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dharbinon Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access

Why would Snowflake develop and release this? Doesn't this cannibalize their main product?

dharbinon Austin's Reign as a Tech Hub Might Be Coming to an End

This feels like a contentless article. They gave a statistic and crafted a narrative based on one person’s experience, which leaves me with many more questions than answers.

dharbinon Playstation 5 Pro

"Pro" is a funny qualifier for a game console. The definition has morphed from "for professionals" to "more expensive" or "more capable."

dharbinon Better Dotfiles

I’m a big fan of chezmoi (https://www.chezmoi.io/) which is a very capable dotfile manager. Chezmoi supports some useful advanced capabilities like work/home profiles and secrets manager integration.

dharbinon Home Assistant Presence Simulation

Can it automate a cutout of Michael Jordan attached to a model train set?

dharbinon Dblab: Interactive Terminal Client for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite3 and Oracle

In my opinion, psql is the "perfect" terminal database client. It's fast, has the ability to easily switch between wide and narrow row formats, and has commands for the things I do frequently.

I have often wanted psql to work with other databases, because the other CLI clients are either bare-bones, or just plain unusable.

dharbinon Moai in Video Games

I don't think I even knew what those "Easter Island" statues were called until I started playing Gradius games.

dharbinon TSMC ups Arizona investment from $12B to $40B with second semi fab

I heard a story about an Intel fab in Arizona that would always produce bad silicon at a certain time a day. After some investigations it was determined that a train passed by at that time every day causing enough seismic activity to disrupt the manufacturing process.

dharbinon There was a stretch where phone design went bananas

Actually, I love this. I remember having a teeny tiny phone back then (not quite a Zoolander size), and it was a lot of fun. Now everything is a boring rectangle of glass. Bring back the fun!

dharbinon DALL·E now available in beta

I find it amusing that they suggest DALL-E, which typically generates lovecraftian nightmare images, for making children's story illustrations.

dharbinon CityEngine: Build a Digital Twin of Your City

Wouldn't it be a more compelling product if you sold the model, not the model-making tool? If I was the city of Portland, I would rather just buy the pre-made Portland model than have an intern build it with CityEngine.

dharbinon The Superhero Industry Hates Children (2019)

Yeah, they're old, but are the talking points wrong?

dharbinon Zlib – a spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library

As ubiquitous as zlib is, I wonder why it’s not implemented in hardware like many audio and video codecs are.

dharbinon Pfizer and Biontech provide update on Omicron variant

Don't forget to vaccinate the wild deer and other animals that catch and spread COVID.

dharbinon How to build a small town in Texas

He's planning for Wifi, but not A/C. Best of luck to this fellow, but I'm not sure his priorities align with most folks in this part of the country.

dharbinon “User engagement” is code for “addiction”

Can someone have a gambling addiction? I've often heard that gambling addiction is a real problem, so why can't social media be addictive? Social media and mobile games like to use similar "engagement" techniques as slot machines, for example.

dharbinon Python's Type Checking Renaissance

Pylance is much faster and can index a large virtualenv without issue, IMO

dharbinon Heavy is the Head that wears the AirPods Max

According to Gruber's article, you can use these as wired headphones by plugging in a "Lightning to 3.5mm headphone jack cable," but otherwise I agree with you. "Built to last" means more than the material choices (metal vs plastic), but also whether or not you can swap out the batteries.

dharbinon Burger King ‘O.K. Google’ Ad Doesn’t Seem O.K. With Google

"O.k. Google, execute order 66"

dharbinon Mega-Tunnels Dug by South American Megafauna

I got this too, and I've gotten it on other websites that are very popular. I can't imagine that any of these sites would intentionally host an advertisement that would make it unreadable.

The solution is to delete Safari's history and cookies. Alternatively you can use private browsing.

dharbinon Amazon Prime Strikes Deal for Most PBS Children’s Shows

My kids are perfectly happy watching the same episodes over and over and over.

dharbinon Announcing SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Natural Language Parser

Xey McXface is a canary for detecting naming contests within an organization.

dharbinon Decoding the N.F.L. Database to Find 100 Missing Concussions

And Dallas's owner, Jerry Jones, has stated that it's "absurd" to say there's a link between CTE and football.

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/25527187/jerry-...

Was the absence of Dallas Cowboys data truly a mistake?

dharbinon Feeding data to 1000 CPUs – comparison of S3, Google, Azure storage

I don't know about Manta, but this is the entire point of HDFS. It easier to move code than data.

dharbinon “Corn-Pone Opinions” by Mark Twain (1901)

I'm pretty sure, in 1901, gay meant:

keenly alive and exuberant : having or inducing high spirits <a bird's gay spring song>

dharbinon PostgreSQL, pg_shard, and what we learned from our failures

Should Citus reevaluate cstore_fdw in light of this extensions API? I wonder if a foreign data wrapper is similarly ill-fitted for this application.

dharbinon How Sick Is the Stock Market?

So what you're saying is that past performance is indicative of future results...

dharbinon Too Many Books?

It takes a lot to make a stew

A pinch of salt and laughter, too

A scoop of kids to add the spice

A dash of love to make it nice, and you've got

Too many books

dharbinon Microsoft Announces Azure Data Lake, a Data Repository for Big Data Analytics

The links in the article to Microsoft's marketing sites are 404ing. Does anyone have good links?

dharbinon What It’s Like to Need Hardly Any Sleep

I'd probably just use the additional time to watch cat videos