I think the difference is when I was growing up there was no WWW (there was an Internet, but we weren't aware of it). So reading material was pretty easily distinguished between fiction and non-fiction. If I was reading something and I don't know who the author is and what their credentials are I would assume it was fiction.
I have teenagers and am an online instructor for a university class (mostly late teens/early 20 year olds). I am consistently amazed at how readily "that" generation accepts anything they read on the internet. It's like they have no filter. I've tried imparting critical thinking skills to my own teenagers, but it doesn't seem to stick since just about every day they relate some new "fact" they learned on social media that I have to correct.
The ice is melting, global temperatures are going up... It seems like the perfect time to create a creature with "subcutaneous fat, long shaggy hair and cold-adapted blood".
Wait, was there a math test that I was supposed to take before visiting Slashdot? Because I missed it. I certainly don't already know this stuff. Then again I don't know much beyond Algebra 1 (and there I don't know much beyond x +1 = 5).
Why do you doubt this? Where I live in the US we can do absolutely everything except connect the electric/gas/water lines to the public grid. That connection has to be done by a licensed professional. But once you get past the public interface I can do anything and everything (as long as I have a permit - but those are dead simple to get). If you have any kind of technical aptitude it is dead simple to read and understand the codes and learn how to do all your own plumbing, electrical, etc. work. Have you met the guys who are "professionals"? If those people can learn to do it then so can I.
Yeah, I don't know. My brother is a union electriction, but prior to that he went to college and worked as an editor for a major newspaper. He decided that he didn't like working in an office and after doing a ton of research decided that becoming an electrician was the best thing for him. He reported that he was shocked at the idiots he trained with and worked with. His advice to me was to read up on it on my own and do my own work instead of assuming any union electrician has an IQ above that of a gnat (himself excepted of course;-) Now then, if the electrician has an electrical engineering degree, that is another matter.
"australia: yeah we don't even trust our kids to cross the road" Uh, duh? They are likely to run into about 50 deadly insects/reptiles/mammals while attempting that!
Different parts of the US have different laws, but where I live you can do anything you want, except for running natural gas lines, as long as you have the right permits (basically you tell them what you are going to do, pay some money for the permit, and let them inspect it when it is all done).
That hasn't been my experience. After using Oracle for 15 years (and having consultants like Burleson tweak our database many times) we have moved to Postgresql. Our experience is that Postgres is as fast or faster than Oracle in every instance.
It turns out this is harder than I would have thought it would be. We determined last year that we needed to move off of Oracle to Postgresql (this is just one database for one website that has been hosted on Oracle since 2001). I have been working full-time since last April to make that happen and the project still isn't done. We mainly decided to switch for monetary reasons, but there have been a lot of benefits. Postgres's documentation is head and shoulders above Oracle's. We've found that many things, such as creating a hot-standby replicated database, are far easier in Postgres than Oracle. We've found that our queries are running the same speed or slightly faster. The main thing that has been taking so long is Postgres is so much more strict than Oracle. It's kind of like the difference between strict and dynamic typed languages. I've been rewriting bits and pieces of tens of thousands of SQL statements to get them to work on Postgres. Here is a list of some of the differences between the two:
replace nvl with coalesce
replace rownum = 1 with LIMIT 1
replace listagg with string_agg
replace recursive hierarchy (start with/connect by/prior) with recursive
rewrite the method of doing case/accent insensitive queries.
replace minus with except
replace SYSDATE with CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
replace trunc(sysdate) with CURRENT_DATE
replace artificial date sentinels/fenceposts like to_date(’01 Jan 1900’) with '-infinity'::date
remove dual table references
replace decode with case statements
replace unique with distinct
replace mod with % operator
replace merge into with INSERT... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE/NOTHING
change the default of any table using sys_guid() as a default to gen_random_uuid()
oracle pivot and unpivot do not work in postgres - use unnest
ORDER BY NLSSORT(english, 'NLS_SORT=generic_m’) becomes ORDER BY gin(insensitive_query(english) gin_trgm_ops)
replace UNISTR( with U&’
Oracle: uses IS NULL to check for empty string; postgres uses empty string and null are different
PostgreSQL requires a sub-SELECT surrounded by parentheses, and an alias must be provided for it.
any functions in the order by clause must be moved to the select statement (e.g. order by lower(column_name))
In terms of websites the culprit is mobile first responsive design. The interfaces are designed to work well on phones and tablets and to be good enough for desktop machines. So they are designed first to work well with fat fingers and good enough for keyboards.
I am almost never in a place where I would feel comfortable talking aloud to me phone. Should I get up and go somewhere private to talk to my phone, or just stay here and use the screen? Hmm, that is such a tough decision.
I know you're joking, but just to be clear I didn't mean "what is the the difference between x and y" but "how much different things are this time around!"
How different is this than when Obama was first sworn in 8 years ago. I remember reading so many comments about his "getting some" from Michelle that night. Trump on the other hand (pun intended)...
It has to do with how much it costs to replace them. Fast food workers are paid little since they can be replaced with anyone off the street. Despite what us plebes might think, the same doesn't hold true for people at the CEO level. Thus their outrageous salaries.
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It should, but in my experience it doesn't. The youth I interact with take just about everything as non-fiction.
I think the difference is when I was growing up there was no WWW (there was an Internet, but we weren't aware of it). So reading material was pretty easily distinguished between fiction and non-fiction. If I was reading something and I don't know who the author is and what their credentials are I would assume it was fiction.
I have teenagers and am an online instructor for a university class (mostly late teens/early 20 year olds). I am consistently amazed at how readily "that" generation accepts anything they read on the internet. It's like they have no filter. I've tried imparting critical thinking skills to my own teenagers, but it doesn't seem to stick since just about every day they relate some new "fact" they learned on social media that I have to correct.
The ice is melting, global temperatures are going up... It seems like the perfect time to create a creature with "subcutaneous fat, long shaggy hair and cold-adapted blood".
Wait, was there a math test that I was supposed to take before visiting Slashdot? Because I missed it. I certainly don't already know this stuff. Then again I don't know much beyond Algebra 1 (and there I don't know much beyond x +1 = 5).
You're doing it wrong. After lunch is nap time.
You haven't read much if you think that is probably the most traumatic thing imaginable.
I see them fairly frequently, but they are still rare enough that I do a double take when I see one.
What? Who cares about Earth's oxygen on the moon! I just want a moon base!
Just one more way we are polluting the environment! The EPA needs to get on this stat!
Actually, maybe NASA could convince people this is a legitimate problem so they will get behind funding a moon base.
Why do you doubt this? Where I live in the US we can do absolutely everything except connect the electric/gas/water lines to the public grid. That connection has to be done by a licensed professional. But once you get past the public interface I can do anything and everything (as long as I have a permit - but those are dead simple to get). If you have any kind of technical aptitude it is dead simple to read and understand the codes and learn how to do all your own plumbing, electrical, etc. work. Have you met the guys who are "professionals"? If those people can learn to do it then so can I.
Yeah, I don't know. My brother is a union electriction, but prior to that he went to college and worked as an editor for a major newspaper. He decided that he didn't like working in an office and after doing a ton of research decided that becoming an electrician was the best thing for him. He reported that he was shocked at the idiots he trained with and worked with. His advice to me was to read up on it on my own and do my own work instead of assuming any union electrician has an IQ above that of a gnat (himself excepted of course ;-) Now then, if the electrician has an electrical engineering degree, that is another matter.
"australia: yeah we don't even trust our kids to cross the road" Uh, duh? They are likely to run into about 50 deadly insects/reptiles/mammals while attempting that!
Different parts of the US have different laws, but where I live you can do anything you want, except for running natural gas lines, as long as you have the right permits (basically you tell them what you are going to do, pay some money for the permit, and let them inspect it when it is all done).
That hasn't been my experience. After using Oracle for 15 years (and having consultants like Burleson tweak our database many times) we have moved to Postgresql. Our experience is that Postgres is as fast or faster than Oracle in every instance.
It turns out this is harder than I would have thought it would be. We determined last year that we needed to move off of Oracle to Postgresql (this is just one database for one website that has been hosted on Oracle since 2001). I have been working full-time since last April to make that happen and the project still isn't done. We mainly decided to switch for monetary reasons, but there have been a lot of benefits. Postgres's documentation is head and shoulders above Oracle's. We've found that many things, such as creating a hot-standby replicated database, are far easier in Postgres than Oracle. We've found that our queries are running the same speed or slightly faster. The main thing that has been taking so long is Postgres is so much more strict than Oracle. It's kind of like the difference between strict and dynamic typed languages. I've been rewriting bits and pieces of tens of thousands of SQL statements to get them to work on Postgres. Here is a list of some of the differences between the two:
replace nvl with coalesce
replace rownum = 1 with LIMIT 1
replace listagg with string_agg
replace recursive hierarchy (start with/connect by/prior) with recursive
rewrite the method of doing case/accent insensitive queries.
replace minus with except
replace SYSDATE with CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
replace trunc(sysdate) with CURRENT_DATE
replace artificial date sentinels/fenceposts like to_date(’01 Jan 1900’) with '-infinity'::date
remove dual table references
replace decode with case statements
replace unique with distinct
replace mod with % operator
replace merge into with INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE/NOTHING
change the default of any table using sys_guid() as a default to gen_random_uuid()
oracle pivot and unpivot do not work in postgres - use unnest
ORDER BY NLSSORT(english, 'NLS_SORT=generic_m’) becomes ORDER BY gin(insensitive_query(english) gin_trgm_ops)
replace UNISTR( with U&’
Oracle: uses IS NULL to check for empty string; postgres uses empty string and null are different
PostgreSQL requires a sub-SELECT surrounded by parentheses, and an alias must be provided for it.
any functions in the order by clause must be moved to the select statement (e.g. order by lower(column_name))
You mean like Firefox? I use Firefox on a daily basis (I still prefer Firebug over Chrome's developer tools) and it works great. YMMV
In terms of websites the culprit is mobile first responsive design. The interfaces are designed to work well on phones and tablets and to be good enough for desktop machines. So they are designed first to work well with fat fingers and good enough for keyboards.
I am almost never in a place where I would feel comfortable talking aloud to me phone. Should I get up and go somewhere private to talk to my phone, or just stay here and use the screen? Hmm, that is such a tough decision.
10 points to [whatever house spiritplumber belongs to]
I know you're joking, but just to be clear I didn't mean "what is the the difference between x and y" but "how much different things are this time around!"
How different is this than when Obama was first sworn in 8 years ago. I remember reading so many comments about his "getting some" from Michelle that night. Trump on the other hand (pun intended)...
How does a shark gain asexual reproduction through experience?
She _learned_ it did she? Hopefully the same book that taught her about asexual reproduction doesn't have a chapter on lasers.
It has to do with how much it costs to replace them. Fast food workers are paid little since they can be replaced with anyone off the street. Despite what us plebes might think, the same doesn't hold true for people at the CEO level. Thus their outrageous salaries.