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> almost english-like

Real world SQL from the analytics, DE, BIE side of things is _extremely far_ from readable. It's a form of actual hell.


This times 10^6. Nicely said.

There is a staggering amount of ignorance present in the other comments here.

I was ignorant too. But I spent a good amount of time educating myself this year. I hope others do the same so they can make completely informed assessments. I worry about tribalism and politics driving too much of the thinking.


Yes, indeed. There are quite a few “nature inspired metaheuristic algorithms” which do exactly this. When I say “quite a few”, I mean countless.

Look up NSGA and NSGA-II for a good starting point. Then Kagi your way deeper into the rabbit hole.


I love the concept here and will absolutely give this a go.

One bit of advice for the creators/maintainers: stop saying “cloud native”. It’s effectively meaningless, and definitely confusing. But most importantly, it’s irrelevant. Start with customers and work backwards. And in that process, ask if they really care about “cloud native”. They don’t. So don’t water down or distract people away from a great thing, please.


Whenever I see the word "cloud" thrown out as a buzzword I mentally substitute that with "rental computers".


And what about all the switches, routers, bridges, firewalls, and whatever else in between endpoints?

What a strange thing to require. It comes off a bit like X-Y. You seek high performance. But you state it as wanting zero copy networking. There’s a lot more to performance across the overall system than that.


Wanting no blocking has nothing to do with that.


You said you wanted no queue.


https://swaits.com/

The early years (from decades ago) are long gone. But I fired it up again a few years ago and intend on posting more actively henceforth.


I use Amethyst on macOS. Took some getting used to, but now I won’t go back.


Sierra Club is on a politically motivated posturing mission to cancel Muir. For all the claimed transgressions, this man did a massive amount of positive work for naturalism.

We should remember people for their good and their bad, not wipe them from the history books.


I agree that it’d be best to remember people as they are, not as the only good or bad characters we turn them into. It wouldn’t surprise me if honoring people’s memories is going to go out of fashion in general. It’s too easy to turn any single person into a villain. Maybe we’ll find a better way to honor a person’s accomplishments without turning them into an idol to be worshipped.

Every time I see a piece of money with someone’s face in it now, I wonder how much longer that face will be on there once that person’s flaws are put on display. I also find it interesting that the Euro doesn’t honor specific people. I’m guessing that’s because there’s no practical way to find people that all countries would like to see on the Euro.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro


It is also to avoid accusations of country favoritism. There aren’t 26 bills and coins, so some countries would not have a person on a note.

It is the same reason why the things depicted on the Euro, like bridges, are not depictions of actual things, but loosely based on them.


I didn’t get any “canceling” of Muir in the article at all. Yes there are well deserved criticisms, but the article ends with a thoughtful comment on Muir’s faults and his naturalism from the Native American in the intro: "You can't look at one person. You have to look at the philosophy of that time period. And with that in mind, he did a damn good thing."



I think they’re saying India represents 14% of the world population. That means that the delisting of India is most of the “20%” mentioned in the headline.


I think that 14% would make up a large percentage of the 80% not the 20.


Being married to a woman with her own last name, and a stepdaughter with her own last name, I can tell you that none of what you describe is really a problem.

In fact, it’s worked well enough for us that if we were to have another child we’d consider giving him or her a different last name again instead of picking one of the three we already have.


Indeed we haven't run into many problems. Maybe an annoyance now and then such as a relative (usually one of hers, ironically) that assumes she has my last name and sends cards or letters to Mrs XXX. In fact some of them know she kept her maiden name but are conservative enough to find this somehow offensive enough that they give her my last name. (Again, weird, what's wrong with the last name she shares with them.)

(The only reason we sometimes wish she'd change her name is that hers is extremely common, and so she's constantly getting mixups with other people with the same name and has to sign things every time we buy a house or get a loan, etc. to say she isn't that other XXX YYY that has the bad credit rating or outstanding loan or criminal record, etc.)


Wow! I'd argue it's offensive—or at least quite rude—to willfully ignore someone's name. What gives someone else the right to determine what's best for me? How patronizing!


Yep. And her own father was a bit put off by her choice. Weird, as its his own name she's keeping. Okay, well, probably the name of a slaveholding ancestor in the south, actually, but I doubt that factors into any of his thoughts.

What's weird is these are people with generally left-wing political views, and socially liberal on most things. But on women's issues, pretty backwards. It weirds me out.


I'll admit that I consider myself "generally left-wing...and social liberally", and it was a real cognitive disconnect when my wife didn't want to take my name...It's such an ingrained tradition, so it required serious self-reflection to get to the bottom of my own reaction.


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