skeeter2020

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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
I'll be the person who says what a lot of us believe, and even more know: the internet was cooked when the general public started to use it. The magic, community and naivety were all washed away when the socioeconomic & technical b
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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
Please provide 3 examples where layering on MORE of the offending technology has solved the problem. Spam? Malware & Viruses? Customer Service? Hiring & Recruitment?
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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
not to mention you'll get much farther, faster & easier with timers on the lights than some sort of 100% voluntary participation dream.
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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
>> The developer experience around MSSQL is untouchable. This may be the case for MS-centric, application & human developers, but I'm not convinced moving forward. Microsoft's BI story is pretty thin and out of date. Pos
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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
This feels like the same PE theory / sell job: "Untapped value that can only be unlocked with PMaaS - Professional Management as a Service", only scaled up "because AI". They're trying to change the narative so
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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
from another perspective - who is better resourced than Google to determine if a person and place are real or fictitious? They make these decisions all the time when it suits them. And explain to me this population who is filing DMCA take-d
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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
In Canada WalMart super centers (the ones with groceries) are low quality and have prices as high as (or higher) than other stores. Everything is prepackaged and shipped to the store so meat, dairy and bakery is the worst in town.
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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
I don't think there's some sort of "line" that Delve crossed and Corgi has not, more likely the financial upside for YC wrt Corgi is much, much bigger. They're not going to mess with that even if the screw over a fe
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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
Any long-distance bike ride/race fans here? the Tour Divide just completed and the record was shattered, not by riding for as long as possible, but with detailed planning, a dialed setup and getting a (relatively) lot of sleep & re
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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
If this is the scenario, it's no wonder they're underwriting everyone & everything, and can do this competitively, because a broker would need to find either enough new clients and/or efficiencies to justify being the mid
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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
that's certainly one alternative, but can we stop looking at everything as a bipartisan scenario with binary outcomes? Maybe there's lots of aspects with mutually aligned interests? Perhaps every single thing in life is not a &quo
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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
>> Representation under a union is voluntary, and if an employee doesn't wish to be represented by that union, they may quit. Come on, that's not voluntary in any true sense - especially since the same justification could be
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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
Bingo - the combination of rising interest rates and tanking SaaS valuations has left a lot of these companies - specifically PE funded with mountains of debt - in a very weak position. Funny enough I think small SaaS companies are in a goo
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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
If you were realigning your SaaS company to ignore your technology short-comings and technical debt, and isntead focus on selling as much "AI-enabled <whatever>" while the rush still looks like gold, this would be a great st
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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
Maybe they're related by blood, but the apple fell very far from the tree. the ID guys were quite vocal in their dislike of the slow pace & puzzle solving. This was when ID was all about technical advancements and repeatedly making
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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
At the enterprise level this feels a lot like Snowflake buying StreamLit to try and have a similar experience, and keep you in the Snowflake ecosystem burning credits.
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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
DuckDB kind of created this false comparison by their own early positioning, but I've tried to charitably interpret it as modeling the spirit and motivations of SQLite, not literally being "the SQLite for Analytics". Aside fr
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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
compression is a side effect but not really the goal. To simplify, analytical queries often filter on a specific column value, and if these are laid out contiguously it makes disk-level reads much faster than rows that would involve read-sk
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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
the CSV parser is really good too. Anyone who's struggled with consuming CSV/TSV knows this is not trivial. DuckDB uses hueristics to be very liberal in what it accepts without crapping out like many parsers.
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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
really learning SQL (syntax, boolean logic, how queries are broken down, etc) way back in uni has been the single biggest pay-off of my entire career.
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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
the taste that hooked me: the next time you have a bunch of json data, csvs or other data - local or remote - and someone wants some charts (for me it was "productivity" metrics from Jira combined with a bunch of other stuff). Fir
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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
I'm going to sound like a broken record but... different use cases. They're analogous in the comparison "sqlite for analytics" but completely different architectures and implementations. Part of this is the fault of the
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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
Similar experience here. The best thing I've built in a long time is replacing a complex (and scary) permissions system built on top of Snowflake with single role duckdb databases that - aside from no longer worrying about bugs leaking
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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
>> DuckDB is amazing for any sort of fast data analysis when the data is small enough that it can fit on your laptop I agree, and the dirty (not so) secret big data providers like Snowflake try to hide: the majority of your work is no
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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
"Alberta has no rats" is a bit of a simplification, as the linked article goes into in depth. They do find rat investations (typically) in the border zones, and some sneak through, both wild and domesticated. Due to ongoing manage
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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
Amazon structured their entire operation to look like this but as you indicated, could have switched to a porfit-making, dividen-paying company more than a decade ago, that just wasn't their strategy. The same can not be said for OpenA
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by skeeter2020 4mo ago
it's not nearly as complete: You only get filter list updates when the extension updates, there's no custom element picker, no per-site switches, no strict-site blocking, no dynamic filtering and you can't import block lists.
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by skeeter2020 5mo ago
everyone of those things is built around data collection and tracking, which feeds their ad machine.
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by skeeter2020 5mo ago
>> So <$5 per month for someone in the developed world to keep using Instagram and stop being the product. This is only true if everyone does it; Why would they stop advertising for a tiny market, especially if they can get both? W
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by skeeter2020 5mo ago
Maybe hthe GP is confident enough to have passed by the shallow indicator of displaying their wealth? The richest people I know personally (and who I deeply respect) absolutely delight in people under-estimating them, assuming they're

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