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Can Geneticists Fight Disease by Targeting 'Nurture' Instead of 'Nature'?(nytimes.com)
3 points by hodgesrm 3d ago|0 comments
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by hodgesrm 5d ago
Using BYOC management reduces the costs significantly. The big cost in analytic SaaS offerings is generally compute, which vendors mark up significantly. (They keep margins low on storage.) Disclosure: My company Altinity offers BYOC manage
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by hodgesrm 5d ago
The relationship depends on the use case and is not linear. For web analytics and log management ClickHouse is a great replacement for ElasticSearch, for example.
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by hodgesrm 6d ago
I didn't appreciate Pippi Longstocking fully until I read Stieg Larsson's "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." Occasionally covers are better than the original song. It's perhaps no coincidence that the opening theme song
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by hodgesrm 6d ago
Given the long lines and the mud this year my "idea" would be to skip future festivals.
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by hodgesrm 6d ago
People go on leave regularly for health reasons, and Fidji Simo has been quite open about her health. Unless you have evidence of your claim, the official explanation is simplest. That's especially the case here since firing someone on
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by hodgesrm 19d ago
Thanks, I see that Lahars are technically associated with volcanoes as another comment noted. They have a variety of causes of which glacial collapse is one. [0] The term jökulhlaup describes a flood originating from a glacier, for example
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by hodgesrm 20d ago
I've been in Bay Area tech for 35+ years and this pretty much sums it up. AI has upset software economics at multiple levels, including forcing an increasing number of companies out of business. On the other hand it's hard to imag
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by hodgesrm 20d ago
Pro tip for people moving north; don't buy land in the valleys around Mt. Rainier. This type of flood (also known as a lahar) has occurred there many times. The mudflows reached the harbor of Tacoma in the past. [0] I expect we'll
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by hodgesrm 24d ago
The full text is here. It's a speech by Einstein on Max Plank's 60th birthday. https://www.site.uottawa.ca/~yymao/misc/Einstein_PlanckBirth...
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by hodgesrm 1mo ago
Michigan also dropped their mandate for ACT / SAT to obtain admission. So, yes, I would say that's pretty broken. Combined with systematic grade inflation American universities as a whole are removing any real feedback about stude
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by hodgesrm 1mo ago
> I'm actually really interested in hearing about a large enterprise running vendor code that would even entertain the idea the vendor could automatically update the entire deployment without their direct involvement. A better word
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by hodgesrm 1mo ago
The fact this plan is called a "Hellscape" is horrifying. I wonder if that's Pentagon remarketing to bring an existing plan on-brand with the new Department of War.
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by hodgesrm 1mo ago
The thinking in this article seems muddled to me. Historically there are two fundamental models for rivalries between powerful economic actors and national governments. * Regulatory capture - AI Labs [partially] capture government functions
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How a Drone 'Hellscape' Might Stop a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan(nytimes.com)
6 points by hodgesrm 1mo ago|2 comments
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by hodgesrm 1mo ago
> I assume the native formats will always be faster / more optimized Actually query on Iceberg is end-to-end faster on ClickHouse than MergeTree native format on disk. It's mostly a matter of how much compute you throw at it. N
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by hodgesrm 2mo ago
> Pet peeve: companies that appropriate a dictionary term for their name, e.g. Apple, Google (& Alphabet), Amazon, Oracle. Hard disagree. Consider "Oracle," a truly inspired name for a database company. It's an admirab
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by hodgesrm 2mo ago
How would you feel about an article if you knew the author circulated it to respected friends for review? That's another way to use LLMs. I do it all the time. LLMs are great sounding boards. Similarly how would you feel about writing
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by hodgesrm 2mo ago
> The text is like: "The neon is pink. Her hair is blue. Her face is light. She smiles because she was made to smile, and somewhere beneath the awareness of that fact is the older, simpler, more animal truth: a face is smiling at yo
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by hodgesrm 2mo ago
> I remember lamenting all through the 2010s that all the high paying jobs were basically ad revenue supported. That's never been true for financial services, many of which offer very high-paying jobs for high-frequency trading, hed
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The Strange Phenomenon of 'Terminal Lucidity'(nytimes.com)
12 points by hodgesrm 2mo ago|0 comments
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by hodgesrm 3mo ago
I love Proust, but you need mental space to read his books. It also helps to be a little bored. That's hard to achieve while connected to the Internet.
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by hodgesrm 3mo ago
> How's this any different than say, tractors, or the mechanical loom? After all, agricultural employment went from 90% in the past to 1% today. Regarding US agricultural labor displacement. * It happened over a period of 200 years
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by hodgesrm 3mo ago
What's the difference between pgdog and vitesse?
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by hodgesrm 3mo ago
That’s what a small earthquake with a nearby epicenter feels like. The first time it happened to me it felt like a tree hitting the house. (“Small” is circa 3.0 magnitude.)
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by hodgesrm 4mo ago
That was my 8th & 9th grade Latin teacher. Failure was not an option. I can still decline nouns and demonstratives 50 years later.
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by hodgesrm 4mo ago
Mark Zuckerberg is a builder in the context of the encyclical.
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by hodgesrm 4mo ago
A lot of enshittification is driven by market consolidation. I really don't want my economic interactions to be with massive chains in a race to the bottom. The cure is to enable new competitors to offer alternatives. It starts with an
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Edith Eger, Auschwitz Survivor Who Helped Others Cope with Trauma, Dies at 98(wsj.com)
4 points by hodgesrm 4mo ago|0 comments
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by hodgesrm 5mo ago
By the E gates, right? I love that one. https://www.sfomuseum.org/public-art/public-collection/18th-...

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