How does one balance the humors in their blood, when blood itself is one of the humors?
Leeches? Leeches.
golden_zealot
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An oil company which had an MS access DB and a form configured for it with no checks for formatting that would insert the fields of the form directly into the database, and then if they wanted to make a change, they would export the entire database as csv, open it in excel, make changes and use that to overwrite the entire database.
This had been going on since some time in the 1990's. They finally wanted to move to a modernized databasing/operations solution which is what my company does.
I successfully cleaned 75% of that data, however it took 37 regular expressions and a script that was about 800 lines to account for every possible mis-entry, incorrect format, and merging fields if they were empty from newest records to oldest records until the fields were no longer empty where possible (essentially collapsing the records together to get as much data on each unique object which may have had N records over time through the database).
It is UN-BELIEVABLE what actual businesses get away with.
Debian. For the sweet, sweet, rock stable-ness.
That's funny you should say that, because that's EXACTLY what I did due to the above issue.
It's one of the three days I work from home per week. Having gone from a shift work job where I had no idea the hours I'd be working (on a 24 hour schedule, so often over-nights) without knowing what days I would be working until about a week ahead, to only needing to go into an office 2 times per week and knowing for certain I have every weekend off has been really nice.
Haha, I have an ok amount of data tucked away on disks as well, but I have a huge appreciation for people who do collect data as a hobby. In the contemporary, I fully believe that having people who take it upon themselves to do this is more important than ever, even thought it is often a thankless thing to do.
So in this case, I would throw a thank you your way for doing that!
Yes, I have no argument to the contrary on that.
You are very welcome.
Don't trust uncited information. I am sure we do not have nukes. Look up the nuclear nonproliferation treaty for Canada, we not only don't have any, but haven't stored them for any other country since 1984.
You can begin here as a starting point:
I am certain we do not. Do you have a citation?
We don't, I don't know where the guy above got his info, but we ratified the nuclear nonproliferation treaty in 1969 and then completed deconstructing/removing them in 1984.
Someone can post citation otherwise, but I have lived here my entire life and remembered the articles from when they were all decommissioned.
As far as I know, we haven't even stored nuclear weapons or relevant systems for other countries since we had some belonging to the US at CFB Goose Bay in Labrador. We had them removed as part of our stance against nuclear arms in 1984 as well.
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Indeed, and welcome to you.