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by manimino 4y ago
It also makes comparisons to rival products (AMD in this case) more confusing.
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by manimino 4y ago
When the Windows 11 beta showed up with the ads and distractions built in, I finally switched my last computer to a KDE Linux. Love the Windows UI, but their commitment to putting ads in the OS means the OS is no longer the product. Their u
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by manimino 4y ago
I'm trying it out for free and so far it's turning up great results. Thanks for the recommendation.
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by manimino 4y ago
Oof. That's really complicated and still doesn't do the trick. Concrete example -- when searching Reddit, I can check a box to confine the search to the current subreddit I'm on. That does a wonderful job of restricting resul
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by manimino 4y ago
One thing I find amazing is that "single box" search engines are still the standard. The biggest pain point of using Google is when it incorrectly guesses what you are trying to search. But the user is only allowed to type in one
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by manimino 4y ago
Why would undergraduates be more representative of society than Mechanical Turk users? Surely the Turk users span a much wider range of age and geolocation.
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by manimino 4y ago
Thanks! Hopefully ducks is everything you need it to be.
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by manimino 4y ago
That's a great point. The LIMIT workaround takes no knowledge of the data distribution, but an optimizer could do much better with some statistics such as estimated percentiles.
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by manimino 4y ago
Exactly. So the workaround looks like: - Make one query with LIMIT of 5% - If it returns LIMIT rows, do a query with NOT INDEXED Which is surprising; why not build that into the query planning / execution in the first place?
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by manimino 4y ago
These blog posts have been great. I'd love to see a deep dive on the query planner at some point. I've done lots of benchmarking SQLite while writing ducks [1], and found some interesting stuff. It seems like SQLite will only use
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by manimino 4y ago
Oh yeah. It was a good day when the ducks name turned up! The "plural animal" thing references pandas / polars, which are like the OLAP version of ducks. Good near-homonym too. Index? In ducks! The API layer sounds like a gr
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Show HN: Ducks, the Python Object Indexer(github.com)
2 points by manimino 4y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Ducks, a Python library for database-like object lookups(ducks.readthedocs.io)
6 points by manimino 4y ago|0 comments
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by manimino 4y ago
This was a great read. Thanks for sharing it!
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by manimino 4y ago
HN is really up on SQLite at the moment. If an AI were trained to write hit HN posts, "Writing Rust Extensions For SQLite" would probably be in the top results.
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by manimino 4y ago
Ahh, "SAS" here refers to Samsung Austin Semiconductor.
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by manimino 4y ago
TFA appears to be about adapting SQLite for OLAP workloads. I do not understand the rationale. Why try to adapt a row-based storage system for OLAP? Why not just use a column store?
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by manimino 4y ago
This is the same argument used to defend cigarettes in Thank You For Smoking. Quote: Well, the real demonstrated #1 killer in America is cholesterol. And here comes Senator Finisterre whose fine state is, I regret to say, clogging the natio
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by manimino 4y ago
Been on Manjaro+NVidia for a few years now. Gaming works very well, especially for recent games (2017+). Most "Windows only" games play perfectly. Older games are hit or miss, but misses are pretty rare.
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by manimino 4y ago
Who exactly is "they"? The... Big Bug industry?
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by manimino 4y ago
Oof. This is black and white thinking at its worst. The author perceives only two possible outcomes, one where things go Right (correct according to his perceptions) and where they go Wrong (correct according to the other party's perce
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by manimino 4y ago
When computers started beating humans at chess, there was a similar moment of anxiety. One good quote from that era: "You should be no more concerned that a computer can beat you in chess than that a car can beat you in a race." T
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by manimino 4y ago
Over 10% of the US population uses antidepressants. Numbers are similar for other countries: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_antidep... Depression is a societal problem. Fixing it at an individual
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by manimino 4y ago
"To get to the other side" has a double meaning (to die, perhaps by being hit by a car). So the chicken joke is not necessarily an anti-joke.
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by manimino 4y ago
Scientists sharing code helps with reproducibility.
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by manimino 4y ago
We all carry GPS trackers that send our personal info to large companies constantly. This has been normalized to the point where opting out is too expensive, even for people who would like to.
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by manimino 4y ago
A better strategy would be to win the markets and profit from them.
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by manimino 4y ago
Swarm Simulator takes the "starcraft as derivatives" idea and runs with it, out to 30+ levels. https://www.swarmsim.com/#/
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by manimino 4y ago
Possibly because it implies that higher-demand jobs do not need unions. Which is a position some may disagree with.
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by manimino 4y ago
From the inside, it can feel like there are actually too many rules. The interviewer is likely running a fairly narrow script. The interviewer probably believes they are being fair or generous when allowing minor deviations from their struc

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