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by geysersam 1y ago
Duckdb has optional adaptive radix tree indexing ( https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/sql/indexes.html )
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by geysersam 1y ago
But you can choose to not trust people that are part of citation rings.
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by geysersam 1y ago
It's both a fact that China has significantly lower emissions per capita than the west, and that they need to eliminate coal from their energy mix to become carbon neutral. The propaganda aspect is comparing absolute emissions of China
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by geysersam 1y ago
> Every function with an IO interface cannot be reasoned about locally because of unexpected interactions with the io parameter input. This is particularly nasty when IO objects are shared across library boundaries. Isn't this just
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by geysersam 1y ago
Isn't it a mirror because the queen is so obsessed with her looks? She gazes at her own beauty in the mirror, before asking the mirror to confirm that she is indeed most beautiful in the land.
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by geysersam 1y ago
So what? I'm sure I personally consume much less than your country of 40 million
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by geysersam 1y ago
This is propaganda. It's impossible to take this comment in good faith
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by geysersam 1y ago
> Yet most of the world relies on such a system and it’s produced the highest advancement of any system. Nah this is a simplification at best. Countries have regulation and laws, none rely only on free markets. GMO is great but it needs
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by geysersam 1y ago
Really? How so?
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by geysersam 1y ago
Sure, but very likely they'll be able to explain their lack to you in a satisfactory way, or, at least in a way that makes you think they're human.
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by geysersam 1y ago
What's a few years? They go by in the blink of an eye. Zig is a perfectly usable language. People who want to use it will, those who don't won't.
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by geysersam 1y ago
That doesn't make any sense. Bitcoin miners get wealth from people buying Bitcoin, not from electricity customers. Same for AI. It's a wealth transfer from electricity customers to electricity producers if anything. Most likely mo
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by geysersam 1y ago
> So I guess the author is trying to help a decision maker to make a decision when faced with a question of whether to use SQL or not. That's not my impression. A decision maker today should typically make the decision to use SQL. I
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by geysersam 1y ago
Looking at the submissions from the same site: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=allthingssmitty.com exactly one submission every two weeks, either a very disciplined writer or some sort of automation.
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by geysersam 1y ago
That's useful, thanks!
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by geysersam 1y ago
Paying an entity for building a useless empty building, so that they can build another useless empty building... All as a kind of wealth insurance scheme for a rich person who has reason to think their assets might not be safe in their home
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by geysersam 1y ago
> Does anyone else find this article rather AI-ish? After reading the whole thing, yes! Specifically it feels incoherent in the way AI text often is. It starts by praising unix pipes for their simple design and the explicit tradeoffs the
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by geysersam 1y ago
I love duckdb but I don't understand your second point. How does duckdb wasm decrease the latency of network calls in your app?
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by geysersam 1y ago
> Using != or NOT IN (...) is almost always going to be inefficient. Why do you say that? My understanding is that as long as the RHS of NOT IN is constant (in the sense that it doesn't depend on the row) the condition is basically
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by geysersam 1y ago
> production methods replacing old ones in a never-ending cycle > sustained economic growth Is it really such an unreasonable reading?
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by geysersam 1y ago
> Technology advances rapidly and affects us all, with new products and production methods replacing old ones in a never-ending cycle. This is the basis for sustained economic growth since the end of the 19th century... Am I missing some
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by geysersam 1y ago
Productivity gains don't only come from technological progress. Accumulation of capital, such as infrastructure, education, access to healthcare etc, also increase productivity.
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by geysersam 1y ago
Same here! Just thought it was a funny fluke, so I tried again, same again. Guess SAT solving is just really easy
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by geysersam 1y ago
You can always manually define your interpolation: coalesce(x, (lag(x, 1)+lag(x, -1))/2) is kind of the same as fill . From there you can go crazy and define whatever insane interpolations you want. One limitation is that you c
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by geysersam 1y ago
Maybe you can use his `or` construct to allow a `--server` without `--port`, but then also add a default `error_message` property. After parsing you check if `error_message` exists and raise that error.
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by geysersam 1y ago
Not sure that's true. How do you even "consume" wealth, assuming the wealth is more significant than a few millions in the bank. Nordic countries have high VAT but that's hardly going to hurt you.. On the other hand Swed
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by geysersam 1y ago
I find it hard to take that as a serious position. Alcohol certainly causes more suicides than ChatGPT. Should it be illegal? Suicides spike around Christmas, that's well known, does Christmas cause suicides? I think you see where I&#
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by geysersam 1y ago
Don't know why you're being downvoted. That is the logical conclusion. Although, there's also a chance that those "blackmail gangs" never materialize. After all, you could already ten years ago pay cheap labor to cr
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by geysersam 1y ago
> I was skeptical initially too but having read through this, it's among the most horrifying things I have read. Same here! I was very sceptical, thinking it was a perfect combination of factors to trigger a sort of moral panic. But
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by geysersam 1y ago
> Only they are legally responsible if they cause a death, which makes them care I see this kind of cynicism often on this site and I frankly find it inexplicable. It doesn't seem warranted. The vast majority of therapists clearly c

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