jmsmistral

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by jmsmistral 2y ago
I came across the Bigelow contest that had a sizeable prize for to people submit articles / essays arguing beyond a reasonable doubt that consciousness survives physical bodily death - here is a link to the top 3 winners: https:/
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by jmsmistral 2y ago
Agree about applying the scientific method. I do think it’s a range of phenomena that does not lend itself to the running of experiments. That said - in the area of shared death experiences, you have multiple independent accounts of people
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by jmsmistral 2y ago
Interesting read - thanks for sharing. I have recently been reading-up on near-death experiences, shared-death experiences, and tangential subjects and highly recommend books like: - Proof of Life After Life - https://tinyurl.com
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by jmsmistral 4y ago
Question - does this mean that Apple could be profiting from slavery through it's 30% fee on purchases via the App Store?
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by jmsmistral 6y ago
+1. Glad to see praise for rms. I'm thankful for everything he's done, and continues to do through the Free Software Movement.
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by jmsmistral 6y ago
Tip: don't marry in the first place.
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by jmsmistral 6y ago
Looks like Apple filed this.
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by jmsmistral 7y ago
I feel it is. It's an effective platform for (positive) change, in this case.
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by jmsmistral 7y ago
Looks cool! The presentation of the benchmark data could be improved by charting the values, however.
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by jmsmistral 7y ago
*Iceland tires ...
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by jmsmistral 7y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with this comment... and find the way it's articulated refreshing. God forbid we say we hate something without someone being outraged. +1 to 98% hating Microsoft... but also kudos for VSCode and TypeScript.
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Elastic Beanstalk: The Struggle(tech.labs.oliverwyman.com)
1 points by jmsmistral 8y ago|0 comments
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by jmsmistral 8y ago
These types of articles are a great reminder of how prevalent censorship is on mainstream services like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. Question - what other tech/services exists out there that supports freedom? Would that be in the
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by jmsmistral 8y ago
Will these be making their way back to the author so the text is updated? Or documented somewhere? Cheers!
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by jmsmistral 8y ago
Thanks for sharing!
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by jmsmistral 9y ago
Good list! Also, if you work with databases (particularly PostgreSQL) and want to work with them from Vim, check out dbext: http://jonathansacramento.com/posts/20160122-improve-postgre... Link to dbext here: https:&#x
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by jmsmistral 9y ago
Hear hear!!
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Predicting Churn Without Machine Learning(jonathansacramento.com)
2 points by jmsmistral 9y ago|0 comments
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by jmsmistral 10y ago
Sorry Microsoft... No one cares
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by jmsmistral 10y ago
Agree. A great code management feature like CTEs is limited to less data-intensive operations because of this :(
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Clean SQL(jonathansacramento.com)
5 points by jmsmistral 10y ago|0 comments
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by jmsmistral 10y ago
Exactly... This effect might reinforce 'upvote'-grabbing behavior, to either not lose the ability, or regain downvote if lost.
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The Power of Attention: Intelligence Over Information(youtube.com)
2 points by jmsmistral 11y ago|0 comments
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by jmsmistral 11y ago
Completely agree on the subscription.
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by jmsmistral 11y ago
You can innovate around the issue, like some of the comments mention. You should focus on growing sustainably, instead of selling yourselves to advertisers for quick cash. God knows there are a plethora of other places we can get our conten
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by jmsmistral 11y ago
I think ">128TB" is stretching the upper-limit for single-node database. When you're dealing with > 10TB in a single node, it's probably wise to 'shard' or partition the data over more than one node (thin
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by jmsmistral 11y ago
Doesn't have to be a DB-as-a-service though - Oracle and Greenplum are MPP, for example.
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by jmsmistral 11y ago
Cheers for the valuable tips! I'll be adding these to the page with due credit :)
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Refugee Crisis and Syria Explained in a Nutshell(youtube.com)
1 points by jmsmistral 11y ago|0 comments
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Improve your PostgreSQL workflow with vim and dbext(jonathansacramento.com)
3 points by jmsmistral 11y ago|3 comments

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