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by fifilura 2y ago
Interesting. Switzerland an Norway both have a very moutaineous terrain. Does that make it more difficult to fit many channels?
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by fifilura 2y ago
"Copyright 2020 Goldman Sachs." Probably added in panic mode around March 2020?
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by fifilura 2y ago
It is a fun story but it does not have to be true. I think von Neumann would understand some basic probability already by then. Or maybe not? But at least there is a non-zero probability that it did not happen like that.
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by fifilura 2y ago
I have nothing else to say than thanks for the writeup. And you are most likely correct. I think what I (and OP) wanted to say was that there should be a stage where you store the intermediate results of the aggregation as well. Unless you
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by fifilura 2y ago
Yeah this is why i am hoping that EMR serverless would be the next step. You get the freedom of not having to set up the resources. It is cheap because you are basically eating the breadcrumbs of available cpu capacity "oh i have 10 id
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by fifilura 2y ago
Senior engineers have less time to write code period. And this is what saves the day. Code is a liability.
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by fifilura 2y ago
Athena is presto/trino rebranded. But you dont really pay for CPU and it can basically scale to 100 CPUs for free. It is not really a database but an SQL interface for map/reduce jobs. But it can handle any size of data and is pre
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by fifilura 2y ago
You can use awk for that and pipe it into separate files for each bucket. And the you awk a bit more and the you are done. This was sarcasm based on several earlier discussions. And i am prepared for the downvotes. I think awk is fine for s
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by fifilura 2y ago
Since you are already running on AWS, I wonder if you would consider AWS serverless EMR an option? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr/latest/EMR-Serverless-UserGu... I guess the pricing will be cheaper than renting e
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by fifilura 2y ago
And Amundsens cabin and his ship can be seen in Oslo. https://frammuseum.no/ Highly worth the visit (together with everything else in beautiful Norway, Disclaimer I am Swedish)
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by fifilura 2y ago
"he is not celebrated to the same degree (at least in the US) as Shackleton." As a Scandinavian I am pretty surprised by this, and I did not know. But I guess drama sells in the US :)
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by fifilura 2y ago
Pretty much everyone during this period was an amateur compared to Amundsen. Including the previously mentioned Nansen. Nansen was a generation earlier though, and among other things built the ship Amundsen used. Amundsen made something dif
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by fifilura 2y ago
"I suppose not" I guess the same can be said about Fridtjof Nansen, arguably the greatest polar explorer of all. And a great man in most other respects. But alas, he never crossed the north east passage and never reached the north
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by fifilura 2y ago
CORBA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Object_Request_Broker_A... This predated REST. And the rest is history.
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by fifilura 2y ago
Apart from the Endurance mission which i think can be put in the same category as Apollo 13. He also reached farthest south at 88,23 a few years before Amundsen/Scott, and many of the paths he took served as an inspiration for Amundsen
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by fifilura 2y ago
"and career wise -- should be working on the biggest project" That explains a lot. I have seen a lot of SWE that believe they are working on bigger project but they are not. Probably 90% of them. These are the guys that will produ
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by fifilura 2y ago
This is what I have to teach people working with numbers. Often with a risk of looking like a fool to the SWE crowd. That working with numbers is a craft in itself. And the primary driver for the craft are the numbers. Not SWE practices. Yo
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by fifilura 2y ago
Yeah maintenance has been a major problem lately. But this route has delivered iron ore reliably for probaly 100 years now. The iron ore from Sweden was (somewhat paradoxically) the main reason Hitler invaded Norway.
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by fifilura 2y ago
The location in Sweden is not particularly bad. The logistics to shipping is very well established through the all season harbor Narvik (in Norway) because of the iron ore mines. The culprit is the Sami people that just happened to live the
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by fifilura 2y ago
I agree. It seems like these news got old pretty quickly https://lkab.com/en/press/europes-largest-deposit-of-rare-ea...
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by fifilura 2y ago
I think the camera deserves a medal too!
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by fifilura 2y ago
I wonder why humans can't see infrared? Seems like it would have been a good survivability enhancement that evolution could have taken care of?
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by fifilura 2y ago
Two benefits: 1) The flow is clearer: take this, then transform this, then filter this 2) CTEs makes it easy to debug parts. You just change what you select from on the last line. Number 2 is the kicker IMO
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by fifilura 2y ago
Was your point that that goes for SQL? One nifty thing with SQL is that you get all the threading/remote processing for free without having to think about it. That can be pretty hairy to write yourself.
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by fifilura 2y ago
I use to say that you have learned SQL the moment you forgot everything about C/C++. Imperative programming is a strong habit to kick. You just have to let go. And once you have you will see things from a very different perspective. Al
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by fifilura 2y ago
Any advanced topic requires struggling through a big set of "special cases" to master. This is how I learned mathematics for example. After you have learnt enough of the special cases (trees) you start to be able to connect them a
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by fifilura 2y ago
I think the "at worst" was what happened here. Both in terms of taking a shortcut in the priority queue because it was easily measurable, lived on it's own right without complex dependencies and "the platform guys also n
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by fifilura 2y ago
(Honest question) What is the difference between this microservice architecture that gets a lot of hate here?
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by fifilura 2y ago
Oh, external validation vs internal validation has certainly been a humbling experience for me too. So humbling I could compare it with a train crash. Sadly possibly over-compensating for it now, but I don't want to go back to the exte
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by fifilura 2y ago
G&R = Guns N'Roses

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