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by fifilura 11mo ago
Middle level is where you pay with sweat.
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by fifilura 11mo ago
If you pump the water back into the existing reserviors you will have less flooding? I suggested a pump-water extension to existing hydro power reservoirs. Like your EV recharges when you release the pedal. Right shouldn't talk about E
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by fifilura 11mo ago
You could just build a back-channel for the existing hydro-dams? Those reservoirs are only full for a short period and that is when you dont need pump energy.
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by fifilura 11mo ago
Sounds like the traits of a psychopath?
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by fifilura 11mo ago
Presto is renamed to Trino now. But I concur with what you say. It is also very cheap in both maintenance and running cost. It is just an amazing tool and you pay (RIP) pennies.
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by fifilura 11mo ago
Declarative languages are fantastic to reason about code. But the true power is unlocked once the underlying libraries are implemented in a way that surpassesthe performance that a human can achieve. Since implementation details are hidden,
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by fifilura 1y ago
I'd also like to add that I'd consider it a delicacy. Because it is pretty much the first vegetable that you can harvest in spring. And you don't have to have a garden, you can just go out and pick it from anywhere.
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by fifilura 1y ago
In Sweden it is "Koka soppa på en spik". "Make soup with a (iron) nail". We also eat nettle soup with a boiled egg-half. I would not call it bland, it is just a dish that does not scream with its loudest voice in your fa
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by fifilura 1y ago
Sounds more like you need postgres as a backend than vice versa.
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by fifilura 1y ago
Sorry, wrong continent :)
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by fifilura 1y ago
It is true. I still hate it. I think because it always offers 10 different ways to do the same thing. So it is just too much to remember.
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by fifilura 1y ago
SQL. It is a joke, but an SQL engine can be massively parallel. You just don't know it, it just gives you what you want. And in many ways the operations resembles what you do for example in CUDA. CUDA backend for DuckDB or Trino would
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by fifilura 1y ago
It is not hyperbole. I'd say it is in the area of microservices and data crunching. Where 90% of the code is about ingesting and forwarding. Depends on your viewpoint. For some a car is just 4 wheels that take you somewhere. For a mech
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by fifilura 1y ago
How do you use your data lake? For me it is much more than just storing data, it is just as much for crunching numbers in unpredictable ways. And this is where postgres does not cut it. You need some more CPU and RAM than what you pay for i
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by fifilura 1y ago
Wow, 636 karma points in 8 days since registering! You are on a roll! (FWIW i upped this comment).
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by fifilura 1y ago
I have definitely seen many 'typical modern applications' where the business logic can be summarized into 100 lines of code. The rest is just shoveling things around.
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by fifilura 1y ago
Is it Java/Spring? Then probably go along and be happy that a human didn't have to write those 9000 lines for a trivial service.
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by fifilura 1y ago
It seems to me that if there is one way that is always faster it would hardly deserve a secret setting, it should be the default?
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by fifilura 1y ago
Krugman is 70+ with a successful career behind him. I don't think he needs Substack to make a living. And what world to we live in if that should stop him from criticising?
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by fifilura 1y ago
Fair enough i slipped. And single RAM. And yeah these days you can boost a single machine to enormous specifications. I guess the main difference will be the cost. A distributed engine can "lease" a little bit of time here and the
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by fifilura 1y ago
BigQuery is built for the distributed case while DuckDB is single CPU and requires the workarounds described in the article to act like a distributed engine.
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by fifilura 1y ago
I remember BigQuery had Distinct with HLL accuracy 10 years ago but rather quickly replaced it with actual accuracy. How would you compare this solution to BigQuery?
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by fifilura 1y ago
Isn't Trino built for exactly this, without the quirky workarounds?
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by fifilura 1y ago
Notebooks is a nice and soft way to bring a programming mindset to non-programmers. Your actions are repeatable and can be stored in a centralized repository. There are probably some macro abilities in QGIS (it is an amazing tool), but this
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by fifilura 1y ago
What we are handling now is the snowball started by GWB with the Iraq invasion. He basically said that it is fine for superpowers to invade countries with non preferable leaders. (Unless they have nuclear weapons) The difference in sentimen
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by fifilura 1y ago
It is only reasonable that Ukraine also plans for a future without war (as a sovereign state). And they will need an air force. And it seems natural that they seek alternatives from buying airplanes from the Moscow state. And even if they w
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by fifilura 1y ago
I think these tariffs are meant to encourage exactly that. Note also that there are many levels of bottlenecks. One could be in your neighborhood, if all your neighbours have EVs.
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by fifilura 1y ago
I was thinking about more arcane solutions, like a basement in a stone house on the north face of the house.
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by fifilura 1y ago
Sweden just mandated kW prices along with the kWh. I think because we are starting to see the extra strain on the grid with EVs.
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by fifilura 1y ago
Where do you store your wine? (Only half kidding, but I am sure you have solutions like this in Spain)

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