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by rbetts 2y ago
A long history of rapscallions.
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by rbetts 3y ago
There are three-ish strategies (usually employed in combination at scale). Columnar databases are very good at compressing time series data which often has runs of repeating values that can be run length encoded, repeating deltas (store the
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by rbetts 3y ago
In NYC, I'm pretty sure it is the horn (and the siren) ;-)
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by rbetts 3y ago
Exactly. You gain a visceral appreciation for this when you watch your elderly parents get scammed for tens of thousands of dollars and taken of advantage of via technology channels. We've created a very nasty internet - one that isn&#
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by rbetts 3y ago
The broadcasting I see is that they focused first on making something people liked and then focused on making it fast.
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by rbetts 3y ago
Should a private individual be able to limit a sovereign nation's battle plan to defend itself from an invasion? Specifically, in the US, should a private individual or a public company be able to compete with the federal government o
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by rbetts 3y ago
You should read Power of Babel if you like this topic! https://www.amazon.com/Power-Babel-Natural-History-Language/...
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by rbetts 3y ago
This link includes the lawsuit's documentation and accuses more than negligent use of facial recognition software - including manipulating/pre-briefing an employee presented a photo line-up. https://www.houstonpublicmed
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by rbetts 3y ago
This proposal moves the list to other systems. I dislike unbounded backlogs too - but a single searchable database is better, IMO. (Though Github issues et. al. have such bespoke, bad, limited, bad, half-baked, bad search.. Gah.)
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by rbetts 3y ago
Probably best to just legislate a full-body, loose-fitting robe to best avoid inadvertent sexual provocation.
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by rbetts 3y ago
> Maintaining an open-source library as part of your proprietary codebase? You can use metahead to publish and synchronise part of your code in its own public repo. Accept external contributions and check them against your internal usage
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by rbetts 3y ago
Reindexing will eliminate empty pages, fwiw.
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by rbetts 3y ago
I use it daily for work. The core concept is a single time-sequential outline. Each entry in the outline is referenceable and can be included by reference in other pages. Pages are created wiki-style. Entries can have additional metadata. T
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by rbetts 3y ago
Thank you! This comments section is so weird - most of the comments are the exact opposite of my understanding. Find My Feature from apple.com: > Activation Lock is designed to prevent anyone else from using or selling your device. When
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by rbetts 3y ago
Similarly, https://thestorygraph.com/ has recommended several good books to me.
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by rbetts 3y ago
Respectfully, I do not think this is fully correct. These are in part state tax dollars being paid to industry. I’d welcome a good source to the contrary. https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2021-2022/billanal
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by rbetts 3y ago
Thanks for the link: > A Critical Industry Program grant in the amount of $600 million for the creation of up to 4,000 jobs related to the Orion Township and Ultium projects; > An 18-year Renewable Energy Renaissance Zone which will r
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by rbetts 3y ago
Newspapers are taxed, though? As are megaphones, audio equipment, printers, …
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by rbetts 3y ago
You mean for the deaths of over 7,000 Iraqi civilians by US armed forces because of the invasion he started on false pretenses? Or are you thinking more about the roughly 300,000 Iraqis who died in that conflict? Or maybe you're thinki
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by rbetts 3y ago
The worker (1) + N more...
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by rbetts 4y ago
> ofc but Europe or Canada etc. I think the size and heterogeneity of the US is under-appreciated. Canada is a 1/10th the population of the US. Europeans are more likely to identify as Germans, Italians, etc. and see to their nation
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by rbetts 4y ago
You are dramatically narrowing, in your description, what the law actually broadly prohibits. It isn't about burlesque shows or about a teacher discussing sex with a young student. The text of (this portion) of the law is: > Classro
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by rbetts 4y ago
It does, actually. A teacher can't lead a discussion of gender identity for young children, making a discussion of this family illegal under the law.
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by rbetts 4y ago
The bill applies to all age groups. It bans discussion of gender for children less than 10. And also prohibits instruction "in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state st
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by rbetts 4y ago
The ratio is likely closer to 20-30%. I searched the internet until I found data that confirmed my guess ;-). https://blossomstreetventures.medium.com/the-makeup-of-saas-... . Zoom includes network, compute, video, voice, re
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by rbetts 4y ago
In one case, because 2.3M gallons of warm molasses flooded a neighborhood and horribly killed people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood .
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by rbetts 4y ago
re: why doesn't the database do it They do - almost all databases will offer change data capture integration either via making the write ahead log readable or by suggesting triggers, like the article. If you wanted to read the deletion
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by rbetts 4y ago
Or future generations will look at ours as we look at the British who exploited India, or the Europeans who exploited the Americas, or the merchants of the triangular trade, or any of the other thousands of episodes of mass exploitation for
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by rbetts 4y ago
Did you shirk software when it came for everyone else's jobs? I don't expect anyone will shed a tear when better computing starts putting the software-manufacturing tradespeople out of work - just as it has done in every other ind
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by rbetts 4y ago
Kind of an ironic reply - naming 10 Rust features and libraries vs. an `if` check in Go to argue that Rust has simpler ergonomics for throw-away code.

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