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mjbmitch

Re:Music for Programming (2011) on Friday December 13, 2019 @05:48AM (#21780597)
I somehow misread your post as saying you had "in-ear, bone conduction" noise cancelling headphones. What a sight those would be.
The precision is likely the default of whatever instrument recorded the timestamps. At this point, however, having to use VARCHARs instead of some native representation of ISO 8601 is entirely the fault of Oracle. It has been a published standard for over 30 years and should be directly supported.
Re:Github became the web's largest font piracy site (2017) on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @05:27PM (#20464219)
Distribution licenses are something people other than lawyers ought to care about.
Re:Robots.txt as a Security Measure? on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @01:32PM (#20404260)
If you're an adversary trying to snoop on port 22, why would you bother to respect the conventions of robot.txt to begin with?
Re:America’s Monopoly Crisis Hits the Military on Saturday June 29, 2019 @10:54PM (#20316059)
In case anyone hasn't heard about SAIC in a while, they now go by Leidos.
Re:Google brings nonbinary emoji to Android Q on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @08:47PM (#19864350)
I believe the poster was referring to the trend of casual messaging—not specifically chat—taking on more of a memic composition in the form of images, GIFs, and the like.
If you ever hop back into the realm of Java, take a look at Project Lombok [1]. It adds a list of helpful annotations for those sort of features.

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[1] https://projectlombok.org

Re:No Medium – Build Your Own Site, Please on Monday April 08, 2019 @06:33AM (#19603880)
I'm over here trying to find the island they all swam to.