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Re:Moving our warehouse off DuckDB on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:01PM (#50341851)
But why even bother with ClickHouse? What's wrong with Trino?
Re:Moving our warehouse off DuckDB on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:00PM (#50341843)
Why didn't you just use Iceberg and Trino from the get go (or Paimon if you are fancy)? This has been the accepted answer for quite some time now. The fast OLAP stores just don't scale as well as going object store to a proper query engine like Trino.
Re:Moving our warehouse off DuckDB on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:59PM (#50341803)
ClickHouse is fast OLAP. Just do Iceberg with Trino like a normal big data person. WTF?
Which is weird, because this 100% at the behest of the teachers unions. Depr of education, no child left behind, covid closures, disparate impact, etc.
Opus 5.5 is great, but you are kidding yourself if Deepseek 4.1 flash isn't as good as good for 99% of coding tasks. Anthropic (and OpenAI) are between a hammer and an anvil in terms of good enough local models being able to run performantly on current and next gen Apple hardware.
Yeah both sides of US spectrum told Europe for a decade plus, but when the entire German political class is captured by Russia, what do you even do?
Re:We Won't "Just Hang Out" on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:19PM (#50294399)
Douglas Adams positied we would bring hardships in easy to consume forms- see tough mudder, crossfit, etc for the white collar class.
Well, that makes me feel better about not migrating to proton recently. Dream was nice while the mask stayed on.
Honestly a better name
Re:Regent's Ground-Effect Vehicle Reimagines Coastal Travel on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:02PM (#50282194)
Jones act!
Well yes, but dont call it a profession then.

And lets be pirates and hackers instead.

Re:Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @03:06PM (#50264152)
I have M1 Maxes (one for work, one for home) that perform as good as new, as far as I can tell. Only thing they lack is an Nvidia GPU. I might pick up the new uber-studio though tmw when it launches (presumably).
Re:Ghostty 1.4.0 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @02:32PM (#50263688)
Kitty is so awesome. I'm writing (well, as much as anyone writes) a MUD that models a decent part of Tokyo at 30-60fps over SSH at reasonable resolution (that's the dream, at least). I'm shocked at how fast I can render a big complex 3d environment, in the terminal.
Interesting. Nobody on a visa will take the offer, presumably, so it's kind of a workaround for all the immigration controversy.
Birdwatching as in chilling with your buddies nursing a scotch and getting away from the family and enjoying the outdoors?
Re:Xbox Turns Down Netflix $500M Offer on Sunday October 25, 2026 @12:18AM (#50228281)
GOT is hot naked sexy people and swords. I feel like Halo isnt that, at all.
Re:No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector on Saturday October 24, 2026 @04:49PM (#50225112)
most white collar work is make-believe work i order to make management heirarchy feel powerful.
Yeah if software was even moderstely efficient you wouldnt 32gb of ram on a personal machine.

This analagous to distributed cloud infrastructure that for 99.9% of companies could be replaced with a few servers and a 2-3 node postgres system.

does it speak Japanese, tho? What exactly is the point of a waifu if you understand it?
All vulnerabilities should be disclosed immediately, publically. That would over a short time lead to much better security practices.
Re:The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:34PM (#50175370)
I'm convinced a small percent of people get addicted to anything much more easily. Ive enjoyed various things but it's like meh- though Ativan is fucking amazing (but only for fear of flying). I think it is a brain reward structure thing; I get bored very easily and i guess it takes a decent amount of danger or effort to get me very interested.
Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math on Sunday October 18, 2026 @09:37PM (#50147368)
Builders, please! Do-ers is not the preferred nomenclature, dude.
Re:Donaldson Futuro House in Idyllwild, California, USA on Thursday October 15, 2026 @06:43PM (#50111413)
Wyoming says you can take your codes and shove it you know where!
Re:New Apple TV 4K on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:42AM (#50073509)
Old Apple TV was like Airport Express and the Airport routers. Excellent hardware, simple to use, and unloved by Apple cause "muh Dieter Rams".
Nobody proofreads... land aint exactly unplentiful in the US, and many other countries.
We got rid of end to end QA as head of engineering decided to "shift left" on automation.
"The Goal" is a key business book for a reason, but leadership seems to not get the lesson. Or care?
We'll like have an open-weight opus 5.5 class model we can run on (fancy) local hardware in a year or two at full perf, especially with AI optimized M7 macs. That's pretty distributed IMO.
Re:`123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach on Saturday October 10, 2026 @05:26PM (#50037352)
sepuku would be more appropriate
Re:Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours on Saturday October 10, 2026 @12:09AM (#50029477)
Once again Elon Musk thinks ahead of the curve a bit. Sticking the DC is space is a pain in some ways but sklces a ton of sociopolitical problems.

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