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> I'm actually really interested in hearing about a large enterprise running vendor code that would even entertain the idea the vendor could automatically update the entire deploym…

The fact this plan is called a "Hellscape" is horrifying. I wonder if that's Pentagon remarketing to bring an existing plan on-brand with the new Department of War.

The thinking in this article seems muddled to me. Historically there are two fundamental models for rivalries between powerful economic actors and national governments. * Regulator…

> I assume the native formats will always be faster / more optimized Actually query on Iceberg is end-to-end faster on ClickHouse than MergeTree native format on disk. It's mostly …

> Pet peeve: companies that appropriate a dictionary term for their name, e.g. Apple, Google (& Alphabet), Amazon, Oracle. Hard disagree. Consider "Oracle," a truly inspired name f…

How would you feel about an article if you knew the author circulated it to respected friends for review? That's another way to use LLMs. I do it all the time. LLMs are great sound…

> The text is like: "The neon is pink. Her hair is blue. Her face is light. She smiles because she was made to smile, and somewhere beneath the awareness of that fact is the older,…

> I remember lamenting all through the 2010s that all the high paying jobs were basically ad revenue supported. That's never been true for financial services, many of which offer v…

I love Proust, but you need mental space to read his books. It also helps to be a little bored. That's hard to achieve while connected to the Internet.

> How's this any different than say, tractors, or the mechanical loom? After all, agricultural employment went from 90% in the past to 1% today. Regarding US agricultural labor dis…

What's the difference between pgdog and vitesse?

That’s what a small earthquake with a nearby epicenter feels like. The first time it happened to me it felt like a tree hitting the house. (“Small” is circa 3.0 magnitude.)

That was my 8th & 9th grade Latin teacher. Failure was not an option. I can still decline nouns and demonstratives 50 years later.

Mark Zuckerberg is a builder in the context of the encyclical.

A lot of enshittification is driven by market consolidation. I really don't want my economic interactions to be with massive chains in a race to the bottom. The cure is to enable n…

By the E gates, right? I love that one. https://www.sfomuseum.org/public-art/public-collection/18th-...

SFO art shows are well-curated and interesting. There's a causeway in Terminal 3 to reach the F gates. It's now under construction but in years past it used to have outstanding art…

It's a source of jokes in the UK at least. Most Americans don't know the difference. As the saying goes, "two countries separated by a common language."

> I'm sure folks will make fun of me for this. It is a stupid thing. But I truly love GitHub, and I hope they find their way. So do I. At the same time, GitHub has evolved into a S…

> I’m convinced that it’s impossible to write good SQL without peeking into the data. That's been my experience as well. One question that comes up is how to ensure confidential in…

There does not seem to be an easy answer for which political system delivers the best benefits. Direct democracy has defects that have been apparent for thousands of years. I belie…