chimerasaurus

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by chimerasaurus 5mo ago
> You will join a collaborative, mission-driven team where ideas are valued, contributions are recognized, and innovation is part of everyday work. Wow, gee wiz. I can’t wait to synergize in real time for action oriented solutions. &#x2F
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by chimerasaurus 10mo ago
I’m never leaving Seattle. iykyk
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by chimerasaurus 2y ago
No doubt. Ask my team how thrilled I am whenever we say "coming soon." Narrator: It made him die inside.
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by chimerasaurus 2y ago
Disclaimer - I am James on this[1] blog. Yesterday we announced Polaris specifically so (1) customers don't get locked into a catalog; (2) people know Snowflake works with AWS, Azure, Confluent, etc. 1: https://www.snowflake
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by chimerasaurus 3y ago
I’d take issue with the “Iceberg is slow” theme that Databricks in particular has tried to push. If that were true, Snowflake would not be as fast on Iceberg/Parquet as its native format. The engine makes something fast or slow, not th
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by chimerasaurus 3y ago
I agree with the points you make above.
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by chimerasaurus 3y ago
It’s written by a group -really- trying to make one of them a thing, even though it’s in decline, so just have that lens for anyone reading it.
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by chimerasaurus 3y ago
Disclaimer - work at Snowflake. Two quick points to mention. 1. Snowflake has always used blob stores + file data + metadata. Architecturally it’s actually always been very Lakehouse-y 2. Parquet and Iceberg should be equivalent in performa
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by chimerasaurus 3y ago
As a note, Iceberg also supports AVRO in addition to Parquet (and ORC).
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by chimerasaurus 3y ago
I talk to customers basically all day about table formats. Only one customer has really brought up Hudi in a meaningful way. IMO, Hudi is basically out of contention for 95%+ of people looking at table formats.
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by chimerasaurus 3y ago
I’ll just point out on the Snowflake side, we’ve been very public saying we want Iceberg/Parquet to be at or as close to parity as possible with our native format. The value add is the platform, not lock in. That also forces us to be
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by chimerasaurus 3y ago
Also relevant for context on that. https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/21/tech/elon-musk-texas-lawsuit-...
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After Altman firing, OpenAI tried to merge with rival–and was rejected(arstechnica.com)
12 points by chimerasaurus 3y ago|2 comments
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by chimerasaurus 3y ago
Disclaimer - Snowflake here. I will just point out that when my team and I talk about streaming, we are focused on not real-time because in many cases, the value to a customer is not there. Not every "streaming" use case is frau
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by chimerasaurus 3y ago
Yep. One system is political but clear in how it operates. The other system is political and unclear how it operates. Still both "political".
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by chimerasaurus 3y ago
"At times it seemed he trusted random feedback more than the people in the room who spent their lives dedicated to tackling the problem at hand." But also "Twitter moved at the speed of molasses and suffered from bureaucracy&
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Reddit doubles down on criticism of 3rd party apps(theverge.com)
35 points by chimerasaurus 3y ago|5 comments
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by chimerasaurus 3y ago
If you are an REI member, they often have stuff in the used (Garage) site that is in excellent quality and also less expensive. Patagonia also has worn wear that does the same thing. Win-win - awesome stuff, no need to make a new one for yo
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by chimerasaurus 3y ago
As a data point, if you examine something more granular and trend/topic tied, like Snowpark (which is close to Clickhouse alone) or "Snowflake Table" I would propose the overall point being made kind of stands. The original t
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by chimerasaurus 4y ago
Capture One also supports Fuji sims natively. It’s an excellent combo of you shoot Fuji. It’s so handy to swap the sim in post.
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by chimerasaurus 4y ago
I have a 16gb m2 MBA. I’ve hit memory issues exactly once. I had FF open with a ton of tabs, Capture One open, and I was stacking 400 frames in PixInsight. The fact I had to push that hard was immensely impressive.
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by chimerasaurus 4y ago
I’ve built my product career working on projects that present risks to the status quo for companies. This isn’t unique to Apple. Not to defend them specifically, but a company willing to focus on long term is the exception. Most companies h
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Seattle Public Schools sues TikTok, YouTube, Instagram over youth mental health(geekwire.com)
169 points by chimerasaurus 4y ago|160 comments
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by chimerasaurus 4y ago
I had two Teslas (3, Y) and used FSD in Seattle. It did not work and based on my experience, I am extremely skeptical it will ever work in places like Seattle. The car could not even navigate circling Greenlake without a disconnect. Sold th
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by chimerasaurus 4y ago
1090 MHz
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by chimerasaurus 4y ago
Just going to point out that there are very real cases where one may want a mortgage larger than they want at least temporarily. For example, buying a home and selling another. If you want to minimize risk, easier to sell the old one, take
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by chimerasaurus 4y ago
I love my Framework. I do wish, however, they took the time they used to release a Chromebook and focused it into other product releases (Ryzen, better screen.) The Chromebook play has also left me wondering if they've lost their way o
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by chimerasaurus 5y ago
This. Also factor in: - Upkeep. Houses require work (example - re-painting every 10-15 years can be >$15-$20k.) - Special assessments (city, county, special district) that come up because other people vote for them. (example: Seattle can
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by chimerasaurus 6y ago
No, they are quite separate.
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by chimerasaurus 6y ago
Disclaimer - I’m a Googler. As a counterpoint, Cloud has acquired several companies that haven’t disappeared; rather, are fairly foundational in the portfolio: - Cask (now Cloud Data Fusion as a product, CDAP as an OSS project) - Looker - S

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