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Croatia - Hrvatska is another... BTW people in the Netherlands will say Holland as well... when the Dutch team play soccer, hup Holland (come on/let's go Holland) is a common chant (there are even songs with that name)
two not one... Zuid Holland and Noord Holland
Re:I've screwed up plenty of things too on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @12:33PM (#22300406)
Some of mine

Was testing code and pushed a file to FTP 2 days early... vendor picked up, processed file.. the people who signed up in the next 2 days were in the file pushed later... but the vendor already processed the earlier file so they didn't get their metro cards that month

Somehow managed to rebalance underlying components for a Trendpilot ETF monthly instead of quarterly... daily audit that compares the values on NYSE vs in our DB caught it.. lucky for me there was no money in it yet

dropped a table once at lunch time right before taking a bite of my sandwich... did restore table within 10 minutes , didn't eat lunch that day ... lost appetite...

In ETL tool hardcoded something to test.... left it there when running for real

Re:64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review on Friday February 07, 2020 @04:55PM (#22271437)
Most databases will use all the cores you can throw at it :-)

Not out of the ordinary to see a SQL Server query using 20+ cores for a query with a parallelized plan

Re:Null Values in SQL Queries on Monday February 03, 2020 @10:54AM (#22225249)
so?.. still not equal to anything, two unknowns are not equal

if null = null print 'true' else print 'false'

Re:Null Values in SQL Queries on Monday February 03, 2020 @10:40AM (#22225067)
Same in SQL Server.. this is documented behavior

Also a null is no equal to anything.. not even another null

This will print false in SQL Server

if null = null print 'true' else print 'false'

Re:Blue–Green Distinction in Language on Thursday January 23, 2020 @09:04AM (#22127573)
Interestingly in dutch oranje is the color but sinaasappel is the name of fruit in dutch.
Re:Battle of Alesia on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @12:21PM (#21993530)
See also Hardcore History Episode 60 The Celtic Holocaust https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-60-the-celtic-hol...
Re:You have to follow the recipe on Friday December 27, 2019 @08:44AM (#21891269)
Cooking is art, baking is science.

If you get the measurements wrong, your end product will be 'wrong' Cooking gives you ways to fix your mistakes.. (add water, cook it more, add spices etc etc)

Re:More trees reduce premature deaths in cities on Thursday November 21, 2019 @10:47AM (#21595275)
Wondering if teamtrees will plant in cities? https://teamtrees.org/
Re:Basic Social Skills Guide (2012) on Thursday November 21, 2019 @10:44AM (#21595228)
I would probably use unasked instead of undemanded
How about copying a $100 bill?
I have 3 kids in middle and high school in West Windsor NJ. The school gives each student a chromebook or you can bring your own (I believe BYOD that is only allowed in high school).. everything is done through google classroom + printed handouts....
If you are a DB developer, you can have a machine now that will have close to the number of cores on you prod/staging instance. A DB will use all cores available unless you restrict it
Re:Hard comp-fi reading list on Monday September 30, 2019 @12:55PM (#21117320)
And his latest book as well... Fall; or, Dodge in Hell. The book explores mind uploading to the Cloud from the perspective of Richard "Dodge" Forthrast, a character introduced in Stephenson's 2011 Reamde
See Project Drawdown https://www.drawdown.org/ click on View The Solutions to see the different things all of us can do in addition to planting trees
Re:High levels of oestrogens in the womb linked to autism on Thursday August 01, 2019 @01:38PM (#20586270)
ok..now I am confused which hand do you look at?.. On my left hand..index and ring finger are about the same.... on my right hand the ring finger is longer
Re:A $5,600 Electric Makeover for Old Diesel Cars on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @08:56AM (#20574014)
This is how Rimac started, by electrifying an old BMW E30 and making it the "green monster" https://newatlas.com/old-bmw-worlds-quickest-ev/24594/

The rest is history....

Re:Dropping in on Gottfried Leibniz (2013) on Thursday July 25, 2019 @11:17AM (#20526102)
Same in Croatia.. keks = biscuit (singular)

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