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by bshipp 8y ago
while I can't disagree with your conclusions, I would add that some of those models were not necessarily built with HD in mind, and could look just as crummy as old CGI when viewed in very high definition. Not all, of course, but I ima
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by bshipp 8y ago
Having a military is kind of like having house insurance. you wish you didn't have to spend the money on it, you hope you never have to actually use it, but it would be very irresponsible not to have it.
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by bshipp 8y ago
That's exactly what it was. I had a bit of time after buying the server before I wanted to deploy it in production so I copied the last backup over and just started messing around. Because this database primarily ingests data from ou
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by bshipp 8y ago
Ooooh, I like that idea a lot, especially since I can assign it a tablespace on a different drive.
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by bshipp 8y ago
The ENUM type sounds like a great little tweak; I've got quite a few small tables that describe a fixed number of rows so I'll definitely investigate that. I'm my own worst enemy for indexes, because I'm not only the dat
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by bshipp 8y ago
For sure. And although I love pgtune and it's usually my first stop when I'm firing up a new database, it's only really modifying a few parameters when there's a whole host of server configuration tweaks available: htt
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by bshipp 8y ago
I administer a medium-sized postgres db, around (now) 110GB of data, and recently had the opportunity to revisit the old .conf file when I redeployed that database to a different server. What I quickly realized was that years of tweaks I h
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by bshipp 8y ago
This is a great comment. I'd go further and say that it can actually be harmful to a business (or government organxation) to put too much "raw" data in the hands of people who lack the context or training to effectively eval
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by bshipp 8y ago
This seems to be a trait of humanity in general, not just IT. Look at the finance industry: banks loan based on historical track records, right up until the bubble pops. Every. Single. Time. Momentum lends itself to easy statistical suppor
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by bshipp 8y ago
Well, calling the shuttle an aircraft is a bit of a stretch. It was more like a slightly aerodynamic rock.
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by bshipp 8y ago
Thanks, that makes much more sense. Maybe they figure it's faster in an emergency to simply pop out the flaps one notch instead of the pilot attempting to find a button which they rarely press. Although, truth be told, I imagine every
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by bshipp 8y ago
I appreciate the insight, and I didn't hear those comments from two days ago. That is, indeed, unfortunate. I would have expected him to at least hedge himself a bit. I haven't been involved in the aviation industry in over 20
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by bshipp 8y ago
The manufacturer is telling pilots to extend flaps to disengage MCAS? How is there not a tactile illuminated button in all those 3,000 knobs and switches that the pilot can simply flip to disengage that system? This is just getting weirder
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by bshipp 8y ago
Extra effort from the engines? That sounds a little silly, like they just need to be motivated to work a little harder. Take-off power is take-off power. Reduced air density just means the engines don't produce as much power and the w
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by bshipp 8y ago
Out of all the previous Canadian Minister's of Transport we've had over the years, Garneau's opinion is one I'd actually pay attention to. He flew on the space shuttle three times, was in space for 30 hours, and has a do
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by bshipp 8y ago
I'm currently processing a huge archive of files where someone was too lazy to bother using the proper encoding. out of the first 700K files I've run through I've dumped 3000 into a secondary queue because they've been s
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by bshipp 8y ago
I experienced issues with Drive last night but it was never fully down. I was trying to work on a 500GB file and the API would drop the link intermittently. I could parse the directory no problem, just couldn't reliably access the fil