RobAtticus

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by RobAtticus 7y ago
Perhaps its changed since you looked because my fiancee is Latin American and her results tell her the provinces/areas of her home country where her extended family is originally from.
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by RobAtticus 7y ago
Nobody, not even her, denies that she claimed to be Native American. Snopes is fact checking whether it helped her achieve her position at Harvard. And their conclusion, despite being investigated, no evidence has emerged that it did aid he
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Achieving optimal query performance in a distributed time-series DB on Postgres(blog.timescale.com)
8 points by RobAtticus 7y ago|0 comments
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by RobAtticus 7y ago
Haven't done any comparisons against TokuDB, so can't give a deep answer there. [Edit: removed incorrect bit about tuning algorithm]. We do not offer tuning yet, but this is the initial implementation, so we'll definitely be
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by RobAtticus 7y ago
For choosing the column, you'll usually want to think about what your queries will be using. It sounds like `recorded_at` is probably more likely to be useful since that's when the data "occurred," but again it depends o
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by RobAtticus 7y ago
You definitely can mix the two, and we actually find it a very useful thing so you can have your metadata available to query alongside the time series data. TimescaleDB will only make a table a hypertable if you tell it too, otherwise regul
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by RobAtticus 7y ago
El Chapo broke out of Mexican prisons where his ability to influence guards/staff is much greater than a US prison. Also, being able to prevent someone from breaking out and preventing someone from killing themselves seem like two diff
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by RobAtticus 7y ago
Is it possible that the picture was Jimmy Carter? As the article mentions, the Carter Center has been leading this effort and Carter hopes to outlive the last guinea worm (though this timeline would make it difficult given he just turned 95
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by RobAtticus 7y ago
We're happy to take pull requests for new databases, we have so far from Clickhouse, CrateDB, and SiriDB (and one pending). We've tried to make it relatively easy for new databases to hook in. We usually implement ones that we hea
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by RobAtticus 7y ago
That seems unlikely. The first graph[1] on this Wiki[2] article shows from 1982 until 2017 -- so not the exact range you mentioned -- but it shows that mass shooting deaths are higher today than decades ago. [1] https://en.wikipe
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by RobAtticus 7y ago
We have not yet eradicated polio globally. This year has actually been a setback in number of cases: http://polioeradication.org/polio-today/polio-now/this-week/
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by RobAtticus 7y ago
I'm not sure PwC would be considered a household name. And BP has gas stations.
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by RobAtticus 7y ago
2017 had 1,205,835 thousand Megawatts of coal, so 2018 was a decrease of ~60,000. Not an increase of 20k.
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by RobAtticus 7y ago
We did benchmarks a while back comparing TimescaleDB to Mongo[1], and TimescaleDB was quite a bit better. So I think you'd definitely see much improved query time. Also it appears that Metabase supports a PostgreSQL connection[2], so y
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Rethinking the Database Materialized View as an Index(blog.timescale.com)
1 points by RobAtticus 7y ago|0 comments
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by RobAtticus 7y ago
We haven't really found it to be the case that the system is slower with ZFS. As the sibling mentions, you are trading some CPU for better I/O. We usually see better insert performance and similar/better query latency.
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by RobAtticus 7y ago
We are actually doing a fair bit to address larger use cases. We also had customers who are doing 100s of billions of points successfully, so I guess it depends on what you mean by larger. As our CEO mentioned in a sibling, we are working o
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Zabbix, Time Series Data and TimescaleDB(blog.zabbix.com)
121 points by RobAtticus 7y ago|43 comments
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by RobAtticus 7y ago
Yep, we even gave them a heads up it was coming and they mention it in their sunsetting post[1]: >TimescaleDB is a PostgreSQL extension that provides advanced and highly performant automated partitioning on time-series data, enabling you
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by RobAtticus 7y ago
Announcement from Pipeline's side: https://www.pipelinedb.com/blog/pipelinedb-is-joining-conflu...
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by RobAtticus 7y ago
They made over 3B in net income last year...
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by RobAtticus 7y ago
Why? A bit of context to clear up a misconception or a misleading stats isn't a bad thing.
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by RobAtticus 7y ago
The top 10% for individuals is 114k[0] and for a household is 178k[1]. They may eventually get to millionaire status, but there's still a long way to go. Basically, getting to 100+k at the end of a long career and plenty of saving &amp
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by RobAtticus 7y ago
There are plenty of 1-bedrooms in high-cost of living areas like NYC, so one way is for the 22-year-old to rent one of them? Now it may not be financially advisable, but if he's making 120k that would be both "a lot less" tha
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by RobAtticus 7y ago
I am not sure. Like you, I have seen him engage in disingenuous methods of debating. However, it does seem he offered 'hard' proof to corroborate his story, which is why I'm curious to see how the Herald would respond. It see
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by RobAtticus 7y ago
I came across this open letter from Alan Dershowitz, lobbying against their Pulitzer consideration[1]. I haven't seen a public response from either the reporter or the Miami Herald, so I'm curious about their views of the points h
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by RobAtticus 8y ago
So if I do something different than what is described ("tapping the side"), I will get the desired effect? So they aren't wrong, they just decided not to exhaustively try out every method of tapping on a soda can? Tapping-on-
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by RobAtticus 8y ago
Sure, but you'd need to give some evidence that the USA's distribution of consumption is notably different than similar Western countries, e.g., the UK or Germany, which consume 25-30% more per person than the US. Basically the US
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by RobAtticus 8y ago
Perhaps true in the past, but AmEx has recently (I think?) started offering bank accounts. Their high-yield savings account is 2%, which is pretty comparable to Ally, etc. https://www.americanexpress.com/personalsavings&#x2F
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by RobAtticus 8y ago
It does not support sharding writes across multiple nodes, but we do work with streaming replication so you can set up read replicas (and for failover).

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