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It is not that Russia is USSR, it is that USSR was Russia + colonized, enslaved nations, like Russian Empire before it. The evil of USSR did was because Russia was in charge.

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Stop pretending you struggled when you're an IT guy. There are people who actually struggled, people who don't live in luxury in the richest parts of Europe like you do and yet the…

You can be both right. I would say that ClickHouse is a focused system - it is really really good at the things it's good at, and it is not good at the rest. Anecdote: I tested Cli…

Nowadays, Athena is Trino under the hood, but pretty heavily patched.

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Israel is still considered ally for multitude of reasons: big organisations don't turn on a dime and sometimes take decades to change course (same reason Turkey is still considered…

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Just downvote, flag and move on. This guy is here to insult people for fun and stir shit. No reason to engage (and yes, I know I'm also guilty of engaging with anti-Western but def…

I don't see many middle eastern monarchies in NATO.

Alliances are not just about power, but also about common values and goals. Strong allies are good. Strong enemies that are for historic reason part of alliance are pretty bad, and…

RedShift, Snowflake, Citus, Greenplum and Athena are OLAP engines, but not real-time focused. For this one, it is more similar to Druid, ClickHouse or RockSet. The 1.0 version of P…

Louis Daguerre was a French painter who created "daguerreotypes" a process that gave portraits a sharp reflective style, like a mirror.

Only if I can be your data dragoon.

> Mark Buckingham is free to do his version of Fables (and I dearly hope he does). Steve Leialoha is free to do his version of Fables (which I’d love to see). And so on. ... does a…

The common wisdom is that gas stations already make most money on sweets, snacks and drinks. Becoming charging stations might even improve it.

Back of the napkin: hundred million iPhones recharging their 13 Wh battery once a day every day from zero to full for a year is about 60 % the electric energy that this power plant…

> terrible decision I think you meant brave decision.

Could Apple perhaps sell you a $99 wireless wired CarPlay dongle? Maybe $199?

According to my research (1) wireless charging increases the consumption between 40 and 80 % depending on how well you align the coils. It would be very much Apple move to take som…

> Honestly for me the best part is the USB-C. Some people predicted that new iPhone will be completely portless and allow wireless charging only, just to not having to support USB-…

True, but it feels less like a subscription because it's not a flat amount per month or year.