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Re:As Ellison Buys Out TikTok, US Moves Toward One-Party Media on Saturday September 20, 2025 @08:57PM (#45319064)
where would we even start looking?
Re:Is Data Modeling Dead? on Saturday September 20, 2025 @12:19AM (#45310328)
exactly this.
Re:Is Data Modeling Dead? on Thursday September 18, 2025 @01:27AM (#45285783)
The core issue is dimensional data modeling was introduced to address limitations on hardware (disk drives) and limited capacity.

With the advent of unlimited storage and separation of computer and storage, dimensional data modeling would only be possible if there was strong data governance in a system like SAP or a COE.

Re:How Palantir is mapping the nation’s data on Thursday September 11, 2025 @10:48PM (#45218202)
The problem with Palantir is they target gov. agencies.

Most of the time companies who have systems like Palantir, I’m thinking the SAP, Oracle, blah Blah, have to report earnings to the street through a 10k or have to comply with regulations like Sarbanes Oxley.

They will also have in-house IT staff to monitor the logs etc.

The programs installing the Foundry system have an incentive to hide the data from prying eyes and therefore it never leaves the Palantir ecosystem. The government doesn’t hire independent consultants, auditors etc to confirm if it’s being used or not.

They simply have to demonstrate trustworthiness to a security officer and hope an IG doesn’t have an external equivalent of a Forward deployed engineer.

So while the technology is mediocre, it’s the nebulousness or the lack of audit-ability and the are the people writing checks the same people signing them.

So I sympathize with Karp talking about technology being fine it’s the apparatus surrounding it that says “just trust us” that gives pause, especially in today’s culture of conflict.

If I told you that 90% of all transactions get routed through a foreign companies software, you might pause but it’s been like that for years (SAP). The difference is there are controls in place.

Re:What Does Palantir Actually Do? on Thursday August 14, 2025 @05:20AM (#44898427)
I was joking with a friend that one of their competitive advantages is that it is a mediocre data platform but their critics get gang stalked.
Re:The Right Kind of Stubborn on Monday July 08, 2024 @04:29PM (#40909330)
Article is trying to discern a cause and effect.

The fact is people are involved and success and failure can be determined by any number of reasons beyond the control of the obstinate.

You can control the effort but not the outcome. Judgement will come regardless.

^this on so many levels.
It has been like that for 20 years.
Re:Technical debt is an invisible $1.52T problem on Sunday March 31, 2024 @08:27PM (#39889579)
^ This sooo much.

You're better off just making friends and moving on so as to not jeopardize your reputation or risk your career.

Re:AI ADHD Coach designed to help you start your tasks on Sunday March 24, 2024 @08:39PM (#39811859)
“Try later”

This is Gold, jerry

This has been going on in 2004. This happened to us as well.
Re:Docker Is Four Things on Thursday August 31, 2023 @12:07PM (#37339422)
Docker Compose is contained in Docker Desktop.
Starlink satellites are designed to manuever and burn up in the atmosphere once they have reached the end of their lifespan.
>This is like saying that movies in the 1980s sparked a rash of car thefts because they showed people hotwiring cars all the time.

Probably did, but the scale of the problem is much larger considering TikTok's reach.

>Nobody is asking them to "eat the costs"

“Negotiations are very much underway. Everyone in our building knows we’re going to pay them,” the senior Pentagon official told CNN, adding that the department is eager to have commitments in writing “because we worry he’ll change his mind.”

Obviously you can.
and Data Fabric
I had no idea ITT Technical Institute (ITT) was in the Ivy league.
Re:Why aren't smart people happier? on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @12:52PM (#32415039)
Ignorance is bliss.
For growing children athletes where strength and speed are important?
Re:Making a Maradona: Meat Consumption and Soccer Prowess on Saturday July 23, 2022 @06:29PM (#32208174)
probably wasnt vegan during his formative years.
Re:Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first time on Thursday July 14, 2022 @11:39AM (#32097462)
Very high quality comment and very insightful!
25 percent of California adults live in households with firearms.
that's comforting to know.
so much for personal responsibility.
Re:Competent Man on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @11:56AM (#31837715)
then do it. -your wife.
Re:Glassdoor salaries but based on real W-2s on Thursday June 02, 2022 @09:08PM (#31602942)
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Re:The Beer Game (1992) on Monday May 09, 2022 @12:52PM (#31316547)
Played this as a Boeing intern. It was wild and so much fun.

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