kermatt

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by kermatt 2y ago
Name overlap with another Go based package: https://github.com/rilldata/rill
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by kermatt 2y ago
> "Our marketing strategy is to just focus on the product". I wish more companies had this perspective, in contrast to the "Barely MVP and mostly marketing spend" to get the most signups / MAU in hopes of an acqu
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by kermatt 2y ago
Companies become myopic past a certain stage. New products take time to mature into revenue generating things. Cost savings from layoffs are immediate.
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by kermatt 2y ago
Sure, if the _only_ responsibility of a businessman was to maximize revenue.
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by kermatt 2y ago
Openwashing: https://web.archive.org/web/20241008220257/https://github.co...
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by kermatt 2y ago
Do you have a link that describes the equipment, for those of us who don't yet understand what a long wire antenna is? Having been in the WNC hurricane area, I have a newfound interest in this stuff.
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by kermatt 2y ago
Which makes it a lie because their stated reasons are not the actual reasons.
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by kermatt 2y ago
Agilefall.
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DB-Engines now owned by Redgate Software(db-engines.com)
3 points by kermatt 2y ago|0 comments
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by kermatt 2y ago
What are the (future) use cases for Aria ?
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by kermatt 2y ago
> allowing the company to do more with fewer resources The "Do more with less" thing is usually an indicator a company is on track to become Nothing.
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by kermatt 2y ago
"I have a dozen people on a dozen different things."
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by kermatt 2y ago
> Also what the fuck is a sales-facing CTO?? Perhaps of a symptom of the "Everyone is in sales" brain damage so pervasive in companies now.
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Microsoft says EU to blame for the worst IT outage(euronews.com)
14 points by kermatt 2y ago|2 comments
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by kermatt 2y ago
Regulators who may not understand the difference between an OS and a driver.
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by kermatt 2y ago
Is it possible that these events had less impact because the damage was less / more easily fixed due to the nature of the OS? Or perhaps because the admins of Linux systems are typically more knowledable about how to run their platform
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by kermatt 2y ago
> it is still more robust than software created by multi-billion dollar corporations OSS software has few to no profit incentives. It it written to do something, not to sell something. It also has little time pressure. If a release slips
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by kermatt 2y ago
CYA incentives: If I don't install one of these system (and global IT) killing EDR systems, and I have a breach _I_ am responsible. If my company requires it, and I install it and the entire network falls over, responsibility is passed
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Moaan InkPalm Plus is weird, cheap, small, and my kind of e-reader(sixcolors.com)
216 points by kermatt 2y ago|168 comments
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by kermatt 2y ago
The market is bad at looking beyond the next fiscal quarter.
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by kermatt 2y ago
> Like many airlines, American pays its attendants only for the time the plane is in the air.Boarding passengers, waiting between flights, and traveling to and from the airport all mean flight attendants typically work about two hours fo
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by kermatt 2y ago
https://github.com/xo/usql has a similar feel to it, with a variety of backends.
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by kermatt 2y ago
Imagine the conditions for German 18 year olds if a country like Russia, which has no qualms about conscription, or forced labor for non-Russians starts to take European countries. Required military service sucks, but so does Putin.
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by kermatt 2y ago
Everything in this article implies a lack of understanding of the more common use cases for Parquet - data sets that exceed typical single node RAM sizes. The article would make more sense titles "Large Buckets of Parquet Files Are Awf
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by kermatt 2y ago
Spark and Drill have options, but DuckDB makes it almost trivial: https://duckdb.org/docs/data/json/overview
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by kermatt 3y ago
Are any of the tools mentioned in these comments better suited to searching SQL code, both DML and DDL? We maintain a tree of files with each object in a separate "CREATE TABLE|VIEW|PROCEDURE|FUNCTION" script. This supports code s
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by kermatt 3y ago
> Redis for 99% of the intended use-cases and companies will be just fine. Except when Windows is the architecture. This may be a place where Garnet is a good alternative.
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by kermatt 3y ago
The music is mediocre, but some of the lyrics it comes up with: https://app.suno.ai/song/def7a937-3d26-4149-bb37-52b547e200c...
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by kermatt 3y ago
That is in part because DuckDB would not be used in an application supporting multiple concurrent clients. It’s a desktop / single process analysis tool, not a replacement for what a ride sharing app would use for ride scheduling.
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by kermatt 3y ago
I’m wondering if “Boeing the business” is going to become a new term.

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