Stumbled upon the Null (SQL) Wikipedia article. Looks interesting. Will read.
Monthly Archives: October 2020
Catalogue of threats & vulnerabilities
Today I was referred to this catalogue of threats & vulnerabilities.
Guide to the Fediverse
I stumbled upon Guide to the Fediverse today. But I didn’t take the time to read it carefully.
The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux Kernel
This popped up on Hacker News today: The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux Kernel. I wonder if we can infer from this that AMD Radeon graphics cards are well supported on Linux..? I might buy one for my next workstation…
Australian Industry
I was trying to find a report on industries by market size but I wasn’t able to find what I was looking for. But I did find Australian Industry reports from ABS and List of countries by GDP sector composition which were both interesting.
Spreadsheet INDEX and MATCH
I don’t use spreadsheets much, and when I do it’s usually LibreOffice Calc, but today I came across Index and Match which described the INDEX and MATCH spreadsheet functions and that looked handy so I thought I might make a note!
Ontology, epistemology and research paradigm
A quick video explaining research paradigms: Ontology, epistemology and research paradigm. There is also a longer video on the same topic.
What Is A Paradigm?
I found this great video What Is A Paradigm? It talks about agent/victim paradigms and abundance/scarcity thinking.
The Internet in Real Time
Today while reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Compression I chanced upon The Internet in Real Time which is good fun. Not sure how up-to-date it is though…
Linux File Timestamps Explained: atime, mtime, and ctime
Today I discovered an article explaining Linux file system timestamps: Linux File Timestamps Explained: atime, mtime, and ctime; and a good thing too, because I always thought ‘ctime’ was ‘create time’, but not so! Turns out that ‘ctime’ is ‘change time’, similar to ‘mtime’ but apparently cannot be set from userspace. My investigations were prompted by my investigations info how `borg create` identified changed files.