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by hodgesrm 5mo ago
SFO art shows are well-curated and interesting. There's a causeway in Terminal 3 to reach the F gates. It's now under construction but in years past it used to have outstanding art exhibitions that you could take easily while walk
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by hodgesrm 5mo ago
It's a source of jokes in the UK at least. Most Americans don't know the difference. As the saying goes, "two countries separated by a common language."
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by hodgesrm 5mo ago
> I'm sure folks will make fun of me for this. It is a stupid thing. But I truly love GitHub, and I hope they find their way. So do I. At the same time, GitHub has evolved into a SPOF for the entire software industry. It badly needs
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by hodgesrm 5mo ago
> I’m convinced that it’s impossible to write good SQL without peeking into the data. That's been my experience as well. One question that comes up is how to ensure confidential information does not leak out of the database and int
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The Mythos Threshold(joereis.substack.com)
2 points by hodgesrm 6mo ago|0 comments
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by hodgesrm 6mo ago
There does not seem to be an easy answer for which political system delivers the best benefits. Direct democracy has defects that have been apparent for thousands of years. I believe Plato was one of the first to argue that democracy turned
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Agentic Coding at ClickHouse(clickhouse.com)
8 points by hodgesrm 6mo ago|0 comments
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by hodgesrm 6mo ago
That's how it works in California. I had a 3 year non-compete with VMware after we sold a business to them. It was restricted to the specific market and technology our business covered but didn't limit activities in other areas. I
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by hodgesrm 7mo ago
Does anyone else find it a bit disorienting that we're essentially implementing the Blade Runner Voight Kampff test? https://bladerunner.fandom.com/wiki/Voight-Kampff_test
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by hodgesrm 7mo ago
Don't forget the Duke of Buckingham - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Villiers,_1st_Duke_of_B... . Dumas' fictionalized version was far better than the real person.
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by hodgesrm 7mo ago
The Three Musketeers is my favorite adventure story of all time. The story of how D'Artagnan insults all three musketeers in succession at their first meeting, challenges them to duels one after the other, and ends up fighting on their
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by hodgesrm 7mo ago
> You can't make that up. Unfortunately it seems quite believable. This is the same outfit that fired a bunch of people responsible for overseeing the US Nuclear Arsenal. [0] The combination of arrogance and stupidity was breathtaki
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by hodgesrm 7mo ago
Nice summary of lessons. Thanks!!
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by hodgesrm 7mo ago
If items are comparable the lowest unsold item should be an upper bound on price, no?
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by hodgesrm 7mo ago
That sounds like a bad hire, not a junior. Why didn’t your manager help fix that?
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by hodgesrm 8mo ago
> What a passive way to say executives kept a larger share of profits for themselves, forcing workers to be stressed and do a sub-optimal job. This is a very limited view of why things don't work. The main issue in my experience is
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by hodgesrm 8mo ago
The Grokipedia article on Malleus Maleficarum is almost unreadable. It’s long on wordy, thinly sourced disquisitions on marginally relevant topics. The section on historical and theological context is a case in point. It seems to be largely
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Invitation to Discuss the Future of the MySQL Ecosystem(letter.3306-db.org)
2 points by hodgesrm 8mo ago|0 comments
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by hodgesrm 9mo ago
This. And the wonderful thing about LLMs is that they can be trained to bend responses in specific directions, say toward using Oracle Cloud solutions. There's fertile ground for commercial value extraction that goes far beyond ads. Th
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by hodgesrm 9mo ago
The problem is enforcing those laws now the Trump administration is using X and other social networks as instruments of national policy and forcing others to use them, to the detriment (potentially considerable) of European societies.
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by hodgesrm 9mo ago
This is a great comment. At the same time GDPR and other standards do not address practical issues that (arguably) cause real harm like including features to generate undressed images of women and children. It's the same dynamic that h
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by hodgesrm 9mo ago
That's very kind of you. We love working on ClickHouse and real-time analytics.
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by hodgesrm 9mo ago
ClickHouse effectively has a number of personas. Time series is one of them, and ClickHouse has steadily absorbed market share from pure play time series databases over the last few years. Other personas include real-time observability back
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by hodgesrm 9mo ago
> FOSS software that many rely on that has been around for a while were non-VC: VCS, Linux / GNU / BSD, web browsers, various programming languages, various databases... It's honestly hard to pick a pattern out for older o
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OpenAI to Begin Testing Ads in ChatGPT in Push for Fresh Revenue(wsj.com)
9 points by hodgesrm 9mo ago|1 comments
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by hodgesrm 9mo ago
> The appeal to JD Vance is properly craven and validates the view that their business model is effectively a protection racket. It's not craven, it's a mistake. It needlessly antagonizes the market at large to solve a smaller
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by hodgesrm 9mo ago
Yes, it's a design pattern for data warehouses.
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by hodgesrm 9mo ago
If it's under a few terabytes, copy it to ClickHouse and store it in the native format, make your change, and dump it back out again. ClickHouse reads and writes Parquet very efficiently and supports efficient distribution of work acro
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by hodgesrm 9mo ago
I can't judge how accurate this account is as a whole, but it raises some intriguing points. For example, this passage ties student indebtedness to the decline in radicalism. > Noam Chomsky sounded a similar note in 2014 when he des
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by hodgesrm 9mo ago
Thomas Goldstein successfully argued the Supreme Court case that allowed Google to claim fair use of Oracle's Java SE APIs. The rest of his life sounds like a sequel to Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.

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