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by dagss 7y ago
I guess what I'm saying is that many people had that exact same hope, for the same reason, 20 years ago -- and that hope ended up being extremely wrong; the exact opposite of what actually happened. Of course we cannot extrapolate. Noo
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by dagss 7y ago
The internet is already a huge step up in communication from 20 years ago. Turns out people use that to find ideologically likeminded people meaning tribalist movements everywhere are stronger now than before internet came along. 90's
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by dagss 7y ago
The problem is Sonos is making it easier for people to perform acts that are bad for the environment. The second hand market is very good for the environment. By going after it, Sonos is actively hurting the environment. That people have a
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by dagss 7y ago
Floating point has a specific purpose in computing, where you deal with measurement, and don't know the scale. Adding one nanometer to a light year (to get back exactly a ligh t year) is actually a useful feature in numerical physical
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by dagss 7y ago
Only a (smallish) portion of the western carbon footprint is directly correlated with having a decent life. Yes, the entire world cannot buy larger cars than what we need them for, we cannot fly around the world on vacations, we cannot thro
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by dagss 7y ago
Analysts and data engineers these days mostly work on seperate data warehouses? Do they get involved in the OLTP work in your case? I was talking about using SQL specifically for the OLTP workload not analysis. If a query that is necessary
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by dagss 7y ago
With database I meant an instance of whatever database engine you are using, not the actual data. My current project uses mssql. Each test run probably spins up and destroys 100 databases (inside one mssql docker container that is spun up f
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by dagss 7y ago
I strongly disagree. For many backends/purposes, SQL is really the thing doing all the real work and the backend's just some fancy authentication and validation layer. Stick close to the technology doing the heavy lifting. If pe
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by dagss 7y ago
How would MS stop anyone from integrating with AD?
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by dagss 7y ago
We write most code in backend (go), but we DEFINITELY spin up a new, real SQL database in for every test in our automated test suite. ("CREATE DATABASE" is rather cheap; use a fresh docker DB instance for each suite run, or run i
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by dagss 7y ago
I am sure you also like to point out that when people are using cash, they are "really" exhanging rectangular pieces of cotton/paper/plastic.
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by dagss 7y ago
I understand that many prefer this. My point wasn't really so much mine or your preference -- my point was that it is a question of stylistic preference, not about spaghetti vs not. As you simply describe your own stylistic preference
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by dagss 7y ago
I disagree with this. I think something should be a seperate function only if it is (or likely will be) called from several callsites. If you try to not always think about contrived cases while writing code, then this rule can sometimes lea
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by dagss 7y ago
That may be. The word we use is more a property of the ventilation system ... that you blow as much air into the house as out of it, active airflow in both directions. (As opposed to older ventilation where only exhaust has a fan.) This fac
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by dagss 7y ago
Balanced ventilation (not sure what the English term is) is standard these days and recovers about 90% of the energy (heats air going in using the air going out). I have one at home. Dont know if they have one set up, but they could. But po
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by dagss 7y ago
I could be wrong but I think mould appears when humidity condenses to water drops. So you need both humidity and a temperature contrast (e.g., hot inside air meets a cold wall). So as long as the inside and outside of the house has the same
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by dagss 7y ago
Well just as an example, around here concrete cellars were usually not insulated before. They were storage areas. In the 80s people started insulating them in the wrong way (on the inside), creating a condensation point between the insulati
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by dagss 7y ago
That is exactly like saying that I only account for a billionth of the earths cO2 emissions, so there is no reason for me to cut emissions in any way. The vast majority of the worlds population has never set foot in an airplane. You have to
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by dagss 7y ago
So warming is global and when there is night at one place, then that is because there is daytime somewhere else. Yes, if you can just shut off the sun for some time, we can definitely easily overcome global warming... ...
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by dagss 7y ago
Noone cares about earths history. Earth will be fine. Nature will adapt. What we care about is that all of industrialized human civilization has been with polar ice caps...
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by dagss 7y ago
Citations on wild predictions in past not being correct?
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by dagss 7y ago
How do you get the mental resources and education to "provide value"? How do you become resourceful? Simplest way is: Do not be born in a poor family. On a more narrow level -- if people have to worry about food on the table, the
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by dagss 7y ago
I know and that is why I said "as opposed to user entry"
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by dagss 7y ago
I don't get the rules on "timestamptz". Normally I would want to enforce the use of UTC for points in time (as opposed to user entry) across backend code and APIs. If the column name is "eventtime"... then it is (of
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by dagss 7y ago
Plenty of projects for harvesting CO2 getting prototyped -- and my point is the OP is not one of them. If the purpose is just storage and not making fuel, there are other ways (like liquid CO2).
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by dagss 7y ago
This article has nothing to do with carbon recapture. The gasoline produced from carbon is then intended for burn... This is simply an alternative electricity/power storage mechanism. But great to reduce emissions but is not intended f
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by dagss 7y ago
Even in this reply, you fail to mention that JavaScript and Python (and the old Java) drivers uses another protocol for which the latency SLA does not hold! That information is vital. And it looks as though you are correcting me, when you a
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by dagss 7y ago
The US still uses landfills? Around here (Northern Europe) (non-recycled) garbage has been burned for heat & electricity for a long time. Garbage is sometimes shipped between cities for this purpose (i.e. purchased) I always assumed gar
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by dagss 8y ago
Beware of the REST API of Cosmos. We fell into the trap of using it.. 1) it is not covered by the latency SLA. This is buried pretty deep... 2) suddenly you get magical responses that are supposed to trigger the client to do something (e.g.
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by dagss 8y ago
Disagree about "conflate". SQL is very geared towards relational semantics. They may be independent in theory (a stretch), but any non-trivial SQL query (say a medium sized one with 50 lines abd 10 tables) is meaningless without a

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