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`nice man cat` is a perfectly valid unix command

The past tense of “you snooze, you lose…” should be:

@alexgarciaxyz Brilliant, thanks! Also I guess since it's built on XSV, it'll use csv-index files if they are present? Though now I know what they are, I'm having trouble understanding why they're useful - they're not an "index" in the SQL sense...

@alexgarciaxyz So this doesn't just read CSV into a SQLite table - the CSV is read at query time, and re-read on each query? Totally makes sense if CSV is big and query is known - neat! Also any plans re open source license?

@alexgarciaxyz The link in the README that starts "See Introducing sqlite-loadable-rs" links to the wrong blog post I think!

@robpike For a moment there I thought you were getting your bandsaw advice from Sam Bankman-Fried.

@JosephMenn Loder didn't really celebrate unlawful violence? It does seem odd to leave that out. I'm a Post subscriber fwiw.

I know what it means to talk about the ordinal "ω + 1" || The natural numbers are

The greater Fediverse community is in store for a hard transition as the greater network transitions from “too small for anybody to care” to “financially worthwhile for professional disinfo trolls, spam farms, Grey-market adtech, and organized CSE groups.”

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This has a real Crazy Eddie's feel to it.
Taking an Uber ride? $199.99!
Need something from Walgreens? $199.99!
Want some office supplies from Walmart? $199.99!
A night at the W Hotel in South Beach? You guessed it -- $199.99!

RT @lrozen@twitter.com

These Santos campaign expenses all coming to $199.99 seems kind of dodgy. From hotel rooms, to meals and Ubers, each item listed as costing $199.99. via @mrspanstreppon@twitter.com twitter.com/mrspanstreppon/sta

🐦🔗: twitter.com/lrozen/status/1607

Some grumps about privacy discourse, where I'd like to see more discussion of the relative scale of the costs and benefits of actions people recommend for privacy reasons:
jefftk.com/p/privacy-tradeoffs

Useful test: don't join a Mastodon instance that doesn't let you follow raspberrypi.social/@Raspberry_ - defederated by many instances because they hired a policeman who had used a Pi to do police work in the past, and were then unapologetic about it.

techdirt.com/2022/12/12/raspbe

@sophieschmieg Mainly it's a good reminder that it's ridiculous to treat the name of a thing as the authority on what it is - cf also "antifa" or Democratic People's Republic of Korea

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