fabian2k

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by fabian2k 3y ago
I meant Prime Video. But even the store part of Prime is not that convincing anymore to me, shipping times feel much more random to me now than they used to. So maybe there is a significant speed advantage in Prime, but it's just hard
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by fabian2k 3y ago
I canceled Prime after they added ads. I might have canceled it anyway at some point, but this was a very clear and significant reduction in value. They never really competed all that well, but there were some interesting original shows on
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by fabian2k 3y ago
The article described the content as "white nationalism, QAnon conspiracy theories, and harassing transgender people". I think it is appropriate to label that kind of content "far right".
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by fabian2k 3y ago
Postgres has a query planner, I mean this entire post is about improvements to it. So I think there either was some miscommunication or your friend doesn't know anything about Postgres. There are very large Postges databases that seem
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by fabian2k 3y ago
As far as I understand prepared statements don't help here as the JIT output is not saved but generated for each execution. In this case I'm also using an ORM (EF Core) which doesn't expose the ability to prepare statements.
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by fabian2k 3y ago
Query planner improvements are always welcome, it's a very important part of the DB. Though of course most of the time you notice it is when it's not doing what you want ;-). One part of this I found rather frustrating is the JIT
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by fabian2k 3y ago
He is ;-) I only checked two papers by that author, but they both contained references to other papers by him in that journal.
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by fabian2k 3y ago
Maybe he just wants to brag with his h-index. Or he uses the citation metrics to appear more prestigious when applying to grants or presenting himself in general. Or he has some bonus tied to publication numbers. Or he siphons off the publi
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by fabian2k 3y ago
The title does sound very much like clickbait, but the "paper" is certainly bad enough that I wouldn't even consider it a scientific paper at all. It's about twice the size of the abstract of a typical paper, and has ess
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by fabian2k 3y ago
They're much too big of a target now for spy- or malware. They have too much access to everything we do in a browser. And you can't just evaluate them once, they auto-update silently and you never know when they might be bought by
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by fabian2k 3y ago
Lab notebooks are often digital today. Of course they shouldn't get lost and all changes need to be logged. The software described here would be entirely unacceptable as a lab notebook.
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by fabian2k 3y ago
Depends probably on how extensive and detailed the notes are. And the big problem seems to be that they are hiding the fact that those notes were from memory.
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by fabian2k 3y ago
The default view reorders the bytes as far as I can tell. It's mentioned in the help, but I don't really get how to make use of this feature. Maybe I tried it on the wrong kinds of files, but I found the default view confusing. Bu
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by fabian2k 3y ago
One advantage of this is e.g. that you do not have to register for elections at all in Germany. You get automatically notified of all elections based on your residence and can vote without further steps.
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by fabian2k 3y ago
That seems incredibly fast, tires should last a lot longer than that.
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by fabian2k 3y ago
None of the attacks listed in the post would be an issue for any kind of modern web application. Why should I add a WAF for this?
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by fabian2k 3y ago
While I'm also not a huge fan of this way of writing, it works very well as a supporting device for me. You have a lot of room there for world building, and the people interested in it read or listen to all the scraps and everyone else
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by fabian2k 3y ago
No need for any blockchains here, this essentially describes an SDMS (scientific data management system). Which do exist, but are not very common outside of larger companies. And the more common Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELN) are in most ca
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by fabian2k 3y ago
Pubmed is the database you'd typically want to look at for medical and natural sciences. You can configure email alerts for specific keywords there, though it's been ages that I've done that.
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by fabian2k 3y ago
Dark roasted coffee will usually remove most of the differences that were in the original beans. To notice the details you will have to use light to medium roasted beans and be reasonably good at preparing the coffee well. There are many pa
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by fabian2k 3y ago
The mainstream right/conservative party is the CDU/CSU. The AFD is a newer party to the right of them.
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by fabian2k 3y ago
The thing that triggered the protests was a meeting of the far right including AFD people where they discussed a plan to deport all migrants including those that have a German passport. There is no listening to that kind of blatantly uncons
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by fabian2k 3y ago
I can think of plenty of inefficient ways to do this. The nice thing about the SKIP LOCKED queue is that it is very simple and pretty fast. Postgres just has to use an index to look at the jobs in some defined order and take the first one t
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by fabian2k 3y ago
I'm thinking about relatively simple systems and not "real" fairness. The case where I've seen this being a bit problematic is with such a queue in an application where jobs are sometimes inserted in large bursts. It doe
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by fabian2k 3y ago
There are plenty of articles about writing simple job queues in Postgres using SKIP LOCKED, and I personally like that version quite a bit for cases where you don't want to add another separate component just for the queue. But I haven
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by fabian2k 3y ago
The largest NMR spectrometer you can buy today uses high-temperature superconductors and classical ones, but it still cools everything down with liquid helium. As far as I understand you can push more current through the high temperature su
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by fabian2k 3y ago
Yes, the actual scientific data should be in a central storage location or ideally in an SDMS or similar system.
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by fabian2k 3y ago
People have been running real businesses before the cloud providers existed. Of course you can run a business with rented dedicated servers.
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by fabian2k 3y ago
Not sure about the numbers in the article, but in general the comparisons of household wealth between countries are a bit tricky. One item that is often not counted for Germany is the pension, which is mandatory for regular employees. Anoth
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by fabian2k 3y ago
I can't remember the last time I had a power outage, it must have been many years now. And even the few power outages I can vaguely remember were very short, so electronics restarted but you weren't without power for long enough t

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