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Their addition of AI into Quicksight (their BI tool) really cemented for me how much they're willing to bluff to look relevant. They launched the AI addition at least a year ago, b…

Yes, and it seems Ukraine actually did attack a base within Crimea later, the specifically forbidden thing, without any nuclear response. I can imagine it's a difficult call for Mu…

Couldn't one say the same of any brick and mortar store? If a shoe store is going to open in my neighborhood, for example, how much data do they need for it to be optimally located…

> "On any topic I’m informed about, the vast majority of comments are pretty clearly wrong. Most of the time, there are zero comments from people who know anything about the topic …

Are you including “basic economics” in the list of things sports taught you? Curious how that would be learned.

Interesting that some people can turn it around. I believe the benefits of sun are maybe poorly understood for now, and I maybe spent too many decades hiding from the sun entirely,…

Could this deficiency be caught by some kind of blood test, though? Do regular checkups screen for this? Is there some reason you'd be "super low on it in brain tissues" and not in…

I found out this year that I have RIS or perhaps mild/early MS. (Most RIS cases proceed to an MS diagnosis within a few years, but there is some possibility it was some "random" on…

I assume you agree that some kinds of opportunities are limited. Not trying new foods because you're afraid of wasting your money would be silly, or not saying hi to your neighbor …

Well, life doesn’t always give many chances to play a game. You can only work at so many failed startups, or have so many failed long-term romantic relationships before you’ve used…

Also, the two types of generalists aren't quite the same. Being a generalist in a 10k person company feels different from having to do everything alone at a 5 person company. I thi…

But wouldn’t any host running the malicious package be vulnerable to having creds stolen from that host? Maybe I don’t know which “ACL” tech you’re referencing. You can limit where…

Yeah, traditional Boolean search would be an improvement in some ways: “show me men taller than 6, or programmers of any height” (heh), but that’s either too overwhelming for users…

I think you and those responding to you are saying many valid things, but there are ambiguities still. Does "dating" mean "late-stage worried-about-dying-alone parents-nagging-me d…

I think you're right about 100-1000 being a count for "likes" rather than "matches" (terminology would differ by platform). If a woman had 100 people with a mutual interest, ready …

If I’m not mistaken, runit was another author. Did you maybe mean daemontools? (Agree with the general sentiment though, and both tools felt nice to use.)

Oh, maybe I am behind on this “future litestream” that “redirects writes”. I only knew of the ability to sync/backup/restore. Do you have a link to something discussing those other…

Yeah, maybe 4% is all one could manage to withdraw to survive the longest downturns. I haven't dug into that much. But, people are maybe debating different things - some are likely…

Local inprocess databases might be a bigger thing, but won’t they do nothing to help cases where 10 different applications on different machines need to read and write in the same …

If you put $5M in index funds, you’d grow it by about $400k a year (8%) on average, to start. It’s hard to imagine going broke with that by doing “normal middle class” things. For …

Is that for a very large family? Or maybe I don't know what "family plan" means exactly. I just got a plan on my own, not far from New England. I am paying about $450 per person pe…

Seeing some comments about the reliability of dogs, it’s good to keep in mind that traditional medical tests can also be quite unreliable. This link [1] explains how mammograms can…

If there were a machine that could only detect one disease, I don’t think that automatically precludes it from being cost effective. I could see a dermatologist buying a cheap pen-…

What are you saying learning Excel would solve for the owners? (honest question)

I've been in orgs where it was on same team, and on different teams, both as a modeler and a data engineer. So far, I personally prefer when they're on the same team. Pros of same-…