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Not the parent, but obviously they refer to the online schema migration problem. Without that online schema migrations are basically impossible. Or you get handed the burden of implementing or finding a tool that does it for you.

And yes, pt-online-schema-change[1] is such a tool, but for MySQL. MariaDB has this feature built-in with their `ALTER ONLINE TABLE` [2].

So something similar for Postgres would be godsent.

[1] https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-toolkit/LATEST/pt-online...

[2] https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/alter-table/

Don't know why I got downvoted but ok I guess.

Does that mean that every 18 months you'd have to rewrite your app in the newer angular version? And if not, what does it mean?

You answered neither to my nor your immediate parent's post.

NSA benefited from companies having access to people's data. Those companies were doing their job for them, for free.

That is _everything_!

So what did we achieve with our superior capitalistic systems when it comes to fighting one of the worst threats to our species?

Look, I ain't a communist, but I ain't in favor of capitalism either. What I know is that cheerleading will get us nowhere. We need to critically think about our course as a human species and if you think we're on a proper trajectory, think again.

A branch points to the tip(last commit) of a particular timeline.

Is it unfinished or did I miss a clue?

I've never been at such a company and I hope I never will.

When a member of your team can't perform because he's not given the proper resources(access, help, info, etc), it should be your number 1 job to find out why is that the case and do everything in your power to rectify that.

One could argue that it's your only job actually.

Surprisingly good. No account required, no limit on number of people, good screen sharing, works everywhere(because web-based).

From time to time I revisit the GNOME dektop to assess if it's a viable alternative to my KDE.

What I still see is random, incoherent apps, meshed together, with the worst possible default values set, for each one of them.

Also the idea that half-baked and ultimately broken extensions, could provide basic functionality that should already be present in the first place, didn't do them any favors. Even the plugin/extension installation mechanism is broken!!

The general lack of configurability doesn't help either.

There is an equivalent article from Ars technica, if "theregister" isn't to your liking.

As for the evidence on routers and Internet infrastructure, you should pay more attention to leaks of state-sponsored tools, like the equation group leaks and the CIA one.

Yeah indeed, they have backdoor-ed every ISP, nation, router, HDD, what-have-you in existence and these people keep telling boogeyman tales.

Tsk tsk tsk. How tiresome.

`pip list –format=legacy | egrep '^(acqusition|apidev-coop|bzip|crypt|django-server|pwd|setup-tools|telnet|urlib3|urllib) '`

This incorrectly lists `urllib3` or the `cryptography` package for example, which are perfectly valid packages.

[UPDATE]

Read "tobltobs" comment below. I incorrectly removed a trailing space from the regex.

Amazing

Challenge accepted :D

Scientific fact 1: methadone doesn't alleviate the addiction. It actually feeds it to the point that it increases the patient's tolerance at which point you have to increase the dosage.

Scientific fact 2: methadone doesn't provide the "high". Totally true. That's why the vast majority of patients seek it elsewhere(alcohol, cannabis, etc).

Scientific fact 3: Life-long methadone users have relapses more than once. Most clinics/doctors supporting methadone brush it off as "it's quite normal and logical".

Scientific fact 4: innumerable people have been able to kick off opioid addiction by following long-term(but not life-long) therapies.

General fact: You'd be hard pressed to find a drug, other than methadone, that has been so controversial in its usage.

More facts: these panels of "experts" don't provide evidence that long-term recovery doesn't work, but they opine that "hey, methadone is the best, true story.". Show me data, show me science ;)

Isn't it way too convenient for the drug industry? Has it ever happened before, I wonder?

Isn't it weird that heroin addiction in US has increased because of the gratuitous opioid prescriptions?

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/29/us-heroin-us...

You can survive without it for starters. Not the case with heart medicine I guess?

If you saw people, with the same condition as yours, having a good quality of life without medicine wouldn't you not wonder if that could apply to you too?

In the case of drug addiction, I've seen many people successfully kicking off the habit in months and living a perfectly healthy life, as if almost nothing happened.

Life-long methadone users? Not so much. I can tell that people really think it's different from heroin but it's not really. It's just regulated. Think about it ;)

Next thing would be for Arch to officially support SELinux and we're good to go :D

> Most AUR packages I have seen have been incredibly easy to read

It's not about quality, but rather more about quantity. I don't have the time to vet every package.

In contrast with AUR without which you don't have much of a useful desktop experience.

Definitely not when it comes to security. We are talking about packages, which means even legit, well-intended programs can be weaponized by the packager.

That's a hell of an attack vector.