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TFA says he's using this to > implement a realtime analytics dashboard for an application with over a billion event rows. I'm interested in seeing how well this could be attained in SQLite with window functions[1] since SQLite
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ty--thank you
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Your point is still largely true, but it is worth noting that, in the age of social media, the customer tail can wag the corporate dog. See: Bud Light.
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To summarize, the Almighty is saying: "Up your game to the divine level, and we'll compare notes." It seemed a fitting reply to the observation about having issues, though the moderation did not agree.
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Job 40:6-14 [6] Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said, [7] Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. [8] Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou
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When they won't quit asking, I'm "willing to commit to a definite maybe".
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> Przeworski’s theory starts from a simple seeming claim: that “democracy is a system in which parties lose elections.” I like this, but a more general point is that at all scales, we need to resolve the tension tension between the singu
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Today I learned the distinction between the kiwi bird and the kiwifruit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwifruit I had always thought the latter to be a New Zealand fruit that is the source of the name "kiwi&quo
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You're Not Shadowbanned–You Just Don't Understand X'S Algorithms(kanekoa.news)
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No comments thus far mention the Streisand Effect.[1] Bezos may have realized the net effect of the move had a decent likelihood of proving to be self-immolation. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
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Brings this story to mind: "It finally happened! Seventeen years in the making, and 41 years after the song was released the search for the internet’s most notorious lost song has come to an end. Dubbed the Most Mysterious Song on the
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Curious as to the basis for animus.
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Aw, c'mon: there have been no secesssions or armies formed up yet, so you're still below the Civil War threshold.
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I had always understood that the surrounding cathedral was part of the instrument, too. Imagine my surprise when we went to hear Robert Plimpton work out in Balboa Park... https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-plimpton-080
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> The bigger issue here is outmoded predominant protestant christian views of 'morality'. And that percolates all through the rest of USA culture, including into advertisements and commercialism. Their view of sex is as a sin,
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I was going to take this tack. 80% of the problem is just transforming floating point coordinates into API calls. Getting to something useful with it is the hard 20%, and it will be a diminishing returns problem after that. While not anybod
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> As you read these words, you are uniquely yourself, different from who you were a moment ago and who you’ll become in the next. By extension, a "culture" is a snapshot of a subset of the human population. To be clear, copious
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One is always selecting from a subset of the available information is any conversation. Maybe the point could be elaborated "never mislead". As a parent, while I don't want my children to grow up in a shoebox, I also don&#x27
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Not only is it recent in terms of human history; back to my point, it is only in the last few centuries that men in gneral have reached ages that expose the posture shift as a flaw.
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> It’s odd for there to be such an easily-removable design flaw in the human body; evolution tends to remove them. I wouldn't say so at all. Poor eyesight carries on smartly. Baldness. I enjoy both. But an old story about the contro
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A proficient coder can write a program to accomplish a task in the singular. In the plural, accomplishing that task in a performant way at enterprise scale seems to involve turning every function call into an asynchronous, queued service of
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"Tautologically negentropic" verbiage makes The world go 'round, no? #Haiku
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YAGRI proponents organized themselves into a community to develop their...YAGRIculture. I'll show myself out.
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Inviting the question of whether parliamentary systems offer substantial improvement. For a glance at Europe, I'm firmly in the skeptical camp.
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I submit that Dunbar's Number plays a role. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number 30k members--that's a couple of Army Divisions--is more likely to form rigid authoritarian groupings simple to
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It's so obviously superior that it's facing substantial rejection: https://responsivegov.org/statement-voters-reject-ranked-cho...
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My clothes dryer has this stupid touch screen interface and keeps reminding me that it can be controlled by an app. I'm all: "So? I Don't want my phone colluding with the dryer and the garage door opener to overthrow me.&quot
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I may be alone in craving an AN/UYK-7. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/UYK-7
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> meant exactly nothing. "Excuse me?" said the burgeoning national debt.
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> It results in almost 50% of the votes being outright discarded and permanently entrenches a 2 party system. I don't see how either of these assertions follow. The size of the mandate is important, and the connection between a 2 pa

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