throwaway201606

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by throwaway201606 2mo ago
I appreciate this clarrification comment: had originally read this as option B and was wondering "why would they say this?"
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by throwaway201606 3mo ago
In software dev, for a big finance corp I like your comment, want to try to expand on it Comment long but there is a TL;DR at the bottom My theory is that there are 4 areas to domain knowledge worth taking about here - there may be more but
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by throwaway201606 4mo ago
The language of global commerce and technology has not and has never been English It is money. Specifically, right now, petro-dollars. For a while before that, it was pounds The writer is asking how much longer that will continue to be true
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by throwaway201606 8mo ago
"Sure, but the difference between one particular formulation of mineral oils and another cannot possibly be that important to the formula." Formulation matters and is very important. A1 jet fuel, propane, regular 87 gas and vaseli
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by throwaway201606 11mo ago
They stop growing a full amount of low value subsistence crops needed to survive and start growing cash crops on some portion or on all of the land. Those cash crops have a higher value. An example - say you have 4 acres of land and have a
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by throwaway201606 11mo ago
Answers here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-frame... TL;DR version - its about money and business balance sheets, not about technology. For businesses past a certain size, going to cloud is
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by throwaway201606 11mo ago
just saw your answer - we are thinking exactly the same thing but I took the long-winded route to saying it
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by throwaway201606 11mo ago
There are many setups where this is not just not possible. In some cases, doing this is prohibitive because of cost or prohibited by law. + for case of cost: lots of very large companies have prod environments that cost big $$$. Business w
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by throwaway201606 1y ago
Me: let's watch the animation to see this in action ... sees: "an uncursed food ration" This is wild; I gotta start playing text based games.
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by throwaway201606 1y ago
The piece is good but I think the primary segmentation is not 'useful' vs 'valued', it is strategic vs. tactical. The author actually realizes this but did not nail this idea to the church door as part of his manifesto.
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by throwaway201606 2y ago
I would think that anyone working in a sewer inspection van would keep the door open because it is highly likely that sewer inspection vans smell like, well, sewer.
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by throwaway201606 2y ago
I think they have to be long lived else they cannot make sense for performant testing. ie they are created as DB objects, using DDL, in the same way tables, views, functions etc are made. They can certainly be created at test run time but
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by throwaway201606 2y ago
OK, this I understand, that is a good insight - cursors are row-processing based so its gonna be slow I think Netezza, SQL Server and Oracle are all cursor-based processing "by default" so this makes a lot of sense. I suspect that
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by throwaway201606 2y ago
I understand the primary premise about the difficulty with testing SQL and fully agree with it. I do have a question though - while I understand how functors can help make the problem easier to tackle, I am not sure I fully understand how f
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by throwaway201606 2y ago
https://archive.is/zuVdE
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by throwaway201606 2y ago
That is essentially what has already effectively happened. Passengers are paying the drivers directly ( and the drivers then passing on the apps share on to them - the 30% in commission and booking fee ) because when the passengers pay outs
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by throwaway201606 2y ago
For this particular market, they are not charging less than the market will bear, they are charging all they can. They have to keep taking an 'L' specifically because there is extreme efficiency in price information discoverabilit
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by throwaway201606 2y ago
Want to give you benefit of the doubt with regards to phrasing but tackling each of these statements as they are all factually incorrect: > 1. Online prices are not the same as in store prices This depends but mostly they match ie online
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by throwaway201606 2y ago
THANK YOU! Makes perfect sense now. That is a really clever joke.
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by throwaway201606 2y ago
¿ Should it be "Massachusetts Bodged Transit Authority" and not "Massachusetts Bodged Transistor Authority"? I can't help but think that I am missing a really cool inside joke of some kind here. I get that it is an
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by throwaway201606 2y ago
I agree; can’t know what AI will do at this point so punditry like this is just meh. … and this analysis generalizes all types of AIs based on characteristics of just one type of AI - LLMs - that select the “next best word “ (my layman’s un
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by throwaway201606 2y ago
Methods provide the highest leverage if you “own” the common element used across the most system components ie the lowest common denominator. Saying it another way, don’t attack platforms, tools and channels, attack protocols since they are
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by throwaway201606 2y ago
Want to second the two parent comments to this. Small freelance / contract team of very very senior very experienced people. 3 to 4 max. I was fortunate in that I, for the first part of my career, joined teams that were structured like
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by throwaway201606 2y ago
I do not think that there is any confusion or misreading of the numbers here. Without dealing with the specific points made in the piece, I would argue that there is gap in understanding the premise of the piece. The article starts with num
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by throwaway201606 3y ago
This is a great observation. A clarification comment here to help explain what is going on here- re: the 'non-native' part of the comment above. Swahili specifically is a second language to a population speaking a very very divers
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by throwaway201606 3y ago
38-in-1 is some random storage media (USB stick, DVD. SD card, CD ) with "38" (or 45 or 2, or 99, pick a number) media files (movie, TV show, YouTube series whatever ) in various resolutions, formats, modes etc sold for next to no
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by throwaway201606 3y ago
It is exactly how all of this works In Canada, one of the main players in the space is INTRIA https://www.cibc.com/en/cibc-websites/intria.html They have an office full of people processing cheques, cash etc etc.
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by throwaway201606 3y ago
Hill I am willing to die on: Peak "$XXXXXXXX" database is when your particular flavor of DB is completely consumed into traditional RDBMSes. Vector databases (and all other incremental or transformational improvements) are just fe
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by throwaway201606 3y ago
On second thoughts, @moring, you are definitely on to something here! It may be a product if one can find a way to effectively integrate content from across different platforms. Which means it has to be off any of the platforms. Like, maybe
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by throwaway201606 3y ago
The "patented, TM, etc" was just a joke claiming credit for the whole thing to support the "pay me" joke in the next line. It is a completely content-free line. The idea of doing a Patreon is interesting. The real proble

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