09:0909:09, 8 October 2021diffhist+72
George MacDonald
I'd be tickled pink if Robert E. Howard cited George MacDonald as a major literary influence, but I just can't find the evidence of it.
6 August 2021
05:4905:49, 6 August 2021diffhist+10
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Dining philosophers problem
I had read "Each fork can be held by only one philosopher" as meaning that -- "Each fork has an owner, and only the owner of that fork can hold it," -- so I added "at a time" to clarify that the forks don't have owners.Tag: Visual edit
23:5623:56, 10 December 2020diffhist+1
Branciforte Adobe
The obituary reads, "She and husband Joe Kimbro bought the termite-infested property in the late 1970s, preserved it to the best of their financial abilities, and lived there for about 10 years." -- so it was the 1970s, not the 1980s.
01:4001:40, 2 December 2018diffhist−37
Flat-file database
→Example database: Gave concrete examples of what delimiters are like; Removed "more complex solutions are markup and programming languages" because it's very unclear to me (and this is a field of mine) what is to supposed to be suggested by those words.
01:3701:37, 2 December 2018diffhist−52
Flat-file database
→See also: removed advertisement, and removed dbm (arguably not a flat file, due to requirement of hashing and proper placement, before insertion); added passwd as a typical example of flat file
01:3201:32, 2 December 2018diffhist−537
Flat-file database
removed unnecessary detail about US Census; removed dbase II because an RDBMS and file-transclusion is way far away from being a flat file
01:1801:18, 2 December 2018diffhist−1,885
Flat-file database
removing advertisements, and pointing to the general principle; MySQL is certainly NOT a flat-file database; removing section on "data transfer" which is substantially irrelevant and should perhaps go to another article on communications -- the criticism of XML and such is wide off the mark of relevance.
00:5500:55, 2 December 2018diffhist−640
Flat-file database
It has nothing to do with "can it all be held in memory or not." It's about the lack of structural meta-information in the database.