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I found that today "bare metal" is used equivalent to "non-cloud". I think this is pathetic.


There is art in science, too.


It's a word without an agreed upon definition that keeps changing. One could probably argue there is art in everything humans do


Then 'art' is soul!


Define soul please


Dedication to a creation of some sort.


Do not forget mobility.


Yep, I get mobility work in pretty much every day. Generally at night after we've eaten dinner as a family, I'll do some mobility drills and foam rolling, etc., while we're doing other activities before bedtime.


What mobility exercises do you prefer? Any particular routine you can recommend?


Nobody is mentioning the elephant in the room: for sure many of the pagers where brought aboard commercial flights. So Israel seems to have an explosive that cannot be detected by the airport security, or they can confine usual explosives in a way that makes it undetectable by the standard means.


Isn't it the case that some explosives can only be detected due to the introduction of "taggants" at the production stage?


Seems in airports they’re trying to detect oxidizers? (Among other things) I can’t bring my hydrogen peroxide contact solution through security.


Is it that, or hezbollah goes out of their way to not take those pagers on a plane for opsec reasons? The latter would strike me as more likely.


sqlite-rsync is on the road.


I have no idea why this comment was dead and I vouched for it.

Just recently the `sqlite3-rsync` tool was added to SQLite and it does point-in-time backup, effectively.


For the non-GUI guys there is visidata.

https://www.visidata.org/


sc-im it's a true spreadsheet and with gnuplot you can do plots and charts.


That is not even close to being a spreadsheet.


The docs at https://www.visidata.org/docs/ seem to contain any trivially remembered functionality for what I think of from a spreadsheet tool. I'm not a power user and couldn't describe how to use pivot tables, for example. Are there low-hanging features you miss from that page?

I agree that this is not going to satisfy something like 80-90% of people who just wanted Excel because a TUI is a nonstarter. I do think calling it "not even close" is unfair if we were strictly talking about functionality.


> Are there low-hanging features you miss from that page?

It doesn’t mention ‘formula’, and that is something that the original had in 1979 (http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm)


It is unfortunately hidden under "derivative columns": https://www.visidata.org/docs/columns/

Use = with a Python expression. Not cell-based formula but column-based Python.


This looks more like a database interface and less like a tabular calculator.

Supposedly part of excels good design is it was always agnostic as to whether you're using it as a spreadsheet, poor man's database, or pretty table maker.


The new solid electrolyte batteries have around 450 Wh/kg, the old liquid electrolyte ones around 270 Wh/kg. Or less for LFP.


You seem shadowbanned and I had to vouch for this comment to make it visible. Your last comments seem ok, so maybe you want to mail dang (the moderator) about your account.


Thanks a lot. I had a suspicion about bring shadowbanned, but couldn't prove it.


"I had a suspicion about bring shadowbanned, but couldn't prove it."

Just look at the comment thread without being logged in. If you can see your comments - all is fine.


> Can’t we just store some data on disk and read / write from it when we need to? (Spoiler: no.)

I disagree. SQLite does a good job in uniting the 2 worlds: complex SQL queries with excellent data consistency and simple file(s). Although SQLite is for sure not the one size fits all solution.


> SQLite is for sure not the one size fits all solution

Nor is Postgres. PG is surprisingly versatile. E.g. with some extensions can be used as key-value storage (hashtable), document database, time-series db and so on. And it works quite well. Beyond "good enough" for many use cases. Added benefit, aside from having to run only one db-server, is that you can mix it: part relational, part document, etc.

But the PG versions nearly ever get as good as focused, dedicated solutions get. Which makes sense if you think about it: a team developing a dedicated key-value storage that does that and only that, for years, will always produce a better key-value storage then one bolted onto a generic RDBMS.

A practical example was where we used ltree extension to store ever growing hierarchies. We needed access control over subtrees (so that the X report for John only includes the entities of Johns devision and lower). While it worked in PG, it turned out that "simply replacing" it with OpenLDAP, which had all this built in, made it faster, easier and above all easier to maintain.


But SQLite doesn’t do concurrency on writing you lock the file. While other db engines deal with row/table locks concurrent connections etc.


Hint: TODO lists are just stripped down Kanban boards.

Maybe someone will find e.g. clikan more useful.


> and the mix is always better.

Mixing races or cultures is like mixing many colours: at the beginning you get interesting patterns, then a boring uniform brown.


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