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Nice hypothesis. Would be a shame if someone were to test it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbV_lMS0R6U&lc=UgyIxFgZnPM8T...


Yeah, mine too still there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbV_lMS0R6U&lc=UgyIxFgZnPM8T...

This sounds like yet another anti-China thread that comes the same day as the new security law for Hong Kong (I'm sure it's just a coincidence).

I wonder: does China comment on repressive laws approved in other countries? Isn't Hong Kong a part of China? Why wouldn't they approve any laws they see fit? Why are the people that are concerned about this never concerned about repressive laws approved in US-friendly countries like Turkey or Saudi Arabia or the Emirates?


And why all of a sudden is everyone so concerned with what China has been doing for decades (something that, while definitely authoritarian, is not exceedingly nefarious either)?

It's a serious question. We all knew how China works, and even if we thought it's something that goes against some of our values, we never considered it bad enough to be a deal breaker.

So what happened that made us all of a sudden become so fixated about it?


Obviously because it's challenging Western world dominance.


Yahoo uses PostgreSQL. I think that's pretty high-end requirements an debunks the myth of "commercial software is better for high end requirements".


First of all, Yahoo historically used Oracle Enterprise and MySQL for RDBMS, roughly 50% each.

Large companies use some of everything, but I never saw PG in use there.


https://www.computerworld.com/article/2535825/size-matters--...

Yahoo’s use of Postgres was legendary.


No, it wasn't legendary.

That's just one data warehouse application.

The one I administered, just as big, was Saturn. And it was MySQL.

Source: worked at Yahoo, saw way more MySQL than PG.


You just said you never saw Postgres at Yahoo. Yet Yahoo had possibly the world’s largest Postgres installation. I consider that legendary. I’ve certainly been aware of it for over a decade. It was also an early (?) columnar store which is now commonplace among OLAP databases. Seems like if it didn’t start a trend it was at least an early adopter. I’d say that’s legendary too. Even today the scale is impressive.

Now you say you did see some Postgres but there was more MySQL. Fine, you were there, I’ll take your word for it. But I can’t reconcile your own statements on this. Yahoo very clearly used Postgres.

You ran a 2PB MySQL install. Cool, I’d love to hear about that, truly. Do you have any written accounts or talks about that?


I believe the database described is Greenplum[0], which was a fork of PostgreSQL at 8.3, I think. It handles truly enormous datasets.

There's been an ongoing multi-year project to merge Greenplum up to the mainline so that it's no longer a hard fork.

Disclosure: I work for VMware, which sponsors development and sells commercial offerings of Greenplum.

[0] https://greenplum.org/


The article says Yahoo bought Mahat Technologies for their columnar version of Postgres. That sounds similar to Redshift or Greenplum but I think it is different. I can’t find a clear history of Greenplum’s origins or what happened to Mahat. Looks like Redshift came from ParAccel which was a separate project. From what I can find there were a lot of similar projects at the time.


Those who won't even try are not worth hiring.


Are you sure they weren't economically pretty for the people coming from Russian Empire where 90% lived in absolute poverty and serfdom?


Vimium extension for browsers allows Vi-like movement and mouse-free navigation. Things you learn from sysadmins ;)


Or Vimari, the Safari port.

https://github.com/televator-apps/vimari


Less readable in my opinion and I'm more used to C# code than Haskell.


I feel the opposite. I find the C# more readable than the Haskell. I haven't written C# regularly in 10yrs.


It's awful indeed. But it's a translation of what haskell does. The imperative version would be much more readable in any case...


Correlation is not causation.


Maybe not, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here.


Is it even possible to prove objective causation in a complex social sciences study, since there can be no control group?


Yeah, by the same logic you can't blame sexism or racism for any differences in outcomes, since there's no control group there either.


It would seem any univariate analysis of social dynamics is by default erroneous


No, it could be a third variable or it could even be that women avoiding STEM somehow increases gender equality.

But regardless of the cause, if there is an inverse correlation then pursuing gender parity in STEM is at best a huge waste of effort and at worst counterproductive for all parties involved.

The graph in the article doesn't look too far removed from a cloud though, so I question the strength of the correlation.


I highly recommend Space Engine https://store.steampowered.com/app/314650/SpaceEngine/


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