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by shadow28 9mo ago
The Guardian is not an American newspaper.
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by shadow28 9mo ago
Yeah, this article is quite funny in the context of today's men's tennis landscape, where an entire generation of players (90s born) were effectively blocked from the big prizes by being sandwiched between two generations of all t
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by shadow28 10mo ago
Sorry for the pedantry, but "thought" and "taught" are actually phonetically different (/θɑːt/ vs /tɑːt/).
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by shadow28 10mo ago
https://jepsen.io/analyses/nats-2.12.1
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by shadow28 10mo ago
> most of the credit for a huge company's success goes to the CEO who gets 100X the salary of a regular worker while delivering usually pretty much nothing Well, in Confluent's case I'm not so sure that's true given t
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by shadow28 1y ago
They've not yet clarified whether the visa fee is applicable to a change of status from within the U.S. which is used by people on other non-immigrant visas. The most common one being the student pathway transitioning from an F-1 visa
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Half of CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms, study shows(theguardian.com)
3 points by shadow28 2y ago|1 comments
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Hottest year on record sent planet past 1.5C of heating for first time in 2024(theguardian.com)
10 points by shadow28 2y ago|1 comments
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by shadow28 2y ago
Why would you jump to assuming that all the commenters and voters are bots just from encountering an unfamiliar acronym?
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by shadow28 2y ago
Humans aren't always rational and that's okay, we're all human after all :)
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by shadow28 2y ago
Could you please elaborate for those of us without context?
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by shadow28 2y ago
> Clickhouse benchmarks don’t show Pinot favorably by comparison Looks like they don't configure any indexes for Pinot in their benchmarks, which is one of Pinot's main selling points on the performance front - https:/&#x
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by shadow28 2y ago
Yup, I've had the same experience and found that 2MAD works a lot better for me.
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by shadow28 2y ago
"Backend" is absolutely not a simpler problem to solve, it's an umbrella term encompassing a wide variety of domains. If you're talking specifically about Web backends, then sure, maybe there's a case to be made the
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by shadow28 2y ago
Slightly off topic, but there's currently work underway to introduce queue like semantics to Kafka interestingly enough - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-932%3A...
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by shadow28 2y ago
Think you mean micro rather than milli
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Hacking a JVM Application with IntelliJ IDEA's Debugger(flounder.dev)
2 points by shadow28 2y ago|0 comments
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by shadow28 2y ago
YugabyteDB is a commonly used alternative.
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How East Germany invented 'unbreakable' drinking glasses(theguardian.com)
10 points by shadow28 2y ago|3 comments
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by shadow28 2y ago
It's fascinating to see the physical limits of a human body being pushed as far as possible.
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by shadow28 2y ago
They make security software that is really popular in various industries.
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Million $ Lines of Code – An Engineering Perspective on Cloud Cost Optimization(infoq.com)
1 points by shadow28 2y ago|0 comments
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by shadow28 2y ago
AI researchers at top firms make significantly more than software engineers at the same firms though (granted that the difference is likely not an order of magnitude in this case though).
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by shadow28 2y ago
The kind of AI researchers being discussed here likely make an order of magnitude more than run of the mill "software engineers".
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by shadow28 2y ago
Doesn't Yandex itself come from "Yet Another Indexer"?
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by shadow28 2y ago
That could potentially be solved by having different buckets for different regions and industries? Seems like that'd be a much fairer system than the current lottery one.
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Investigation launched after Boeing engine cover falls off during takeoff(theguardian.com)
2 points by shadow28 2y ago|0 comments
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by shadow28 4y ago
Airbnb is another one - https://news.airbnb.com/airbnbs-design-to-live-and-work-anyw...
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by shadow28 4y ago
"It's like regex" could be another punchline for the joke
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Kafka Connect Hacker News(github.com)
6 points by shadow28 5y ago|0 comments

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