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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 of "database" as a "relational datbase."

Key values have also existed before Oracle came to be.

It's never really been a matter of "rethinking from first principles".

Like Norvig's contraint propagation in the post, it has been about choosing the right design for the problem at hand, instead of trying to fit square pegs into round holes.

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

Then $100 is completely worth the time saved vs applying to ghost jobs.

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 locations in fiscal 2025. In June, it said about 8,600 locations would be shuttered over the next few years.

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 article) gets the help they need to be part of our society or they don't.

Who are we?

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 the impetus of the article is we're all chronically sleep deprived, I wonder what kind of (Swiftian?) political solution there might be to collectively improving sleep health.

Certainly the current commercial solution is drugs and lots of them.

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 sleep deprived so engineering less sleep may provide health and wellness benefits.

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 want to know our "best practices" and then complain when we say "it depends" or something experimentation is required, as if we are hiding secret teachings from them.

For me this is more a personality test: people who just want solutions on a silver platter vs DIYers who want to tinker and distrust black boxes.

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) ... also not really an "extra" feature.

The main advantage to any non SQL language is its ability to more efficiently express recursion (graph / hierarchical queries) and dynamic expressions like transposition and pivots.

You can do those in SQL it's just clunky.

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 response patterns to the point of them committing suicide, harming others, and going into deep financial and physical ruin is ... an easy "tradeoff."

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/Aleatoric_music?wprov=sfla1

But even crazier is so did Mozart

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musikalisches_W%C3%BCrfelspiel...

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 characteristics in our would be overlords.

Which warlord will we canonize next?

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 are we on track to have 2 billion less people on this planet in 150 years (assuming "replacement level" rates)? (And PS those 6 billion will almost entirely be senior citizens.)

But by all means make arguments about scenarios that your headline are declaring won't happen. That definitely increases credibility.

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 secondary priority since it's not the norm to have multiple writers.

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 / practice deliberately (whatever you want to call it)

High High > superstars, top 0.1%

Low Low > duh

High Low > flame outs, weeded our early from higher tracks, big fish in small ponds

Low High > stars (not super), top 10%

Showing up really does count for a lot. It absolutely leads to "success" even if not the highest stratosphere.

> 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 many rules about "the future"?

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 than individuals.

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 sure we should leave it entirely up to the companies on how valuable a given web site is ...

...," they posted anonymously on a social media forum.

I find this comment delightfully ironic in a contemporary moment of blatant shrinkflation.

Luggage votes? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, my friend. Please provide some.

"Penny wise and pound foolish" is a real thing

Greedy but too much short term thinking is stupid.

Yes this.

Everyone who has no intention of selling their home (in a Georgist manner) could list their house for 5x the going market rate (youd probably sell if and then this metric would be effectively 100% and yet many houses would still sell.

This number is therefore mostly a reflection of a strong selling market since it's encouraging people to list who otherwise might not bother.