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by glogla 5y ago
Is "I don't wanna" ever a good reason to threaten safety and health of others? What if I don't want smoking ban in public places? What if I don't want speed limit on public road or giving right of way? What if run a
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by glogla 5y ago
Sadly lot of people (I don't mean you specifically) are dumb and have black and white thinking. Yes, vaccinated people can still get sick. But they get sick order of magnitude less often and if they do get sick, they are order of magni
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by glogla 5y ago
ARM in general is available. But good ARM is only in proprietary walled gardens. Compare RaspberryPi or Snapdragon with Apple M1.
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by glogla 5y ago
Yes, though with ra3 storage being on S3, I think they are getting more and more similar.
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by glogla 5y ago
Two competing departments inside AWS. Technically, Athena is based on modified Presto while Redshift is (very) heavily modified Postgres.
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by glogla 5y ago
Yeah I get that they want to go after Snowflake, Databricks and BigQuery, but AWS it not known for delivering high quality software. They have few things that are very good (EC2, S3, Lambda) and the rest is done by their B-team and barely h
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by glogla 5y ago
I think the price/performance ratio depends on whether your use case works with with the 8/256 or 8/512 configurations. The moment you need to go 16/512 or more, the price difference to 14" is not that large, especi
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by glogla 5y ago
> If you want to go fast, just get a motorbike. Why bother tampering with a pedelec? Because in a lot of places you're vastly less likely to be killed by a car on a cycle path on bike than on a road on motorbike. I mean I'm not
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by glogla 5y ago
Now if we could do that with climate change.
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by glogla 5y ago
Are you talking about the COVID vaccines that now have little over seven and half billion administered doses worldwide? Those are likely the most tested vaccines in history.
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by glogla 5y ago
Do we have other choices, when the alternative is the Apocalypse? And it's not like rest of the world doesn't benefit at all. The early adopters always pay more, the late adopters get to leapfrog.
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by glogla 5y ago
Yeah, the biggest benefit something like Snowflake or Databricks or whatever AWS tools has over the more traditional technologies is the pay-as-you-go pricing. We're are now trying to scale unnamed technology running on EC2 from 100 no
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by glogla 5y ago
Lists of "references" like these are worthless. Because larger companies tend to be fragmented, especially companies that have more complicated business lines and are used to departments and divisions acting independently. You kno
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by glogla 5y ago
According to their documentation [1], Databricks does not have this capability even for their own engines, and definitely not for "without piping data". This is what I've personally seen few times - Databricks claiming they c
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by glogla 5y ago
"Exporting PB from Snowflake" is only ever relevant if you want to move from Snowflake to something else. In that case, all other migration costs (recoding, redocumenting and especially revalidating everything, if in regulated env
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by glogla 5y ago
Have you tried to implement row- and column-based security on direct access to cloud storage? It flat out does not work. Sadly, those things are mutually exclusive at the moment and with the way things are deployed here (large multi-tenant
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by glogla 5y ago
Snowflake has much more advanced data security - table, column, and row level security and dynamic data masking policies. The zero-copy cloning is also pretty useful for CI/CD (pretty much the one practical way to do blue-green deploym
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by glogla 5y ago
My experience is that's how it looks at first. But it is hard to actually make use of lake or lakehouse openness. You can access data in Snowflake or BigQuery using JDBC or Python clients. You do pay for the compute that reads the data
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by glogla 5y ago
Yes, the tone of those blogposts, the likelihood of fake benchmarks submitted on someone else's behalf and especially the deluge of new accounts supporting them makes me want to trust Databricks even less than the PoC my company ran wi
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by glogla 5y ago
In what way is lakehouse architecture beneficial over something like Snowflake or BigQuery? I understand the appeal over having lake and warehouse as separate components, but with those native cloud warehouses, you can already do everything
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by glogla 5y ago
> Databricks is an F1 car F1 cars really unreliable and need a lot of engineers to keep running, are very expensive, and completely impractical in normal use. They are fast but only on very specific roads, they couldn't survive on n
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by glogla 5y ago
Redshift is pretty terrible, stay away. AWS is even worse at delivering promises than Databricks and that's saying something. I heard Google BigQuery is good. It is completely SaaS (like AWS Athena that works). Unicorns often run their
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by glogla 5y ago
Clickhouse is good if you're building application. It has lot of great features and incredible performance, but there's an expectancy that people using it know what they're doing and can work around its limitations (like limi
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by glogla 5y ago
No, it is still nonsense. The whole idea of "our people" being replaced by "those other people" assumes there are "our people" and "those other people" and skin color (or more broadly ethnicity of the
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by glogla 5y ago
For those lacking context - Great Replacement[1] is a conspiracy theory about how white people are being replaced by non-white people on purpose as a form or "long-term genocide". It is very popular with alt-right and neo-nazis an
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by glogla 5y ago
When comparing data with last year, keep in mind that was different and far less contagious strain of the virus.
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by glogla 5y ago
Those do count as vaccinated, as far as I know.
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by glogla 5y ago
Yeah, the other thing is, sterilising vaccines are possible, they are just harder to research so the initial target for pretty much every vaccine was to reduce hospotalizations and deaths. I don't know if sterilising vaccins are being
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by glogla 5y ago
Technically, lockdowns before vaccines were available were also lockdowns only for unvaccinated people. There just weren't any vaccinated ones. Pedantry, I know, but this is HN.
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by glogla 5y ago
I heard same story told slightly differently - for services that process your requests when you go to amazon.com to buy stuff, you can expect engineering excellency. That would be dynamo, s3, ec2, networking (that whole side of AWS - hyperv

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