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by hodgesrm 3y ago
+1. I would be delighted to see that data as well. I mean we all like the idea of local control but local PaaS is hard to do in a general way.
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
It's worth adding that they invented the first successful control system for an aircraft. [0] Personally I think that was the single most important step, because it enabled their aircraft (including test gliders) to fly safely. [0] ht
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Citation please? I don't recall a lot of drug-dealing at Uvalde last year. [0] https://www.texastribune.org/series/uvalde-texas-school-shoo...
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Perhaps not exactly what you are seeking, but here's a webinar we did a few months ago on ClickHouse vs. VictoriaMetrics . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCrdp8hIhJM Disclaimer: I work for Altinity. Edit: get product
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Yes, here's a blog that you might not have seen. Key factors in performance: partitioning so that ClickHouse does not need to run SELECT FINAL over a large number of parts and having a good ORDER BY. MergeTree queries are sensitive to
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Nice article! Updates, especially from CDC, are still a challenging area for ClickHouse. We've ReplacingMergeTree many times for this. It takes a little bit of getting used to, as it's essentially a lock-free distributed algorithm
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
This article reads like something out of a Neal Stephenson novel. (See [0] for example.) The pop-up ads contribute to the on-brand, dystopian feel. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall;_or,_Dodge_in_Hell
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The Rot Economy(wheresyoured.at)
349 points by hodgesrm 3y ago|215 comments
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
This project looks great. I'm going to try it out. Kudos to you and PostHog for publishing it.
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
You are also right. I was responding to this. (Italics mine) > Like, if the government (or anybody, really) wants an invention to be open, The government literally does want inventions to be open. It's in Article 1, Section 8, Cla
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
That's effectively what the patent system already does. The "sum of money" you refer to is the market value of the monopoly on the idea embodied in the patent. This solves the problem of what the price should be.
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> Basically, if a patent holder is designated as an “individual inventor, startup” or “under-resourced innovator” then their patents are protected from the IPR process. Just curious...is there a good faith argument why this change would
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> not having NYT puff pieces being written about how they've somehow magically avoided jail time by being uncooperative in investigations. Hardly. The "puff piece" is a textbook example of the "just let them talk&quot
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How cities are trying to stop their land from sinking(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by hodgesrm 3y ago|0 comments
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> The Spectator does have a tendency towards superficially high-minded but ultimately ineffectual chatter (which at least fits with its name). The article draws rather thinly supported conclusions about SV from the collapse of Silicon Va
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MariaDB Announces New Management Appointments(mariadb.com)
3 points by hodgesrm 3y ago|0 comments
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Megatsunami are well-documented in the geological record. [0] One of the more interesting ones occurred in Hawaii when the flank of the East Molokai Volcano collapsed, creating what are believed to have been 600 meter high waves in the vici
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Certainly but we should at the same time avoid ruling out some pretty bad side-effects from changing climate. Case in point: Mt Rainier. The upper mountain has a sizable ice mass that (among other things) buttresses the various cleavers and
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Go-arounds are pretty common. I've experienced several in the last 20 years. * Aborted after wheels on ground at Sheremetyevo (obstacle on runway or perhaps messed up the landing; I never found out) * Aborted 30' off ground in Alb
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> If you want to run ClickHouse at scale, you have to run your own k8s, figure out how to manage persistent storage, figure out how to replicate your data, manage cluster replicated tables, etc. Once you outgrow single instance, things g
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Meta to begin fresh layoffs, cutting heavily among business staff(washingtonpost.com)
47 points by hodgesrm 3y ago|3 comments
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> They extreme performance gap between human and AI is what will push these deployments towards more and more open-ended goals, as waiting for human input will take too long. Well maybe. If you look at the actual close calls in the cold
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> Sorry for the tangent poster and readers, but this minor quibble seems important. I fully agree. It's not just important, it's actually the essence of the problem. 1. Forest fires are hard to solve because many of the loudest
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> Off the shelf hardware running untuned servers with reasonable algorithms have so much bandwidth and capability, just gets harder and harder to saturate today. Interestingly that's not necessarily the case in the public cloud. I
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> The first steam engines were also written off as being less powerful than a horse. Which steam engine do you mean and do you have a citation for this comment? The first industrial steam engines were based on the Newcomen design and wer
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> Not to defend him, but having your parents pay for your education is hardly a rare circumstance. This. Parents have worked their tails off to build a better life for their kids for millenia. Calling it a form of privilege seems like a
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> they've basically all turned into this same template where all the text is vague and lofty while telling you nothing about the company or service A lot of this is not deliberate. It's just incompetence. Writing good product d
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Clarity is awesome--the metrics and the way it combines a visualization of our site with user session data is amazing. It shows you the actual locations on the page that users visit as well as the path they follow to get there. The insights
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
Thanks for an unusually clear exposition of how things can and do work in a functioning, federated system of democracy.
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by hodgesrm 3y ago
> Rarely do literary names get tossed around when speaking of such rivalries, but in the 1950’s arguably the two biggest names in the industry took a shot at one another. This was far from the only feud. Hemingway got in a fist fight wit

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