parshimers

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by parshimers 1y ago
https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~dbbook/ is a great overview, specifically chapters 13 and 14 on query optimization. it is difficult to reason about though, and every compiler is different. it takes time and enough examples
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by parshimers 1y ago
it's sad to see this location go. it was such an amazing store on the inside. the theme had some great homages to Mars Attacks!, as well as a great many other sci-fi films. this album has some good pictures of some of the more notable
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by parshimers 1y ago
anyone cheering this on really has no idea how bad this is. higher education is an area in which the US has had a completely dominant position. the smartest and most driven people from all over the world come here to learn, and start busine
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by parshimers 2y ago
i think this already happened to some extent, with the Social Security Administration. unless something's changed it's all stored in IMS, i.e. pre-relational. perhaps there's some relational view on top of it but to my knowle
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by parshimers 2y ago
btrfs has similar aims to ZFS, but is far less mature. i used it for my root partitions due to it not needing DKMS, but had many troubles. i used it in a fairly simple way, just a mirror. one day, of the drives in the array started to have
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by parshimers 2y ago
It's too bad they didn't put a roundabout here, there's one in the middle of old town Orange and it works pretty well. Terrible waste of money to make the intersection worse like they did. It also says something that the beha
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by parshimers 2y ago
yeah, you could argue that the RIVA128 was the first successful PC GPU that didn't require a separate video card, but that's not the same thing.
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by parshimers 3y ago
we do have semi-autonomous trains, in the US at least. i'm not sure about elsewhere. PTC stops a large class of disastrous operator errors (overspeed, missed/ignored signal, etc.). it is almost entirely complete on all of the clas
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by parshimers 3y ago
the resistance is a problem. there are a few in Pasadena, CA on Los Robles between California and Raymond where it's a roundabout, with stop signs on each entrance. the worst of both worlds.
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by parshimers 3y ago
stop and get out of the car because someone just got flung onto/underneath your car? or perhaps have enough situational awareness to see that someone is about to walk into oncoming traffic?
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by parshimers 3y ago
A Brompton is really small when folded. Smaller than a carry-on suitcase by volume. It rolls on little scooter wheels on the rear rack when folded. I bring mine into all the places you just listed on a regular basis, except for a gym. For a
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by parshimers 3y ago
That’s really awful. These kind of incidents need to be investigated. Whatever situation caused the car to just run into the path of a pedestrian in a crosswalk can’t be allowed.
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by parshimers 3y ago
don't they do this with crab pots? i'm not sure how far those go down though.
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by parshimers 3y ago
At least on the crash carts I've used, the displays were always VGA. Not sure if that's still the case. I'm not sure why.
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by parshimers 3y ago
I always hear a lot of grousing about DB, but I took it a lot the two times I visited, and I liked it. Even when there was a horrible windstorm that blew trees all over the tracks and stopped the ICE from coming down to Ingolstadt, I was ab
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by parshimers 3y ago
I know they started testing a while back in LA, has anyone been in one there? I haven’t seen them around town like I have in SF.
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by parshimers 4y ago
It's fine if you, your coworkers, and your manager have the discretion to understand vacation is not optional. I've never seen this. It usually ends up being a race to the bottom, driven by people who think working at (or coercing
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by parshimers 4y ago
An induction range draws a great deal of current, so it might entail a lot of very expensive electrical work. Many places that have gas appliances weren't designed with the idea of an appliance that can draw 40 amps.
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by parshimers 4y ago
It seems very much like throwing the baby out with the bathwater to ban them outright. Require a fume hood, and if that is not enough then at least just ban it for new constructions or remodels. Induction is nice but I don't think it c
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by parshimers 4y ago
Most headunits with Carplay require you to have the vehicle speed sensor connected to them. They also have a compass. So, if you lose GPS, you have the 3 components you need for dead reckoning: A starting location, a heading, and a speed. I
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by parshimers 4y ago
This is the exact method by which many classic Tiki cocktails were kept secret and therefore nearly lost to time. For example the original recipe for the Zombie is disguised twice. It uses “Don’s Mix”, which is made with grapefruit juice an
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by parshimers 4y ago
It can get kind of confusing though. Consider the Navy Grog, a classic Tiki cocktail. The Trader Vic’s recipe is very different than the original Donn the Beachcomber version. This is because the recipe was secret and so all other attempts
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by parshimers 4y ago
Airbnb is such a joke now. I had a host steal from me with no repercussions in November. The host said the room wasn't ready through text, and then, when they said it was ready, someone (not the host) walked up to us on the street outs
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by parshimers 5y ago
This reads like a less amusing version of the UNIX-HATERS handbook. The citation on the Linux kernel containing "a whole lot of very low quality code" is a Slashdot post. The author claims that there is "No high level, stabl
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by parshimers 5y ago
I built a custom home server using Mini-ITX form factor parts and I would have to agree with this conclusion. ECC ram in that form factor is very expensive. The biggest issue I had was that fanless ATX power supplies are not reliable. There
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by parshimers 6y ago
The Google Voice dialer sucks. If you're not on Wi-Fi it won't call over data. Maybe this would have been a sensible restriction 10 years ago but now it's totally silly. I used the Hangouts dialer all the time when travelling
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by parshimers 6y ago
Yes, but once it becomes laden with powdered, precipitated silver it is far less benign. Silver is still a heavy metal after all, even if it is not the most acutely dangerous one.
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by parshimers 6y ago
pfsense can do this pretty easily, i wouldn't call it out of the box though. the adblocking can be done via pfblocker-ng, and it has an openvpn client of course.
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by parshimers 6y ago
Interesting. I haven't had that happen because I do split-tunnel, but I will have to keep that in mind in scenarios when I try to forward everything thru the tunnel. All I needed to do for split tunnel was just adjust the route metric.
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by parshimers 6y ago
If you're using NetworkManager and wireguard, try out the integration between the two as well. It lets you treat the tunnel as any other VPN in nm, and also easily avoids some issues with routing loops if you roam back on to your home

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