MaxGanzII

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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
I have to say, speaking for Redshift, I significantly agree with the critique. There are too many simple problems which should have been caught in testing, and the problem which have over time been found absolutely imply unprofessional, eve
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
In my view, AWS docs (and support and so on) obfuscate everything which is not a strength; they cannot be trusted, not ever . Redshift is a sorted relational database and as such it provides the performance necessary to handle Big Data whe
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
The minimum cost for serverless seems quite high - 14.4 USD per hour. The advantage is the flexibility to easily change compute resource. A disadvantage is that your data is now in S3 or something very like it, and this I think alters the
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
I hold a very dim view of all information AWS emits, by whatever channels. My experience with support/account managers is that they always tell you "yes, Redshift can do this", and the and the only way to actually get a
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
I would say though that this is what I'm arguing. The planet can't cope now - the environment is falling apart right now, already - and the mid-range estimate there's another two or three billion people to come over the n
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
I may be wrong, but I think the world population is growing more quickly than you portray, and will be for some decades yet, and we currently have far too many people for how we conduct ourselves as a species. I may also be wrong to think
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
CO₂ is not the only factor driving ecological damage and indeed, the mass extinction event currently in progress. There are simply too many humans for the way in which we as a species currently behave. Either we need single parent families,
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
Famine. Consistent crop and fishery failures induced by ecological collapse and massive environmental change, and attendent economic failure. The world has billions living on one or two dollars per day. These people barely survive now; wha
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
The Paris agreement has not been kept to. This agreement will not be kept to. What will happen is climate change will continue, perhaps accelerating a bit more slowly than it would otherwise have done, becoming more and more destructive and
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
Steam is a trap though, no? You buy software, but if you leave, you lose it all. Is that correct? there's no way to retain what you've bought?
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
> It's done to help their user acquisition. It uploads your contacts to match against other contact lists and let you know who's on Signal. I may be wrong, but I think this functionality existed prior to the server-side state e
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
I think we may be talking about different PINs. I am not talking about the PIN you would have to enter when starting Signal, to get into Signal. I Googled a bit and found an approachable blog post from the time this all happened, here; htt
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
Signal was superb for a long time, and then received a hefty chunk of funding, and, although I may be wrong, has declined since then, and in fact jumped the shark about a year ago. They attempted ever more forcefully to make users to set a
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
Whales have brains which physically are much, much larger than a human brain; size does not directly equate to intelligence. Note also brains are extremely expensive, physiologically, to maintain. It may simply be we are evolving to be mo
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Amazon Redshift Research Project: Query Memory Allocation Behaviour W. Strings [pdf](amazonredshiftresearchproject.org)
1 points by MaxGanzII 5y ago|1 comments
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
An open question has been whether with varchar and char Redshift when moving rows to memory, either during data load (COPY) or query processing, allocates the full length of the string as specified in the DDL, or only the allocates the actu
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Amazon Redshift Research Project: Minimum and Maximum Values by Data Type [pdf](amazonredshiftresearchproject.org)
2 points by MaxGanzII 5y ago|1 comments
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
The official Redshift documentation indicates minimum and maximum values for data types. These values contain factual errors, typographic errors, and errors of omission (some data types have no values given). The actual minimum and maximum
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
Auto-vacuum is a black box and so it is impossible to devise a test method which is known to be fair. Given this limitation, the test method used found that extremely light server loads, one trivial query every thirty seconds on an otherwis
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Amazon Redshift Research Project: Auto-Vacuum (White Paper, PDF)(amazonredshiftresearchproject.org)
1 points by MaxGanzII 5y ago|1 comments