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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Per my teacher in the late '90s: it is terrible to leave orphans; always kill whole families. (This was in relation to Oracle DBs and relationships between tables and data)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But I want to make Batmans :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The prof had mostly transitioned to farming (which sounded utterly ridiculous to me at the time, but I'm a senior engineer who just bought a farm...) already in his early 80s so I'm not sure how familiar he was with the batman creation process.