camgunz

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by camgunz 3y ago
Nah, the main thing is the dependency resolution. So you make pipelines like: - employees - tall_employees - tall_employees_by_salary These tables (dbt would call them models because they can also be views depending on how they're conf
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by camgunz 3y ago
Yeah seconding sqlglot, has saved me _tons_ of time. I think yeah, they're smart and onto something here.
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by camgunz 3y ago
The core divide in this space is SQL vs. $OTHER_LANGUAGE. If you're fluent in SQL you'll be great at dbt. If you're only fluent in not-SQL you won't. A lot of these discussions are basically "can we please just use
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by camgunz 3y ago
Yeah I wonder if there could be like an endorsement type thing. Mozilla certifies a product or service and promotes it, the owners of that product/service give them money, etc. They'd have to walk a careful line though: people hat
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by camgunz 3y ago
I've given this a little thought and I definitely agree. But to bracket a little, I've worked in places that were super mission-driven, but also other places with a lot of "clock punchers". I don't judge anyone. I t
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by camgunz 3y ago
(You need blank lines between your list lines -- I wish this weren't true on HN but it is) I think there's value in Mozilla using its (admittedly dwindling) mindshare to push services that make browsing the web more private and mo
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by camgunz 3y ago
I knew SSG was static site generator, but I had to think really hard about PKM. My guess now is "Personal Knowledge Management"
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by camgunz 3y ago
I think there are important differences between news forums like this one and social media: - HN doesn't have notifications - HN doesn't provide affordances for virality: you can't "retweet"/"subtweet&quot
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by camgunz 3y ago
Wow it literally has the same equations and everything. Thanks for this comment, gave me a "shiver of understanding" if that makes sense haha.
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by camgunz 3y ago
I haven't checked in a while, but I think there's also an API for it too.
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by camgunz 3y ago
> Only one is too large to be developed elsewhere. Do a company's products need to be only products that only they can produce? I mean, almost nothing fits this bill, not even things like office suites. You're ruling out stuff
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by camgunz 3y ago
I mean, there are these two comments [0] [1] from some time ago. Looking more closely at your original argument: "I'd love to donate, but if only Mitchell Baker weren't making such a mess of it"; I've only read &quo
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by camgunz 3y ago
You can say you don't like them or they're subjectively not good, but you're wrong that there's only one. Also, Pocket is actually pretty good, and Mozilla VPN is Mullvad, which is also pretty good. I know I'm proba
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by camgunz 3y ago
There are: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/products/ .
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by camgunz 3y ago
I mean maybe not exactly, but there's a lot of Mitchell Baker hate [0], even in this thread. [0]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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by camgunz 3y ago
Haven't one or two long-time Googlers left or gotten laid off and then written strong criticisms of Google? They don't sound like rest & vest (also should say I don't super agree w/ this term) to me, they sound like
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by camgunz 3y ago
I don't super understand your point. I understood TFA to making the argument that dealing with the low-level business of stuff like mutexes and async/await isn't what most people want to do: > We should aspire not to simpl
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by camgunz 3y ago
TFA is pretty good. I would shrink it to: If you're a language/platform like Swift or Rust (see also Erlang or OCaml) you're gonna end up with some kind of userspace task scheduler because OSes don't give you enough cont
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by camgunz 3y ago
The US isn't a part of the war crimes part of the ICC, therefore no US citizen will ever be tried there. Thus, by your logic, there can be no US war criminals. I think the actual nuance here is that, in the words of the West Wing, all
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by camgunz 3y ago
> The memory will be virtually contiguous, even if it's physically disparate. I don't really understand the value of extolling the fact that like, you can incrementally iterate through an array in C. The days of systems with se
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by camgunz 3y ago
Nah. I'm rewatching and they have the whole "breakthrough internet communicator" thing right at the top, and he makes fun of existing smartphones for only having the "baby internet". Also there weren't apps at
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by camgunz 3y ago
Can't speak for them, but I've heard people balk at the Datalog part (IMO not an issue, but I'm not everyone)
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by camgunz 3y ago
TL;DR: I'll be super surprised if this thing makes any dent in tech/culture whatsoever. It's way too expensive (we're not too far out from used car territory here [0]) and breaks no meaningful new ground. Eh I think ther
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by camgunz 3y ago
My feeling is that Apple went entirely the wrong way here. They made an expensive device that doesn't meaningfully move the needle on AR/VR or AR/VR UX. As a result, they've narrowed the market so much that they can&#x27
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by camgunz 3y ago
Compared to other economic systems, capitalism hasn't been around for very long. How fast do you want things to happen before evaluating the economic incentives? My point here is that incentives can work over time and interact with env
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by camgunz 3y ago
I was just reading about this and wanted to ask: how much do the different storage engines affect performance? I assumed you couldn't just plop the DuckDB query engine on top of the PostgreSQL storage engine and get DuckDB performance.
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by camgunz 3y ago
Anyone reasonable would read "it'll also give you something random should you go out of bounds" as meaning you'll get a random value from out of bounds array accesses. They're basically the same sentences. I think i
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by camgunz 3y ago
> Uninitialized memory/data isn't "random", it's specifically null. Ooh that's very untrue [0]. Although, I guess I should make sure we're talking about the same thing. I'm saying this is undefined
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by camgunz 3y ago
Yeah I mean I remember some article from long ago where it was explaining how hard it is to actually get most MUAs to not send text/html. I think they all send both because only sending one or the other gets you marked as spam. > Th
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by camgunz 3y ago
Oh, I guess I thought you meant it would be like uninitialized memory. If you're saying you mean "UB" when you write "random" then yeah, we agree, although I think it's kind of confusing.

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