swasheck

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by swasheck 8mo ago
i love this blend of storytelling and sharing.
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by swasheck 8mo ago
in all my years doing database tuning/admin/reliability/etc, performance have overwhelmingly been in the bad query/bad data pattern categories. the data platform is rarely the issue
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by swasheck 8mo ago
i wanted to hate apple so much at the advent of the smartphone era, so when i made the switch from flip to smart, i went with a samsung and gingerbread and it was such a universally awful experience compared to the iphone mobiles my employe
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by swasheck 8mo ago
2a. Many of the "illegal" immigrants are, in fact, legal. 4. immigration status is a civil matter, not a criminal matter.
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by swasheck 9mo ago
i interpreted it as "for the phenomenon noted in Americans, they blamed social media."
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by swasheck 10mo ago
Dapper is an unmitigated joy for me. i get to write the best sql needed for the case and then let the micro-orm handle the rest.
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by swasheck 1y ago
i have so desperately wanted to love and use ducklake, but have come across some issues with it in practice (pg catalog). they seem to have to do with maintenance activities and ducklake suddenly throwing http/400 errors on files it cr
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by swasheck 1y ago
disjunctions and stats could be a pretty nasty combination in mssql. i think it got a bit better ca. 2016 with the CE updates, but i’ve had quite a few occurrences where the solutions were the union all approach
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by swasheck 1y ago
i've been incrementally hiking the via francigena ( https://www.viefrancigene.org/en/walking/ ) and am working through integrating my gpx, geotagged photos, and oura ring data to both illustrate my journey and
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by swasheck 1y ago
i’m hard-pressed to think of an industry whose financial principles i’m more skeptical of than the airline industry. post-9/11 the industry cratered and they said they needed to add fees to keep from going bankrupt. united created ted,
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by swasheck 1y ago
maybe there’s a new application of delay, defer, deny
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by swasheck 1y ago
chaos and uncertainty are the result of what appears to be fundamental ignorance of how complex economic systems work. policies are being drafted and executed based on a cursory understanding of how things work, and undergirded by barely-su
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by swasheck 1y ago
> It may be accomplishing what was intended -- but I don't think that people in the US (even those paying attention) understand what was intended. this is what i suspect too. most of his common supporters i interact with parrot th
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by swasheck 1y ago
rain and safety cars!
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by swasheck 1y ago
i wonder if the antisocial trend that has been discussed here have led to an unhealthy skepticism of others. tiktok videos that tell my late teen daughter that a boy who doesn’t check _all_ the boxes is unfit or unworthy of relationship and
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by swasheck 1y ago
what i wish i could find would be a solution that would bookmark the page, store the full text of the page i bookmarked, with the option to highlight any important sections. the closest i've found is hypothes.is but i'd love to fi
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by swasheck 1y ago
i definitely phrased it awkwardly (and incorrectly, upon the 3rd read) and, upon re-reading it, it is confusing to me as well i was trying to say that i read that it was a show of wealth to serve wine that was less than 50% diluted, but tha
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by swasheck 1y ago
that's really good information. do you have sources on that? i was just citing the one i'd read but i'm happy to learn more - i'm fascinated by these sorts of things.
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by swasheck 1y ago
I don’t get the sense that this is a problem in countries where accumulation of wealth and property as a show of power and success is the ultimate goal
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by swasheck 1y ago
also, recalling from memory, standedge argues that the early perspective on wine was that it was simply a higher order of beer. it makes sense because there earliest beers were not hopped and would probably profile similarly to wine. howeve
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by swasheck 1y ago
i’m currently just using a nextdns profile after using adguard for a long time. i switched because i hoped that i would stop getting the annoying admiral modals telling me to turn off my ad blocker. do any of the these solutions trick the a
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by swasheck 2y ago
i can agree with the theory behind what you’re saying, but also sense that the practical application of individual freedoms has become increasingly prevalent and acute
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by swasheck 2y ago
the point was good until you tried to compare it to lead in the air. there are a few factors that make it impossible to use the same argument between lead in the air and fluoride in the water
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by swasheck 2y ago
yes, and i think that’s a pretty recent reading of the US comprehension of freedom. my sense is that the collective individualistic tendencies have ballooned. even as recently as the early 90s, my civics classes emphasized the importance of
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by swasheck 2y ago
the debate in this thread is a reflection of the politico-scientific standing of the united states. it seems as though fluoridated water has come to be treated as a synechdoche for the role of science (and public health) in society. both si
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by swasheck 2y ago
pretty sure they’re referring to the post-housing bubble crash and the brief and ineffective 99% protests
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by swasheck 2y ago
moderately off-topic because we're here discussing acoup.blog, but i just finished the fall of civilizations podcast episodes on the rise and fall of the mongols. it's really fascinating and sheds quite a bit of light on some thin
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by swasheck 2y ago
generally speaking he is decidedly centrist in his historical perspectives. it is uncritical to paint in broad strokes over a post, or two, in which he uses historical analysis to communicate a progressive perspective that warns against the
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by swasheck 2y ago
yes. my experience is that an LLM will sometimes suggest an interesting approach that breaks my pattern of thought enough to get me to a better solution. but the ones i primarily use (claude sonnet and chatgpt 4o) also seem to love suggesti
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by swasheck 2y ago
i’ve heard tiktok and not x is the platform of blame

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