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by meitham 3y ago
He’s right on that though. I lived through desert storm and the invasion of Iraq. The US targeted our civilian infrastructures in the first two weeks of the war. Virtually we had no electricity for nearly 5 years until the “food for oil”
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by meitham 3y ago
Original link of leak https://go.premierfarnell.com/index.php/email/emailWebview?e...
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by meitham 3y ago
Not the whole db. Only data related to the day itself. A duckdb file is cached generated from a restful url (e.g /api/v1/risk/date/scheme) so that resides in a risk-scheme-date-uuid.duckdb) then a query will find
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by meitham 3y ago
We have a restful server that accepts odata query. We translate that to sql using sqlalchemy (it’s a python stack). The application is a financial risk system with billions of rows. The query usually fetches data from sqlserver, does som
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by meitham 3y ago
I have been using duckdb files as caches infront of sql server for server side queries. Initially the cache was redis, but duckdb worked much better as the very same query that goes to sql can be send down to duckdb.
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by meitham 3y ago
If they run out of duck names they may move to chicken names without anyone noticing ...!
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by meitham 3y ago
The NHS is indeed free, but I was not referring to treatment by the NHS. If you are adult with slipped disc, torn muscle or hernia or other no serious issues then good luck trying to be treated on the NHS. The waiting list is usually two
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by meitham 3y ago
The pricing of Medicare in the uk is a bit more transparent. If you visit private health care provider they will give upfront the price for self-paying vs insurance. The insurance price is often more than double, e.g. MRI scan via insuran
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by meitham 3y ago
In large organisations you often have no choice of the type of queue between your team and other teams. That being said there’s nothing wrong with Kafka and the ability to seek back to the earliest timestamp since midnight and being able t
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by meitham 3y ago
I recently wrote a production system that uses SQLite as the main backend. SQLite is in memory in this case and its entire state gets rebuilt from Kafka on start. The DB receives about 2 updates a second, wrapped with rest api aiohttp and
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by meitham 3y ago
Old school philosophy and religions are right once again!
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by meitham 3y ago
I was actually thinking of my kids when I suggested that. Born in the west to Arab parents but can’t read/write Arabic. They definitely can’t understand Egyptian Arabic, but they listen to modern Classical Arabic so it’s easier to the
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by meitham 3y ago
Very nice! Like many here, I got confused with the Egyptian sounding of the numbers. I think the default should be Classical Arabic, with dialects supports. It would be nice to also have the Arabic text next to the English, and to use Ara
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by meitham 3y ago
I agree too. Another example: I find early returns in functions easier to read than “else” with one “return” at the end. Basically vertically linear code as opposed to unnecessary branches and too much indentation, keeping the code slimme
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by meitham 3y ago
Welcome to synthetic financial products trading!
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by meitham 3y ago
Actually with SLY ( https://sly.readthedocs.io ) now dead, what is the recommended Lexer/Parser library in Python?
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by meitham 3y ago
Fantastic details! I wish every organisation had one so that articles or public statements can be checked against. I don’t believe the BBC has one as I have been seeing a lot of inconsistencies and spelling errors in their web articles.
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by meitham 3y ago
And they have the best time series db today ClickHouse!
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by meitham 3y ago
The established order is a reflection of a nation culture and costumes, and that also includes the established order in western countries. Imagine a scenario where China refuses to export to the west until their governments agree to condit
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by meitham 3y ago
Another case you might want to accommodate is Arabic speaking countries where the names goes like name son-of father-name son-of grandfather-name son-of great-grandfather-name tribe name. In most cases, such as when dealing with government
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by meitham 3y ago
Usually I have no idea that the link I clicked on is behind paywall, and the flow to translate the link to archive.* is too cumbersome on my mobile device, so I would rather know in advance about the accessibility of link. Ideally we add a
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by meitham 3y ago
That’s exactly what I did! Though I wish that interruption didn’t take place and I continued my enjoyment of reading that article
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by meitham 3y ago
Thanks, I don’t think I am willing to trade that pop-up inconvenience with my privacy offered to Googles by going through their cache. But yes I more than happy to use Archive.org. Did you have to copy the url, submitted it to archive.org
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by meitham 3y ago
I really enjoyed reading the article until this pop-up of “why we need your support” not only it blocked half my screen, but it also spoiled that attention I was giving to the article. These Jimmy Wales style of donations demand must be re
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by meitham 3y ago
Functional lisp I think God used
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by meitham 3y ago
A friend of ours has a dog named Sid!
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by meitham 3y ago
“Zip” is penis in Arabic, so I remember at university our female colleagues would read it as an abbreviation “ZIP” zed-eye-pee to avoid the embarrassment!
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by meitham 3y ago
It varies from one region to another of the planet. Iraq is an example where all food was organic in the 90s due to sanctions forbade import of most chemicals. You could hardly hear a single case of allergies in the generation of that per
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by meitham 3y ago
One of the main reasons religion grows very strong in Iran eventually leading to the revolution was the Shah oppression of religious beliefs. Women were beaten in the streets if they had a scarf covering their heads. He was unpopular dict
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by meitham 3y ago
This is beautiful and inspirational! I am about to redo my messy homelab and have two questions: 1. I don’t see any labels attached to the cables, how do you know which-is-what? 2. I am on pfsense too but I was considering a move to OPNSen

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