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by rosser 8y ago
With the caveat below, I think this is dead-on — particularly when coupled with 'imgabe's point [0] (backed by research [1]) that people of lower status often abuse/bully/denigrate others whom they perceive to be of even
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by rosser 8y ago
Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.
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by rosser 8y ago
"It depends on what your definition of 'is' is." — Bill Clinton This is weasel language, used to avoid saying anything you can be held to having said, when that becomes inconvenient.
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by rosser 8y ago
Why do these conversations seemingly invariably break down into — if not start from "But liberals..." or "But conservatives..." What about "But humans ?"
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by rosser 8y ago
> Linux dropped the cost of using UNIX down to zero. "Linux is only free if your time has no value." I've been using it personally and professionally for over 20 years now. Unless you're specifically using the term
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by rosser 8y ago
> Cops are humans with concrete human motivations and the risk/reward balance of shooting people is biased heavily towards reward. There is demonstrably little risk in the US for police who shoot people, absent specific evidence o
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by rosser 8y ago
Ack. I just realized I replied to you when I meant to reply to the sibling post, not yours. I'm sorry for the confusion. That solution uses a resolution of dates . If that meets your use-case, sure; if you need finer, the IO (and cach
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by rosser 8y ago
It is, but by materializing the date series into a table, rather than "lazy-loading" it with the SRF, you're consuming disk IO that other backends could be using. Disk is the narrowest pipe in servicing user queries. That&#x2
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by rosser 8y ago
I didn't know these were a thing until reading this, and now wonder if I'll ever get to see one. Ohai, wistfulness. Thank you, HN, for expanding my world yet again.
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by rosser 8y ago
My favorite example of this phenomenon remains Soylent. Their first formula neglected to include trivial, unnecessary "nutrients" like iron .
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by rosser 8y ago
I apologize if I've misrepresented your concerns. I'm operating from a perspective of a decade and change of doing this dance over and over: Engineer: "SQL is dumb and hard!" DBA: "What part?" Eng: desc
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by rosser 8y ago
You can also mitigate this by judiciously ordering your CTEs, when you have more than one, having earlier ones do more of the winnowing work, and being used as inputs to later ones. An often unrecognized consequence of CTEs being optimizati
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by rosser 8y ago
If you're using postgres, take a look at the generate_series() set-returning function for this purpose. It might be a lot cheaper. EDIT: Looks like someone already suggested this, down-thread.
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by rosser 8y ago
Speaking as someone who has worked as a PostgreSQL DBA for over a decade, in environments ranging from hundreds of queries per second to hundreds of thousands, I can say with confidence that your assumptions do not map to my lived reality,
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by rosser 8y ago
That should read "Despite the system being stacked against people."
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by rosser 8y ago
The fact of manipulation is, itself, morally neutral. When you manipulate someone into something that's against their interests, but serves yours, and that manipulation is done by means of shading (if not worse) the truth somehow, it&#
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by rosser 8y ago
And a pretty common consensus among technologists seems to be, "That's their fault. They should have gone into STEM. Losers." stacked against people, this narrative goes. Even being on the wrong end of the structurally inhere
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by rosser 8y ago
> There is an all-out, 24/7 war on your brain. And so alarmingly many of the "trust the market" crowd with whom I've spoken simultaneously hold the position that if you've been taken advantage of by marketers w
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by rosser 8y ago
Opening paragraph of The Fine Article's linked Forbes source: > On July 26, 2016, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued a report “Army General Fund Adjustments Not Adequately Documented or Supported”. The report indicat
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by rosser 8y ago
Do you think it's somehow not "universally toxic" to be inculcated into the notion that the only legitimate (as in socially sanctioned) forms of emotional expression available to you are lust and rage? And then to be told tho
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by rosser 8y ago
It's neither stupid, nor indicative of a "malformed world view". It denotes the aspects of masculinity which are toxic. You can't even pretend to tell me that's the empty set. You're absolutely right there&#x
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by rosser 8y ago
This is one of the cases where "the exception proves the rule." It's massively specious to point to exigence as an excuse for general unprofessionalism. Of course that circumstance is different from chit-chat. If you'r
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by rosser 8y ago
I'm somehow supposed to care that it's the vendor's tech debt that makes them insecure, instead of regular old bad practices?
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by rosser 8y ago
Because the other consequence of imposing security theater on the traveling polity is getting them used to jumping through arbitrary, imposed hoops like that. It's conditioning people to accept and submit to idiocy like this from their
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by rosser 8y ago
Ibogaine is absolutely not for everyone. Saying something like that is actively dangerous.
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by rosser 8y ago
And I'm saying that lack of care is a product of ignorance — ignorance in no small way imposed upon them by the shady behavior of the people who are doing this. As such, it can't be reason to blame them for that "choice&quo
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by rosser 8y ago
I really wonder at the intersection between the sets "people who find this manager's behavior unprofessional" and "people who idolize Steve Jobs". My intuition is, it's substantial.
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by rosser 8y ago
But it's not unprofessional to walk into a meeting, where the combined pay of everyone present is being spent for the purpose of discussing whatever's on the agenda, and have your phone going off — let alone answering it — distrac
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by rosser 8y ago
Precisely because eBay, knowing they were buying into a frugal-first operation like Craigslist, specifically structured the deal such that it was owed this duty. That Craig and Jim took the money under those terms is on them, as is their
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by rosser 8y ago
Is it "returning" a thing to sell it back to the people from whom you "borrowed" it?

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