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by d_watt 4y ago
On the one hand, the compile targets for MetricFlow and DBT are SQL. So strictly speaking, nothing can be done with these that can't be done with a data warehouse. SQL doesn't really have a way to define new aggregations well. So
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by d_watt 4y ago
I only recently discovered the term for this is quaila, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia .
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What I personally like about SQL here is that you can start to think about your transformations in a purer "relational algebra" sense. You're able to declare the expected outcomes, and let the engine figure out the best way t
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by d_watt 4y ago
The other day I was thinking about how you have certain generations that are exposed to a new technologies, and are "step function" different from previous generations. EG, most recently "digital natives" being kids for
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by d_watt 4y ago
No idea, but that's what the person who's complaining about the security measures in the article seems to claim.
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by d_watt 4y ago
>Previous owners do not return phone calls, and large corporations that dump 3000 machines assume they have been destroyed Yeah, they seem to even admit in the article they're dealing with machines the original owners expected to be
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by d_watt 4y ago
> And wouldn’t it be normal to have basic telemetry, enough to know how many active users you have? I don't think this is normal. It may be common, but I don't think it is normal. I find this deeply creepy for an OS vendor to
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by d_watt 4y ago
> There is no scanning involved How do you think that a windows update checks for out of date office packages in a way that you would not define as scanning? Also, please don't do ad hominem. I have no motivation outside of the pers
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by d_watt 4y ago
https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/topic/january-17-2023-up... > This update is intended to help Microsoft identify the number of users running out-of-support (or soon to be out-of-support) versions of Office,
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by d_watt 4y ago
I deeply disagree. The idea that the OS vendor can push telemetry that scans my computer, not even analyzing activity, but rummaging through my old files, is crazy. They've taken what was originally a sort of okay idea, automated updat
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by d_watt 4y ago
It is GPT 3.5. It's not ChatGPT, though. From https://beta.openai.com/docs/model-index-for-researchers > GPT-3.5 series is a series of models that was trained on a blend of text and code from before Q4 2021. Th
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by d_watt 4y ago
Looking at the code, it looks like you're maintaining context by re-serializing all previous responses as "ChatGPT" and "User." Out of curiosity, do you know that this is how chatgpt is done, or your take on it? I a
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by d_watt 4y ago
For me it comes down to whether the company is providing ongoing value with the subscriptions. Asana as a subscription product makes sense as they provide hosting. The same for paying for backups for something like Obsidian. However a singl
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by d_watt 4y ago
It makes sense, and the biggest ways to understand are to do what you're talking about and try and "do it better." As other commenters pointed out, as you make the bash script more and more complicated, you'll see why te
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by d_watt 4y ago
> but I do have a problem with mastering a tool purpose and idea of which I do not fully understand I would suggest that the onus of learning this isn't on other people though. You can start with a baseline assumption that there is
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by d_watt 4y ago
I feel like your question is like "Why are there flathead screwdrivers? Shouldn't craftsmen only accept phillips head screwdrivers, since they're superior?" The reality being there are a lot of flathead screws out there.
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by d_watt 4y ago
> It is not true that you can incrementally modify that architecture to handle more users and traffic. One must carefully judge such things before committing to either the costs of a distributed system or the limitations of a monolithic
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by d_watt 4y ago
Because compelling someone to actively do something is fundamentally different from restricting them from a future action, in the eyes of the law.
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by d_watt 4y ago
I feel like I have a weird relationship with these command line tools. They're obviously powerful, and grep in particular can be a huge time saver to be able to quickly process a file. Whenever I think Sed or Awk would be correct for a
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by d_watt 4y ago
That's hard, I'm sorry you have that struggle. I am about as far away from an expert on the brain as it gets, so I don't want to pretend to have wisdom there. The only thing I can say for myself is around Duḥkha, or that life
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by d_watt 4y ago
I am not a doctor. The biggest thing for me in the last couple of years has been physical health. Exercise, eating correctly, and proper sleep have resulted in a huge improvement in my mental acuity, and relieved a sense of I had of "I
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by d_watt 4y ago
I feel like you could say the same thing about Twilio, or AWS, or Stripe. I think there's proven to constantly be a huge market for companies that do the dirty work that everyone knows they could do, but don't have the time or exp
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by d_watt 4y ago
Moreover, I'd say "social media" has also stopped being a term where the component words matter. I'd argue in today's society "social media" itself is a standalone noun referring to many-to-many internet p
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by d_watt 4y ago
Anecdotally last winter, had a Model Y up in maine for a trip home. I arrived at a backwoods house with ~60 miles left. It was around 10 farenheit the next day when I hooked up a 110 volt line to the car. Over the next 30 minutes the mileag
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by d_watt 4y ago
Regarding the chip just being a duplicate destination of the inputs, I wonder how many games are deterministic enough for this to be possible. I feel like a lot of effort put into modern multiplayer games is ensuring determinism where if yo
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by d_watt 4y ago
It's interesting to see the continued trends to separate compute from storage. I'm curious about the tradeoffs. The article mentions increased latency of 10's of milliseconds. If you have a complex access (many joins or index
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by d_watt 4y ago
If anything, it seems like putting a time restriction in that case is actively good for the business, as you want to create a sense of urgency for the person to experiment before the time runs out. If it's on usage, the person trialing
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by d_watt 4y ago
1/2000 is what your actual hourly rate is as salary. Doubling that to 1/1000 accounts for downtime, unpaid pto, paying for facilities, paying for your own insurance, etc.
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by d_watt 4y ago
One thought is good apartments get dozens of applications that need sorting through, and facilitation of apartment viewings. That's a lot of work, and brokers allow that cost to be externalized to the renter. Now, whether or not it sho
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by d_watt 4y ago
A little delayed, but there are plenty of companies doing compliance consulting. Eden Data is a small shop I worked with briefly. If you wanted to talk more, my emails in my bio.

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