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by glogla 4y ago
> 1. Fewer people have died from nuclear reactor meltdowns than from any other form of electricity generation. It is by far the safest form of power. To extend this - this includes renewables. Dam failures usually kill a lot of people (I
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by glogla 4y ago
That I did not know.
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by glogla 4y ago
For sure, but not only. The German way - turning off nuclear power to replace it with coal and gas while running token amount of renewables which will never cover the base load (because the required amount of storage would be insane), is ve
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by glogla 4y ago
Yup. I was just playing with some data from our manufacturing system, about 30 GB. I pulled the data to my laptop (very expensive Apple one) and while it fits on my disk just fine, it took about 15 minutes to download. I imported it to Clic
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by glogla 4y ago
I agree with a lot of the sentiments of the MotherDuck people, but boy are they loud and proud for someone who never delivered anything more than blogposts and vague promise to somehow exploit the MIT licensed DuckDB. Meanwhile for example
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by glogla 4y ago
I'd like to believe that the people who are against sex work are actually thinking of the good of the sex workers and because of human trafficking. Yet there is a lot of human trafficking in other areas, like farmwork or maids in the W
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by glogla 4y ago
There's a DuckDB and Polars and similar tools now, which can finally outperform the venerable unix tools. Once the data is on the laptop you can get order of magnitude faster execution than Spark. The unsolved problems are 1) what if t
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by glogla 4y ago
Does the concept of civilian even make sense in totalitarian regime, where everyone serves the state equally? In any case, either might makes right, and China can invade Taiwan and run all the genocides they do because they are big - but th
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by glogla 4y ago
How does Three Gorges Dam do against a missile?
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by glogla 4y ago
I don't think anything you said explains why it would be a Ponzi scheme. Ponzi scheme isn't a scheme because you pay old people with new people's money, but because there is promise of exponential growth that is unsustainable
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by glogla 4y ago
Is taxes paying for education Ponzi scheme as well? If not, why is current workers paying future workers (now kids) education different from current workers paying past workers (now retirees) pensions?
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by glogla 4y ago
I think you can in theory believe that wealth can be created - but also at the same time be convinced that modern heavily financialized[1] economy does very little of that. Add to that how a lot of people have seen their societies become su
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by glogla 4y ago
"Social pension system is a Ponzi scheme" is argument I've heard from people with certain political leaning often enough I wondered if Reagan or Thatcher said it or something. It never made sense to me. As long as the number
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by glogla 4y ago
I succeeded - I have a condo, summer house and drive a damned Jaguar. I just have empathy with people who don't, because they weren't lucky, like me. I'm not going to go tell people "do it! go buy more lottery tickets! d
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by glogla 4y ago
This is such an evil thing to say. You got lucky. Telling people who were not that its their own fault for not trying is just such horrible thing to say. How can people have so little empathy, I will never understand.
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by glogla 4y ago
Yes. Destroying the world will kill me. But it will kill Elon Musk as well. Perhaps even in a gruesome and funny way. If I was considering existence not worth it, it might look like a good trade.
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by glogla 4y ago
I think GenZ is less nihilistic, because they are younger - they are not as burned and scarred as millennials yet, and they still believe that things can be changed, that world can be saved. Millennials already tried, found it didn't w
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by glogla 4y ago
Sure. Watching the world go to shit, watch everyone be worse off than their parents, watching billionaires play games with peoples lives and seeing everything getting worse while the markets are soaring ... of course that would make you thi
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by glogla 4y ago
> We have recently added support for Hudi and Delta Lake; you can check here: https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/engines/table-engines/integra ... Just tried it out. It seems to only support partitioned
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by glogla 4y ago
It is quite surreal that in addition to the usual Databricks astroturfing and various fans arguing, we now also have founders and VPs of companies arguing about who is better on HN.
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by glogla 4y ago
The formats are kind of a halfway solution, because trying to build something with MPP semantics on objects stores is difficult. The difference between MPP and something like Databricks or Trino working with object store is that while MPP c
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by glogla 4y ago
> Personally, I find Brooklyn Data's post to be more practically useful since they used each format to do real work and show how they perform in practice. First, you should probably add disclaimer that you work for Databricks. Secon
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by glogla 4y ago
In Databricks published benchmark of course Delta is the fastest. I have also seen some Iceberg using company publishing benchmarks showing how Iceberg is the fastest. Vendor published benchmarks are worthless.
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by glogla 4y ago
As opposed to what setup exactly? What do you propose everyone uses instead of Lakehouses?
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by glogla 4y ago
I'm curious if you could use this not for data science tasks but for data engineering tasks - say read a csv or pull a table from oracle and store it as delta lake table or something. I know its a boring use case, but the challenge wit
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by glogla 4y ago
The memory aspect is pretty interesting. I tried to play with "serverless ELT" (the other kind of serverless) where I would define AWS Lambda that turns incoming CSV files into Parquet for archiving and querying. It seems that in
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by glogla 4y ago
It is interesting to see how ClickHouse webpage changed, lately. If I didn't know there is open source version, I would not find it. You have to go to Product menu to see Open source ClickHouse or scroll several screens to find low
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by glogla 4y ago
That is interesting, because dbt-clickhouse claim it doesn't do ephemeral models (i.e. CTE includes) on purpose because ClickHouse doesn't support it. But I'm looking at changelog and CTEs are there since 2020. Hmmm. I guess
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by glogla 4y ago
> * real-time. There are probably 20+ vendors selling real-time OLAP databases. They all claim that they are cheaper, faster, better than Snowflake/Redshift. Just name a few: Druid, Pinot, ClickHouse, StarRocks etc. Let's see w
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by glogla 4y ago
The separation of compute and storage is most of all convenient for whoever operates the database. Need more compute, or scale it down when not in use? You can add it in minutes, no re-balancing, no careful moving of data. Need more storage

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