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by gregw2 8mo ago
As someone who has worked on many-TB-sized "custom" sharded systems with 30-150 shards at multiple (ok, 2) employers, a key challenge to the overall sharding landscape is unsharding all the data back at the analytics layer. This a
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by gregw2 8mo ago
Three ADHD tech tips, more tactical than some of the strategic ones others have mentioned: - To combat time blindness and hyperfocus, create daily-ish alarms on your phone's builtin clock for things you otherwise forget until it's
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by gregw2 8mo ago
Agreed. There is room still for an open source HTAP storage format to be designed and built. :-)
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by gregw2 8mo ago
True, but it sounds like he's more looking for "a" sponsor, not crowdfunding which he already has tried. That might be why he hasn't mentioned it.
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by gregw2 9mo ago
Feedback: This agent didn't really work well when I tried it with a specific non-famous, but definitely publicly known individual with known connections to Epstein. I'd rather not post a specific name here. I found more documents
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by gregw2 9mo ago
As many of you no doubt know, some people (did you know even 3 days after Hiroshima?![1]) likened Tolkein's One Ring to the power of the atomic bomb developed in the same era: a technology molded by hidden genius, capable of unspeakabl
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by gregw2 9mo ago
I find Tolkein's depictions on his original jacket covers of the Rings of Power and the one ring and the "all seeing eye" that accompanies them quite evocative: https://imgur.com/CZSNpiS https://up
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by gregw2 9mo ago
Do you mean the palantir or the rings?
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by gregw2 9mo ago
Just for the record, the remark in the webpage linked from that github saying that in 1996 "gopher was in its heyday" doesn't seem right to my memory. Gopher heyday in 1992-93? Sure! But gopher faded with the rise of Mosaic
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by gregw2 9mo ago
Fair. I acknowledge "dark" is a judgemental term... but the mix of extreme poverty, extreme relative wealth, and the blind eye towards the sex trade is... dark. Such misery is not unique to Thailand but you may find it more open,
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by gregw2 9mo ago
Thailand is a dark place. Beware! There are a lot of other low cost countries out there!
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by gregw2 10mo ago
Python won because Google picked it over perl in the early 2000s, declaring that it was more uniform in having one preferred way to do things rather than allowing (in contrast to Perl) programmers having a zillion ways to do things. Larry W
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by gregw2 10mo ago
I applaud the author for thinking afresh on this topic. I am also comfortable with the closing comments that you can't always dumb down your code or you stagnate and never learn new tricks/techniques. It is a good thing to keep in
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by gregw2 10mo ago
It's not Enron. It's Sun Microsystems in 1999. The growth is a one time surge due to AI hype, like Y2K fears which required double hardware purchases for pre-y2k testing and the internet boom. When Y2K passed, while the internet
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by gregw2 10mo ago
This. Many emotional problems that are highly dysfunctional can be missed or masked by raw intelligence until a certain higher level of intellectual competition or pressure is present. Having participated in frequent academic competitions i
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by gregw2 10mo ago
Agreed. And local NIMBY can get surprisingly personal and politically vicious fast. I have a friend who argued in public forums (local newspapers+blogs) for denser housing being more walkable and sustainable (in a wealthy small neighborhood
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by gregw2 10mo ago
Uber's abusive terms are interesting to me. 10+ years ago I refused to use it because it wanted access to all my contacts on my phone and wouldn't run in my browser (android). I revisited years later and it worked well in a brows
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by gregw2 11mo ago
If his admissions are true. your statement is more misleading than his. He wrote it. AI edited it. Right?
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by gregw2 11mo ago
I wonder if under the covers it uses your word choices to infer your Myers-Briggs personality type and you are INTJ so it calls you "The Architect"?? Crazy thought but conceivable...
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by gregw2 11mo ago
“If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together” This apparently is an old African proverb coopted by the modern managerial class. For those thinking about this issue, there are tech-specific related arguments similar
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by gregw2 11mo ago
I agree with your comment that getting feedback is different to making the final decision. But I'm not sure the real problem fits solely in your two buckets. I've been in recent situations where there is a less-technical person ch
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by gregw2 11mo ago
Sounds much cooler than what my management likes to call it. RACI or RASCI for every key project.
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by gregw2 11mo ago
Perhaps a prior promise to someone else?
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by gregw2 11mo ago
I want MPP HTAP where SQL inserts/COPYs store data in three(!) formats: - row-based (low latency insert, fast row-based indexed query for single-row OLTP) - columnar-based (slow inserts/updates, fast aggregates/projections)
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by gregw2 11mo ago
This is a good thing. We really really Really should Not define as our success function for AI (our future-overlords?) the ability of computers to deceive humans about what they are. The Turing Test was a clever twist on (avoiding) defining
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by gregw2 11mo ago
Err, the only thing that matters is that you get the other person talking and you listen.
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by gregw2 11mo ago
Been there. Two tips: Set an alarm on your phone for when you should take your meds. Snooze if you must, but don't turn off /accept the alarm until you take them. Put daily meds in cheap plastic pillbox container labelled Sunday-S
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by gregw2 1y ago
From that era, it was passed around that the number of letters in the beast's name was 6-6-6 and, ominously, that matched the number of letters in the full name of the president of the United States, Ronald Wilson Reagan!
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by gregw2 1y ago
I can vouch that for a critical engineer/CTO/VPE at a startup, it totally pays to get the next day onsite warranty, even when a good chunk of your work is on remote servers. I ran my laptop so hard the motherboard had to get repla
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by gregw2 1y ago
Larry (SGI) had lived through IRIX fine grained locking and even SGI's NUMA hardware cache coherency based on Stanford research right? Was his take that the complexity wasn't worth it given his experiences at SGI, or that it was j

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