elchief

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   by elchief 10y ago

   I'm fairly convinced there are astro-turfers from the Big 3 on here for every Tesla article
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   by elchief 10y ago

   Wow, what a bunch of negative nellies on here. I hope you people have mildly unpleasant evenings. Congrats Tesla! That's amazing.
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   by elchief 10y ago

   I have a feeling that the NFL doesn't really need tablets on the sideline, but Paul Allen (MS Founder, Owner of the Seahawks) had something to do with it.
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   by elchief 10y ago

   Yo dawg, I heard you liked OpenBSD... Looks like it's Intel only for now, and OpenBSD only for now. From reddit: "So this is a native OpenBSD hypervisor running OpenBSD virtual machines, each with their own kernel? And it's i
5. 545.▲
   by elchief 10y ago

   Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winner, disagrees: https://hbr.org/1996/01/a-country-is-not-a-company
6. 546.▲
   by elchief 10y ago

   sure, but in hindsight would have been a better business move
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   by elchief 10y ago

   It makes sense if you need to spin up several servers really fast. Like, "I can't wait 2 weeks for my Supermicro reseller to ship and build them" fast. There is likely some optimal schedule where you start w cloud, order DIY
8. 548.▲
   by elchief 10y ago

   there is the smlar extension (written by one of the guys that wrote fts) but I'd prefer native You'd think it wouldn't be that hard seeing as SQLite has lots of working code, and it's reasonably similar to pg.
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   by elchief 10y ago

   It really needs TF-IDF or BM25
10. 550.▲
    by elchief 10y ago

    I don't see how Amazon can do it cheaper (cost-wise)/better than UPS or Fedex, who have been optimizing for 50 years. If they can't do it better/cheaper then the reason to do it is because UPS or Fedex are rent-seeking,
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    by elchief 10y ago

    According to these slides from Sqlite founder, Sqlite was a "spin-off" of Postgres: http://www.pgcon.org/2014/schedule/attachments/319_PGCon2014... According to this, "SQLite was originally wri
12. 552.▲
    by elchief 10y ago

    Sqlite was a postgres fork, off of 8.something, IIRC
13. 553.▲
    by elchief 10y ago

    We've acquired many companies over the years.
14. 554.▲
    by elchief 10y ago

    I work for a Fortune 1000, and we have production DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Access, and an old IBM mini computer...
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    by elchief 10y ago

    I guess that's why there's IKE 2... IKE 1 was seemingly purposely complicated.
16. 556.▲
    by elchief 10y ago

    How would you explain Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) to a layperson (2010)? http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/165/how-would-you-e...
17. 557.▲
    by elchief 10y ago

    smart cards cost like $15
18. 558.▲
    by elchief 10y ago

    So here's a small, low-res JPEG of it...wtf
19. 559.▲
    by elchief 10y ago

    I'm sorry. You're right. Exercise has no effect on muscle mass
20. 560.▲
    by elchief 10y ago

    You're stuck in the 1970s
21. 561.▲
    by elchief 10y ago

    Distance running has no effect on ones weight...are you really saying that? Exercise can change your physique dramatically. I've been a state-level bicycle racer (170 lb and skinny), master swimmer (195 lb brick shithouse), triathlete,
22. 562.▲
    by elchief 10y ago

    Jesus Christ. The problem is not saturated fats and dietary cholesterol. I see you're new here
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    by elchief 10y ago

    Look at a male Olympian long distance runner's physique. Is that what you want to look like? You probably won't get there, but is that a worthwhile goal? Whereas a short or mid distance runner looks more normal and healthy. This t
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    by elchief 10y ago

    I wrote one in PLV8 (Postgres) just for fun: http://blog.databasepatterns.com/2014/08/postgresql-spelling...
25. 565.▲
    by elchief 10y ago

    They don't rent them out. Source: am Vancouverite
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    by elchief 10y ago

    And maybe rewrite it in C# and call it OctothorpOffice...
27. 567.▲
    by elchief 10y ago

    See also fiancé / fiancée
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    by elchief 10y ago

    I don't understand how this would work with foreign keys. SQL:2011 Temporal specs how this should work, and it's in DB2 and MSSQL, but nothing yet in PG
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    by elchief 10y ago

    It's easy for someone viewing some logs to say "ok this is very likely automated scraping", though it can be harder to automate detecting this. In the same way that porn is obvious to a human, but not a computer.
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    by elchief 10y ago

    Except traffic from known scrapers (or what appear to be) is down 20% Sure, xpath and css selector experts can figure it out, but that's not everyone