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by dafelst 4y ago
Pretty much always, I can afford it and hopefully it makes the lives of the workers better. Of course I would also like employers to pay a livable wage, but I can still tip and do whatever I can to help advance the cause of improving wages
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by dafelst 4y ago
What does the agent having a foot tattoo have to do with anything? Seems like you're showing your prejudice here.
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by dafelst 4y ago
Kipman got the boot after the original version of this article got released if I remember. Myerson and Keane I am not sure of, they're probably harder to get rid of.
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by dafelst 4y ago
Pretty much everything is encrypted at rest in the big datacenters these days
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by dafelst 4y ago
Can anyone recommend any articles/blogs/etc on big data success stories outside of ad tech and retail web tech? And I mean big, business defining successes. It's not to say they don't exist, obviously analytics is super
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by dafelst 4y ago
There are a few input methods, but as a native English speaker and complete novice, I found that pinyin input was the easiest for me. Basically you type the pinyin and you get suggestions for characters. Super easy if you know the pronunc
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by dafelst 4y ago
Managing all those frequencies on a single solid state chip is the novel part here, based on my (admittedly dated) understanding.
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by dafelst 4y ago
Though it does need a subscription, Xbox Game Pass plus their cloud gaming works very well, plus gives you a huge library of games to choose from.
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by dafelst 4y ago
While conceptually I love the idea of not having to explicitly set the region of an object I'm storing, I feel like (especially in a distributed team or product) this could end up with a mishmash of data distributed all over the place
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by dafelst 4y ago
If you really truly want to look at it through a startup lens, there is a LOT you can learn in big tech, you will improve your skills, grow as a person, be able to have a personal life (except if you go with Amazon) and get paid a shitload
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by dafelst 4y ago
Yeah, Ruby. Wonderful, expressive language, but oh my God, so slow.
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by dafelst 4y ago
For those interested in the details on the mentioned columnar storage engine "Ressi", this article doesn't really have anything, it is more about the migration process. Apparently Ressi was meant to enter production in 2017 a
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by dafelst 4y ago
My point is more that you need to store n values (where n is the number of samples) or 2k if there are dupes (where k is the number of distinct values) for an eCDF, which if you did that anyways, you could generate a histogram from the same
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by dafelst 4y ago
While this is nice, it seems like without bucketing you would run into complexity issues with large amounts of data, right? i.e. to plot a true eCDF you need a sorted list of all the collected datapoints. I guess for actual plotting you h
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by dafelst 4y ago
Absolutely, whoever they used as a technical consultant was on point, and for a change the writers/producers/directors actually took their advice.
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by dafelst 4y ago
I think the difficulty is (ESPECIALLY with Google and suspected fraud) that when they make a mistake, getting it corrected is basically impossible unless you know a person on the inside like an established account manager or a highly ranked
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by dafelst 4y ago
Not me, but Materialize has built a streaming query materialization solution completely in Rust AFAIK, and has raised around $100MM so far according to crunchbase. https://materialize.com/ Super cool product.
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by dafelst 4y ago
Same, I Parsec into my machine at the office using my dual screen 1440p monitor set up at home, the latency is incredibly good, so good sometimes I forget I'm using a remote machine. I was skeptical of it at first, but now I am a conv
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by dafelst 4y ago
41ms to draw a single quad seems incredibly slow, even on ancient hardware - I recall being able to do drawing quite a lot faster than that to a crt even on an old 4MHz z80 cpu in the 1980s. Is the slowness maybe from the IO to the display
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by dafelst 4y ago
I didn't know about md and this "write-mostly" option, that is a pretty neat setup.
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by dafelst 4y ago
I also did the same - no regrets, even with the pay cut. For me the best part is the people - being elbow to elbow with game designers and concept artists and 3d modelers and narrative folks and FX artists and composers and audio folks, et
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by dafelst 4y ago
...and now your solution is non-portable and as a cross-platform developer you need to implement N different build scripts. This is far more elegant.
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by dafelst 4y ago
Or, you know, just get rid of the ridiculous security theater that is the TSA checkpoint. I can imagine that would speed things up a great deal.
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by dafelst 4y ago
"The venture is led by Josh Sigel, a self-described “internationally recognized thought leader and innovator.” " The lack of self and social awareness of most of the San Francisco "tech elite" is truly second-to-none.
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by dafelst 4y ago
IIRC Postgres has supported predicate push down on trivial views like this for over a decade now, and possibly even more complex views these days (I haven't kept up with the latest greatest changes).
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by dafelst 4y ago
Interestingly Sony hardware and software to this day (even the PS5) still support ATRAC decoding.
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by dafelst 4y ago
Views are a simple solution to this problem. Pretty much all moderns RDBMSs support updatable views, so creating views over your tables with a simple WHERE deleted_at IS NULL solves the majority of the author's problems, including (II
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by dafelst 4y ago
It explicitly says in the second paragraph that a "virtual machine check" (presumably to stop examinees running the exam on VMs) is the cause of the issue. I think that makes the likelihood of them testing on cloud servers pretty
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by dafelst 4y ago
I like this apparent shift back to "small is okay" where not every service has to be an overengineered allegedly hyper-scalable distributed mess of five nines uptime with enterprise logging, alerting and monitoring. Those things a
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by dafelst 4y ago
One of the most rewarding things for me in my stints as a engineering manager has been providing a (hopefully) positive influence on my reports lives through listening and empathy and giving advice, then seeing them get through tough times

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