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I use a custom container image which bind mounts the current working directory, and has some popular coding agents preinstalled. There's also a firewall option, with a whitelist of…

Full-text search. It was only added to Clickhouse relatively recently, and is still in Beta. It's a core feature of ES from the beginning. https://clickhouse.com/docs/engines/table…

>> timestamp is coming from the operating system where the client library is running. The client can set the timestamp to any value of its choice. It does not have to correspond to…

It's a reference to Mao's Cultural Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Guards

I hadn't heard of Prosus or Naspers before this. Apparently Naspers owns 31.2% of Tencent. Time to revisit my assumptions with respect to how companies are owned.

Kafka is an ASF project, and not controlled by Confluent. There is nothing stopping anyone from offering a hosted Kafka. You seem to be conflating Kafka with Confluent's own produc…

What lawsuit is this? The only one I can find is from September 2019, https://www.elastic.co/blog/dear-search-guard-users https://www.elastic.co/blog/dear-search-guard-users-includ…

https://jira.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-8033

Why not indeed! xrb_31nc5rs8bfon399zfpzp9iar8wimfr7kp8i8dsm7b56ke7ogz6ghsmpgnjkk Thanks!

The twitter account Medieval Death Bot provides a morbidly entertaining stream. https://twitter.com/DeathMedieval

Hadoop is not the same as Mapreduce (anymore). For instance, folks in my organization run both Spark and Mapreduce on top of Hadoop/Yarn.

This is probably what OP meant: "They are made from a metal alloy with a more "active" voltage (more negative reduction potential / more positive electrochemical potential) than th…

There's a typo there - "complements", not "compliments". "S3STAT is a service that compliments Amazon's CloudFront and S3 offerings"

He drank a bit too much of the class warfare kool-aid.

"You’ll find not only the usual date and time type operations but also functions for zipping files, processing XML, handling CSVs, and sending and receiving emails." Oh dear god. T…

I had zero Japanese. Rudimentary even now.

Tokyo, Japan: Applied for an opening I spotted on Linkedin. Interviewed via skype over a few weeks. Got the job, got the standard engineer visa, and that was it.

Much has been written on the topic. Here's a fairly decent book. http://www.amazon.com/War-Before-Civilization-Peaceful-Savag...

Nary a mention of the much higher levels of violence in hunter-gatherer societies, past and present.

Very true. Except that budget is a limiting factor when it comes to communication as well. A team is going to put much less energy and thought into communicating if they have their…

Pakistan wants to be a Middle Eastern country.

India has practically no social security as well. Your definition of "Rational" does not come into play.

I'm beginning to wonder if this is actually universal. I've lived and worked pretty much all my life in India, and something like what the OP describes would be pretty much unthink…