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  • It seems that you need to get better. There are plenty of valid complaints against SQL, but your problems seem to be all due to lack of familiarity.

    No variables, no functions; Oh but you can do a CTE

    Yeah, CTEs are more expressive than variables. And as somebody pointed, every database out there supports functions, you may want to look how they work.

    UNION ALL, UNION ALL, UNION ALL… “There’s got to be a better way, surely…”

    What do you mean by a “better way”? Union all is a perfectly valid operation.

    And then you try put a MAX in a where and it won’t let you because you gotta pull all the maxes out in their own query, make a table, join them in, and use them like a filter…

    Window functions exist.









  • Once people start to openly justify the bubble by the rationality of the greater fool theory, they tend to pop very quickly.

    This time things are different in that there is an actual caste of people with infinite money that can only pop one bubble if they inflate another one (or if the government stops giving them money, but I wouldn’t bet on that). And there doesn’t seem to exist anything big enough to take all that money. So it’s hard to imagine the bubble popping mechanics working here.


  • marcos@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzJust how?
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    6 days ago

    I hereby propose we make a workforce to rename all the stuff named after Euler.

    It’s just horrible. What’s the difference between Euler’s relation and Euler’s ratio? What about Euler’s rule and Euler’s method? Do all of those only name a single thing? Who knows? Why does Google just replace half of them by their preferred Euler named stuff? Who knows?