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by sseagull 3y ago
I guess I have never quite understood what is meant by analytics, and feel there is a different definition that is over my head. I do some “analytics” in a postgres database, with data and metrics stored in the same db, but I guess it’s not
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by sseagull 3y ago
> But it’s almost impossible to build a “monolith” database that lives up to the modern legislation requirements, at least within the EU. This is an extremely narrow view. There are a zillion uses of databases that are not storing user d
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by sseagull 3y ago
There are two problems with this thinking. 1.) The rewrite never seems to have all the features of the original (for many reasons), so you end up keeping the original around because science can be very niche. Now you have two or more packag
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by sseagull 3y ago
> other than statements about the availability of some package But that is probably the most important thing. I don't have time to re-write 40+ years of code in a new language just because it's trendy or safer or whatever. I ha
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by sseagull 3y ago
I live in an area with Wing drone delivery. On a typical day I hear approximately zero drones flying, and we have only personally used it 5-6 times in 3 years (mostly as a novelty to impress kids that are visiting). There isn't that gr
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by sseagull 3y ago
If the http server supports it and it is enabled, you can do Server Side Includes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes
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by sseagull 3y ago
In Twitter’s early days only one celebrity could tweet at a time https://theoutline.com/post/4147/in-twitters-early-days-only... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17147404
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by sseagull 3y ago
How about occlupanids? http://www.horg.com/horg/?page_id=2
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by sseagull 3y ago
It's also causing me lots of errors in my CI, since it's not completely backwards compatible. So I guess I am pinning <2.0 for now and will need to take an afternoon at some point to sort it all out.
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by sseagull 3y ago
I've always liked the presentation of Cooking For Engineers. Plenty of instruction, but the table at the end that visually combines the ingredients and techniques is a nice idea for quickly glancing at while cooking. See for example h
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by sseagull 3y ago
I thought everyone quickly learned to draw a diagonal like across the top with a marker. That helps get things approximately where they need to be. At least that's what I heard from the older professors at my university.
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by sseagull 3y ago
I guess my question is: is there a similar genetic basis for ability to hyperfocus for long periods of time without fatigue? Or is it purely something that is developed. ADHD is likely partly genetic. Savant syndrome is maybe genetic or at
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by sseagull 3y ago
Happens all the time with me. Just getting away from the screen can help tremendously when I am stuck. I have solved quite a few problems out walking my dog :)
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by sseagull 3y ago
Thought experiment: someone is forced to work 23 hours a day with 1 hour for sleep, 7 days a week. They will likely be fairly productive the first day, but eventually their productivity per day will be zero as they are too tired to function
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by sseagull 3y ago
I do wonder how much of this is genetic. I know people who just need less sleep than I do (which I believe is genetic), and they can be more productive than me no matter how hard I try. I just need more time to rest than they do. After a fe
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by sseagull 3y ago
Docker compose is what we are going with (for now), but with one complication: how can I allow co-workers access without giving them root access to the server? I generally trust them (we're a tight knit group), but mistakes happen. Now
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by sseagull 3y ago
I took a good hard look at dokku , and it almost fits (especially if you put the ledokku web interface in front). I think my main issue was that we have services that have multiple components in a docker compose (not just a webapp + databas
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by sseagull 3y ago
Slightly ranty: Ugh I've been feeling this recently in a few areas. I think a lot of it comes down to imprecise technology and assumptions that are made from that terminology. 1.) We have a very large, powerful server we are using for
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by sseagull 3y ago
Yep. And the Democrats are changing the order this year. The plan is South Carolina will be first. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/democrats-vote-to-chan...
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by sseagull 3y ago
Fellow RIT (‘08) alum. Same experience. I felt a bit advantaged being a computer-oriented chemistry major. I was always impressed at how fast the older professors could fly through the Student Information System. Force adding you to a class
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by sseagull 3y ago
Funny enough, I thought the same. His 1 hour single take videos are impressive. Also, niche and random topics. I remember a comment about his videos: “I always thought school was boring, but just watched a 1 hour video about ancient ladders
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by sseagull 3y ago
I was talking to a co-worker recently. Some old friends at Microsoft had contacted us to see about some collaboration. Then it really hit me how much Microsoft is embedded: * University is switching to Microsoft from Google for mail/ca
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by sseagull 3y ago
When I bought my house we had one false alarm at night. Since the smoke detectors were past their prime (you are suppose to replace every 10 years) we replaced them all and haven’t had any problem since (>3 years). Just went off a few ti
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by sseagull 3y ago
As a society, we want to have a "portfolio" of research. We want short-term research with tangible results, moderate-term research that builds on the current state of the art and advances it, and long-term research that might pay
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by sseagull 3y ago
Virginia Tech recently notified everyone that they are ditching Gmail in favor of outlook because of large cost increases coming. Google seems to be going backward in that regard: “ A key factor in the decision was cost. Under the new Googl
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by sseagull 3y ago
This is pretty hyperbolic. In the shuttle era, these contingencies were thought of and planned for. The amount of preparation NASA would do before shuttle launches was incredible, including flying medical and rescue teams to the chosen laun
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by sseagull 4y ago
They might mean numerical data like scientific simulation data, sensor data, polling data, statistics, etc.
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by sseagull 4y ago
While true, there's more to academia that professors. There's a growing number of research scientists (particularly in software), as well as positions national labs (if you count that as pseudo-academia). There's also lots of
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by sseagull 4y ago
I mean, at some point you do have to write code. Either 1.) You (hopefully) know a bit about how your DB works, what the workload is, what your tasks are. You also (hopefully) know a bit about SQL and Postgres. So you learn a bit more and b
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by sseagull 4y ago
Don't forget the waste caused by people throwing away devices that are "too slow", and the resources required to build new computers/phones. Somewhere I saw a rough figure about phones. Something like: if everyone was ab

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