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by coolgeek 5y ago
Sorry. My knowledge of the data governance space is almost nil, and my knowledge of data catalog products isn't much better. I guess my larger point was that explaining SQL statements replicates much of the work that query optimizers
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by coolgeek 5y ago
Explainability is always helpful :) Simple SQL statements are pretty well self-documenting. Where things get hard to explain is in: * complicated JOINs * queries that select from views, derived tables, CTEs, etc * poorly named objec
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by coolgeek 5y ago
X(1/X) + -1 == 0 I've restricted myself to "multiplications and additions by numbers". The solution doesn't require knowing the value of X beforehand. It works for all real numbers - algebraic or transcendental. W
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by coolgeek 5y ago
It's a clothing brand/company whose entire marketing framework is a "humorous" parody of conspiracy theories
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by coolgeek 5y ago
https://archive.md/v4hnq
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by coolgeek 5y ago
I've had the opposite happen in Google Maps (the activity history). It marked biked segments as occurring in a car. Not quite sure how it happened. I probably outpaced motor vehicle traffic (I do so more often than not, in an urban e
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by coolgeek 5y ago
> To understand this post you need to understand what values are. In simple terms, entities that can be compared, have a magnitude, and are immutable are values. > How can you tell if something is a value? Easy, just ask whether it is
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by coolgeek 5y ago
I think that you can if you pay attention to detail . Two quick examples, that I've noticed over the years. Most non-native speakers pronounce the Italian ciao as "chow". But I noticed that a woman in Capri pronounced it as
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by coolgeek 5y ago
> Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition to still matter today, but it does. Touche
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by coolgeek 5y ago
This looks pretty sketchy. The FAQ, blog and DMCA links from the posted page all 404. Seems odd for a site that supposedly has been providing ebooks since 2009 I'm not even going to try clicking the book, article or sign in links
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by coolgeek 5y ago
Don't miss the companion article https://gatherfor.medium.com/i-got-it-wrong-7d9b314fadff?sou...
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by coolgeek 5y ago
Every time I see a birthdate.co commercial on TV, I want to punch the TV, the birthdate.co founders, and whoever is funding them (TV advertising is not cheap - at least not at the scale that they're employing)
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by coolgeek 5y ago
summary link https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.188...
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by coolgeek 5y ago
There's a lot to quibble with, here. But I find this interesting/worthwhile overall because it demonstrates just how broad and deep the landscape of dead ends is.
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by coolgeek 5y ago
> Maybe other people are better at it The reality is that every individual's ability to visualize exists somewhere on a spectrum between aphantasia (complete inability) and eideticism (photographic memory). That bicycle experiment i
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by coolgeek 5y ago
My initial reaction was "oh, yay, another cheat sheet". This is actually pretty good
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by coolgeek 5y ago
I haven't had time to dig deeply in to this yet, but it looks very nice!
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by coolgeek 5y ago
"The electronics and the mechanics and the fabrication took me a year. Then it took me an afternoon to program the computer to actually activate it" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29195000
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by coolgeek 5y ago
The more salient point isn't about classifying any particular person as independent-minded or conventionally-minded. It's that almost everybody cargo cults almost everything. Once you realize this, you start asking yourself power
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by coolgeek 5y ago
You probably meant this, but I think "most thoughtful" (e.g. well-reasoned) is the better metric than most popular.
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by coolgeek 5y ago
Good article. But discussed with 800+ comments five months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27276706
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by coolgeek 5y ago
https://archive.md/1e4TG
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by coolgeek 5y ago
I'd say that there are two categories of reasons. First, the iteration cycle is much longer than for software. Second, Moravec's Paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox Both of these make ro
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by coolgeek 5y ago
@picdit, if you're the author, this is pretty cool. Especially the Hex tool
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by coolgeek 5y ago
If either of your biological parents is an American citizen, you are automatically a natural born American citizen, regardless of where geographically you are born. This is why Obama, McCain and Ted Cruz are eligible for the Presidency edit
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by coolgeek 5y ago
If it's a feature, I'm a fan. This is the only time I've ever seen old.reddit not work
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by coolgeek 5y ago
Comes up as not found on old.reddit. www serves it though https://www.reddit.com/community-points
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by coolgeek 5y ago
After drilling down a few links, I found this digital book, which seems to include some videos. Maybe not the same ones she's talking about, but it's a start. https://cellstructureatlas.org/ You could also try as
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by coolgeek 5y ago
Turing completeness is a characteristic of programming languages. JS is a TC language. The iPhone is a Von Neumann architecture computer. Most Von Neumann architecture computers have a JS implementation.
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by coolgeek 5y ago
This comment is so abstractly general that I can't understand it. But I'd like to. > flexible pricing that actually reflects information at the company border (with all the Pareto front guarantees that can bring us) What infor

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