datatrashfire

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by datatrashfire 2y ago
I think the main feature of excel that makes it the killer app it is, is that it is extremely approachable to non technical people. Making it more like programming erodes the core feature that motivates its use.
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by datatrashfire 2y ago
It’s a convenient scape goat. The incredible impracticality of nuclear power is easily reducible to its immense cost vs other sources of energy. But that goes against the nerd creed of nukes smart. The marketplace long ago abandoned nuclear
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by datatrashfire 2y ago
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/01/amazon-ec... This was actually added beginning of the year. Definitely was on my most wanted list for a while. You could technically use EFS, but that’s
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by datatrashfire 2y ago
I was recently told by my cardiologist to avoid chronically taking ibuprofen and other NSAIDs for pain and to favor Tylenol. Not as a specific recommendation based on my own health either, just her general recommendation that they are not s
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by datatrashfire 2y ago
my final straw with Android was pixel 4a stopping security updates in 2023. that phone was released in 2020. the iphone 12 released in the same year will receive security updates until 2027. from a hardware perspective my pixel 4a has a gre
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by datatrashfire 2y ago
One thing I have noticed with over zealous testers is to get 100% coverage they mock everything and test implementations. Then you end up writing 2x the code to get anything done. I think it's a net negative. I have more often had to r
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by datatrashfire 2y ago
It also accumulates in the environment after you spit it down the drain.
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by datatrashfire 2y ago
Best way to stay in shape in my opinion is to play a sport, especially in some sort of league/club. If you genuinely enjoy playing, it doesn't feel like a chore! Now into my mid 30s, I do not regularly go to the gym, I do not have
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by datatrashfire 3y ago
Built a PII masking system that demasked PII for all users.
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by datatrashfire 3y ago
and pay taxes
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by datatrashfire 3y ago
i honestly don't see the point of life without other people
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by datatrashfire 3y ago
love superset, but one thing that I would love to see is to make it easier for dashboards/charts to use a dynamic table that the user can select. we have multiple tenants + developer instances of our warehouse. to reuse the same dashb
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by datatrashfire 3y ago
At least for me, a lot of people don't really care about my hobbies, other than the people you share them with. I play a sport in a club. When I hang out with those people... yea it's all we talk about almost. Nobody in my family
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by datatrashfire 3y ago
job market for tech workers != broader economy. blue collar wages in percentage terms have been increasing faster than white collar. i think many orgs overinvested in tech during the pandemic. we've swung too far, so it's time to
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by datatrashfire 3y ago
I think the poster was being ironic. ie let's reinvent the train.
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by datatrashfire 3y ago
> I wouldn't marry anyone whose happiness is dependent on a artificially expensive hard and shiny rock whose prestige was inflated for years by an industry built on slave labor, especially when far less expensive alternatives exist.
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by datatrashfire 3y ago
What about the energy sector and their political allies' 50 year campaign gaslighting the public about the dangers posed by climate change?
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by datatrashfire 3y ago
The driverless cars require drivers and the AI is a statistical parrot.
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by datatrashfire 3y ago
as a huge clickhouse fan, i have to agree json is simply not a great experience even with all the changes in the last year
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by datatrashfire 3y ago
Wild Salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest are on track for extinction, in no small part due to the loss of habitat from dams.
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by datatrashfire 3y ago
*Californians will be able to delete personal online data at companies with staff competent enough to remove the data
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by datatrashfire 3y ago
> It is an idyllic, almost utopian, perspective. There is an imagined logic at play, entirely divorced from reality. In the world where Substack were an expeditious route to “more people” being able to “make a good and profitable career
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by datatrashfire 3y ago
Yea except the python solution is probably going to be several hundred lines, instead of a few. Python is often not installed in server environments unless it's a runtime environment for Python. Want to use a non standard library? Now
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by datatrashfire 3y ago
the salmon population in the Pacific Northwest is pretty much looking at long term extinction.
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by datatrashfire 3y ago
Root module is the official terminology used in Hashicorps own documentation. That's actually the term I'm most familiar with in my own experience. https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/modul
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by datatrashfire 3y ago
Row based databases are optimized for accessing compete rows and joins. Columnar storage is optimized for accessing all, or many column values across rows. This makes aggregates and applying transformation logic faster with columnar storage
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by datatrashfire 3y ago
Too expensive. It's giant and obtrusive. This will be a niche product for the Apple die hards. It will not reach mainstream acceptance.
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by datatrashfire 3y ago
I actually relate to this quite a bit. For years I was a workaholic. I was constantly stressed out over work, was generally pretty miserable person. A few years back got very intensely into a new hobby that blossomed and it totally changed
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by datatrashfire 3y ago
You measure wealth and income?
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by datatrashfire 4y ago
What specifically do you take issue with? I see a few claims: On the margins if people believe they are less likely to be caught for tax evasion they are more likely to do it. Clever people with a culture that encourages skirting or outrigh

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