Quippy, but off the cuff:
- I don’t go to my present town square(s) socially because it is full of a-social behavior. Same reason to avoid certain bars or clubs, prefer certain parks, or why some are wary of public transit.
- I don’t feel a right to decide the vibe of how a business curates its space. My bakery, coffee shop, local library, etc. all curate a space with an opinion. I don’t feel I have standing to assert that my preferences should dominate their choices.
As an aside, businesses are also an extension of the people, the best ones tend to just not be mode collapsed
A passing thought: the ethe of individuals in the 70s and 80s is important because of the people it informed in subsequent years. While many people still like to hack, code, etc., the relative proportion of people doing this and working in tech continues to diminish as the popularity and importance of the sector grows. I wonder if debt without values / a more cohered zeitgeist is better or worse?
But the point stands, these systems occupy a niche that Apple Silicon is poorly suited to filling. They run normal Linux, they support common APIs, and network to dozens of other machines using Infiniband.
I love the romance of this piece, but in my experience he’s just describing the difference in expectations of learning biology at a high school versus advanced undergraduate to graduate level.
Romance is for those who care, and most don’t. But it is so, so beautiful once you do.
You could probably consider learning a sign wave to be a “grammar” related to periodic variations. Grammar in this context feels like “What are the core conceptual heuristics that help guide towards faster understanding”
Exactly what I want from DuckDB. Was playing with using it as a quicker cache for a data app backed in Snowflake, wonder how hard it’d be to write the attach for that vs doing it at the client level
I have been wondering how to support interactive / real-time web apps based on Snowflake data. I suppose pushing down to DuckDB a subset of data needed for a chart would be one way to do this...
If you’re pushing down the data, you’re losing the real-time capability no?
If you want fast, adhoc, real-time querying, load the data as it’s created directly into duckdb or clickhouse. Now you’ll have sub-100ms responses for most of your queries.
I'd assume they mean users interacting with the chart vs first load. So the user sees the base chart (Let's say 1MB of data on the server, less depending what gets pushed to the user) and then additional filters, aggregations, etc. are pretty cheap because the server has a local copy to query against
- I don’t feel a right to decide the vibe of how a business curates its space. My bakery, coffee shop, local library, etc. all curate a space with an opinion. I don’t feel I have standing to assert that my preferences should dominate their choices.
As an aside, businesses are also an extension of the people, the best ones tend to just not be mode collapsed
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