trevman

I do think it's interesting that the quality of the MBP have fallen so much. Obviously, they have improved specs, but my 2013 MBP is still going strong.

I am kinda nervous about the battery swelling; maybe I should open it up and take a look.

If you have a lot of RAM I highly recommend you look at Plasma + PyArrow

Intervention did a fantastic episode on "Greg," a man who had a large cash windfall that managed to squander it all on internet scams. You'll probably cry; I know I did.

http://intervention-directory.com/2011/12/episode-105-greg/

Me too.

At first blush KDB is orders of magnitude faster, especially if using a GZIP card.

But Timescale is open source and not core locked.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I only run into this issue when I try to watch replays (previously streamed content). Which sucks... frankly. I hate navigating through content on YouTube.

If you liked this, you might like this data analysis of CYOA:

http://samizdat.cc/cyoa/

Just an FYI, click 'Build' in the upper right for actual information.