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by ellisv 2y ago
> never sat next to an uninsulated southwest Denver wall baking in the sun in early August I must admit, although I’ve of course sat next to an uninsulated west Denver wall baking in the sun in early August and an insulated southwest Den
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by ellisv 2y ago
VCs will frequently invest in competing startups to hedge their bets.
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by ellisv 2y ago
Unfortunately we use a cloud provider to host our databases, so I can only install limited extensions.
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by ellisv 2y ago
I had a cron that would aggregate the Git contributions my team made which I’d summarize and share out to leadership at the end of each week. I’m sure with an off the shelf LLM the entire process could be automated now.
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by ellisv 2y ago
> I'm a huge fan of FDW's Do you have any recommendations on how to manage credentials for `CREATE USER MAPPING ` within the context of cloud hosted dbs?
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by ellisv 2y ago
I'm curious what you feel is specifically missing.
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by ellisv 2y ago
I've been waiting for "incremental view maintenance" (i.e. incremental updates for materialized views) but it looks like it's still a few years out.
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by ellisv 2y ago
It is definitely an improvement on multiple `JSONB_TO_RECORDSET` and `JSONB_TO_RECORD` calls for flattening nested json.
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by ellisv 2y ago
It’s been around since at least 2016, probably a few years earlier.
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by ellisv 2y ago
It is probably helpful in some cases and unhelpful in others. R uses multiple dispatch, so calling `foo` on different types can produce different output. It isn't clear to me how Vapour handles this. In general though, folks are passin
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by ellisv 2y ago
Do you need to fast charge often?
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by ellisv 2y ago
> where a Chevy Bolt has to double park to use a Tesla fast charger at <=50kW, doubly driving down utilization I’ll have you know my Bolt EUV can get 53, maybe 54 kW, for 5, or maybe 10 minutes, thank you very much. But seriously whil
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by ellisv 2y ago
Looks pretty cool. I could see this being useful for some of my coworkers. I might try it with read-only access. I pretty much always use DataGrip or pgcli and don't see that changing, but will keep an eye on this.
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by ellisv 2y ago
> It's fine to use subject matter expertise beforehand to decide on what is appropriate to include or not in your analysis. I would say it is more than fine; probably the most important thing.
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by ellisv 2y ago
> Yet every time I have compared the two they give similar selections — so how can one be “evil” and the other so glorified? Frequentist and Bayesian approaches often yield similar results but philosophically are different. In general I
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by ellisv 2y ago
I also came to stats through social sciences (now have a masters in stats). I was actually taught about stepwise regression in a stats course before I encountered it in social science. The problems of stepwise are numerous. In my view many
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by ellisv 2y ago
ah I remember the good ol’ days when you could pitch a VC on “Uber but for salmonella” and easily secure your Series A
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by ellisv 2y ago
I really like the vinyl stickers for the NFC cards. I recently got some blank white NFC cards and have been trying to figure out how to decorate them.
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by ellisv 2y ago
It would be better if they put pressure on the Senate to act.
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by ellisv 2y ago
Token ABCD is associated to the card number 0123 on the bank's backend.
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by ellisv 2y ago
My take away is if my physical card number is stolen, I should report it to the issuer and also ask them to disassociate the card from any digital wallets.
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by ellisv 2y ago
It’s not just XCode but also all of the other tools and resources.
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by ellisv 2y ago
The problem is when the law is vague regarding a particular issue. Look at Massachusetts v. EPA (2007). The Clean Air Act (CAA) of 1963 requires the EPA to set emission standards for "any air pollutant" from motor vehicles or mo
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by ellisv 2y ago
Just want to note that Itron has several models of residential electrical meters and they have the different capabilities.
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by ellisv 2y ago
Just because a gender gap exists in Y, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t also try to minimize it in X.
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by ellisv 2y ago
There are timer devices for this. Generally you want your water heater to keep the water hot enough to kill any bacteria and prevent their growth.
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by ellisv 2y ago
I used to work closely to this on whole home energy disaggregation. There are products for doing this, but the value is very limited. Excluding EVs, heating and cooling is the largest factor for energy consumption followed by other large ap
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by ellisv 2y ago
Only 2 of the people I regularly message use Android; nearly all of my friends and family use iPhone. Our friend group uses Messenger to accommodate the Android users and I doubt that will change just because of RCS.
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by ellisv 2y ago
Retailers know what you bought from them and how much you spend with them. Costco has a better picture than most other retailers because of the membership model, but really all retailers engage with this. Knowing, for example, that a custom
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by ellisv 2y ago
> This always felt like "treating the symptom, not the cause" approach to the problem. Given the historical treatment of racial groups in the US, I'd say a little column A and a little column B. Racial minorities have not

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