Hawke

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[–] Hawke 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think you’re right about the SEQUEL to SQL backformation but why would Microsoft enter into it at all?

The naming and origin of SQL happened back in the 70s, long before Microsoft did its work on porting Sybase to OS/2 in the late 80s.

[–] Hawke 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I guess I’m in the minority here calling it “et cetera”

[–] Hawke 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Every update moves me closer to switching Os entirely.

Dooo eeeet.

[–] Hawke 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is this a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation or does one of the laws take precedence?

[–] Hawke 10 points 6 months ago

Welcome to the fartzone.

[–] Hawke 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What bearing does his religion have on his skin color?

Does one have to be catholic to be a “true Mexican” or something?

[–] Hawke 20 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I agree with most of what you said but not It’s just the reality of the world we live in, plus many people have genetic issues that make it fairly difficult to lose weight.

It’s not just the reality of the world we live in. People were not this fat 30 years ago, let alone 50 or 100 years. And it is something we can change, if we cared to.

“Genetic issues” are too much of a crutch or a lame excuse. Yes that makes it more difficult, but it doesn’t make it impossible or justify not trying to get to a more reasonable weight.

But there absolutely should exist a segment of bicycles for almost every range of weights.

[–] Hawke 13 points 6 months ago

I’m assuming the parent post was referring to trans boys. Still a very small harm by the numbers, but a bit more important by personal impact.

[–] Hawke 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So strange to think of Ethel as a child’s name.

[–] Hawke 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Health & Safety.

[–] Hawke 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Heh, if you think Lenovo is bad and mac vs Lenovo is a bad choice to have to make…

…what do you put forth as the shining beacon of laptop mfgs? Cos it ain’t Dell, and it sure isn’t HP.

Who else is there?

[–] Hawke 1 points 6 months ago

That’s what most laptop OEMs do.

Dell is just “rebranded” Compal, Quanta, Clevo…

That’s not a bad thing and the ODM/OEM system is not anything new.

Sometimes the difference is just the badge, sometimes it’s firmware changes too, sometimes it’s completely customized to the OEM specifications.

It has varied a lot over time and mostly depends on how big the OEM is and proportionally how much time/effort/expense they want to throw at a particular design.

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