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by fdr 3y ago
I work on it. Quite a few differences. Different business theory, different development theory...and, unavoidably, different era, all which change the likely "feel" of the project as it matures. To my mind, the biggest alteration
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by fdr 3y ago
Yeah, these are terminological bugs. I have reported them. I work there.
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by fdr 3y ago
I work on Ubicloud. REPL, testing, a few key high quality libraries. In turn: The REPL: lets you have unified development and operation. Makes it easy to record and review methodology when taking administrative action. Testing: both made mo
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by fdr 3y ago
The professor did gloss over briefly the difficulty in making the system work for a large number of vehicles, before arriving at a viable "signature" idea, as the article describes. Sounds like an area with a lot of false starts (
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by fdr 3y ago
> And I think terminal support is one of the things that holds Emacs back. Think about it - why do you even need a terminal if you’re already using Emacs? Because I'm doing non-trivial (but probably not extensive) work on a server t
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by fdr 3y ago
Access checking, yes, but the scope of memory corruption does increase unavoidably, given the main thing the pgsql-hackers investigating threads want: one virtual memory context when toggling between concurrent work. Of course, there's
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by fdr 3y ago
I think Haas is basically right, that the structure flows from the community structure, and that it's not clear alterations would be a net win. pgsql-hackers is producing the kind of docs only they can, but many usful kinds of docs the
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by fdr 3y ago
I can see why something as capital intensive as semiconductors would need shifts, to use equipment as close to 24/7 as possible. But many other aspects of the working conditions are pretty bad, and not justified by the pay nor efficien
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High-Compression Metrics Storage with Postgres with Hyperloglog(crunchydata.com)
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by fdr 3y ago
This sounds to me pretty close to a treasury money market fund, doesn't it? Money market funds are not insured for some nominal amount, but among the most common in practice have significant repurchase agreements with The Fed and hold
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by fdr 3y ago
It's not that simple for The Fed or the Federal Government, as they have to take over all the tedious affairs in banking (like KYC, among many smaller tasks), so I suspect they'll be reluctant. But that doesn't mean it would
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by fdr 3y ago
In most cases[1], when you update a tuple in Postgres, a new tuple is put somewhere else in the same heap, with different visibility information, "xmin", "xmax". The old tuple remains where it is. Index pointers to it li
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by fdr 3y ago
yeah, this is called "cancellation." Autovacuum is very polite and tries to let go of a lock when there's a conflict. So it lets go, over and over, until it triggers a heuristic deciding "no, not succeeding in this sessi
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by fdr 3y ago
One of the weird things about Postgres MVCC is that it is "optimized for rollback," as one person memorably quipped to me. This is not to imply a design principle, it's more a description of how things ended up, and the gener
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by fdr 3y ago
Not so much. WSL1 was a too-audacious attempt to implement enough Linux-style system calls in Windows to run Linux software. Which it did surprisingly well, considering...but also, often strangely, and slowly. I think the name is a bit iron
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by fdr 3y ago
Sometime in the early 2000s, when microarchitectural features for virtualization were rare, I used coLinux in a working capacity. It has a design was amazing at how well it worked given the constrained size of the code changes. In short, it
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by fdr 3y ago
It's harder to depart from the median situation in a large geographical region one way or another. All else equal (which is never the case, consult a real criminologist), San Francisco probably can do more about its property crime than
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by fdr 3y ago
Funny story. at Microsoft it is common to call anything having to do with "SQL Server" simply "SQL". It was even on internal tchotchkes, like a "Linux <3 SQL" fridge magnet, presumably alluding to Linux supp
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by fdr 3y ago
Property crime has been high for decades. Violent crime moves here and there, but is somewhat unremarkable for an American city.
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by fdr 3y ago
Are you using the computer for business? If so, you should be claiming VAT credits that neutralize VAT (since it's intended as a consumption tax). If they don't charge you VAT on behalf of the UK, the UK should be charging you the
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by fdr 4y ago
Not sure if this is common knowledge by now, but one of the mind blowing things about this blogger is he writes these WebGL interactions, seemingly by hand, no framework. Like, best I can tell, keying in the vertices. See https:/&#x2F
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by fdr 4y ago
While I agree there are some issues with how banks comingle a pretty complex stack of claimants and assets, that's how things have been for a few hundred years, so...the average person/business person...(if you are right about the
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by fdr 4y ago
While very few arrangements are optimal, I personally don't see how this is a good example. It seems like your assessment, as so far elaborated, is equivalent to "the government should not issue bonds." My opinion on equilibr
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by fdr 4y ago
Is it too high? These rates tend to track inflation pretty closely, to the extent the former has a definition. The short-dated government stuff (and the floating price of repurchase agreements) is probably roughly maintaining consumptive po
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by fdr 4y ago
I've never understood why people did not use money market funds more often. While the worst stuff that can happen is Not Great (e.g. taking a 3% haircut in the worst failings in the past, with underlying bonds of up to a couple years o
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by fdr 4y ago
There's some interesting wheels-within-wheels of moral hazard here. In particular, it sucks to be a sedentary depositor that did not contribute to the bank run, to let those depositors cook is to make it much better to be twitchy and c
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by fdr 4y ago
You could say that, but then you have to explain why all my commodity investments seem so terrible. This is mostly a joke, as I don't trade commodities; however, if BLS is juking the stats year over year with some agenda or other, basi
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by fdr 4y ago
there's no getting away with anything. The inflation stat "everyone" uses is preferred by economists because it is not as noisy, i.e. it has better temporal auto-correlation. However, there are all-inclusive metrics as well,
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by fdr 4y ago
I don't think that was true. Back when the iPhone and Google or even Google Docs were recent artifacts, there was a lot of positive press and interest from traditionally east coast enterprises, like politicos, about it. Popularity as p
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by fdr 4y ago
You're right. For an at least somewhat effortful, complicating feature like that to have made it out to release, it leaves the emergent sensibility of the organization in doubt.

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