As an American, I feel like I have to deliberately mis-pronounce 'coq' the theorem prover like 'coke' the soda.
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Re:Things I hate about PostgreSQL (2020) by ironmagma on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @03:36PM (#26716396)
Same. It really doesn't help that their logo is skin-colored and the shape that it is...
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