#surpriseoftheday #bookrelated #notpoliticalatall #amreadingleighbardugo #ninthhouse #amreadingfantasy #booksky A girl in Manuscript "ate something at one of these parties and decided she was a tiger . . . That girl's parents still have her in a cage in upstate New York."

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#Trump: "I'm not happy with what Putin is doing. He's killing a lot of people and I don't know what the hell happened to #Putin. I've known him a long time ... we're in the middle of talking and he's shooting rockets into Kyiv and other cities. I don't like it at all. I'm surprised

Only in first week of living in #Moncton #NewBrunswick after relocating from #BC

Today's #SurpriseOfTheDay ... being able to buy individual cans of beer at the grocery store. I got a couple of cans of #NB #Moosehead, which is perfect cause I like an occassional beer but a 6 or 12 pack is wasted

Eh?

TIL that in PL/SQL datatype RAW is a subtype of VARCHAR2?

So I can't overload functions with two variants with respectively RAW and VARCHAR2 arguments -> calls can't distinguish between them...

How does PL/SQL then handle that RAW is binary without collation/charset/etc?

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Chambers dictionary definition of decimate

I had to look up its definition today, as I totally expected my trusty Chambers dictionary to include the modern 90% destroyed meaning…

Which isn’t in there at all, other than under a “loosely” line

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