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by mytherin 6y ago
I see no reason why compilation should be slower on ARM. Compilation typically doesn't use any Intel specific instructions (intrinsics). As long as the toolchain is recompiled for ARM (which it will be, Apple makes clang) it should be
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by mytherin 6y ago
People are not "effectively being paid the same as previous generations". Unlike wages, many primary necessities have grown in cost at rates much higher than inflation in the US (housing, education, health care).
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by mytherin 6y ago
> Am I correct that out of the box it's implementing a full integrity around "commit" -- ie. The data has to fully hit the disk before the call returns? Yes, as is the default of any ACID-compliant RDBMS. This is what the
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by mytherin 6y ago
They can't close their border to Danish nationals, but they can quarantine people for 14 days upon return. If they were completely serious about stopping this they would have done that. Nobody is going to go on a short tourism trip kno
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by mytherin 6y ago
Then FB will buy the next FB replacement, and he will be back to square one. At this point I find it unlikely that FB will be dethroned unless government steps in. The lock-in is too widespread, and their cash reserves too large for anyone
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by mytherin 6y ago
Incorrect. Evidence is evidence. Anyone can judge evidence for validity. You could look up the evidence right now and judge it yourself. It only carries legal implications if a court prosecutes, but that does not mean the evidence does no
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by mytherin 6y ago
I'm not trying to win any arguments - calling it an ad hominem makes no sense. Just trying to understand your perspective and make you realise your own biases. People too often blame the other side of their biases (in your case, "
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by mytherin 6y ago
* Until there is no hard evidence, those troll farms are conspiracy theories. As far as I see reading about the report, there were multiple indictments made against several Russian entities and nationals for online campaigns supporting Dona
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by mytherin 6y ago
Interesting, didn't know about that. Thanks for the info. Then perhaps you can give me some more clarification: * What about the Russian troll farms running fake pro-Trump social media accounts? * What about the hacking of Clinton&#x27
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by mytherin 6y ago
I'm curious what you mean by "literally nothing there", considering dozens of people have been charged and found guilty/jailed with crimes relating to the investigation, many of which were part of the Trump administratio
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by mytherin 6y ago
We already have a number of statistical ops (e.g. correlation) available, and we are planning to add more. The exact timeline I cannot promise, but feel free to open issues with the specific operations you are interested in/you think w
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by mytherin 6y ago
Good point, we will make it optional :) Thanks for the feedback!
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by mytherin 6y ago
Hannes and me developed both MonetDBLite and DuckDB, precisely for the need that you described :) We noticed that there was no easy RDBMS aimed at single-machine analytical workloads, whereas these kind of workloads are very common (e.g. R&
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by mytherin 6y ago
Apologies, a website rework is currently in progress :) DuckDB is indeed a free columnar database system, but it is not entirely built on top of SQLite. It exposes the same front-end and uses components of SQLite (the shell and testing infr
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by mytherin 6y ago
The primary difference for analytic workloads is the processing model. MonetDB uses a column-at-a-time processing model which causes large intermediates to be materialized in memory. This significantly increases memory usage, and causes poo
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by mytherin 6y ago
While the salaries are indeed lower, you should take into account that in the US people almost always report their salary before tax, whereas in Europe salaries are almost always reported after taxes. An engineer earning 100K in Europe will
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by mytherin 6y ago
This attitude is very common in the US, and it surprises me. The US has done magnificent things. When did the US become a country that couldn't, rather than a country that could? Building a rail network of that size is also not unprece
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by mytherin 6y ago
That's a good point, but airplane transfers are pretty bad in terms of time efficiency. Every transfer adds at least another 1.5~2 hours to your journey, and is very uncomfortable because you need to get out and switch airplanes. For y
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by mytherin 6y ago
The majority of flights in the US are relatively short distance. The top ten most popular flights in the US are [1]: 1. LA to NYC (2800 miles) 2. SF to LA ( 350 miles ) 3. NYC to Chicago ( 800 miles ) 4. LA to Chicago (2000 miles) 5. At
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by mytherin 6y ago
> Lockdowns might save lives, and I can't blame public health officials for protecting their community, but I personally fear more lives will be lost due to economic costs. They just might be poorer, quieter lives. And while death i
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by mytherin 6y ago
I fail to see the nuance. The parent comment is not downvoted for partisan reasons, it is downvoted for stating that the lockdown is directly responsible for the economic issues as if that is obvious, when that is extremely questionable.
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by mytherin 6y ago
The real world is not as simple as "economy vs lives saved". Most of the businesses that are having problems because of COVID will not recover when the government "opens up". The government can say whatever it wants - pe
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by mytherin 6y ago
Not really, it's just simple economies of scale. Large chains have a natural advantage in the restaurant business just like they have a natural advantage in any other field. A small restaurant simply cannot have as high a margin as McD
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by mytherin 6y ago
Cash only also means you can skip on paying (part) of the taxes because there is no record of any transactions.
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by mytherin 7y ago
That makes no sense. People can enslave others without any "government" being involved, and they have done so for thousands of years. The people enslaving the others just need bigger weapons so the slaves cannot revolt. Government
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by mytherin 7y ago
That seems less of a problem with USPS itself, and more of a problem with the funding structure of USPS. They are now in the position where they are forced to deliver junk mail to subsidise the loss-making deliveries they are mandated by la
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by mytherin 7y ago
> Mail delivery and shipping are crucial, not the USPS. There are plenty of other private companies that can and do show the ability to do what the USPS does - only more efficiently This is a completely false statement. Private shipping
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by mytherin 7y ago
The distinction is short term vs long term, that has nothing to do with xenophobia. AirBnB reduces the price of short term stays (six months is short term - long term rental contracts typically start at 1 year), but has a significant negati
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by mytherin 7y ago
Yes, excellent point. It is possible to make cycles, it is just a lot more difficult to do accidentally than with shared pointers.
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by mytherin 7y ago
In my experience unique pointers are usually a better fit than shared pointers. That is not to say shared pointers do not have their place, but they can definitely be abused. Especially for developers that come from garbage collected langua

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