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by cromd 11mo ago
Their addition of AI into Quicksight (their BI tool) really cemented for me how much they're willing to bluff to look relevant. They launched the AI addition at least a year ago, but recently rebranded the whole thing as "Quick Su
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by cromd 3y ago
Yes, and it seems Ukraine actually did attack a base within Crimea later, the specifically forbidden thing, without any nuclear response. I can imagine it's a difficult call for Musk to make, as nobody wants to be responsible for nucle
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by cromd 3y ago
Couldn't one say the same of any brick and mortar store? If a shoe store is going to open in my neighborhood, for example, how much data do they need for it to be optimally located? I guess they could seek out the online browsing his
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by cromd 4y ago
> "On any topic I’m informed about, the vast majority of comments are pretty clearly wrong. Most of the time, there are zero comments from people who know anything about the topic and the top comment is reasonable sounding but total
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by cromd 4y ago
Are you including “basic economics” in the list of things sports taught you? Curious how that would be learned.
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by cromd 4y ago
Interesting that some people can turn it around. I believe the benefits of sun are maybe poorly understood for now, and I maybe spent too many decades hiding from the sun entirely, as a fair-skinned person, tracking the UV index a little to
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by cromd 4y ago
Could this deficiency be caught by some kind of blood test, though? Do regular checkups screen for this? Is there some reason you'd be "super low on it in brain tissues" and not in other parts of the body?
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by cromd 4y ago
I found out this year that I have RIS or perhaps mild/early MS. (Most RIS cases proceed to an MS diagnosis within a few years, but there is some possibility it was some "random" one-time damage). Just a surprising result of a
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by cromd 4y ago
I assume you agree that some kinds of opportunities are limited. Not trying new foods because you're afraid of wasting your money would be silly, or not saying hi to your neighbor because they might ignore you would be silly, but some
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by cromd 4y ago
Well, life doesn’t always give many chances to play a game. You can only work at so many failed startups, or have so many failed long-term romantic relationships before you’ve used your best years! Someone else already made the point about
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by cromd 4y ago
Also, the two types of generalists aren't quite the same. Being a generalist in a 10k person company feels different from having to do everything alone at a 5 person company. I think some heuristic like "earn double a FAANG income
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by cromd 4y ago
But wouldn’t any host running the malicious package be vulnerable to having creds stolen from that host? Maybe I don’t know which “ACL” tech you’re referencing. You can limit where credentials are used from, and not just something like wher
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by cromd 4y ago
Yeah, traditional Boolean search would be an improvement in some ways: “show me men taller than 6, or programmers of any height” (heh), but that’s either too overwhelming for users, or promotes spam or scraping or stalking or something. But
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by cromd 4y ago
I think you and those responding to you are saying many valid things, but there are ambiguities still. Does "dating" mean "late-stage worried-about-dying-alone parents-nagging-me dating"? Or does it mean "screw arou
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by cromd 4y ago
I think you're right about 100-1000 being a count for "likes" rather than "matches" (terminology would differ by platform). If a woman had 100 people with a mutual interest, ready to talk, they wouldn't keep sw
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by cromd 4y ago
If I’m not mistaken, runit was another author. Did you maybe mean daemontools? (Agree with the general sentiment though, and both tools felt nice to use.)
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by cromd 4y ago
Oh, maybe I am behind on this “future litestream” that “redirects writes”. I only knew of the ability to sync/backup/restore. Do you have a link to something discussing those other features?
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by cromd 4y ago
Yeah, maybe 4% is all one could manage to withdraw to survive the longest downturns. I haven't dug into that much. But, people are maybe debating different things - some are likely talking complete early retirement whereas my comment w
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by cromd 4y ago
Local inprocess databases might be a bigger thing, but won’t they do nothing to help cases where 10 different applications on different machines need to read and write in the same database? I would think the target audiences are very differ
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by cromd 4y ago
If you put $5M in index funds, you’d grow it by about $400k a year (8%) on average, to start. It’s hard to imagine going broke with that by doing “normal middle class” things. For added security, one could add in a part-time job.
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by cromd 4y ago
Is that for a very large family? Or maybe I don't know what "family plan" means exactly. I just got a plan on my own, not far from New England. I am paying about $450 per person per month, and I thought it was the best plan l
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by cromd 4y ago
Seeing some comments about the reliability of dogs, it’s good to keep in mind that traditional medical tests can also be quite unreliable. This link [1] explains how mammograms can have a “positive predictive value” (% alarms that are corre
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by cromd 4y ago
If there were a machine that could only detect one disease, I don’t think that automatically precludes it from being cost effective. I could see a dermatologist buying a cheap pen-sized device that solely detects skin cancer, at least.
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by cromd 5y ago
What are you saying learning Excel would solve for the owners? (honest question)
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by cromd 5y ago
I've been in orgs where it was on same team, and on different teams, both as a modeler and a data engineer. So far, I personally prefer when they're on the same team. Pros of same-team: fewer ideas "lost in translation"
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by cromd 5y ago
Here's an example from 2018 of someone trying to extract secrets from a Yubikey. https://duo.com/labs/research/microcontroller-firmware-recov... . Seems they don't get very far. Or it's at least very
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by cromd 5y ago
> [...] execution plan is formed by the DB engine before the parameters are even considered Is this really possible if the server considers table statistics (i.e. frequencies of certain values) when forming a plan?
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by cromd 5y ago
I subscribed for a while, and really liked the news! However, a little off topic, there was a very strange several day period where I got repeated auto-playing audio-only ads that I could not stop from playing. There were no audio/vide
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by cromd 5y ago
I read the comment as "I wont pay $50 20 times, totaling $1k, to get onto the 20 sites that have articles that interest me"
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by cromd 5y ago
I definitely read news from at least 20 different sources each year, without going around paywalls, and I pay for the one I enjoy the most - NYT. (I personally read ~150 articles a year, so that's 33 cents per article, which many reade

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