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by gregw2 2y ago
Nice twist on the incompetence version of Hanlon's razor... does it have a name? "Nerdponx's razor" will have a hard time catching on... EDIT: I see esmifra on Reddit said this six years ago... but not sure "esmifra
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by gregw2 2y ago
I appreciated your comment and saw it earlier before it was detached. Thank you for sharing it. It got decent visibility to readers, as your points suggest. I suggest you cut the mods some slack for adjusting things on one of the heaviest t
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by gregw2 2y ago
This is, in a way, why Kaspersky was banned in the US... "who scans the scanners?". Kaspersky is not that different from a Cloudstrike EDR product. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4092187
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by gregw2 2y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix : "Due to a 1956 consent decree in settlement of an antitrust case, the Bell System was forbidden from entering any business other than "common carrier commu
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by gregw2 2y ago
One of the commenters on the original article said "Bell Labs was funded through a 1% tax on Bell's overall revenue, as well as a claim on a portion of Western Electric's revenue, so yes, AT&T was able to recoup Bell Labs
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by gregw2 2y ago
The author doesn’t explain why their “give someone 200k for life” funding idea works but tenure doesn’t. Also no reference to if/whether/why DARPA had a good funding model or not.
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by gregw2 2y ago
There were some differences even in the mid 90s between AT&T-style awk which was then considered the original/definitive/most-backward-compatible and gawk which was new/shiny (although not /that/ new). I believe
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by gregw2 2y ago
Little known random Brian Kernighan facts: * He joined Princeton’s CS department in 2000 but taught at least one class there as early as 1993 while still at Bell Labs Research (on sabbatical?) * One of his students regularly brought a 386sx
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by gregw2 2y ago
It’s mostly AT&Ts fault but it’s sort of a side effect of Snowflake making their product easy to use and most of the industry overlooking credential reuse risks. Databases are not historically internet facing so data compromise also mea
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by gregw2 2y ago
On the topic of interesting photos, does anyone know what the logo on the shooter's T-shirt is from or represents? https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/conte... EDIT: never mind, should have
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by gregw2 2y ago
No content besides a few paragraphs of intro. Actual content has 404 not found errors.
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by gregw2 2y ago
Some of both but mostly post-45. The quip is that two things made Houston possible: oil and air conditioning.
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by gregw2 2y ago
True, but it doesn’t seem that’s the issue. 60% of lines are buried but it’s mostly the newer developments paid for by the land developers: https://houstonlanding.org/to-bury-or-not-to-bury-how-can-ce... That said, I’d expe
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by gregw2 2y ago
It doesn’t seem that’s the issue. 60% of lines are buried but it’s mostly the newer developments paid for by the land developers: https://houstonlanding.org/to-bury-or-not-to-bury-how-can-ce... That said, I’d expect to be a
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by gregw2 2y ago
The clearest most specific summary explanation I have seen is: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/kaspe... Note the Israeli findings and the months of experiments by US intel agencies afte
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by gregw2 2y ago
A relative of mine lost some degree of eyesight (ischemic optic neuropathy) a bit after going on antidepressants and I always wondered if it was a side effect of lowered blood flow/pressure to the eye. Interesting to see it investigate
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by gregw2 2y ago
I also built alife simulators that had emergent natural selection properties. I definitely observed there was some minimal but present tuning of the environment to get natural selection to emerge. I also came to the conclusion you seem to h
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by gregw2 2y ago
Having learned both at an intermediate level, I use awk for structured data handling, Perl for textual pattern matching. Perl was inspired by awk, not the other way around. Perl is more general purpose.
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by gregw2 2y ago
Nah, data engineers tend to specialize in moving data from point A to point B. DBAs tend to specialize in managing data in point A or point B. Some people cultivate aspects of both skillsets of course and data engineers often end up doing D
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by gregw2 2y ago
You seem to be assuming that TDD is only for unit tests in strongly typed /type-extensible languages. I have seen it used for that (Scala) but also used it effectively for even integration tests in languages with limited typing (eg sql
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by gregw2 2y ago
One firm I worked at still has its old “mainframe” running all its cobol apps… but it’s all running on a windows server backed by a sql server database.
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by gregw2 2y ago
The author aquajet first posted it as a ShowHN about a month ago it seems.
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by gregw2 2y ago
“Iceberg is better than delta lake.” Fight! Plato or Hegel this is not. But it is kinda amusing. Seeing the fight club topics others asked would be an additionally fun and engaging feature. I asked some funny or interesting ones but would l
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by gregw2 2y ago
I am not 100% clear how this works... If you query a Parquet file from your lake via DuckDB-in-browser, does DuckDB run in WASM on the web client and pull the compressed parquet to your browser where it is decompressed? Or are you connecti
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by gregw2 2y ago
The lack of trust is based on very concrete situations: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/kaspe...
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by gregw2 2y ago
I liked this quote: "Speaking to Maureen Dowd for a Vanity Fair article published in April, Musk gave an example of an artificial intelligence that’s given the task of picking strawberries. It seems harmless enough, but as the AI rede
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by gregw2 2y ago
Airflow provides straightforward parallelism and error handling of dependent subtasks. Cron really doesn’t. With cron you have to be more thoughtful about failover especially when convincing others to write failure safe cron in invoked code
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by gregw2 2y ago
Isn’t pandas centric ETL much more memory intensive and less compute efficient than using SQL?
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by gregw2 2y ago
A lakehouse solution without iceberg support? (And postgres sql DML writing to iceberg would be even better…) Poking around, the Postgres/iceberg options recently were articulated here: https://medium.com/datareply&#x2F
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by gregw2 2y ago
I tried to use AI on (intentionally?) badly formatted bank statements for a family member. Tried Apple, Google, various startups. Nothing could do it. The easy stuff is easy (raw OCR) but the hard stuff (layout recognition and reformatting)

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