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by hn72774 3y ago
I think we're talking about two different things. I was addressing a section in the article about running databases backed by s3. It's less about s3 needing to act as a filesystem, and more about all of the rdbms features that c
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by hn72774 3y ago
S3 is better for large datasets. It's cheaper and handles large file sizes with ease. It has become a de-facto standard for distributed, data-intensive workloads like those common with spark. A key benefit is decoupling the data from
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> Filesystem software, especially databases, can't be ported to Amazon S3 Hudi, Delta, iceberg bridge that gap now. Databricks built a company around it. Don't try to do relational on object storage on your own. Use one of th
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US spends 50% more per capita on healthcare than the next highest developed country, Switzerland. And double the average comparable country. It's hard to see how regulated, single payor healthcare could be bigger or more expensive if
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All that is missing is NFT's of the failed company's IP, and an ICO.
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People also do that to get insider info to trade on or for industrial espionage/competitor spying. They'll hang out in the lobby of a building, coffee shops nearby, appearing to work while eavesdropping and taking notes. At my las
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by hn72774 3y ago
> If individuals can't be bothered with simple things like this, is there really any hope that any law will help? I personally think that the law is a waste of taxpayer resources. In the end, stores are still offering plastic bags.
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Permeable paver tiles can look nice. I like the ones with gaps that let grass grow through.
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Portugal refers criminal cases to drug treatment. Seattle took a hands off approach. The prosecutor can't be bothered with drug related arrests, so the police don't bother responding. There is no diversion opportunity.
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Single use plastic bags were banned here. Two things happened as a result - the plastic thickness was increased so they can call them reusable instead of single use, and stores started charging for them. Instead of reducing plastic waste it
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Do different people get different prompts? How hard would it be to generate prompts based on cohorts/personas? Or at an individual level?
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I've heard the first-time heroin experience described as feeling like "being wrapped in a warm, wet blanket." What else feels like that? A lot of addiction is trying to get back to the comfort of the womb to escape from early
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When reading from the dataframe, depending on the columns, filters, and aggregates you want returned, most query engines can skip data that is irrelevant, making the query run much faster. In your amazon example the data is probably optimi
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> we no longer look to our children for entertainment Anyone bringing kids into the world for entertainment value is doing them a disservice. These are humans, not pets. Parenting is hard.
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DBT in simplest terms is just a way to orchestrate transformations in dependency order. Table "A" needs to be updated before table "B," because "B" selects from "A." It works well for that. I've
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It's covered in the article...
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What is your budget? Curious what folks pay for this type of service and how the billing is structured. It seems like there's a gap to be filled between the recent Carta issues and now this.
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If the whole station was down I'd just go to the next one and wouldn't riot. I'm a new EV adopter and so far my household gets by with the L1 home charger. We don't drive that far on a daily basis. Home charging is ano
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by hn72774 3y ago
This is a good insight. "First pass yield" was a metric I liked in the accounting and payments space. How many transactions went through without requiring a manual touch.
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Is a tow-behind gas or diesel generator a thing for longer trips? Charge the battery as the car drives?
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There are some pushes to label it as a carcinogen similar to tobacco
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Not the stuff coming in from Mexico and China.
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Not necessarily leetcode, but certainly be able to decompose a problem and implement it with someone else looking at your screen and collaborating.
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It's mostly political. There isn't a perfect geographical width for time zones. So humans pick something to define the boundaries between time zones. And making boundaries on a map is political.
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> It also sparked the idea of adding the admission charge to the food bill, so customers would not be asked for money at the door. (In his early years, Dimitriou had encountered profound resistance to a cover charge and he often operated
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by hn72774 3y ago
I'm now feeling like social only exists in real life, not online. We were sold an illusion of connectedness when we were in fact the product being sold. Good marketing. We were told what we wanted to hear.
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> nihilistic I don't really see this though replace nihilistic with narcissistic and you may be on to something. It's not a belief in nothing, it's a belief in "I." We are losing the ability to disagree and stil
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Knowing when to call "wheels falling off" is definitely important. I recently replaced the water pump in the 2014 and the dealer quoted between $4,500-10,000+ for replacing the pump or replacing the engine if the coolant being whe
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Our household has a 2004 sedan with 140k miles, and a 2014 SUV about to hit 100k. Both fully paid. I had a college econ professor explain that the best way to save money on a car is not to buy used (everyone's first guess). It's
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Noticed the same on Amazon. Searched for Honey Oat Crunch. The first result was honey, then nestle crunch bars. The third result was the Whole Foods brand cereal. Had to click on that listing, scroll to the bottom, scroll through 3 caro

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