big_whack

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by big_whack 1y ago
Does email work on iOS?
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by big_whack 2y ago
This is one of the ostensible guiding principles of the Washington Post: "The newspaper’s duty is to its readers and to the public at large, and not to the private interests of its owners."
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by big_whack 2y ago
Independence from ownership isn't really a left/right principle. The Washington Post has their set of guiding principles online - I think from those it's pretty clear why there is discontent. https://www.washington
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by big_whack 2y ago
Sorry, but someone who is averse to joins is not a non-expert in SQL, they are a total novice. The answer is like any other programming language. You simply must learn the language fundamentals in order to use it.
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by big_whack 2y ago
It's not really a problem of there being combinatorially many ways to join table A to table B, but rather that unless the join is fully-specified those ways will mostly produce different results. Your tool would need to sniff out these
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by big_whack 2y ago
Once you have SQL, you have datalog. Once you have datalog, you have SQL. The problem isn't the target, it is getting sufficiently rigorous and structured output from the LLM to target anything.
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by big_whack 2y ago
I think the problem is the quirkiness on the English side, not the SQL side. You could translate datalog to SQL or vice versa, but understanding intention from arbitrary english is much harder. And often query results must be 100% accurate
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by big_whack 2y ago
I don't really know much about India but they seem to have more illegal immigration than the US does and per https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50670393 seem like they have discussions about amnesty there t
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by big_whack 2y ago
On the OP's resume, they claim to have written the "highest performing in-memory database in the world". It's here: https://github.com/carrierdb . There are no users. Perhaps it is the highest-performing
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by big_whack 2y ago
You seem to think you're disagreeing with me but afaict you're just demonstrating my point, unless your point is just about how (int, int) will get packed. That's what I meant about the column order of indexes. If you have tw
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by big_whack 2y ago
Postgres pads tuples to 8 bytes alignment so an indexed single-column int takes the same space as an indexed bigint. That's the usual case for indexed foreign keys. Differences can appear in multicolumn indexes because two ints takes 8
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by big_whack 2y ago
Reconfiguring tables to use a different kind of unique ID (primary key in this context) can be a much bigger pain than an ordinary column rename if it is in use by foreign key constraints.
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by big_whack 2y ago
If you use a surrogate key, you still need a unique constraint in the table (probably the same columns you would otherwise call your natural PK). If your unique constraint isn't sufficient to capture the difference you mention, you nee
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by big_whack 2y ago
This is an interesting read. I noticed also that Roscoe Bartlett, the rep running that hearing, moved entirely off the grid after retirement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_Bartlett#Personal_life
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by big_whack 2y ago
My reading dropped off for years until I got a kindle. The kindle made reading way more convenient and portable. Totally changed my life.
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by big_whack 2y ago
Were you working on that at BD? Who is designing kinematics around Atlas? I understood it to have no users.
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by big_whack 2y ago
My guess is orgs that have a real need for a distributed SQL database (which are rare in the space of orgs) will make their choices based on requirements analysis rather than naming. So probably if you would be turned off enough by the name
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by big_whack 3y ago
I would distinguish between "local dev environment" and "debugging specific data-dependent customer issue". My experience is you can usually write the application with no dependencies on customer data, and do local devel
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by big_whack 3y ago
It would take at least 500-1000 years for the life expectancy to rise to 500-1000 years. Pretending that is very soon, or that people in significant number could even afford that ability after the tech existed (which it won't), seems o
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by big_whack 3y ago
I think your observation is why you read a lot more about Phillips these days than RFK. RFK's promoters switched to promoting Phillips when they realized RFK was drawing more conservatives for the antivax stuff, than democrats for the
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by big_whack 3y ago
There's nothing wrong with competition within the party -- that's just a primary. What should clue you off is that Phillips announced yesterday he's considering a third-party run.
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by big_whack 3y ago
RFK's campaign is also a spoiler, propped up in part by the same people. My sense is what happened is they realized he's a little too crazy to be effective, so they are hedging their bets with Phillips. Exactly the same story thou
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by big_whack 3y ago
That's not really the point, the point is it's not an honest campaign. Elon Musk isn't donating money because he thinks Phillips will win, he's doing it because he thinks it'll help Trump win. Because Phillips needs
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by big_whack 3y ago
Dean Phillips seems relevant to this community. He has proposed cabinet positions for Elon Musk and Bill Ackman, and announced yesterday that he might be interested in running in the general under the No Labels ticket. My understanding is t
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by big_whack 3y ago
Much cruder fakes than you are describing are a huge problem in practice, costing billions per year in fraud to Americans alone. Just because you can detect them, doesn't mean your grandma can. The societal implications of undetectable
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by big_whack 3y ago
Do you make your living as an artist?
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by big_whack 3y ago
When I was in college, I think you could have pretty easily hired college students to do food delivery on campus at minimum hourly wage. They would have been happy for the cash.
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by big_whack 3y ago
I see basically zero chance of consumer delivery robots being economical. Self-driving cars also have a low chance of panning out IMO -- it will not take many more incidents to kill the industry -- but if self-driving cars did pan out it wo
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by big_whack 3y ago
I feel like there are a couple different points - * The immutability, lambda architecture points I agree with. I think the separation of the immutable log from the views is important. Databases are frequently used in ways that go against th
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by big_whack 3y ago
A lot of the commenters seem like database fans instinctively jumping to defend databases. The post is talking about contexts where you are dealing with petabytes of data. Building processing systems for petabytes has a separate set of prob

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