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by hodgesrm 3y ago
#3 factor was brilliant. According to other accounts she also speaks her mind very forthrightly. [0] [0] https://www.wsj.com/health/after-shunning-scientist-universi...
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> “I do hope that it causes Penn and a bunch of other institutions that fund science this way to reflect a little bit on what the chances are that some scientists who do not get funding, and wind up leaving, end up being like Katalin Kar
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Java did a lot of things right beyond the language and VM runtime, both of which were "sturdy" by the standards of the early 1990s. Using domain names for namespaces was one nice touch. Having built-in collections with complete bu
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Just to be clear, was Malwarebytes using AWS?
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What I Tell Employees About Negative Press(henrysward.medium.com)
3 points by hodgesrm 3y ago|0 comments
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Multiclock – A Civil/Solar Metric Clock(olsons.net)
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Thank you for posting. It's great to see the flashes of sarcastic humor from El Reg of old. (Did they hire back somebody?)
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
In addition to direct costs, there are the opportunity costs of these terrible wars. Since 2001 we Americans allowed US manufacturing to be hollowed out, failed to solve immigration, stood idly by as wealth accumulated in the hands of an ev
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
She would not be the first academic to be a bit prickly.
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The Secret Bedhind the First $1B Green Hydrogen Startup(wsj.com)
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned licenses. PostgreSQL has an open license and you can use it for any purpose you want. It's also not controlled by Oracle.
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
In this case written in C++ is goodness. Also, having it be a variant of ClickHouse server that can run embedded or standalone is quite nice.
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Can you give a couple examples of such projects?
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
I'm still waiting for numbers that back up the claim that thousands of guns were brought on board without being used for hijackings. The 9/11 hijackers did not actually use guns. [0] Checks for guns date back to the early 70s. Pr
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Thanks, I had not seen this one.
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Can you cite numbers for that claim?
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
The TSA stats show that they found 6,542 firearms in carry-on luggage at US airports last year. [0] This seems to undermine the argument that they are ineffective, unless you think those weapons should have been been allowed on aircraft. [0
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A Man Who Trapped Us in Databases(nytimes.com)
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
This is a different problem. Update is expensive in distributed columnar data. ReplacingMergeTree translates updates into inserts which are very fast and always have been. It then updates rows in a lazy fashion.
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
What's the "AWS VPC Gateway Endpoint" support you refer to? Do you mean an S3 proxy? If so one of our PRs that just merged may be helpful. [0] [0] https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/5
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
ClickHoues is also faster than any of them if you know how to use it properly. It helps if you have some distributed systems background and an intuitive feel for map/reduce. For example ReplacingMergeTree uses a distributed algorithm
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> You should be using ReplacingMergeTree if you are doing updates at the current moment. Indeed. Altinity and other community users like ContentSquare made numerous contributions to make it more usable. It's a promising approach to
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Thanks. That's exactly why we wrote the article. Beyond any commercial considerations, we have worked with ClickHouse for many years and are personally invested in seeing it become the default analytic database worldwide. I believe the
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
To that point Altinity has contributed about 900 PRs to ClickHouse, and many more if you include ecosystem projects like the operator, clickhouse-backup (which we maintain), the community grafana plugin (over 11M downloads last I looked), O
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Duckdb has also gotten mindshare as an engine to read Parquet from data lakes. The fact that it's embeddable enables some very creative uses. It helped that for a time DuckDB was substantially quicker than ClickHouse on reading Parquet
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
CEO of Altinity here, also editor of the blog article. It would be more interesting to address the points that it raises. If you are an open source user of ClickHouse, do you really want basic features like object storage for tables or abil
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
That's an excellent talk. Thanks for posting.
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> Even today we are pumping so many toxins in to the air to deliver a slower, less efficient, and more expensive form of transport. Slower than what?
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> The biggest lesson of ww2 is that once a major industrial war starts - the only end is mutual exhaustion. How does match the actual outcome? WW II ended in the complete defeat of Germany and Japan and post-war domination by the US and
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
The numbers at the end of WW II are even more lopsided if you look at the number of commissioned vessels in the US Navy on VJ day 1945: 7601. [0] I have read elsewhere this included 12 carrier battle groups of which one could deploy about t

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