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541.
by gfody 7y ago
..or schools willing to change their air filters (or attempt to measure the effect of having changed their air filters) are more likely to be among the higher performers according to traditional KPIs (when controlled for observer bias)?
542.
by gfody 7y ago
If Google complies would they deliver the data to the defendant so that he has the option to plead the 5th if there’s anything incriminating?
543.
by gfody 7y ago
the penalty for using a cached plan that is no longer optimal can be devastating, I've often had to use "with recompile" to get around this on SQL Server - I don't think global plan cache is a no-brainer, the scenario yo
544.
by gfody 7y ago
same situation as with any interface, you either break backwards compatibility or you don't - this is not a problem for databases to solve
545.
by gfody 7y ago
of all the reasons a sproc may need to change I can't imagine one where you want to keep the old version around while also giving the new version the same name as the old
546.
by gfody 7y ago
Ayahuasca is typically consumed as part of a larger ritual ceremony that steers the participants towards a particular experience (depending on the Shaman you may be told to expect to encounter a certain entity named "Mescalito" fo
547.
by gfody 7y ago
this ultimately gives you more control though, assuming your OS's notification system is reasonably configurable
548.
by gfody 7y ago
when comes time for your personal websites 15 minutes of fame it becomes inaccessible due to severe upstream bottlenecking
549.
by gfody 7y ago
Your third example is just some combination of the first two. Performance issues: the efficient solution is too complex, we don't have time. Code cleanup: this is not the way I would've done it if I had more time. The debt metapho
550.
by gfody 7y ago
I’ve heard this a lot. I always listen at normal 1x speed and that usually seems plenty fast as my mind gets busy with visualizing the scenes and characters and filling in bits of detail and whatnot for realism. I wonder if folks who speed
551.
by gfody 7y ago
the article also highlights the Chinese government's interest in the phenomenon. the risk of this "drug" being used against the people is pretty realistic in China over places where the internet is free and open.
552.
by gfody 7y ago
> we’ve settled on the greater of the two evils in retrospect it'll've been the smoothest option for our eventual transition to submitting to algorithm/machine bosses. first get comfortable submitting to humans acting like
553.
by gfody 7y ago
this feels so dystopian to me. not only can the media be engineered to push whatever agenda but so can the perceived social reaction to it - like the mind control machine choking up its grip. of course it happens in China first
554.
by gfody 7y ago
I've been using an iPad w/Brydge keyboard as a laptop replacement for a while - mouse support in iOS 13 is closing the remaining gaps.
555.
by gfody 7y ago
you'd need a reasonable definition of "productive" before we can start measuring the spread between the least and most productive engineers. any reasonable definition wouldn't constrain the spread to a single order of ma
556.
by gfody 7y ago
needs more vision. decentralization alone won't get us out of this nightmare. even if we design the perfect replacement system, we'll never get the mainstream off the old one - not without nuking Moab Utah.
557.
by gfody 7y ago
that's a helpful explanation thank you! I was misunderstanding the statement about Pluribus not modeling its opponents between hands as between rounds - it's definitely modeling its opponents and detecting bluffs by understanding
558.
by gfody 7y ago
> you don't need to adapt to opponent weaknesses to win at poker at the highest levels that may be true for limit poker, but in a no-limit tournament the best this bot could do is not lose. as the pressure increases with the blinds
559.
by gfody 7y ago
I think the real interesting value in putting an RDBMS underneath the filesystem would come from relationally modeling the objects in the filesystem, ie files and types and their contents, and then being able to query those things with SQL.
560.
by gfody 7y ago
not just everest is crowded http://www.thisworldrocks.com/17-bucket-list-items-ruined-by...
561.
by gfody 8y ago
or find 65,536 words and use them to encode 16-bit numbers, then you could leverage your existing word associations to memorize
562.
by gfody 8y ago
Mongo's debut was well timed to ride the JSON crazewave.
563.
by gfody 8y ago
> an ongoing investigation has so far found no indication that employees have abused access to this data what sort of indication would they be looking for? presumably it wouldn't be hard for an employee to have made a copy for thems
564.
by gfody 8y ago
good decentralized architecture is pretty well undermined by ISPs capping upstream bandwidth. you already can't host a popular website from home - your upstream bandwidth can't handle the traffic
565.
by gfody 8y ago
love the analogy to pollution - if you see someone dropping litter you would call them out, but people litter the web with poorly researched or otherwise ill-formed opinions constantly, not to mention giant corporations doing the equivalent
566.
by gfody 8y ago
isn't emotion basically system1 in thinking fast and slow? optimized for making snap decisions yes but far from being an illegitimate source of information. there are a lot of examples where system1 gives you the wrong answer, but IIRC
567.
by gfody 8y ago
if you try to connect to an 11+ server pgAdmin3 will nag you to upgrade with an endless series of error message popups
568.
by gfody 8y ago
pgAdmin4 has become 100x better since the first preview was released - unfortunately it's still a web client and struggles with "large" data sets (I wouldn't call a million rows large, pgAdmin3 would return it in a snap,
569.
by gfody 8y ago
I hope this means tPostgres or pgtsql gets some Microsoft resources!
570.
by gfody 8y ago
ParAccel also came from Postgres, https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_derived_database...

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