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by kwillets 6y ago
Oops, I started on an entry for this, and then went off with some new variants on the algo and forgot my original goal. But I did make it fairly readable: FixedPoint<uint32_t> x; do { x.setFraction(src()); x *= r
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by kwillets 6y ago
Good info -- thanks. Their Eon mode product is very similar to Snowflake, with S3 storage and semi-dynamic compute nodes, but they may not be as slick at marketing it or providing a UI.
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by kwillets 6y ago
So why did you switch from Vertica (or did you)?
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by kwillets 6y ago
Nerds are surprisingly susceptible to hard-sell tactics.
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by kwillets 6y ago
I'm coming around to the idea of having a separate VLAN for this stuff.
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by kwillets 6y ago
It's a data warehouse engine, for running SQL queries, hosted on cloud EC2 instances and s3 storage (and Azure, etc. equivalents). It's like Vertica or Redshift, or older examples like Teradata. It runs on a cluster of machines w
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by kwillets 6y ago
That's a good question; I'm curious how the sales process works. It's not winning on performance or price/performance. I suspect it's other features such as easy onboarding and an ETL (or ELT) toolchain. They clai
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by kwillets 6y ago
I see Trump as largely out of the discussion; for instance during the Carr Fire he said they needed more water (besides the stupidity of using water, Carr Powerhouse is a major transfer point for the California water system). Newsom relies
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by kwillets 6y ago
Creosote refers to both a tar substance and the result of wood combustion (smoke), which is a bit less toxic. For instance Seirogan pills are wood creosote.
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by kwillets 6y ago
Cuzco is one. I think it's higher than the pressurization altitude.
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by kwillets 6y ago
Followup: I dug up some benchmarks. Probably the best quote: "The unnamed data cloud platform consistently had the highest price-performance4, across a range of 11.5x to 13.1x". https://www.vertica.com/resource&#
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by kwillets 6y ago
No, I haven't. I mainly work with Vertica and did some troubleshooting on a Redshift cluster. I've mainly read comparisons of performance and price/perf vs. those platforms. Reading through their docs their semi-structured
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by kwillets 6y ago
The question is why. It doesn't seem to have anything to offer in performance or price/performance vs. even mediocre products such as Redshift. Am I missing something?
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by kwillets 6y ago
It may be more the level of organization. Warfare was common but thought to be more on the family/clan scale.
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by kwillets 6y ago
The SF Bay Bridge added a similar feature during the expensive replacement of the Eastern span, and despite every precaution and a very gradual turn, drivers routinely crashed, and the area was covered with skid marks. One truck went comple
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by kwillets 6y ago
That's not a bad interpretation. People forget that there were other programming models floating around at that time. In my youth I constructed a whole system of indirect referencing with register variables on an HP-41C calculator; w
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by kwillets 6y ago
translate.google.com somewhat prone to misnegation. Basically one word doesn't change the score that much, and there are things like different word order that overwhelm it.
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by kwillets 6y ago
Correlation does not equal causation, but it correlates with it.
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by kwillets 6y ago
Unfortunately this suit doesn't address the MHA law (a large tax on new homes); they just found that this case wasn't subject to it.
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by kwillets 6y ago
What I did most recently was to start out as a contractor and get a feel for the place. I found a good fit with some other skills (started out as a Vertica admin and got drafted to do some C++/SIMD work, and some stats, and now DW des
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by kwillets 6y ago
There's a whole subfield of adder design focused on carrying, since it's a big dependency chain even within one register. I believe this is a software version of what some adder circuits already do (although I'll need some r
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by kwillets 6y ago
Right now there's the colloquial meaning, and a proper noun which means taking 10-30% of housing output and selling it at a government-set price to government-approved people.
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by kwillets 6y ago
Building codes and zoning are constitutional, but it's now the case that nobody is allowed to build up to the limits of zoning, and the approval process has been hijacked to impose all sorts of expensive economic programs. Mao's G
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by kwillets 6y ago
In this case it's hardly zoning laws, but rather a framework that allows local politicians to impose further restrictions beyond them.
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by kwillets 6y ago
Amongst the various human rights, the right to build a house should be fundamental, but somehow it was lost to political forces.
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by kwillets 6y ago
Viral marketing.
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by kwillets 6y ago
Most compilers will translate unsigned (x + y < x) to CF usage.
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by kwillets 7y ago
I'm curious why we can't do echo/feedback cancellation. I know the signal processing algorithms exist, but perhaps I'm missing something.
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by kwillets 7y ago
I think this statement is a reference to a wide body of fake material circulating on social media platforms, including, for instance, a drawing of an airplane dotted with x-y damage locations, which is neither an aircraft that was in use in
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by kwillets 7y ago
Just about any 8-line shell script is a good argument for LP.

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