Yes, we use ORM frameworks, but we find that sometimes you still need to write direct calls.

My hope is that Postgres and MariaDB could become as dominant in this space as Linux is in OS, so that the Open Source community could force this kind of convergence.

My biggest grip is that every RDB engine seems to implement its own SQL dialect, if only there was a true adherence to one SQL standard this already would help to move the industry forward.

I dream of a world where you can dump a model from one RDB and import it into another without having to make extensive modifications.

All very good points. This site just keeps getting milked as a cash cow.

I think /. prepared me well for all the social media that followed.

I just wished other mediums would have adopted its moderation system.

Because it is possible for the reactor to become critical and therefore self sustaining.

Not if you only have actually sub-critical fuel mass, and drive the reaction via spallation neutrons. You may not like that design, but you cannot claim that it does not exist when there's an entire demonstration reactor in Belgium.

*revival

I really could not care less how deniers feel about the term. It's descriptive, and as I stated I ignore them. Waste of time to engage.

And yes, nuclear is important, as well as finding ways to get CO2 out of the atmosphere, preferably in a way that makes the most commercial sense. I'd like to see more along these lines:
https://www.dezeen.com/2021/06...

I didn't write that is is the worst, but that it is a life and death problem. It also happens to amplify all the others (increase in zoonosis, forced migration, political instability, famine etc.)

I'm not seeing anyone denying global warming. I'm seeing people with greater concerns on their mind.

Lucky you, I've started monitoring alt-right sites to better understand the ugly underbelly of US politics, so I see them a lot.

But they are fortunately not a majority, which is why we can ignore them in a functioning democracy (albeit the US barely qualifies).

At any rate, I agree that nuclear is an important component and there's fortunately a rivaled of this sector underway, exploring sub-critical designs. This is my favorite

If the pandemic shows us anything then it is the awesome ability of many folks to deny medical science and facts.

As with the pandemic, global warming is a life and death question, and trying to convince the deniers is just a waste of time. Time that we don't have.

We can no longer afford to cater to them. They will simply have to be ignored.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/...

The Chinese billionaire behind the GETTR app it is a very unsavory character:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020...

That's where I stopped reading.

I don't mandate anything, you are free to do what you want I just want to have to deal with your disinformation.

So please move along.

Engineers should know better.