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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Thanks! It works for us. We're also saving because we're not in Silicon Valley or any of the other high cost tech centers like New York or Seattle. It's harder to do bootstrapped companies in those locations and be profitable
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Right. But at least in my field (databases) many compute resources are useless without it.
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> i still think every single one of these return to office orders are from investors that are heavily portfolio'd (new word!) in commercial real estate and are trying to keep the bubble from bursting like it should. I run a fully di
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Overall Hacker News is still very good. Two things I've noticed over the past few years. 1.) There are more low-value comments like flip two-word answers or blindly pushing wackadoodle conspiracy theories. They are pervasive in social
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The dark and bright sides of power(economist.com)
2 points by hodgesrm 3y ago|1 comments
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> Renting the same compute resources wholesale will cost you 20 times less. (Not a typo.) You mean like S3 object storage? That costs less outside AWS because you are usually getting less. That's if you can get it at all.
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Difference principles of indexing, as least based on my experience with ClickHouse. * Column-based stores have really fast scans due to compression and vectorization, so you'll generally always read down the column. The way to speed it
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Thank you. Much appreciated! I work on ClickHouse, and it's definitely the cat's meow for user facing analytics.
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> I guess my strong opinion is that Snowflake is massively overrated and it will perform worse and cost you more than you expect. Are there specific use cases or experiences that prompt you to say this? I've seen a lot of examples (
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
True, I should properly say that the publicity and a lot of SV focus went to full self-driving. Thank goodness people are actually pushing the less glamorous topics. That said, it would be great to see more public focus on solving problem
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> That's obviously fake and wrong, but so is the idea of solving current human problems with current tools. There are easily stated problems like "Reduce US car accidents by 50%" that should be solvable with AI as it stand
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Nobody Ever Read American Literature the Way This Guy Did(nytimes.com)
1 points by hodgesrm 3y ago|0 comments
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> That's an unreasonable restriction and I expect the ACLU to win this. Looking at the details, it seems that this cannot be a blanket restriction, since a judge could compell you to provide testimony. [0] At that point it would not
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
MUX is already trademarked by Mux.com. I doubt the owners would be enthusiastic.
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Nice article. How long did it take you to tune the Bloom filter parameters?
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
I was in Granada last month and was wondering why we don't use the same solutions that keep the Alhambra and other Moorish buildings cool in California. It was a pleasant surprise to see this article.
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Facing a Future of Drought, Spain Turns to Medieval Solutions and Ancient Wisdom(nytimes.com)
3 points by hodgesrm 3y ago|2 comments
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> The big problem with Katacontainers is not whether or not they are slightly faster or slower than containers, but the fixed memory allocation which means you must first know and then allocate the maximum amount of memory they might eve
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
The freakonomics folk must have loved this one. They live for unintended consequences. That phrase occurs as expected in the article.
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Or destroying the pistons. I did this once. It was a long walk as in many kilometers from where we broke down to Mannheim train station so we could get home. Normally you could hitchhike but it was late at night and for some reason the lo
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Is that the case here? Sometimes people have something they want to get off their chest. Some of the more interesting HN conversations start that way. As well as the more boring ones like ranting about ads on the website where the article a
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Well, HN is kind of famous for veering off topic. It has its pluses and minuses.
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Great article with a lot of pithy insights. Here's one of the core issues with checked exceptions. 2nd sentence to the last is the point. > Anders Hejlsberg: Yeah, well, Einstein said that, "Do the simplest thing possible, but
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Increasing surface albedo looks like a no brainer to deal with high temperatures. I read this article about an hour after an afternoon bike ride in the hills near my house. The road was boiling hot in the sun but about 15 degrees cooler in
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> It's sad to NUCs go, but it was inevitable. Nooooo! This is a tragedy. I love my NUC. It's totally handy to have a little computer on my desk to load up with whatever Linux distro I please and play around. NUC is way better t
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
I think that analogy has been around for a while. ;)
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
There's a huge vendor community around Kubernetes, which is open source and permissively licensed to boot. If you write something complex that basically works you'll be able to develop defensible IP around management. p.s., I&#x27
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Twitter Sues Law Firm over $90M Payment in Elon Musk Deal(nytimes.com)
13 points by hodgesrm 3y ago|1 comments
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
It was an outstanding advance. Personally I rate them as the greatest engineers of all time, but I'm also very fond of aircraft. Would be interested to hear opinions on who else might be considered peers of the Wrights.
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
One of George Clooney's best films. Tilda Swinton was great as the overwhelmed, morally bankrupt exec.

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