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by jarym 6y ago
Very neat indeed. I thought Postgres had a max identifier length of 63 characters so I was surprised to see "cityofchicago/covid19-daily-cases-deaths-and-hospitalizations-naz8-j4nc".covid19_daily_cases_deaths_and_hospitaliza
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by jarym 6y ago
Piracy exists to keep corporations honest.
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They I think are owned by Waitrose and doing fine. They spent a lot of money doing R&D and I read somewhere they tried to license it to grocery stores in France and Germany where the chains are a bit technologically behind the times - n
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by jarym 6y ago
Very true and I love that - the people doing supermarket delivery seem to be way happier than the Deliveroo/JustEat/UberEats drivers. I asked a couple what their hours and stuff are like and they seemed to be very positive about t
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To think British grocery chains had been pushing online services for many years and consumer acceptance was growing at a snails pace until Covid hit. I love using those services especially if it means I can avoided a crowded store on the we
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by jarym 6y ago
Actually a legit observation. Sorry to say but the naysayers on here are super dumb and missing the point with their comparison to other Google services or claiming lack of evidence.
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Quantum mechanics goes over my head
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People get so upset when the monetary expansion is pointed out. S&P is headed to 4k within the next couple of years as the monetary expansion shows no sign of changing.
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Well travel is a huge part of almost every economy and they remain hit.
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In some cases it did not appear to give me an improvement in data load time - I didn't do a rigorous test though which is why I said it might be 'hit and miss'.
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by jarym 6y ago
So today I learnt: 1. Canon don’t have any backup procedures in place for their cloud platform. Any hacker now will be salivating at the idea of pulling a ransomware hack I imagine. 2. Canon developers follow the ‘test in production’ method
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by jarym 6y ago
COPY is the fastest method to insert data in Postgres. As another poster mentioned, setting table to UNLOGGED will help also. Finally, you can drop ALL indexes and recreate them after import (been hit and miss in my testing but on occasion
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by jarym 6y ago
Sorry, I was referring to the example that a product injures someone - as far as I know, yes, same in US, businesses have to eat the cost of returns.
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Yes it is, it’s supposed to increase with population, GDP and a few other things. The US hasn’t seen population growth to justify THIS level of monetary expansion since WW2!
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Oh and last week Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway revealed their first ever stake in a gold mining company. Buffett had been anti-gold since forever and had plenty unkind things to say about goldbugs (and he was right). So if he of all p
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by jarym 6y ago
Exactly, all the money that's being printed and every asset class going higher yet the typical measure of inflation seems to stay low - I would bet the measure is wrong. In fact, it does not matter if I'm right or wrong about thi
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by jarym 6y ago
The reasons for the low inflation are quite specific to the US. One thing you can't escape is just how much money supply has increased - look at the M2 chart here: https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=FRED%3AM
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by jarym 6y ago
To be honest, I'm surprised Bruce Schneier of all people would hold such a view - I mean, there was almost no need for internet security not THAT long ago and yet technologies like SSL/TLS, VPNs, etc. are indispensible to us today
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by jarym 6y ago
Yea, no. Blockchains are still a technology in their infancy but the need for them is clear. Rampant money printing is eroding the value of money - we cannot trust Central Banks to preserve what little wealth we may have. And then we look a
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by jarym 6y ago
Retailers will keep Product Liability Insurance and make sure their suppliers have the same for this very reason. When a claim arises there are 2 perspectives: 1. The customer only has to deal with the place they bought from. 2. Every merc
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by jarym 6y ago
I guess if you want a pseudo map/list where ordering matters? But truth is semantics of a 'map' have no implicit ordering (at least mathematically). The fact some languages offer this as a convenience is great but its hardly
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by jarym 6y ago
Actually I think it says a lot about how expressive SQL is. I get why a lot of developers take swipes at SQL - it is a bit different to other languages. But you cannot beat it for what it does. Another ‘great’ language is XSLT - so far I’ve
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by jarym 6y ago
Common sense. Amazon want to ‘own’ the customer relationship and go to great lengths to that end then it follows they will have to ‘own’ any liability too. Imagine you went into a retail store with a faulty product and they were to try fob
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by jarym 6y ago
Spot on. The capitalist system SOLELY treats money as the sole objective. That's the game and fine, we accept it, it has 'worked' (more or less) for a very long time. But really the world is becoming less about money. Heck,
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by jarym 6y ago
I think he's right. A sale to Nvidia would be detrimental to ARM's current business model - now Nvidia may have other plans but the thought of that would certainly scare existing licensees even more. Should the UK government inter
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by jarym 6y ago
Have to agree! I mainly code Kotlin at the moment, however I still love C# and actually F# too. I have yet to see a 'best of everything' language and C# has proven to be an amazingly versatile language. Yes, it has plenty of wart
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by jarym 6y ago
> but once it was clear that the virus was spreading Yes, once it was ostensibly too late to prevent a huge economic hit and significant loss of human life. The European response was atrocious, let’s not rewrite history - Italy happened
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I think you’re mistaken. No one started to care until Italy happened weeks after the WHO warnings. China locking down 11m people didn’t ring any alarm bells in the west. Even when Italy happened not all countries reacted, instead thinking ‘
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by jarym 6y ago
Covid-19 has exposed how almost all world leaders are useless when faced with big challenges - any action taken will be far too late; too little and often times plain wrong. So as I read about Greenland’s ice sheets I can only conclude that
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by jarym 6y ago
I only see one solution: Make Google split the search business out so that it only provides search and nothing else. That was Google's stated 'point' of their own site and they should be held to it. They are like a bad rash,

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