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It is not that Russia is USSR, it is that USSR was Russia + colonized, enslaved nations, like Russian Empire before it.

The evil of USSR did was because Russia was in charge.

Stop pretending you struggled when you're an IT guy. There are people who actually struggled, people who don't live in luxury in the richest parts of Europe like you do and yet they are happy to be part of the struggle for better world that EU is trying and don't hate everyone like you do.

You can be both right. I would say that ClickHouse is a focused system - it is really really good at the things it's good at, and it is not good at the rest.

Anecdote: I tested ClickHouse as possible replacement of Trino+DeltaLake+S3 for some of our use cases.

When querying a precomputed flat tables it was easily 10x to 100x faster. When running complex ETL to prepare those tables, I gave up when CTAS with six CTEs that takes Trino 30 seconds to compute on the fly turned into six intermediate tables that took 40 minutes to compute, and I wasn't even halfway done.

The tricky part is, how do you know whether your use case fits? But you have to ask this question about all the "specialized tools", including Pinot.

Nowadays, Athena is Trino under the hood, but pretty heavily patched.

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Israel is still considered ally for multitude of reasons: big organisations don't turn on a dime and sometimes take decades to change course (same reason Turkey is still considered ally), fascists love Israel as model "pure people state" more than they hate Jews, and small but influential part of American Evangelicals believe that Jews having their own state is necessary step to get us the Rapture.

But you probably know all this, nothing you said was in good faith and and just come to HN to turn your hatred on random people.

Just downvote, flag and move on. This guy is here to insult people for fun and stir shit. No reason to engage (and yes, I know I'm also guilty of engaging with anti-Western but definitely not pro-Chinese/pro-Russian trolls).

I don't see many middle eastern monarchies in NATO.

Alliances are not just about power, but also about common values and goals. Strong allies are good. Strong enemies that are for historic reason part of alliance are pretty bad, and need to be managed.

That is why Turkey is not getting F-35s or even F-16s now. Why help arm your enemy?

RedShift, Snowflake, Citus, Greenplum and Athena are OLAP engines, but not real-time focused. For this one, it is more similar to Druid, ClickHouse or RockSet.

The 1.0 version of Pinot seems to bring a lot of maturity, they seem to have added new engine that can do joins now. I'm not sure how stable it is, but it seems interesting.

As for what is this kind of database usedful for, this is for operational analytics on large data that also update in real time. In my domain that would be things like having insight into large supply chains or manufacturing operations, like power plants or factories, just in general for monitoring stuff. I know it's also used in security and finance (for fraud).

Louis Daguerre was a French painter who created "daguerreotypes" a process that gave portraits a sharp reflective style, like a mirror.

Only if I can be your data dragoon.

Mark Buckingham is free to do his version of Fables (and I dearly hope he does). Steve Leialoha is free to do his version of Fables (which I’d love to see). And so on.

... does anyone have Alan Moore's phone number?

The common wisdom is that gas stations already make most money on sweets, snacks and drinks. Becoming charging stations might even improve it.

Back of the napkin: hundred million iPhones recharging their 13 Wh battery once a day every day from zero to full for a year is about 60 % the electric energy that this power plant [1] makes in a year.

Not huge amount of energy, but not negligible either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agua_Caliente_Solar_Project

edit: I see someone else did the math as well.

terrible decision

I think you meant brave decision.

Could Apple perhaps sell you a $99 wireless wired CarPlay dongle?

Maybe $199?

According to my research (1) wireless charging increases the consumption between 40 and 80 % depending on how well you align the coils.

It would be very much Apple move to take something that wastes enormous amount of energy (given the number of people who have iPhones) and claim it is eco-friendly.

(1): I looked on Wikipedia for 30 seconds

Honestly for me the best part is the USB-C.

Some people predicted that new iPhone will be completely portless and allow wireless charging only, just to not having to support USB-C out of spite.

I guess we'll need to wait a year or two more.

True, but it feels less like a subscription because it's not a flat amount per month or year.

I just realized that by paying toll yearly, I subscribe to my country's motorways.

Yes, to take over the world and turn every person of different ethnicity than Han Chinese into a slave or servant.

Solar has convincingly won.

As we go into winter, we'll switch to a tariff which does cheap overnight charging so we can arbitrage on cost.

Seems it really didn't. What is your plan for the new way of getting electricity in winter?

This is a common issue with any material reserves. You will hear people say that we don't have enough uranium reserves to have more nuclear power, or more lithium reserves for batteries, etc. People also used to say that about oil (remember "peak oil"?) but not anymore.

The thing is, there's always only certain amount of known reserves.

When there's not enough known reserves of something, the price will go up, and it is pretty lucrative to look for more, or even come up with new ways of getting that thing (see fracking).

When there's too much known reserves, the price will go down, and it might not be worth it to look for more, because not only you won't get as much money, but the people who currently own reserves will lose money as the price goes further down (for similar example, see landlords being NIMBYS because new housing lowers their property).

So yes, we do have 50 years of known reserves of Uranium on current consumption. But we also had 50 years or known reservers of it thirty years ago. Known reserves of stuff tend to keep around that number.

That of course does not mean that there is literally unlimited amount of minerals in Earth's crust - but we do have enough of stuff for quite a while, Earth is a pretty big planet.

Edit: that said I'm myself not convinced by "solar + grid scale batteries" strategy, I would rather see nuclear power and keep the batteries for cars.

There is a legal limit, yes, but nobody checks it, so you can do it indefinitely. Around here, there's even a lot of people driving on fake "foreign" plates.

Yup. Here's a fun hack - you can drive car in EU on US plates, due to international agreements. In that case, you don't have to follow local car inspection standards, but inspection standards of your home country.

Get a plate from US state that has no inspections? You need no inspections at all!

Given the Wikipedia page about eSIM says:

The European Commission selected the eUICC format for its in-vehicle emergency call service, known as eCall, in 2012.[23] All new car models in the EU must have one by 2018 to instantly connect the car to emergency services in case of an accident.[24]

I'd say they have been around since then.

edit: here is a great talk about how eSIMs work from last CCC https://media.ccc.de/v/camp2023-57190-demystifying_esim_tech...

I think especially the videos that show the process, like J. Kenji's, are pretty good (don't expect to be as fast as him when making things, though). But you still have to try it and practice, not just watch.

The part of cooking I'm struggling with right now, and would love some guides and content on, is how to prepare a menu and plan groceries. It's a lot of work, but I'm sure there are ways to make it easier.

Worse, due to regulations on security, this is the case for banking in EU.

A lot of banks don't even have web interface and those they still do require you to install and link smartphone app to be able to log in or to pay with card online.

While there might in theory be many second factors with different pros and cons, most bank only allow their own app and nothing else. The few stragglers that still allow text messages make it increasingly user hostile, e.g. rewrite 12 number code and enter special PIN, different from your normal PIN or just click a button in app!

And of course, none of the banking apps will work without Google or Apple account, because if you try to run them on deGoogled Android they just refuse to work.

It will soon be impossible to be part of society without having Google or Apple account. Maybe it is already the case.

I mean "tech" did a lot of messed up things - there is a reason why "what is your favorite big tech innovation: 1) illegal cab company 2) illegal hotel company 3) fake money for criminals 4) plagiarism machine" is a funny joke.

Enabling people to talk to each other without all their communication being wiretapped and archived forever is not one of those, I would say.