AtlasLion

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by AtlasLion 3y ago
https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/wellbeing/2023/01/19/no-alco...
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by AtlasLion 3y ago
Domestic abuse is made worse with alcohol, car accidents, work accidents... There are many way the whole society pays for allowing people access to a drug such as alcohol.
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by AtlasLion 4y ago
Has always been.
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by AtlasLion 5y ago
true, but at this point, they are ubiquitous. so mentioning things that they are doing wrong is still valuable.
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Apple ranks LAST in USPIRG repairability report(youtube.com)
18 points by AtlasLion 5y ago|4 comments
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by AtlasLion 5y ago
reminds me a lot of IBM OS400.
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by AtlasLion 5y ago
not the same but "je m'en bas les couilles" works too.
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by AtlasLion 5y ago
I was testing this lately,Teradata, SQL server, Oracle and others just return ß for upper('ß'). Snowflake returns SS. There is btw an upper letter defined for ß https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9693
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by AtlasLion 5y ago
The main question I have for DB is, how good is their query optimiser/compiler? It's fun that you can run some predefined set of queries fast. More important is, how good you can run queries in the real world, with suboptimal data
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by AtlasLion 5y ago
Their cofounder was behind vectorwise, which kicked ass in benchmarks, but died as no one even heard of it. You can run the benchmark queries fast, that's great, but can you handle code migrated from vertica? Will you optimiser come u
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by AtlasLion 5y ago
The benchmark itself is kinda useless, so I don't see why they should. If you look at tpc-h for years, you had exasol as a top dog, but in the real world that meant nothing for them.
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by AtlasLion 5y ago
That doesn't allow end users any configuration, but this doesn't apply to the company itself which can apply settings from the background on behalf of end users.
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by AtlasLion 6y ago
I live in the Netherlands and I have secured an office on "temporary" basis 10 minutes by bike from home. I have 3 huge rooms, internet, water and electricity for a total sum of 250 Euros a month. I'm really enjoying this an
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by AtlasLion 6y ago
Re colour accuracy, checkout thinkpads, they even come with a colour calibration sensor so you can have them autocalibrate daily/weekly or whatever suits you.
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by AtlasLion 6y ago
I use inkjet printers and I am very satisfied. I am using an Epson printer with what they call EcoTank. Just tanks with different color inks that you can refill yourself.
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Teradata is laying off people today(thelayoff.com)
22 points by AtlasLion 6y ago|2 comments
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by AtlasLion 6y ago
Same applies to Teradata vantage on cloud.
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by AtlasLion 6y ago
they are human, not a robot you can reset to factory settings. it's only human that people have values that they uphold as the truth and that is hard to change. the place where you immigrate to is not necessarily superior. Immgrants co
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by AtlasLion 6y ago
and the big power using them as chess pieces to keep the petrodollar safe.
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by AtlasLion 6y ago
Our it could be that it really doesn't fit your views on mideast politics. Western media is totally silent on many issue directly caused by western powers in the region.
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by AtlasLion 6y ago
It's by far less biased than any western media company.
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by AtlasLion 6y ago
totalitarian much?
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by AtlasLion 6y ago
It only does if there are more packages that can be sent or hair that can be cut. With a shrinking population, both are untrue.
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by AtlasLion 6y ago
But happy instead of spending your life doing something you don't like and dreaming about "escaping the rat race". Success in life is not measured by how much you own.
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by AtlasLion 6y ago
Are electric cats more likely to "self ignite" then other cars? I doubt it.
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by AtlasLion 6y ago
Or social skills, many highly gifted also have less developed social skills.
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by AtlasLion 6y ago
Learnings from both Monet AND Vectorwise.
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by AtlasLion 6y ago
I still use it daily.
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by AtlasLion 6y ago
But those tourists are long back home so their numbers are not showing up in the stats of Vegas itself.
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by AtlasLion 6y ago
They already exist, i saw a video on hvac systems used in a moroccan pop-up hospital, air coming in or leaving the building goes through filtration and then through a désinfection machine. They didn't explain the method used though.

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