PeterCorless

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by PeterCorless 2y ago
+1 for use of tergiversation
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
Total aside: I have been playing Crusader Kings repeatedly using Leuven as the home city for my character's dynasty. I don't know why I zeroed in on the city, but I have done over 30 run-throughs so far. (Yes, that is a little obs
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
If people have updates to this let me know! I am working on some revisions. I've already spotted a few for Clickhouse.
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
I was going to say... Someone didn't seem to have experience with restoring from backup.
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
And lo an behold! https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/?afid=p238%7CstiyKw4MH-dc_...
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
I was really hoping they'd have announced a MacBook Pro based on M4. I had been waiting all year for it. https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/11/apple-reportedly-develo... However, reading Nanoreview it loo
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
Thank you. We're seeing a far more insidious and accelerating nationalization and politicization of reality. A very dangerous world ahead.
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
I played Baldur's Gate for a while, but then I went back to Crusader Kings 3 (2020), Europa Universalis IV (2013), and Sims 4 (2014).
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
It's definitely a breathtaking announcement for those of us old enough to remember when we were promised living in a fusion-powered future since the 1960s.
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
Mind you, I understand the challenges such an incredible scientific breakthrough as fusion requires. Which is why traditionally such work was funded by national governments. It just goes to show how unique this is for any sort of scientific
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
“For these next years, leading up to the early 2030s, the goal is to get, for the first time, a single pulse where you get more energy out than you put in,” says Will Regan, Pacific Fusion’s president and an ARPA-E veteran. “As we're d
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
Related same-day story in Wired. You only get this kind of coverage if you have a solid PR/marketing team. The kind of team that $900 million can buy you. https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-pacific-fusion-eric-l
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
Got it.
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
Note that every use case is different and YMMV. https://www.vantage.sh/blog/clickhouse-local-vs-duckdb
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
Anything other than pure white starts absorbing light = heat = need for additional cooling. Such an aesthetic choice has actual ramifications for the wearer.
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Artemis moon suit designed by Axiom Space and Prada revealed in Milan(collectspace.com)
49 points by PeterCorless 2y ago|69 comments
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
Attacking the Internet Archive is like robbing from your own grandmother.
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
The B-18 Bolo was already obsolete by 1940. Too heavy. Too slow. Range was too short. They were relegated to ASW work. The B-17, on the other hand, ably earned her nickname, the "Queen of the Skies."
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
I am wondering whether there will be any further light shed on what provided the performance gains in MongoDB 8.0. How did they achieve these improvements? And I presume these are performance gains against MongoDB 7.x? Has anyone else tried
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Holocron: An object storage based leader election library(github.com)
2 points by PeterCorless 2y ago|0 comments
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
tl;dr: "Genocide is good, actually."
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
The day of William's coronation in London, Christmas Day 1066, the city was on edge. It had surrendered peacefully to William after he had slowly, systematically cut off every road to the city. When the city people cried out in celebra
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
I was clarifying because the word "sokesman" doesn't appear in the article. Nor does "cottar/cotter [cotarius/cotarii]" nor "bordar [bordarius/bordarii]" nor even "villein [villanus&#x2
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
The Normans were the great "levelers" of society. Yes, they may have raised up the slave, but they also deprived many others of their historical rights, say, of "sake and soke." Sake was the right to hold low court on yo
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
Who else is humming "Tainted Love?"
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
Yes. For example you can make queries from Grafana using PromQL to StarTree Cloud. It's in private preview now.
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
Oh Jeez! Yes, apologies. I even just wrote a whole explainer for our internal folks on OTLP vs. OLTP. (Lolfail!) And that's cool! I'll look into OpenObserve.
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
There was to me (it seemed at the time, given I was in middle school) a huge time gap between the AD&D Player's Handbook being released (April 1978) and when the DMG finally shipped (August 1979). Dragon Magazine #22 (February 1979
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
The board gathers around the monthly cloud vendor bill and wonder why they need to raise a new round just to pay it off.
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Most modern developers (those who got started >2000) never had to worry about hyperefficiency — i.e., bitpacking. To them bandwidth, like diskspace, is near infinite and free. Who uses a single reserved bit to set a zero or a 1 these day

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