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How was the beef stew?

https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html > One of things that tends to boggle programmer brains is while most software dealing with money uses multiple-precision numbers to make su…

That doesn't seem mutually exclusive with the fact that the oldest service is written in the oldest-used language.

I learned about Paolo Soleri from William Gibson's Count Zero (sequel to the much more well-known Neuromancer ). Gibson always had a knack for foreseeing not just the automobile, b…

Would you say the same about a house? A car? You might say that buying a house on credit isn't frivolous but a pair of shoes on credit is, but where do you draw the line in the mid…

Maybe "he" is short for "Helios" :-)

I guess the word "magic" is cursed. General Magic, GetMagic.com, and now this (not that we didn't see it coming)...

Needs a (2015).

Note that as you mentioned since most shops in Japan specialize in a specific type of soup (i.e. the only differentiator is the tare and the toppings), it might be more useful to f…

Remember all that stuff about the Cayce Pollard Units :P

I also like this analysis of general high infrastructure costs in America: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/03/03/why-american-c... This tidbit is particularly infuriating: …

Yes -- in fact, the original Spark implementation ran on Mesos only, as per the original RDD paper by Zaharia et al.: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi12/nsdi12..…

I mean, don't you think it's kind of a strawman to assume anyone thinks machines are explicitly sexist? It seems much more likely that whatever method they use to do feature select…

In case anyone missed the context, this is probably related to https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43k7z3/nationwide-fake-ho...

Yep :P For a fun fact, CockroachDB was actually started by ex-Squares, so we're definitely very familiar with this exact same argument internally, back in the day when neither Cock…

Right -- that's why I said most RDBMS. To get ACID and CAP-consistent (which, as an aside, are not the same thing) cross-shard transactions requires some form of migrating your pro…

(Disclaimer: I work at Square, but not on Books.) >Preventing inconsistencies by enforcing constraints is a key point of an RDBMS. This is literally why people use SQL DBs. This co…

Just curious, do you have a good idea of how many of these are still being actively developed? I remember seeing stuff like Ringpop and Hyperbahn get moved to the uber-archive gith…

Foucault doesn't use the word "power" the way you think he does.

> "Tasting Menu in Zero G" Meh. The Media Lab is (or was) doing some of the best work in the field in food and flavor science. Arielle Johnson [1] in particular is known for her wo…

Just curious, have you looked into Redis streams?

Yeah, I'm currently getting bitten by various workloads that query by `created_at` instead of a canonical timestamp :) Thanks, I'll take a look! For the "valid time" primitive I wa…

Here's a dumb question about log-structured systems like this: does this system work nicely with backfills? Suppose you start logging events with Waltz and you want to migrate an e…