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by hodgesrm 1y ago
Or you focus on cost-efficient operation from very the beginning. Ironically databases are also one of the markets where it's possible to achieve profitability operating, extending, or supporting open source software. I did a talk at F
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> There appear to be a few dubious presuppositions at play here. > > The first is religious indifferentism. That is, that is makes no difference which you pick, or that what you pick is simply a matter of "what's 'ri
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> Similar to Christ saying that "man cannot live on bread alone", man cannot live on materialism alone - spiritual nourishment is a very real and necessary thing. I'm a Christian, and your interpretation is exactly how I h
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> If we look at the time a bit closer, we see the queries take anywhere between a minute and half an hour. Those are not unreasonable waiting times for analytical queries on that sort of data in any way. I'm really skeptical argumen
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Thanks for pointing this out. I'm not visually impaired but even so the graphics and presentation features on Windows seem noticeably better than the competition.
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by hodgesrm 1y ago
> MySQL was using 11GB, ClickHouse 500MB That's pretty typical best case size for weblogs and other time ordered data where column data correlate with time values. You do have to tweak the schema a bit to get there. (Specifically a
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There are many use cases that do not alter data. Observability is a canonical example.
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RMT does not depending on background merges completing to give correct results as long as you use FINAL to force merge on read. The tradeoff is that performance suffers. I'm a fan of what you are trying to do but there are some hard tr
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How is this better than using ReplacingMergeTree in ClickHouse? RMT dedups automatically albeit with a potential cost at read time and extra work to design schema for performance. The latter requires knowledge of the application to do corre
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It's also worth noting that some of the Roman commanders were simply bad, and Hannibal himself was not without flaws. The best example of the former is Gaius Flaminius, who was defeated by Hannibal at Lake Trasimene. [0] Livy memorably
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It's not the only company that does this. That's why foundations typically ask for the trademark and logos as part of donating code.
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What else would you recommend instead? Doing nothing is not a very compelling argument.
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I'm fully aware of that. The reason they get donations is that it's worth supporting.
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In my humble opinion Wikipedia is the single best thing thing to emerge from the Internet boom. Its name is a wordplay on one of the most important intellectual projects of the Enlightment.[0] The DC prosecutor letter reads like something s
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Wow. That's the sort of hubris that precedes major military disasters. Of course this is coming from the people who directed the US invasion of Iraq, so that's not in the least surprising.
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If you mean the fall of the Roman Republic, that and the succeeding decadence of the Empire was covered in detail by Roman sources. The Annals of Tacitus are just one of many examples. [0] It's how we know what happened. [0] https:&#x
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> I'm going to stay and fight and try to make whatever impact I can. Have you actually done this? It's harder than it sounds.
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> As a junior, I often wonder how many deals are signed in exclusive country clubs, on golf courses, and at the dining table with endlessly flowing Maotai. Virtually none in our business. (Databases.) What does get deals is listening car
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There is nothing new under the sun. There was a famous New Yorker cartoon from 1993 that laid out the issue. It would have been a good image for this substack post, though I'm not sure the author would have completely appreciated the i
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I have fond memories of the KOA in Klamath Falls from two bike tours that went through Crater Lake. Last time I was there we had just finished a section of the trip that included a 90 mile stretch with no stores or even a lot of water for t
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by hodgesrm 2y ago
Slightly off topic but if you are looking for a cabinet of curiosities for aircraft, visit the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, California. It has a collection that includes some truly marvelous flying machines. My favorite is a collap
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Scientists Revive the Dire Wolf, or Something Close(nytimes.com)
2 points by hodgesrm 2y ago|0 comments
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> The Math stops working when you grow to a certain point. That point is different for every business. For most of them it depends on how big cloud is in your COGS (cost of goods sold) which affects gross margins, which in turn is one of
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by hodgesrm 2y ago
I always use PT for Pacific Time to avoid the PST/PDT confusion. It has worked so far.
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Some of us like the tabloid-style IT reporting. The more salient criticism for me is that it's way less entertaining than a few years ago.
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I was delighted to see your models of tape operations as I used it a lot in the COBOL days. For reasons discussed in your article we would arrange tape processing as much as possible in sequential scans, something at which COBOL was quite e
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by hodgesrm 2y ago
> edit: apparently they build a kafkaesque layer of caching. No thank you, I'll just keep my data on locally attached NVMe. I can't speak to Neon specifically but I've worked a lot with analytic databases, which often use
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There are a number of axes of performance that aren't covered in this [wonderful] article on storage performance. One of these is that EBS allows you to scale the VM up / down to change the amount of CPU & RAM available to pro
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> It wasn't so much "idealism" than it was the fact that social media was directly responsible for the election of Barack Obama in 2008, the US's first Black president. That's a very strong claim, hence needs str
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Why Most Companies Shouldn't Have an AI Strategy(wsj.com)
4 points by hodgesrm 2y ago|2 comments

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