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by vecter 3y ago
That makes sense. For workloads where write performance isn't very important but read performance is, this sounds like it may still be a worthwhile tradeoff to have that extra level of data integrity. My sense is that many typical CRUD
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by vecter 3y ago
I see, thanks. Basically just store the foreign keys yourself as columns in relevant tables and perform the joins in SQL without having the DB enforce FK integrity for every insertion/update/delete. Would it be fair to say that re
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by vecter 3y ago
Sorry, assume I'm dense. > Take a well-formed 3NF schema and disable foreign key constraints. I'm familiar with 3NF, but can you expand on how 3NF enables you to remove foreign keys? Or feel free to point me to an article/
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by vecter 3y ago
I'm curious, how would you obviate the need for foreign keys with "good" code? Can you provide a toy example or a reference to an article so I can understand better? I've used NoSQL databases a long time ago and currentl
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by vecter 3y ago
They'll never have want of money their entire life. But a prestigious education... well that's something that's worth more than a lot of money to those who have almost limitless wealth.
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by vecter 4y ago
Yeah but only 20-30 people in any region make it as a pro player. The odds are just about as bad as being an NBA player. You didn't miss out on anything.
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by vecter 4y ago
I believe the former is CS:GO and the latter is CS2.
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by vecter 4y ago
My list was not meant to be comprehensive, but that's what I meant by "our use of medicines (antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals, etc.)." That includes heavy antibiotic use in farming which also likely contributes to antibio
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by vecter 4y ago
I still think that what you're describing would sound like the vague passive general corporate-talk that everyone complains about. I personally don't find any problem with it, since if I were in their shoes, I'd write the sam
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by vecter 4y ago
There are two factors now which make things different: 1. As other commenters have pointed out, the ease of spread of any disease is orders of magnitude higher now than it was during cave-man days. With crowded cities, public transit, and a
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by vecter 4y ago
Fair. What would you say?
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by vecter 4y ago
It’s easy to comment like this from afar, but would you actually send this message if you were the CEO?
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by vecter 4y ago
Is there anything special about your new bed that’s causing your better sleep or just the fact that it’s new and not saggy?
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by vecter 4y ago
I understand that there are sometimes deep connections between seemingly unrelated fields of mathematics. However, are there examples of applications of really pure abstract mathematics in the fields of say, symplectic geometry or different
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by vecter 4y ago
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but 99.9999% or possibly even 100% of this kind of abstract mathematics will never have any meaningful impact on day-to-day software engineering.
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by vecter 4y ago
I agree, but I didn't mention anything about 2008 in my comment. Did you reply to the wrong comment by accident?
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by vecter 4y ago
My understanding may be incorrect (if so, someone please correct me), but I thought this was caused by SVB buying long-term bonds which fell in value after interest rates went up. I don't think this has anything having to do with unpro
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by vecter 4y ago
Linearity of expectation is of course true in general, but in this case summing the expectations of the individual transition probabilities is only valid because the only valid state transitions are going from state i -> i+1 (owning i un
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by vecter 4y ago
To put it in a different way, construct a Markov chain with these states and transitions: (A_0) -> (A_1) -> (A_2) -> (A_3) -> (A_4) State A_i = you have i unique toys. Each state from 1-4 also has a transition to itself. The pro
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by vecter 4y ago
The remaining ~25-27% is suspected to be dark matter.
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by vecter 4y ago
That would be a 26.13% layoff. The first layoff left you with 89%. Of that 89%, you lost another 83%. 0.89 * 0.83 = 0.7387. 1 - 0.7387 is how much you lost = 0.2613 = 26.13%. It's probably clearer to reason about if you have two consec
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by vecter 4y ago
Front line managers (and usually second-line managers and directors) are almost always not looped in to these decisions. These are company-impacting decisions made by executives. A VP here or there might be in the know depending on the size
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by vecter 4y ago
Cool, what was your gamer tag and clan?
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by vecter 4y ago
> When you fall feet first into a black hole [...] which you cross at the speed of light. I don't know where you're getting this but nothing with mass can reach the speed of light. And it's absolutely possible to cross the
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by vecter 4y ago
Negative cycles are bad for the exact reason you said. Not "bad" from the perspective of "let's lower the cost as much as possible", but "bad" from the perspective that it violates certain assumptions of D
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by vecter 4y ago
As I stated, people tried to annihilate each other in pre-modern times. In modern times, we literally try to do exactly the opposite, and we go so far as to pass to laws to prevent this even against countries that stand no chance against us
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by vecter 4y ago
I don't think that's true at all. Humans used to invade foreign lands and decimate the native population, but we did that in pursuit of resources, not as the primary goal (when Columbus sailed off from England, he wasn't sent
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by vecter 4y ago
There are so many practical problems with doing such a thing. The first is that it's incredibly economically expensive to do so. If the aliens aren't spending their resources, whose resources are they spending? Clearly it must b
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by vecter 4y ago
That seems to go against the points earlier about how to a very advanced civilization, the concept of resources is basically nonexistent (due to self-replicating AIs). And the fact that this galaxy has been around for 10 billion years. The
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by vecter 4y ago
There is no such "substantial" evidence. If there really was scientifically agreed upon "substantial" evidence, then it would be world-shattering news.

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