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by hodgesrm 2y ago
So basically you see this as helping to get working vector search in MongoDB? It sounds as if the attraction, then, is that it integrates easily with your existing Atlas usage. Or is there more?
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by hodgesrm 2y ago
> We firmly believe that the next generation of AI applications will be built on MongoDB, making it the ideal foundation for AI-driven systems. I wonder about this. I've been working on ClickHouse support and cloud management for ov
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> In general, I agree that a thorough house-cleaning of NASA would be great for technical achievement, but this is one of the stupidest ways you could do it. Unfortunately it's business as usual for the X-style organization reform m
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Vance, in First Foreign Speech, Tells Europe That U.S. Will Dominate A.I(nytimes.com)
4 points by hodgesrm 2y ago|1 comments
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Simon Sebag Montefiore Says History Is Not Over(thefp.com)
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by hodgesrm 2y ago
Oops, that's Starliner. Still...It would be perhaps better for Boeing to get out of rockets entirely and focus on fixing their commercial airline business.
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by hodgesrm 2y ago
Wait, you mean the SLS that could not bring astronauts back from the International Space Station? It's nine months in and they are still up there.
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Stop Worshiping the American Tech Giants(nytimes.com)
3 points by hodgesrm 2y ago|2 comments
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Doorbell camera catches rare footage of meteorite striking home's front walkway(cnn.com)
117 points by hodgesrm 2y ago|54 comments
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by hodgesrm 2y ago
Run ClickHouse locally on Hetzner. Their prices are pretty hard to beat. We've been using them for years.
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by hodgesrm 2y ago
> An enormous flaw of Sybase/Microsoft SQL Server is that it does not implement the SQL/PSM standard. Why is this a problem? I've always enjoyed T-SQL. Right from the start it had a "scripty" feel and stored proc
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by hodgesrm 2y ago
You can even do 360s with coaster brakes. We wore out many tires at the park down the road from my house. It had a gentle slope that got you up to the perfect speed for coaster break fun on the smooth asphalt entrance road.
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Two fire experts interviewed about L.A. wildfires(latimes.com)
74 points by hodgesrm 2y ago|129 comments
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by hodgesrm 2y ago
Or as some wag once put it, the empire then continued to decline and fall for another 1000 years.
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by hodgesrm 2y ago
CLAs are not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, they are pretty much necessary for software companies. We have one for our open source projects. It has language to ensure there's no dispute about our right to the code. That's impor
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by hodgesrm 2y ago
Scary article. Revenue-based financing (RRB) already exists but Blue Owl and others are making bets on a large scale and at interest rates that are decoupled from actual risk. The PluralSight story is instructive: it looks like an obvious i
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by hodgesrm 2y ago
There are in fact multiple cloud services for ClickHouse. Aiven and Altinity also offer them, among others. Disclaimer: I work at Altinity.
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The C.E.O.s Are Tripping. Can Psychedelics Help the C-Suite?(nytimes.com)
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by hodgesrm 2y ago
> I do agree with you about open source developers being within their rights to maintain as they see fit. I used to agree with this, but it now seems a rather narrow view of how open source actually works. Open source projects tend to ma
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by hodgesrm 2y ago
There are multiple ways to address shard rebalancing: 1. If you are loading time series data you can often just wait for the shards to rebalance automatically as new data arrives and old data drops out. 2. If you are scaling to add new tena
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by hodgesrm 2y ago
> 2. Better architecture. To scale out ClickHouse uses sharding. Which means if you want to add a node you have to bring down the database, re-partition the database and reload the data, then bring it back up. This is not true in practic
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by hodgesrm 2y ago
The International Departures hall at SFO is pretty nice though far more conventional steel and glass. I actually like it better than PDX, partly because they have the habit of showing excellent art at SFO.[0] That's true throughout the
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Stanford expert on 'lying and technology' accused of lying about technology(sfgate.com)
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by hodgesrm 2y ago
San Francisco airport is pretty decent. I’ve been flying out of it for decades and it’s definitely improved over that time: access, food, wifi, other basic amenities. Even security checks are faster than most other airports I travel through
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by hodgesrm 2y ago
> You're being tested on your general intelligence, not because anybody cares about binary trees or reversing linked lists or whatever. A lot of interviewers missed that memo. They are in fact very focused on a specific algorithm or
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by hodgesrm 2y ago
Fully agree. There are many bad things that can happen to data. Another good feature is that ClickHouse is fairly tolerant of torn blocks and handles many failures automatically. This fault tolerance actually makes some corner cases hard
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by hodgesrm 2y ago
Since COVID food prices went up around 50% on many items that I pay attention to. (Example: meat & fish) For many Americans, messaging about the "great economy" does not match their lived experience.
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Unraveling the Mystery of Idle Threads in ClickHouse(altinity.com)
6 points by hodgesrm 2y ago|2 comments
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by hodgesrm 2y ago
In this case it was indeed "also." I've heard it used that way many times. Another common phrase in Indian English is "do the needful," which is a delightful formulation. Grammarly has a plausible description of how
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by hodgesrm 2y ago
Not exactly a stylistic difference but there are real differences in the dialects. Here's example from many moons ago: "Even I think that's a bad idea." That was an Indian colleague. It took me weeks to figure out that h

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