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by khurs 3mo ago
It's pretty amazing that South Park hasn't been sued (or lost?) I wonder if Peter Thiel took umbrage at how South Park portrayed him recently [0] and is lurking in the shadows planning Gawker v2 [1] [0] https://www.yout
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by khurs 3mo ago
A lot of people are renting in UK now, so they will need permission to install a perm one?
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by khurs 3mo ago
Relax, it's just the start of more Air Con sales in Europe.
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by khurs 3mo ago
Technically - as Postgresql stores the UUID data type as binary, it's 16 bytes.
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by khurs 3mo ago
I'm not in USA, so can't speak for you. But here in UK it is accepted that schools were, and remain, designed to produce well behaved consumers and workers.
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by khurs 3mo ago
The education system is to blame. Kids are conditioned to associate learning with a formal course with a tutor culminating in exams. It's also intentional to segregate skills, if schools taught every child basic plumbing or car mechani
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by khurs 3mo ago
oh wow, another rug pull!! So Ceph/SeaweedFS/RustFS/Garage are the alternatives I think
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by khurs 3mo ago
"The large enterprise vendors are not price-sensitive." Have you ever spoken to a CTO? They most certainly are. Also many are Microsoft houses so using Azure blob plus one of the reasons for Kubernetes/Openshift adoption was
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by khurs 3mo ago
> nobody will run minio on AWS other than hobby projects and small demos. You realise not every company uses AWS for any/all its needs? There are datacenters around the world owned by individual companies or co-located. And many com
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by khurs 3mo ago
Both Iceberg and Delta Lake support 'time travel' so you can query data as it was at a certain date. SELECT count * FROM my_table AS OF "2025-01-01" https://delta.io/blog/2023-02-01-delta-lake-t
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by khurs 3mo ago
There are self hosted object stores which use the same protocol as S3. One example: https://github.com/minio/minio Parquet files are smaller than row based storage in a database (but not those databases with focus on s
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by khurs 3mo ago
typo!!
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by khurs 3mo ago
If you look at what CloudFlare did - when they were unhappy with Nginx, they re-wrote their own proxy in Rust, one wonders if this company could instead have 'porting' reddit, started afresh? Reddit is from 2009 so must have lots
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by khurs 3mo ago
Trader Joe is owned by one of the two German Aldi groups (two brother split original business to have one each) And both of them employ the same model globally. They are huge - ~15,000 stores worldwide and growing fast https://en
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by khurs 3mo ago
All the comments appear to be US centric, but Costco is also in other countries. So to tell you about the UK: Here membership is unusual in that it isn't technically open to everyone, it's business and certain professions: https:
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by khurs 3mo ago
Video any such interaction. They go viral easily and the culprit learns their lesson.
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by khurs 3mo ago
Thanks for that link
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Snowden files revealed NSA collect everything they can. Of-course USA is collecting everything, not just from China but everyone. And same with every one else.
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by khurs 3mo ago
Why has FoundationDB not been professionalised? Better website, better docs, official GUI? Is Apple responsible for preventing its wider uptake? Or alternative databases stronger?
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by khurs 3mo ago
tl;dr : Android head of security has quit on principl as he is a pacifist and Google are now working with USA department of war. And also as they scrapped the carbon neutral promise due to the AI Datacentre race.
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by khurs 3mo ago
"The purpose of code review is not for the reviewer to find bugs" Well kinda - code review needs to identify any missing tests? And without the tests more likely a bug could exist.
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by khurs 3mo ago
The people who supplied money are not retail investors. They are rich people who have power and influence and connections to politicians, media etc
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Says: "It is fully open source under the MIT license"
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by khurs 3mo ago
Well at least they bought and didn't rent for 6 weeks, dismantle, reassemble and return.... https://qz.com/1146259/mercedes-got-caught-trashing-a-rental...
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by khurs 3mo ago
AWS have 35% profit margins. Google Cloud recently told Meta they couldn't supply all the ai compute they want so Meta has no choice but to secure their supply? https://memeburn.com/google-limits-metas-gemini-ai-access-
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by khurs 3mo ago
>xAI has shown this to be quite lucrative. The demand is likely short term till the renter can ramp up their own centres/find better deals.
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by khurs 3mo ago
25 year old has been doing the rounds giving podcast and other interviews so you can listen to him.
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Good news. The more providers, the more competition and lower prices. Meta are laying their own sub-sea cables globally at present: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgrgz8271go
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by khurs 3mo ago
That means Nvidia are charging too much and the wider customer base can't afford it. "Nvidia earlier this month said it was aiming to raise debt which sources said could amount to at least $20 billion. The firm intends to use the
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by khurs 3mo ago
Cloudflare are launching a 'pay per crawl' service https://www.cloudflare.com/paypercrawl-signup/ So whilst AI companies are known to behave badly, there could be side effects: 1. Cloudflare may have a financ

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