kthejoker2

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by kthejoker2 2y ago
I find this post ironic in that it (unintentionally) mirrors the atticle's point. Graph (hierarchical) databases and time series (SCADA) datbases predate your (implicit) definition of "database" as a "relational datbase.
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
I sympathize but totally disagree, if the $1 I paid guarantees: A) it is an actual job, with intent to hire now B) I will get an actual response, from a human, within a few days Then $100 is completely worth the time saved vs applying to
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
FTA > Meanwhile, Walgreens is also having a tough time. The pharmacy giant said in October it would close roughly 1,200 U.S. stores over the next three years, including 500 locations in fiscal 2025. In June, it said about 8,600 locations
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
I know it's a myth, but this is just the late stage capitalism equivalent of the Spartans casting away weak children and every eugenics program ever. Either Benji (the kid in the article) gets the help they need to be part of our socie
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
Happy user so far in my early days ... appreciate the speed for sure
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
How ironic, due to my Internet situation I was greeted with a "prove you are a human" prompt.
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
The Taylorism (and eugenics) people would have a field day with this. Are there any good sci fi stories or novels on reducing or eliminating sleep through better chemistry? Given the impetus of the article is we're all chronically slee
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
The article is very real and human written and highly intelligent regardless of its merits. So a bit of a false positive for your mental model.
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
The article is neutral on the impacts of needing less sleep. It's not proposing an increase in productivity or how to use more waking hours. Its main raison d'etre is we're all sleep deprived so engineering less sleep may pro
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
There's a whole section in TFA called "too good to be true?" Which calls this out but says we don't have enough data to know
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
Perl, not PHP. Source: was turn of the century developer at Everything2
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
IME "best practices" is a demand problem, not a supply problem. IE far more people want best practices than there are actual best practices. Prospects and customers desperately want to know our "best practices" and the
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
Has selling shovels to the miners ever been a bad investment strategy?
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
shrug Either you believe you live in a society where your actions have repercussions on others, or you don't.
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
CTEs aren't really an "extra" feature they just are a composable reusable subquery. This just adds the benefit of storing CTEs as function calls aka table valued functions (TVFs) ... also not really an "extra" featu
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
Most gambling (and alcohol) addictions are the result of mental disorders, not freely chosen. Not aving things in society which actively prey on people with atypical dopamine response patterns to the point of them committing suicide, harmin
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
John Cage literally composed music by rolling dice in the 1950s You can listen to it on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/1TwLLLOArGizLfbzR2Pbgi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleatoric_music?w
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
Can't stop something you never started. It's funny we coach people not to ascribe human characteristics to LLMS.. But we seem equally capable of denying the very human characteristics in our would be overlords. Which warlord wil
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
I hate articles that both attempt to reject a premise and then in the very next paragraph say .."and even if the premise is correct, it's a good thing." Is the bomb "overblown" or are we on track to have 2 billion l
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
Just pointing out Delta Lake and Iceberg are based on columnar Parquet format and are designed for OLAP / data warehousing workloads. So managing write concurrency is definitely a secondary priority since it's not the norm to have
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
Depends on how you define success. If it's Olympic gold or bust .. you're gonna have a bad time. Given the 2 x 2 matrix of natural talent and ability to focus/ give effort / practice deliberately (whatever you want to ca
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
> For his community, it's all about certainty over the future of their streets My biggest complaint about NIMBYism is this behavior. Why are current owners allowed to dictate so many rules about "the future"?
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
Awesome, much better than before. Amazon Music just introduced profiles. Hopefully an encouraging trend in 2024 that tech finally realizes households exist and have different needs than individuals.
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
Negative price for production = positive price for storage. It is not bad news or good news in the aggregate, it just shifts things.
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
This lens is valid but not the only one. There is also the archaeological / historical lens. This website has been around 26 years. The Internet is a real cultural artifact. Not sure we should leave it entirely up to the companies on h
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
...," they posted anonymously on a social media forum.
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
I find this comment delightfully ironic in a contemporary moment of blatant shrinkflation.
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
Luggage votes? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, my friend. Please provide some.
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
"Penny wise and pound foolish" is a real thing Greedy but too much short term thinking is stupid.
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by kthejoker2 2y ago
Yes this. Everyone who has no intention of selling their home (in a Georgist manner) could list their house for 5x the going market rate (youd probably sell if and then this metric would be effectively 100% and yet many houses would still s

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