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Re:Getting AI to write good SQL on Saturday May 17, 2025 @01:22AM (#44012224)
Google may be getting AI to write good SQL, but they aren’t getting it to write good blog posts.
Re:Fraud, so much fraud on Saturday September 28, 2024 @02:31AM (#41678332)
You can’t fake human clinical trials.
Re:A chemist explains the chemistry behind decaf coffee on Friday July 26, 2024 @01:32AM (#41076025)
Definitely not worldwide, Colombia has a plant doing EA decaf
Re:Mp3tag – The Universal Tag Editor on Friday May 24, 2024 @06:54PM (#40471200)
The Discogs integration is a great feature. I’ve checked out musicbrainz but it’s no where near as complete for the music I listen to.
Re:Mp3tag – The Universal Tag Editor on Friday May 24, 2024 @06:52PM (#40471189)
Not on Mac. Absolutely worth it though
Re:Pharmaceutical giant Bayer is getting rid of bosses on Sunday April 21, 2024 @02:06AM (#40103495)
Your stakeholders?
Re:Aho – a Git implementation in Awk on Sunday February 11, 2024 @12:10AM (#39332797)
One case I saw it used was for processing genomics data. It was kinda ok at first but when we needed to add a new sequencing type it was laborious.

Personally I don’t think awk is a good choice for anything beyond one liners and personal scripts. Here it was fine because it was (initially) some write-once academic code that needed to not be insanely slow.

Re:Aho – a Git implementation in Awk on Saturday February 10, 2024 @09:24PM (#39332149)
I’ve seen enough awk behemoths in my time, no thanks.
Re:We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres on Friday February 02, 2024 @01:27AM (#39225715)
I definitely agree that using a tool like Fivetran is generally needless complexity when FDWs would get the job done.