BrentOzar

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by BrentOzar 4y ago
I don’t like it, but I’m guessing it serves two purposes for Elon: it gives Twitter more press, and it gives the public a new villain to take the heat off Elon for a while.
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by BrentOzar 4y ago
> The result of adding or subtracting those numbers with ordinary numbers is not a number; it is prison. Haven't laughed that hard in a while.
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by BrentOzar 4y ago
> Being asked to go back just means it's cheaper to get you to return than it is to recruit someone to do your old job. Only at your old rate.
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by BrentOzar 4y ago
I would love to listen in on those negotiations. If you’re reading this, and Twitter wants you back, I hope you ask for a contract with a year’s pay in advance, due before returning to work, at 10x your prior rate. After all, you must be on
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by BrentOzar 4y ago
I’m sure you’ve come across her by now, but just in case you haven’t, check out Cecilia Blomdahl’s YouTube channel. The videos are way too long because she’s aiming for something ethereal and padding for YouTube ad revenue, but it’s very ch
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by BrentOzar 4y ago
> Are these houses mostly built to be sold on completion, or occupied by their current owners? In the US, only a minority of houses are build from the ground up by a specific person (custom houses). Most houses are built like this: prope
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by BrentOzar 4y ago
Never buy a new Lexus. They’re incredibly reliable. Let someone else eat the depreciation, and buy a 2-3 year old one instead. Get an account at PenFed, apply for a used car loan through them, and you can use it to pay for vehicles from dea
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by BrentOzar 4y ago
Philips LatteGo 3200 series fully automatic coffeemaker including lattes. Pour beans and water in, makes all kinds of drinks automatically, and most of the parts are dishwasher safe. About $800 USD. Not as good as my local barista, but damn
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by BrentOzar 4y ago
Dry = not sweet. Not bitter - bitter is bad - but just not sweet. Body = thickness, aka mouthfeel, aka strength of flavor and texture. (I’m simplifying here.) Mature = complex. Simple wines that can be opened while young are usually straigh
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by BrentOzar 4y ago
Related: two turkeys do not make an eagle. https://www.engadget.com/2011-02-09-googles-vic-gundotra-on-...
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by BrentOzar 4y ago
It's falling back to CPU. Follow the instructions to use a GPU version - sometimes it's even a completely different repo, depending on whose instructions you're following.
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by BrentOzar 4y ago
Needs 2019 in the title.
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by BrentOzar 4y ago
Habitual calculator usage negatively impacts basic mathematics skills, film at 11.
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Azure’s Security Vulnerabilities Are Out of Control(lastweekinaws.com)
10 points by BrentOzar 4y ago|0 comments
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by BrentOzar 4y ago
> Microsoft has a fork of VS Code called Azure Data Studio It's pretty buggy, and they haven't made much progress on fixing the bugs. I've used it pretty much since it came out - I do Microsoft SQL Server & Postgres wo
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by BrentOzar 4y ago
Title should be "San Francisco" not "Susan Francisco".
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by BrentOzar 5y ago
The author, Ezra Dyer, does spectacular work. He’s written many, many other brilliant automotive pieces around the web.
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by BrentOzar 5y ago
I don't think it's subconscious - I think it's an SEO technique. People are checking whether Russia has been removed from SWIFT yet or not, and if your title has that unusual word, bonus points for you.
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by BrentOzar 5y ago
In the case of a thick client app: > if user A living in France makes a post The post data would be stored on a server in France. > a user B living in America comments on it The user B's thick client app would have to query all s
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My Favorite Gaming Laptop Added Water Cooling(youtube.com)
8 points by BrentOzar 5y ago|0 comments
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Evergrande, Kaisa cut by Fitch to default after missed pay deadlines(reuters.com)
3 points by BrentOzar 5y ago|0 comments
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by BrentOzar 5y ago
> This is one of the feature that MS SQL Server has and it works very well. It can suggest indexes with a pretty good correctness. Not really: it's just a comma-delimited list of columns to consider indexing, sorted by the column or
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by BrentOzar 5y ago
> In any case, I expect servers to have replicas for high availability. So even an 8-core server would count for a total of 16 or 24 cores for a 2-3 node cluster, isn't it? And then this multiplied by the number of clusters that you
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by BrentOzar 5y ago
> But I don't see this model much. Why? It does exist (I'm one of them), and it's much more common on expensive databases like Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle. With free databases, it's relatively inexpensive to throw
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by BrentOzar 5y ago
> At $14K/core [0] for the Enterprise edition Licenses are sold in 2-core packs, so it's $7,000 per core. (The link you included is the 2-core pack pricing.) > still translates to 6-7 figures for even small deployments The m
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by BrentOzar 5y ago
A heads-up display: https://www.flyingmag.com/how-it-works-head-up-display/
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MacBook Pro 14-inch and 16-inch review: Apple’s mighty Macs(engadget.com)
35 points by BrentOzar 5y ago|98 comments
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Ambigram(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by BrentOzar 5y ago|0 comments
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by BrentOzar 5y ago
> what and how should things be cached? If something is read much more frequently than it changes, store it client-side, or store it temporarily in an in-memory-only, not-persisted-to-disk "persistence" layer like Redis. For ex
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by BrentOzar 5y ago
It is! Flashbacks. And it still does a better job than most database vendor sites, gets straight to the point.

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