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by gregates 11mo ago
Funny to me how many of the replies to this comment are assuming you mean all these "punk" startups will be possible because of AI, when your actual comment says nothing of the sort.
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by gregates 11mo ago
Not to mention that there's already a small market for software products that work just like existing products that were once good, only without all the AI getting in your way at every turn. You're just not going to be making huge
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by gregates 11mo ago
Unfortunately, "X is just a tool and is super useful when used properly, all things are both bad in excess and good in moderation, what you gonna do?" is exactly the type of conclusion that a chat bot is likely to reach. Doesn&#x2
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by gregates 1y ago
Anyone who's watched an episode of Star Trek can recognize that, if you give non-zero probability to the chance that we develop artificial intelligence smarter than us, that carries some risk. The part of the argument that people disag
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by gregates 1y ago
How large are you talking about? Have you tried https://rowzero.io ?
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by gregates 1y ago
I have no doubt that the stories of complex spreadsheet models as the beating heart of a business are true. But those models are likely the sole survivor from a thousand dead and gone spreadsheets that people extracted value from for a time
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by gregates 1y ago
Are any of them as easy to use as a spreadsheet?
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by gregates 1y ago
As someone who has been to multiple trade shows to show off our own spreadsheet product that solves some of these problems ( https://rowzero.io/home ), I can tell you there are a bunch of data engineers and their managers who
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by gregates 1y ago
It wouldn't be the first time widely-used software sorted numbers by a function that does not produce a total ordering. For example, Excel: https://gregat.es/excel-numeric-order-transitivity/
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by gregates 1y ago
Availability zones are not durability zones. S3 aims for objects to still be available with one AZ down, but not more than that. That does actually impose a constraint on the ratio relative to the number of AZs you shard across. If we assum
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by gregates 1y ago
It's not all java anymore. There's some rust now, too. ShardStore, at least (which the article mentions).
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by gregates 1y ago
I think the article's title question is a bit misleading because it focuses on peak throughput for S3 as a whole. The interesting question is "How can the throughput for a GET exceed the throughput of an HDD?" If you just rep
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by gregates 1y ago
A few factual inaccuracies in here that don't affect the general thrust. For example, the claim that S3 uses a 5:9 sharding scheme. In fact they use many different sharding schemes, and iirc 5:9 isn't one of them. The main reason
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by gregates 1y ago
My first ever software developer job, I was hired with basically no knowledge or experience to learn (I was very lucky). I knew MS-DOS command line pretty well from my childhood, but hadn't ever used POSIX. I was given a macbook air an
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by gregates 1y ago
One of the things I pay Kagi for is to avoid the "benefit" of personalization.
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by gregates 1y ago
There are already laws against libel and slander. And yes, people like Trump and Musk routinely try to abuse them. They are often unsuccessful. The existence of the laws does not seem to be the relevant factor in whether these attempts to a
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by gregates 1y ago
Marketing, including paying well-known individuals to switch to their platform. That's funded by all the VC money the smaller fish don't have.
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by gregates 1y ago
Here's how I would put this: reading the classics can be valuable, but if you want to become wise you need philosophy. Philosophy isn't a set of ideas or texts. It's a practice.
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by gregates 1y ago
I love that I work at a place (Row Zero) where caring about performance is baked into the culture, and I can spend days fixing weird perf edge cases our users discover without management asking why I'm wasting my time. And it's of
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by gregates 2y ago
Gerrymandering did deliver the narrow Republican majority in the House this time, which is critical to the ability of Trump and Musk to ignore the law. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/us/politics/
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by gregates 2y ago
It's very bad. The constitutional rule of law has been suspended, and the state has been captured by hostile interests. The complete abdication of responsibility of the part of Republicans in Congress has made this possible. The judici
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by gregates 2y ago
No, those are identifiers that appear only in code. It's an IDE or git rename with no impact on the product. In this case, the engineers are changing the functionality of the product, not just changing code identifiers.
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by gregates 2y ago
I suspect a hidden "benefit" to the companies implementing this is that it makes it much harder to share your account. You are probably happy to share your Netflix password with your mom, but not your email password. They can pres
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by gregates 2y ago
Still sad that the one ruby conference I spoke at — Steel City Ruby way back in 2014 — left behind no video recordings due to a mixup between the conference organizers and the venue staff.
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by gregates 2y ago
Well, not all its alternatives. There's one spreadsheet out there that has better performance than Excel: https://rowzero.io/home
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by gregates 2y ago
If you combine Katherine, Catherine, Kat, Kate, Caty, Katy, Katie, and Katheryn (there are SO MANY variants, but most of them have never been popular), peak popularity for girls in the U.S. in the last century is in 1986 at only 1.8% of bab
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by gregates 2y ago
Stressing the "always" makes the argument valid only because it's a wordier version of "ideas can always be made more precise and complete, therefore no idea is perfectly precise and complete," which has nothing to
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by gregates 2y ago
Britain is not just an empire, it's one of the paradigmatic empires — an example you'd point to when trying to explain what an empire is. Or do you just mean that it's maybe not much of an empire any more, since, as wikipedia
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by gregates 2y ago
This is just pure speculation, but it kind of looks like the hacker was being ignored by Snowflake, so they somehow got in touch with Hudson Rock and offered them this promotional opportunity (to break the news, more than the throwaway line
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by gregates 2y ago
That's what the article implies, but I think it's overblown. They provide enough information (unfortunately) to identify the employee whose credentials were stolen, and she's a Sales Engineer. The data seems to have come from

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