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by jwatte 6y ago
Having run a medium size Spark cluster, I'm not sure I agree. If you have 80-100% utilization for a month, perhaps, but the beauty of Snowflake is that you can spin up a 3XL warehouse for a few MINUTES to get answers fast, and then shu
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by jwatte 6y ago
The way I see it, Unreal is eating Unity from above, extending down, and Roblox is eating Unity from below, developing awesome new technologies. Gotta be hard being Unity :-) Roblox has tons of innovation. It has a volumetric/voxel bas
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by jwatte 6y ago
Let's assume that sending network packets to verify the trustworthiness of commands is a good idea. (It may not be, but that's a different discussion.) If you have a modern OS with sufficient virtualization and containerization an
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by jwatte 6y ago
This is what TLS certificates solve. They make sure the other end of the IP connection has the name you expect it to have.
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by jwatte 6y ago
It sounds to me like the omission of an opt-out configuration is the entire technical problem. However, it sounds to me like the real irritant here is the presumption that omitting that configuration is in any way something that benefits th
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by jwatte 7y ago
The safety culture and degree of acceptable risk is somewhat different now, from when we were sure we'd get nuked by the Russians in a month. (And also still thought smoking was healthy.)
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by jwatte 7y ago
If it increases total biomass, then it does on average sequester that additional biomass. And even if you burn it, well, the next crop will sequester it again. The main problem with burning fossil fuels is that we dug them up out of the gro
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by jwatte 7y ago
Facebook and Google hire tons of C++ programmers. Despite what you may think, the back-end of the internet runs on C++. Also: If you've done VR development, you have marketable skills. Unreal Engine is C++, and learning the specifics o
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by jwatte 7y ago
For example: http://info.snowflake.net/rs/252-RFO-227/images/Snowflake_SI... https://www.snowflake.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/A-Detai...
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by jwatte 7y ago
I don't think it's lying, I think it's getting the lower-calorie product where it's good enough, but there simply aren't good low-calorie fries. "I'mma have a soda. Coke and Coke Zero have equal flavor val
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by jwatte 7y ago
:doubt:
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by jwatte 7y ago
If SuperMicro plus real estate, power, provisioning, and operating costs isn't competitive with cloud costs, perhaps it might be because the large cloud vendors have entire teams focusing entirely on bringing down the cost of building
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by jwatte 7y ago
No, they're collecting one BILLION (with a b) data points every two seconds. Gotta go to 2000 seconds (a little over half an hour) for the TRILLION. With a 25:1 reduction/summarization before writing. If they're smart, they d
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by jwatte 7y ago
There is ample evidence that: - there is no physical embodiment of "free will" - everything in the physical world is deterministic, although at the quantum level, "statistically deterministic with random sampling" Thus,
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by jwatte 8y ago
For the "invisible hand of the market" to lead to optimal outcomes, decisions need to be made by "rational actors" using "perfect information." It's right there, in the original text! We can't legisla
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by jwatte 8y ago
C isn't one of those languages, though.
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by jwatte 8y ago
I think there is a difference between "house ads" for other content, versus Nike trying to sell me sneakers. However, I think that difference is smaller than most in house placement marketers think -- those I have talked to are ge
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by jwatte 8y ago
The reason for this is twofold. First, we don't have the capability to go after big crime, so we go after little crime that can't defend itself well. Second, it's often the case that people will bend the rules to gain an adva
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by jwatte 8y ago
If we have laws that we don't enforce, then we should strike them from the books. If we are not willing to fund enforcement of a law, we should not pass it. This will show us what we really value as a society.
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by jwatte 8y ago
The only reason you can accumulate and have wealth, is that the society exists.
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by jwatte 8y ago
Not paying taxes is theft from the society that lets you accumulate and keep wealth.
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by jwatte 8y ago
Not actually true, except under very skewed systems and assumptions.
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by jwatte 8y ago
Could society benefit if more people had these opportunities?
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by jwatte 8y ago
They do all this work, and then choose possibly the most confusing name they could?
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by jwatte 8y ago
The dev got his $99 two years ago and had long since taken up other contracts.
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by jwatte 8y ago
As for why health care and education are getting not expensive
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by jwatte 8y ago
Isn't that what factoring does? That's a well established line of business for a very long time. And because you sell your invoices, the factor now takes the payment default risk. Does cost a penny though.
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by jwatte 8y ago
All of those people with double reporting? I feel for them.
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by jwatte 8y ago
So Google just killed crazyegg and optimizely?
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by jwatte 8y ago
Ask those that did, and did not go to prison. Our society rewards greed over conscience.

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