zepearl

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by zepearl 5y ago
On one hand this could theoretically work if the optimizer tracks historical SQLs + the query plans used at that time + their runtime and decides to try to use a different query plan, then aborts the SQL being executed when its runtime exce
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by zepearl 5y ago
That's my case - as I know that some music videos/clips will disappear soon or later for any reason (happened in the past), and as I cannot buy+download them then the only option I'm currently aware of is to download them wit
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by zepearl 5y ago
That theory doesn't convince me too much. Jurassic Park (mentioned as well by the author), maybe as well Terminator 2, maybe something else had some reaaally well done rendered scenes, in my opinion done a lot better than the one of Ne
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by zepearl 5y ago
I remember many people saying that that was a great scene, but to me it immediately looked horrible -> big mistery... . I hate that scene - the idea is great, but the quality of the <textures?> is in my opinion horrible... . Weird.
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by zepearl 5y ago
> Am I the only one who feels like loosing old conversations is just fine? Same here - but maybe if doing Business then somebody might want to keep them (e.g. to keep track of whatever your customers told you in the past? Just a guess.
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by zepearl 5y ago
> One of the reasons people give for buying German luxury cars is because they only need the oil changed once a year vs the 3-4x a year for American or Japanese or Volkswagen cars. No clue about American & Japanese cars, but for VW
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by zepearl 5y ago
> Torrenting, sharing with friends and family is still completely legal in Switzerland. Downloading might be legal (not sure if there are some clauses, e.g. only for own/private consumption), uploading definitely is not.
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by zepearl 5y ago
Hahaha, I didn't notice that, thanks
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by zepearl 5y ago
Btw. I replaced some years ago the blanket with a sleeping bag (warmer + can be folded/compressed better therefore needs less space when stored/hidden in the trunk), and the normal flashlight with another one which is magnetic on
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by zepearl 5y ago
About "FriXion" I love that feature to be able to erase the ink, and while scrolling just now Jetpens' site I came across this remark: > ...FriXion ink reappears if exposed to temperatures below 14F (-10C), like if it is
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by zepearl 5y ago
Thank you :)
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by zepearl 5y ago
Language/writing question At the very end: > Now, when people ask me what my parents do for a living, I tell them not with embarrassment or shame, but with pride. In this context, is "pride" appropriate, or would "d
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by zepearl 5y ago
I installed&configured&used it as part of my private PoC (I evaluated ~20 different DBs). Just forget it - primitive, performance wasn't great even compared to classic RDBMS, and so on => cannot be used in a real-world scena
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by zepearl 5y ago
Excellent idea/project and result, and interesting&funny to read. And I loved your second-last sentence :D
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by zepearl 5y ago
I just did - and then I opened the article and kept reading... > I’ve been lurking the fish smell for a couple of years now (and the nushell but it is another story for another time). Not so long ago, I decided to try it, and it’s simpl
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by zepearl 5y ago
1) > Where did you find this information about the situation in Switzerland? Sometimes on Friday evenings there is a show broadcasted by the italian-speaking Swiss channel called "Patti chiari" which discusses problems/s
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by zepearl 5y ago
Hi 1) It's not a bad idea, maybe this could be improved to include as well flats to be rented for holidays? I'm saying this because in Switzerland during the last years there have been some scams about holiday apartments available
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by zepearl 5y ago
I fully agree, that's how I do it :) my_project-some_activity-this_document-20210923-v02.txt
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by zepearl 5y ago
Right - every Thinkpad that I ever had (6 or 7) always had that option.
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by zepearl 5y ago
I read [0] when it was originally posted here but it didn't convince me. The article mentioned flaws of Clickhouse which in my opinion in the context of a TSDB are irrelevant (e.g. "no transactions", "inability to modify
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by zepearl 5y ago
> I honestly don't know what time-series databases do that's particularly unique. I understand the "spirit" of your comment and I agree in general. However something unique that comes to my mind about some TSDBs is
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by zepearl 5y ago
That's nice to remember - thank you :)
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by zepearl 5y ago
Nice :) So, router seems to be pronounced with "UK" selected as "rooter", with "US" selected as "rauter".
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by zepearl 5y ago
Concerning Clickhouse, yes it does - exactly the same thing e.g. as when you have 2 compressed files containing each 100 sorted rows, when you merge those 200 rows into a single file, sort them and compress them, the result will be smaller
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by zepearl 5y ago
With Clickhouse you can use a "buffer table", which uses just RAM and sits on top of a normal table: https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/engines/table-engines/special... Rows inserted into the buffe
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by zepearl 5y ago
Something is or was happening? This is what I've found: https://lwn.net/ml/linux-wireless/f1caa1a2-55c7-a69f-070a-a4...
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by zepearl 5y ago
Ach, the usual stuff about NICs being re-re-re-created, incredibly annoying. I thought the same - then I bought in September 2021 a "Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6" which is when I found out that the "Realtek Semiconductor Co.,
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by zepearl 5y ago
Right! I remember having the same experience when visiting a friend - misterious Turbo button that (apparently?) didn't have any effect :)
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by zepearl 5y ago
Reading this made me remember that "Turbo button"... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button > With the introduction of CPUs which ran faster than the original 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 used in the IBM Perso
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by zepearl 5y ago
Interesting :) But if I ctrl+[left-click] on a link I don't get a new tab :(

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