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by zten 5y ago
Yeah, for example if you're watching a Sox/Yankees game and you're out of market and thus eligible to use mlb.tv you can select between either the NESN or Yes stream. Unless ESPN picked up the game for the night, and then you
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by zten 5y ago
From my experience of doing two trips across Iowa, the challenge has almost nothing to do with cycling. For many people, RAGBRAI is a challenge in taming their alchoholism. The bike riding is easy if you don't drink.
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by zten 5y ago
They do. It dead ends at a one-way downhill with a contra flow bicycle lane to climb the hill. Other vehicles are expected to divert to 14th Ave instead.
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by zten 5y ago
> My point is you look like a novice in the eyes of the other drivers because the only information they have is that you're having a harder time than everyone else passing the cyclist(s). In my experience, this is because the other
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by zten 5y ago
But that parking is usually legal. Nothing to tow over, unless the intersection specifically has markings ("daylighting") prohibiting parking.
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by zten 5y ago
A buddy of mine with a Subway franchise is finally being prodded by corporate to upgrade his Windows 7 hardware. They still have support for Windows 7 for a little while, but not long -- it's apparently done by August 31st this year. A
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by zten 5y ago
Ah, cool. I was too focused on the GPUs! edit: which... actually appear to be the desktop-named parts! I swear this wasn't always the case...
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by zten 5y ago
iMacs are usually laptops in all but name. To hit the same thinness with a giant heat-producing screen, most of the parts are their mobile equivalents. Edit: on slightly closer inspection, this isn't true for the 27" models!
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by zten 6y ago
If only it were 300. It’s unfortunately 30. Higher speeds are for Comcast Business.
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by zten 6y ago
https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-redshift-utils/blob/master... The compression actually works as advertised, but that document outlines why you don't want to have the sortkey skew from other columns. Th
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by zten 6y ago
In the case that you're using MySQL 5.6-compatible Aurora RDS, you need to enable a special flag to get lock-free nullable column additions.
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by zten 6y ago
The important part to focus on is _between processes_. Consider Spark and PySpark. The Python bits of Spark are in a sidecar process to the JVM running Spark. If you ask PySpark to create a DataFrame from Parquet data, it'll instruct t
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by zten 6y ago
It's easy to get into situations where you're paying massive costs with serialization, deserialization, and network I/O, and I believe graph operations with Spark are one of those situations. I would be curious if running Spa
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by zten 6y ago
Whoops. Wasn't actually trying to say that. But thanks for the explanation.
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by zten 6y ago
This is kind of what I was trying to get at. People have made a choice, because they were forced to make one, and they chose detached suburban living. It has good and bad points, for sure.
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by zten 6y ago
Yeah, I understand it's not a good pattern of development for huge metro areas. But someone managed to get the laws on the books to basically require the US to develop in this way, and people aren't fighting _too_ hard to change i
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by zten 6y ago
I agree. If you wait until traffic is bad enough, then transit might end up getting pushed -- but it's just to appease people who want to maintain their car-driven lifestyle. Everyone currently sitting in their car on the freeway doesn
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by zten 6y ago
Huh, I came back and found my comment to be more polarizing than expected... I am unsure where the preference lies. I don't always think there's a preference, but you can get forced into it by other economic factors. Young people
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by zten 6y ago
I think people are usually pretty happy with living in those areas. They like being able to drive and park at things easily. It’s just the kids who are less thrilled with needing the mom and dad taxi.
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by zten 6y ago
Take this too far and you end up writing broetry.
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by zten 6y ago
Two things I could wish for: - Performance from tables not cached on the warehouse instance is awful. That the price you pay for shutting a warehouse down. - I wish it were cheaper. If you run queries against a warehouse 24/7, preventi
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by zten 6y ago
I appreciate the fixes to what I said. I mistakenly thought Microsoft offered a more generous RSU package. What I wanted to emphasize, mostly, was that there exists a tier of companies that offer stratospheric compensation primarily through
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by zten 6y ago
> Is this really a thing? There's outrageous equity offered by like 5 companies. Everybody else is getting stock option grants worth 5-10% of what Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft are offering (the situation is a littl
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by zten 6y ago
> And the API is barely above exposing the file-format. Nothing like "load this parquet file" into some object which you can then query for it's contents - you're dealing with blocks and sections and other file-format
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by zten 6y ago
> When I read these anti-kubernetes articles, of which there is one every couple of months, I think of an analogy with tailors. I mean, a made-to-measure garment is strictly superior to what you can buy from Old Navy. If you take a tailo
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by zten 6y ago
Well, a lot of this is driven by the gravel racing gang... the people partying at gravel events are already happy running 40+mm width, or MTB tires, on very wide rims. But there's also a growing segment of people who have figured out t
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by zten 6y ago
25 is already oldschool. Newest aero rims are designed for 30+, running absurdly low pressures with hookless tubeless tires.
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by zten 6y ago
Ah, so the thing I was attacking was the "if it fits in RAM, it isn't big data" meme. AWS is happy to sell you on the idea that you can use S3 as the persistent storage and then bring up the compute whenever. If you bring up
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by zten 6y ago
Answer the question about how to process a few TB on a multicore server, and you might still find yourself using Spark, or something like it. If you start from the assumption that you've been ingesting data and storing it in a compress
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by zten 6y ago
They (Oracle and Java) are going the other direction on this. Jigsaw helped with JDK bundling. IntelliJ bundles its own distribution.

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