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by gregw2 5y ago
Anyone know of any open source or cheap web/browser apps that let you edit data in postgres tables? Using this tech or something more primitive? I want to get some end user feedback on predictive model outputs...
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by gregw2 5y ago
Regarding: > Does this project waste certain efforts of maintainers? > Unfortunately, yes. We would like to sincerely apologize to the maintainers involved in the corresponding patch review process; this work indeed wasted their preci
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by gregw2 5y ago
I get it, but there are just so many holes in this line of thinking. Once it becomes legal, the supply goes up, prices go down and it won't "get you through college". Plus I don't see why our decisions on prostitution ha
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by gregw2 5y ago
My anecdotes are my Bayesian truth, and they include neighbors and coworkers with longterm anosmia that I've never had friends experience before COVID. The article you mentioned didn't even address this rather well known symptom..
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by gregw2 6y ago
Just to chip in a comment about the size of Usenet... I did some analysis comparing Slashdot (with distributed moderation) traffic volumes to Usenet (centralized moderation) in the late 90s. If I recall, the peak volume of posts to the larg
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by gregw2 6y ago
I never worked at Goldman or had close friends there, but I have spent a modest amount of time in circles where people went to or came from Goldman. Possibilities: * Yes, it's sequential. It's hard to partition the task of creatin
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by gregw2 6y ago
Here's another paradox worth thinking about when trying to have incentive-only regulations (carrots without sticks.) You might think that higher rates would incent companies to weatherize, but actually they perversely might reduce ince
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by gregw2 6y ago
At my large corp, we try to figure out and align stakeholders on the target tech architecture we want, and then sort the org structure out second as our way of mitigating the distortions that come with Conway's law. More towards your q
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by gregw2 6y ago
good point regarding liabilities
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by gregw2 6y ago
I heard on the news here in Texas that reporters indicated it takes a few days to switch, so while Griddy sent the email, their customers were not able to really act on the advice amidst the crisis. That said, I think it was bad advice from
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by gregw2 6y ago
A coworker of mine used Griddy before this event for about a year, but left it 6-9 months ago. To answer your question 2/3, when I tried to congratulate him on getting out of it before the storm, he was still pretty down on it. He&#x2
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by gregw2 6y ago
Whoever wrote this hasn't worked on medium-complicated data pipelines / ETL logic. It's pretty non-trivial to try to make an effective-dated slowly changing dimension with materialized views. A good tool makes the medium-diff
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by gregw2 6y ago
Two possibilities: 1) Other states are cold and also in need of natural gas and willing to pay more at this critical time 2) Longstanding client relationships and/or contracts
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by gregw2 6y ago
The deaths and impacts on the poor make it, to me an unacceptable tradeoff. I don't see why others states can do it and Texas couldn't or shouldn't. This is hindsight, but out past strategy, if it was intentional, was not opt
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by gregw2 6y ago
From an engineering standpoint, I agree that you want a true RCA and this event's RCA will be a bit different than 2011's. And this RCA (and its political consequences) will take time, doesn't need to be done right this minut
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by gregw2 6y ago
Good question. I am unclear about heaters but I do think some of them are out for some team members and you may be right on that. Ovens also are commonly gas but ones since 1990 require an electric light. But... stovetops which are gas do n
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by gregw2 6y ago
Anecdote: All 7 developers in my Houston team (semi-geographically scattered in the city) lost power; half for >24 hrs (it's 10-25 degrees F here for the last 2-3 days). Most lost water for some stretch of time and some still don&#x
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by gregw2 6y ago
What went wrong is that the Texas legislature which owns Texas-specific grid process to avoid interference from the Feds didn't figure out how to also ensure Texas generator companies got compensated for weatherizing (and ensuring it w
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by gregw2 6y ago
Mostly agree, but RFC-4180 does specify delimiters. I've used pipe-delimited files for years to ensure explicitly-defined conformity, but recently due to the plethora of libraries have been thinking that CSV may be simpler.
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by gregw2 6y ago
For a fictional exploration of the "doomed to recreate it all" phenomena, there's a nice novel called "Canticle for Leibowitz" where post-nuclear-armageddon scientists are in part blamed for the nuclear war and know
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by gregw2 6y ago
Interesting. I still prefer the clarity of the map of mathematical structures I ran across in the late 90s from Max Tegmark... Perhaps it might interest some of you who are reading this discussion: https://space.mit.edu/hom
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by gregw2 6y ago
Also of note, 2021-01-21 20:21:01 (202-101-21-202-101) Or 2021-01-21 21:11 (202-101-212-111), etc, etc
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by gregw2 6y ago
As a data engineer I've made the same joke. But the statement is also a bit like saying you can use plumbers to design and build a chemical refinement plant which also just moves chemicals from point A to point B. Or you can design a
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by gregw2 6y ago
Perhaps the best way to flee a superintelligent AI is to construct spaceships that fly near the speed of light to somewhere else. The AI can't beat you, and it's inclined not to bother.
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by gregw2 6y ago
So I get that they call it "architecture-less" because it doesn't choose between "shared nothing" and "shared disk" architectures and thus can pivot from OLTP to OLAP. But I have a different OLTP vs OLAP &
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by gregw2 6y ago
My current take on this is that one should use a P99 (or P99.9, etc) median and anything above that is considered an anomaly. You then are not assuming anything about the distribution. I'm curious if others think this is a bad/goo
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by gregw2 6y ago
The college that first triggered this observation/concern was one such 50k public state university, but the observation was alumni-based, not student-based and I recognize mileage may vary across schools and appreciate your comment. My
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by gregw2 6y ago
I think the points made in the article are fine, there is something to the way colleges facilitate community and their physical design encourages walkability and enables that... but I would offer one caveat to this which cities should avoid
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by gregw2 6y ago
The author casts this in moral terms which is useful in grabbing attention (moral competence vs moral incompetence!), but I'm not sure how those two labels and concepts as he describes them are any different than the neither-moral-nor-
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by gregw2 6y ago
Anyone know if there's a similar public outage report for that late November AWS us-east-1 outage?

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