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No I'm not. Because the people who need this mentality shift are also people who won't listen anyway and have a negative attitude. And the people who already understand this don't …

This is a better way to say it. Talking at the right place at the right time on the right topic is.

Thats funny, I met him during GSoC too over a decade ago, and he's been on top of the open source game.

I got a great business idea now.

Famously broken badly for anything mission critical.

Yea, in theory, the way its stated, it would be a plus for the industry and Iceberg consolidation. How it will actually play out, who knows?

Iceberg is not Snowflake originated, it was built by folks at Netflix - the same folks who built Tabular. But yes, this is definitely bad for Snowflake, Databricks can position its…

Context: new veritasium video about this

same issues here

Interesting, foreign key constraints typically make sharding harder, interesting to see them add support for some type of fkey constraint (even though it's same-shard only) to the …

Stalking the LinkedIn, it seems he quit, switched to a PhD in CS and has been working at Google for the last 12 years.

Dumping money in STEM probably does do something, we're all just biased over the CS portion of things - which yea, is a mess. But for subjects like Civil, Electrical, sciences like…

Skeptical. This video by Sabine clearly explains why a lot of these fusion research claims are dubious with a focus on ITER and JET: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ4W1g-6JiY

inb4 someone saying something about mocking or dependency injection for testing

This is normal, companies want to organize their staff into the best roles they fit in to the projects which are most important. This is important for a healthy company. The manage…

This is a good idea

There's definitely miscommunication around this. I know I've miscommunicated impact, or my communication was misinterpreted across the 2 or 3 people it had to jump before hitting t…

Complex systems are really really hard. I'm not a big fan of seeing all these folks bash AWS for this, and not really understanding the complexity or nastiness of situations like t…

I was there a couple of months ago and almost had this for dinner but decided against it. Damn, have to go back there.

Hah! Now this is why hacker news is hacker news. Here's an interesting and related 3Blue1Brown video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyW5z-M2yzw

Haha, came here to comment exactly that!

It's like, you could upload videos to YouTube all you wanted all the time, but TikTok made it more accessible.

A lot of deaths could be going un-reported. There could be multiple factors here: * India doesn't count everyone who died with COVID as having died of COVID. * There is something f…

Typography nerds are the best. I admire this article - merits or demerits - people who love typography always exude passion

Its probably all the "Good night" messages being blasted in India