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  If I want to support both SQLite and Postgres, do I have to resort to having two parallel sets of scripts basically? Is there a way, inside a .sql script, to determine which database backend I’m running and branch to at least keep the parts that differ in the same file? #LazyWeb #SQL #SQLite #Postgres

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  @grimalkina@mastodon.social my copy is digital, so maybe not as colorful as other folks, but I like the form factor (though I’ll eventually need to do something about the DRM)

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  Can you explain this gap on your resume? I sure can! So these blocks are custom commands that end with \par\addvspace{0.5em}, that means you’ve got whatever \topsep and \parskip are plus half the width of a lowercase m, then the \topsep again going to the next block. Now, you’re probably thinking that I should give the layout engine some room to play…

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  Har-har-har, LockTite, the Blue comes in a red tube and the Red comes in a blue tube. That’s not at all confusing or problematic in anyway.

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  In desperation: can one sweeten their coffee with powdered sugar?

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  @blogdiva@mastodon.social when John Roberts—may he suffer forever—killed the VRA, it was part of the record of facts that there was an upheld challenge, lawsuit, or VRA-required modification to state law an average of once a week in a 25 year period during which the VRA was active. “I wanna talk really quick, some numbers that Ginsburg's dissent has, that I think are interesting, that go to how much progress has or has not been made that, again, the majority opinion doesn't really deal...

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  @oantolin@mathstodon.xyz Lay’s Linear Algebra.

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  @catsalad@infosec.exchange in this attention economy?!

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  Generic food product. Made with Real Cheese *soto voce* solely as a reference

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  @whitequark@social.treehouse.systems :OhNoBubble:

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  @molly0xfff thoughtful of them

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  Ugh, hot water heater needs a part replaced and the service techs told us not to use it. It’s spring in a temperate region; hot water is non-optional. Adding insult to injury, this warning only comes after I opened unit to figure out whether there was a leak inside out the tech you did the flush a week back merely failed to seat the condensate sediment drain properly (which leaked on the junction box the unit gets power from, alerting me to the problem with nice, cold groundwater temp “hot” wate...

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  “The fediverse is exclusionary and insular…” Yeah, we’ve got some inclusion issues. Black people writ large kinda bounced off because of technical and social moderation issues… “… which is why we should be more open to AI enthusiasts!” What. The. Fuck. No. (This is not an actual quote, but an invention of a type of post going around.)

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  These are the vibes I’m looking for(!): https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/ https://wandering.shop/@Longwing/115352240515901756 https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor/115280474092247001

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  I guess we’ll start here with a statement of values. Abortion should be not just legal, but free. Trans rights are human rights. Gay rights are human rights. Black Lives Matter.

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  RE: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/116142376731755195 I’m a coward or this would push me to wear nail polish just to be ornery about the imposition of restrictive gender presentation standards (that don’t impact me personally because I present my cis-maleness in ways they find totally acceptable).

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  Me: why won’t these cool people on Bluesky bridge to Fed? Also me: there’s no fucking way I’m bridging to Bluesky.

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  @jmax@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop you go door-to-door. “Hello, *checks paper, clicks tongue and trills*, as you know, it’s March and the dread-lord demands skulls. We’re going around the stellar neighborhood, asking if you have skulls and whether we can take them off your hands. Naturally, we’ll deflesh them, even extract them from living beings if you’re squeamish about that sort of thing…”