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by gfody 4y ago
bingo. if you want to assume bad faith why not go whole hog - Musk never intended to buy Twitter because he never believed they have what they claim to have, it's all a big scam involving inauthentic accounts and now the world knows it
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by gfody 4y ago
I don't disagree but quality tools are about raising the floor, I haven't had to worry about a ceiling falling on me my whole life because fastener technology is very good
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by gfody 4y ago
you're making a point here and the counterpoint is that building good apps with bad tools requires extra effort that costs money that the business owners don't have because the market won't support it (ie nobody is willing to
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by gfody 4y ago
sql server has the index tuning wizard (itwiz) that will sample your data and make suggestions, and more lately the missing index stuff as a consequence of how the execution planner is designed (iirc it tries to generate optimal plans regar
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by gfody 4y ago
that's why you need two brains, one to losslessly compress through symbolic expressiveness and another to lossily compress by generating noise like the incompressible noise
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by gfody 4y ago
this reads like linkedin fiction, it's the worst piece of rubbish ever. the author over analyzes an normal exchange of constructive feedback and makes Julie out to be a cunning manipulator then lauds it as a leadership achievement.
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by gfody 4y ago
you can still find mentadent (that came in the pump dispenser) for like $300 a pack.. I think it's just how the market works - if anything is so good that people will much more than market then somehow the market adapts
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by gfody 4y ago
as long as vendors are presenting the results of their own products, I'd expect them to de-normalize and tune the queries to leverage every advantage their engine can possibly bring to bear on the benchmark's problem set - so long
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by gfody 4y ago
there are the TPC benchmarks which try to cover a wide variety of use cases and scenarios and are designed independently from any one engine: https://www.tpc.org/information/benchmarks5.asp you post the results for you
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by gfody 4y ago
you skipped the part where our leviathan restructures society into the optimal arrangement of 8 billion souls that somehow isn't a miserable dystopia (if nobody is suffering, is anybody living? however you answer that question does HAL
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by gfody 4y ago
I'm thinking of some engineer just doing his job, imagines a future where files dont exist and information is stored relationally in some sort of universal shared database, but tasked with designing a file format for everything you cou
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by gfody 4y ago
> The Windows 95 DDK completely fails to mention this non-obvious yet crucial detail; I found it “documented” in U.S. Patent 6,525,743. I feel like windows development is riddled with this sort of thing, undocumented secrets that you jus
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by gfody 4y ago
our minds are perfectly capable of frenzied hallucinations without any external substance, especially one trained specifically for this purpose probably only had to meditate or chant or indulge some trigger for a moment.
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by gfody 4y ago
clickhouse is more generally olap and not suitable for oltp, you could call it an olap+timeseries solution similarly to how you position timescale as oltp+timeseries (not all olap solutions support timeseries well but clickhouse does, thoug
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by gfody 4y ago
postgres isn't known for being fast, quite the opposite if your usecase is one clickhouse can handle (timeseries/olap) most queries are orders of magnitude faster.
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by gfody 4y ago
it's a conditional select, you're saying just add code to add/remove a class to the target - of course, but that defeats the point of wanting a conditional selector in the first place
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by gfody 4y ago
you could be using it already w/jquery though and if you just switched to the native selector it would stop working everywhere but safari. "#some_combo:has(option:selected[value=..]) + .." seems like a reasonable way to condi
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by gfody 4y ago
how's browser support for something like "a:has(img[src$='.gif'])" though?
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by gfody 4y ago
it makes sense, you could potentially remaster all of these in 16 bit and the benefit would still be that you get nice varied animation from manipulating the relatively small color table
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by gfody 4y ago
normalizing from raw json isn't terribly complicated but it's definitely more complicated than just indexing some paths into it. if the json is loosely defined normalization might not be practical (ie requiring too many tables or
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by gfody 4y ago
> humanity has coped with drugs that affect performance for millennia the tendency to treat disorders with (often life-long) amphetamines and ssris is a relatively recent development. obviously it's your choice to ween or risk it (u
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by gfody 4y ago
not intending to disparage anyone living a normal life on an indefinite adderall prescription, more acknowledging the risk of mistaking its effects as unlocking your true potential rather than as relief from suffering, and then inadvertentl
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by gfody 4y ago
the trap in your example would be following the true scotsman fallacy into believing that you need your insulin to survive/thrive - which could be true in the case of diabetes, so not just like.
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by gfody 4y ago
> wondering what your true potential looks like since adhd is treated with amphetamine which is essentially a performance enhancing drug that boosts your focus/awareness/intensity. it's probably dangerous to think of your
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by gfody 4y ago
> I want a word for this part of my brain chemistry that does not presume, axiomatically, that it is an illness. Aurora Holtzman coined "intensity" for this context, it works pretty well. https://eggshelltherapy.com&
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by gfody 4y ago
there's more whitespace above 0x20 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character#Unicode
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by gfody 4y ago
learning anything exercises your learning abilities and they get stronger. if we ever truly understand "learning ability" it's bound to include things like confidence and perseverance among other things. I feel like this basi
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by gfody 4y ago
same. it's hard to describe how 10-year-old me felt about 8bit dithered graphics sparkling through phosphorus but 30 years later the magic is gone. I can't point to any one thing (maybe the advent of webapps) but it has something
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by gfody 4y ago
> hold people accountable to an acceptable level of performance > end up having whole teams being fired since your manager didn't set the right pace Whatever work exists where a manager can control such things as "pace"
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by gfody 4y ago
that talk made it really clear how tangent-point energy is easier to compute than mobius energy but not why it's a good proxy for it, it seems like a semihack

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