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I'm quite relieved. From the title, I had visions of an incredibly tasteless joke coming... 
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That's what you get when buying European products, stick to American products 
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But proper chocolate doesn't actually exist in the US, does it?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Marc Clifton wrote: the reason I have to buy it
Yes, what is the reason you have to buy it ? Icing is just an easy mix of ingredients, and I suppose that the powder you bought also had to be mixes with somehting, so I am not sure why the predone stuff is any better ?
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So I looked up your link this morning. I am also listening to some music on youtube while working, and I already got not less than 3 video ads for Dr Oetker since then.
The Internet trying to drive my life choices, let them be small or big, is slowly driving me nuts... 
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Hello, Marc,
My name is Sheryl, and I can certainly help you with your question about Amazon recommendations.
But, first, let's verify your address, credit card number, number of pets in your house (or, if in the wild, you feed regularly).
Hello, Marc,
My name is David, and I can certainly help you with your question about Amazon recommendations.
Your question is about why you received a book recommendation after you purchased: European Gourmet Bakery Organic Chocolate Icing Mix, 11 Ounce - 12 per case ?
I understand that Sheryl spoke with you first, and I'm not surprised she escalated your issue: I know how disturbing it is to have someone question your sanity; it happens to me all the time. And, that Sheryl: well, she's into this "ketosis" thing that I think is a poor substitute for the lithium she really needs.
Marc, I'm not really supposed to reveal this, but, our personality-to-choices profile for you strongly suggests you resonate with a cluster we call "boundary pushers." That's associated with traits like: "question authority," "highly creative," "test the limits."
So, it doesn't surprise me that this book on psychedelics was recommended for you: in fact, nothing surprises me right now because I dropped 100mcg. of really great acid into my morning guava and goat-milk shake, and the moire patterns on my screen right now are turning into a picture of you, Marc.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Bill, Bill, Bill. It was a hyperbaric chamber they recommended, not hypobaric.
Software Zen: delete this;
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A few years ago, Amazon got this idea that I would be interested in lots of proposals for gay movies. Well, I am not. I don't mind gay culture; I have both colleagues and friends who are openly homosexual, and that is fine with me. But I don't see that as a good reason for Amazon to suggest gay movies - and anyway, how would they know? I was just puzzled about their ideas about my preferences.
I took several months for me to make the connection. I had bought a sizable pile of DVDs in one big order, and didn't get to viewing the last one for quite a long time. That was an Italian black-and-white "artsy" movie from the early 1960s, the story based on some old Hellenic mythology, with gods and demigods. Those demigods visiting earth wasn't excessively dressed up - that is not the style of hellenic demigods. And they were male. There was nothing in the story in the direction of gay erotics, just that more male skin was visible than in a typical modern US movie. So, says the wisdom of Amazon: Anyone who sees demigods displaying their skin, do it because of the homoerotic attraction.
Here in Norway, homophobics are the outcasts, more or less. Being labeled as a homosexual won't give you big problems, whether it is correct or incorrect. But there are cultures where such a label would be very stigmatizing. It if came out, it could strongly affect the relationship to your neigbours, maybe your work and evening activities (especially if you are, say, a teacher or instructor in evening activities for kids), your spose, ...
If you go to amazon.com to order a new computer book, with your friend looking over your shoulder, and the first thing that comes up is Amazon's six proposals of the day, "These movies might be of interest to you...", in some societies you would try to get that off the screen as fast as possible, and it would certainly be too late.
So I am happy that I am not living in such a culture. Here, I can tell the story, with a laugh, and invite the listers home to watch the movie. Those interested in Hellenic history, or possibly in Italian art movies from the 1960, might accept the invitation, and we would probably have a nice evening together. Maybe enjoying a glass of Italian wine.
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So I was wondering about Cosmos BD's Cassandra API and decided to check the Cassandra documentation as the Microsoft documentation is a bit sparse on Cassandra information.
Head over to the Cassandra website and find the documentation.
Getting started is all about installing and configuring, which I don't need as I'm using Cosmos DB.
So the next section is an overview of the architecture, sounds good!
Except that... Todo todo[^]
So maybe something about data modeling? Todo TODO[^]
And what the hell is this "Dynamo"? Todo todo Todo todo Todo todo[^]
Why do I have the Pink Panther theme stuck in my head? 
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It's an open-source project...
Probably an open-documentation too...
It is a kind of invitation to you to fill in the gaps... 
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: It is a kind of invitation
Not a very welcome one
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ONE
Only a single replica must respond.
TWO
Two replicas must respond.
THREE
Three replicas must respond.
QUORUM
A majority (n/2 + 1) of the replicas must respond.
ALL
All of the replicas must respond.
Reminds me of Blade Runner.
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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You've got a bunch of 'todo's. Better get to work! 
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On the other hand...
When typical open-source developers try to write "documentation", the result is frequently so that you wish they had never tried, but stuck to coding.
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It IS a programming question, but as I do not really want an answer (more interested in flame war  and your philosophy) I do post it here...
So... you have to set up in a system some online exams, including date and time of opening an closing... As the system interprets anything stored in the DB (a Unix timestamp) as UTC (good old practice), you send them UTC via the API...
You may be surprised, but it even works... until the move your clock, just we did last night... At that moment the server moves (automatically) and now it adds only 2 hours to the stored UTC, instead of the 3 it added at summer-time...
So in the DB is stored 9:30 UTC, which is 12:30 Local in summer time, but 11:30 in winter...
As we all learned, to store UTC is the best way to resolve timezone changes... except when it is not...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: As we all learned, to store UTC is the best way to resolve timezone changes... except when it is not...
The problem here is not on the display side, but on the data entry side. In the data entry side, there should be some way to check whether a series of appointments cross a time zone change. If it does, the series should be split into two series, one for before the change and one for after the change.
The same applies to a single appointment. If the time zone at the date of the appointment differs from the time zone at the date the appointment is made, the appropriate adjustment should be made when entering the date in UTC.
The only problems that can occur are e.g. when the start/end of DST is changed. In this case, a query + update will be necessary to adjust the affected appointments.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The only problem is, that it is not my system... It has no the ability to work with local time (which is the most logical way for us, as we do not move around and our system - that exports data - is always here in Israel)... It can not record under what timezone/DST the time was recorded... It do not have any information to make any corrections when timezone/DST changes...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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You're a software engineer; if you don't like the software you're given, write your own!
(This especially goes for O/Ses, office suites, and other software with thousands of man-years behind them...)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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You don't store timezone information at all?
Storing UTC is great, storing ONLY UTC is not so great...
What happens when one of the students or teachers travels abroad and logs in to the system? Do they suddenly get the times in their new time zone?
The EU wants to stop doing winter/summer time in two years, I just hope they stick to winter time (our actual time zone with long winters and short summers)
Of course when they do, all our software will break because of all the winter/summer time zone fixes in place
I worked on a travel system where a trip could take you -30 minutes if you crossed a time zone or if winter time kicked in
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It is not me... It is an external system... I have no control over it... That's what makes it so frustrating...
(In our system we realized that no other time than local time is logical for this kind of system so we record them as local and everybody is happy)
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: It is an external system... I have no control over it
In that case it's easy.
Go to your boss and tell him that whoever picked the external system is a moron and you can't fix this until you start getting some decent tools to work with
Bonus points if your boss picked the system.
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"Do they suddenly get the times in their new time zone?" But of course.
Or, the client should support "home" and "travelling" time zones if appropriate.
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