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he literally did, definitionally he launched a failed coup. At the very least an attempted insurrection.

He did the same thing Hillary did in the election before that.

complete disinformation, hillary contested the results, which is a thing you are legally entitled to doing (she later retracted that statement publicly) trump has NEVER once retracted his statement, he STILL says it was stolen.

dont let the defenestration allegations hit you on the way out

well then you better hope DJT goes first i guess, because that statement does not meet the logical extent of that circumstance.

wild way to spell russia.

yeah pretty much this, linux just cooks. You gotta let it in the kitchen first.

Also, you might want to consider openscad if you have some adventurous students, it’s quite intuitive if you understand programming syntaxing, and relatively clean and minimal. I’ve long been put off from learning something like freecad because the UI is just an utter mess and has no clear utility to it, but something like openscad is MUCH more accessible to me, even though it may be more restrictive in the long run, having the ability to use it is probably beneficial.

Like i’ve said before, and like i’ll continue to say until people like you and me make a significant dent in this problem, you need to teach kids how to use the things you want them to use, if you don’t teach them linux, they won’t know linux, if you do teach them linux, they will know linux, it’s literally as simple as that, and why anybody is surprised by this baffles me, it should’ve been obvious frankly.

The feeling of being “a real hacker” seems to be very motivational for the youngsters.

kids love to learn, they are literally built for it, they have a high level of neuroplasticity, you just need to give them the tools, the resources, and the ability to do so, and they will do it.

yeah, that sounds about right, ok i think we’ve figured this one out now. lol

i’ve said it time and time again, the second you simplify an interface, it lessens the bar for entry, we’ve only done this over the last 20 years in tech, it should be no surprise that people who never have to use C drives, don’t know what the fuck a C drive is.

QUICK INDOCTRINATE THEM INTO THE LINUX MASTERRACE!!

worth in the sense of “i am a human being who is alive and conscious” yeah, but outside of that, no, go get em tiger, climb the leaderboards.

i mean, your monetary worth will quite literally fluctuate, your social worth will also do that as well, same for most other worths.

… That’s what I said, you’d just update the row, i.e. replace the existing data, i.e. overwrite what’s already there

u were talking about not keeping historical data, which is one of the proposed reasons you would have “duplicate” entries, i was just clarifying that.

… I don’t think you understand how modern databases are designed

it’s my understanding that when it comes to storing data that it shouldn’t be possible to have two independent stores of the exact same thing, in two separate places, you could have duplicate data entries, but that’s irrelevant to the discussion of de-duplication aside from data consolidation. Which i don’t imagine is an intended usecase for a DB. Considering that you literally already have one identical entry. Of course you could simply make it non identical, that goes without saying.

Also, we’re talking about the DB used for the social security database, not fucking tigerbeetle.

On June 25, 2011, the Social Security Administration changed the SSN assignment process to “SSN randomization”,[36] which did the following:

The Social Security Administration does not reuse Social Security numbers. It has issued over 450 million since the start of the program, about 5.5 million per year. It says it has enough to last several generations without reuse and without changing the number of digits. https://www.ssa.gov/history/hfaq.html

evidently they must be doing something else on the backend for this to be working, assuming there are quite literally 100M numbers, which is going to be static due to math, obviously, but they clearly can’t be reassigning numbers to 3 people on average at any given time, without some sort of external mechanism.

There are approximately 420 million numbers available for assignment.

https://www.ssa.gov/employer/randomization.html

that certainly doesnt seem like it would support several generations, possibly at our current birth rate i suppose.

DDG AI bullshit tells me that there are a billion codes. https://www.marketplace.org/2023/03/10/will-we-ever-run-out-of-social-security-numbers/ this article says it’s 1 billion

https://www.ssn-verify.com/how-many-ssns

this website also lists it as approximately 1 billion.

based IT admin

evidently they still did, cognitive dissonance is a hell of a thing.

man i love when random lemmy people who are on NSFW instances comment in random languages under my posts, shits always funny.

Also, elons remark is stupid as is. Im sure the row has a unique id, even if its just a rowid column.

even then, i wonder if there’s some sort of “row hash function” that takes a hash of all the data in a single entry, and generates a universally unique hash of that entry, as a form of “global id”

Well, there’s not always a benefit to keeping historical data. Sometimes you only want the most up-to-date information in a particular table or database, so you’d just update the row (replace). It depends on the use case of a given table.

in this case you would just overwrite the existing row, you wouldn’t use de-duplication because it would do the opposite of what you wanted in that case. Maybe even use historical backups or CoW to retain that kind of data.

Elon believes that each row in a table should be unique based on the SSN only, so a given SSN should appear only once with the person’s name and details on it. Yes, it’s an extremely dumb idea, but he’s a famously stupid person.

and naturally, he doesn’t know what the term “de-duplication” means. Definitionally, the actual identity of the person MUST be unique, otherwise you’re going to somehow return two rows, when you call one, which is functionally impossible given how a DB is designed.

i hate when people use vague blocks of time to refer to something that we know with 100% certainty.

“YOU WILL NOT BE AWAKE SOMEWHERE WITH THE PERIOD OF APPROXIMATELY 12 HOURS FROM NOW, DO NOT MISS YOUR CHANCE TO DO SOMETHING TODAY”

are we talking like, once every decade, once every two decades, once a century? I gotta have a reference frame here.

i prefer my smut in the form of silly little games developed by silly little people on the internet who write silly little stories in their silly little games about silly little sexual adventures.

for all the idiots that downvoted this, it’s a joke, it’s a little thing called “word play”

the joke being “all right” as in, it’s all right, literally, not alright.