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by ericb 4y ago
I think that a lot of what we call racism is dressed up classism. If race A is poorer on average, people of race A will get treated as if they are poor--more likely to steal, more likely to break laws as they have less to lose. If race A is
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> Time partitions can be removed or detached via SQL. We’re working on automating that. Cool! Will that be continuous queries that can be used for downsampling? I'm working on load testing and monitoring tools. Since either can prod
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It is definitely useful to be able to consume a lot of data quickly, especially high-cardinality data. Inevitably, an infinite flood of data will eventually consume any finite space limitations. I'm wondering what QuestDB's story
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> Apoploe vesrreaitais" Could refer to something along the lines of a "fan / wedge" "feathered" maybe?
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Hi Deepak! * Is this node-only, then? * If it is open-source, what's the pricing model? One suggestion is that you could probably capture a lot of search traffic from devs just starting on SSO by providing great content on the topic. W
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by ericb 4y ago
I remember having beers with a friend who now runs a capital management fund in early 2000. He was telling me how Warren Buffets ideas don't work anymore and how he missed out on dotcom. A couple years later, Warren was way ahead of
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by ericb 4y ago
Or that the fast growing startups using it are large-scale now and hoovering up available talent. Github, shopify, airbnb, gitlab, coinbase, hulu, twitch, etc.
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This is fine advice, but the topic is the "manager's handbook" not other, better, management practices, so the advice is off-topic. Did you read the section in question? Advice about avoiding zero sum games isn't relevan
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> Instead, provide confidence levels, increase confidence by doing the riskiest bits earlier, and give frequent status updates. Right--you're trying to choose the winning move: not to play. That's not really an option.
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Only management sufficiently divorced from reality can forget that "reality has a surprising amount of detail" https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-digital... > suggests that half of all la
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> The first time someone doesn’t meet an agreement, you point it out to them immediately. If they apologize, you respond that apologies are not needed, and all that is required is that they only make agreements that they can commit to an
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Superior googling abilities. I'm not joking.
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> Russia has only weeks worth of tank supply left before they are at a direct disadvantage in tank supply compared to the Ukrainians who are gaining supply. Can I ask where you found this data? Specifically, I'd like to see the math
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You are not correct.
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I see in your other comments you are towing the Russian propaganda line. Your comment here didn't age well.
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Looks like they decided to conduct their large scale exercises in Ukraine.
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> they’re not some magical antidote to sadness or malaise Very True. Although, for loneliness, they might be close for a while. I really feel for folks who were trapped at home alone during the pandemic without kids or family. Especially
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by ericb 5y ago
The average US town has 6k people, so this is like relocating the population of 25 US towns to new, temporary housing. Then you have to set up logistics to provide continual daily food and fuel to the new location for all those people. Then
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by ericb 5y ago
> only the US & allied governments are actually actively promoting the idea of going to war. It's incredibly costly to park 150,000 troops and armor in a position to invade. But your issue is with the governments saying "e
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by ericb 5y ago
I can make stuff that has never existed before. I can make stuff that changes businesses. I can make stuff that changes lives. I do this with my mind, with no raw materials. My ideas and time are the only limits. How could someone with crea
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by ericb 5y ago
The IntelliJ / RubyMine / PyCharm Local History feature is amazing! You can time-travel any folder or file in a project to the way it looked each time it was saved/changed and pick changes or whole files out from the histor
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by ericb 5y ago
Thor is gorgeous for command line apps. http://whatisthor.com/ Capybara is fantastic for automated testing https://github.com/teamcapybara/capybara . Gosu for 2d Games: https://www.libgosu.o
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> and a prison guard stealing their music That's a pretty tortured metaphor. Would it be morally ok for the prisoners to steal the guard's music? What if cultural borrowing is the societal precursor to acceptance and integratio
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> Please provide a link to the RCT measuring efficacy against Omikron. Even if that's the hill you've chosen to die on, Delta is still out there and at a high prevalence especially in North America and you've admitted that
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The vaccine studies were placebo controlled.
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It looks like it does now: https://podman.io/blogs/2021/10/04/m1macs.html
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Traffic capture struggles with speculative testing in general, and can't account for new functionality that doesn't exist yet. The biggest blocker is that most traffic is highly sensitive to the environment. For example, UUID&#x2
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One thing to keep in mind is it is easy to be led astray about your scalability with Apache Bench. As one example, a repeated get of the same resource is often effortless for an application server due to caching, whereas a real load will be
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The simpler explanation--they know the virus is most likely not dangerous to themselves . But they care about others, have empathy, and don't want to have anyone else's death on their conscience, and think we should all work to
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I have given a lot of demos. Most probably cost the company I was working for sales given the "tour of the product" approach. The way to a better demo is to first learn why they are talking to you, and what their pain is. Usually,

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