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I find this post ironic in that it (unintentionally) mirrors the atticle's point. Graph (hierarchical) databases and time series (SCADA) datbases predate your (implicit) definition…

I sympathize but totally disagree, if the $1 I paid guarantees: A) it is an actual job, with intent to hire now B) I will get an actual response, from a human, within a few days Th…

FTA > Meanwhile, Walgreens is also having a tough time. The pharmacy giant said in October it would close roughly 1,200 U.S. stores over the next three years, including 500 locatio…

I know it's a myth, but this is just the late stage capitalism equivalent of the Spartans casting away weak children and every eugenics program ever. Either Benji (the kid in the a…

Happy user so far in my early days ... appreciate the speed for sure

How ironic, due to my Internet situation I was greeted with a "prove you are a human" prompt.

The Taylorism (and eugenics) people would have a field day with this. Are there any good sci fi stories or novels on reducing or eliminating sleep through better chemistry? Given t…

The article is very real and human written and highly intelligent regardless of its merits. So a bit of a false positive for your mental model.

The article is neutral on the impacts of needing less sleep. It's not proposing an increase in productivity or how to use more waking hours. Its main raison d'etre is we're all sle…

There's a whole section in TFA called "too good to be true?" Which calls this out but says we don't have enough data to know

Perl, not PHP. Source: was turn of the century developer at Everything2

IME "best practices" is a demand problem, not a supply problem. IE far more people want best practices than there are actual best practices. Prospects and customers desperately wan…

Has selling shovels to the miners ever been a bad investment strategy?

shrug Either you believe you live in a society where your actions have repercussions on others, or you don't.

CTEs aren't really an "extra" feature they just are a composable reusable subquery. This just adds the benefit of storing CTEs as function calls aka table valued functions (TVFs) .…

Most gambling (and alcohol) addictions are the result of mental disorders, not freely chosen. Not aving things in society which actively prey on people with atypical dopamine respo…

John Cage literally composed music by rolling dice in the 1950s You can listen to it on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/1TwLLLOArGizLfbzR2Pbgi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

Can't stop something you never started. It's funny we coach people not to ascribe human characteristics to LLMS.. But we seem equally capable of denying the very human characterist…

I hate articles that both attempt to reject a premise and then in the very next paragraph say .."and even if the premise is correct, it's a good thing." Is the bomb "overblown" or …

Just pointing out Delta Lake and Iceberg are based on columnar Parquet format and are designed for OLAP / data warehousing workloads. So managing write concurrency is definitely a …

Depends on how you define success. If it's Olympic gold or bust .. you're gonna have a bad time. Given the 2 x 2 matrix of natural talent and ability to focus/ give effort / practi…

> For his community, it's all about certainty over the future of their streets My biggest complaint about NIMBYism is this behavior. Why are current owners allowed to dictate so ma…

Awesome, much better than before. Amazon Music just introduced profiles. Hopefully an encouraging trend in 2024 that tech finally realizes households exist and have different needs…

Negative price for production = positive price for storage. It is not bad news or good news in the aggregate, it just shifts things.

This lens is valid but not the only one. There is also the archaeological / historical lens. This website has been around 26 years. The Internet is a real cultural artifact. Not su…