Hacker News: AtlasLion

New comment by AtlasLion in "Against Alcohol (2022)"

AtlasLion — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 21:33:07 +0000

https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/wellbeing/2023/01/19/no-alco...

New comment by AtlasLion in "Against Alcohol (2022)"

AtlasLion — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 20:48:32 +0000

Domestic abuse is made worse with alcohol, car accidents, work accidents... There are many way the whole society pays for allowing people access to a drug such as alcohol.

New comment by AtlasLion in "List of Tech company layoffs in Europe"

AtlasLion — Thu, 26 May 2022 09:58:55 +0000

Has always been.

New comment by AtlasLion in "Apple ranks LAST in USPIRG repairability report"

AtlasLion — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 11:30:07 +0000

true, but at this point, they are ubiquitous. so mentioning things that they are doing wrong is still valuable.

Apple ranks LAST in USPIRG repairability report

AtlasLion — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 11:23:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXq_Nli9RD4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30638599

Points: 18

# Comments: 4

New comment by AtlasLion in "DBOS: A DBMS-oriented Operating System [pdf]"

AtlasLion — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 22:30:41 +0000

reminds me a lot of IBM OS400.

New comment by AtlasLion in "“Zero fucks given” in other languages"

AtlasLion — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 12:19:58 +0000

not the same but "je m'en bas les couilles" works too.

New comment by AtlasLion in "TIL the assumption that string length does not change when upper-cased is false"

AtlasLion — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 08:25:05 +0000

I was testing this lately,Teradata, SQL server, Oracle and others just return ß for upper('ß'). Snowflake returns SS. There is btw an upper letter defined for ß

https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9693

New comment by AtlasLion in "Snowflake’s response to Databricks’ TPC-DS post"

AtlasLion — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 09:16:07 +0000

The main question I have for DB is, how good is their query optimiser/compiler? It's fun that you can run some predefined set of queries fast. More important is, how good you can run queries in the real world, with suboptimal data models, layers upon layers of badly written views, CTEs, UDFs... That is what matters in the end. Not some synthetic benchmark based on known queries you can optimise specifically for.

New comment by AtlasLion in "Snowflake’s response to Databricks’ TPC-DS post"

AtlasLion — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 09:08:57 +0000

Their cofounder was behind vectorwise, which kicked ass in benchmarks, but died as no one even heard of it. You can run the benchmark queries fast, that's great, but can you handle code migrated from vertica? Will you optimiser come up with a good plan for queries built on 15 layers of views? That's what companies in the real world have, not some synthetic benchmark that you can make sure you can run for marketing purposes.

New comment by AtlasLion in "Snowflake’s response to Databricks’ TPC-DS post"

AtlasLion — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 09:04:46 +0000

The benchmark itself is kinda useless, so I don't see why they should. If you look at tpc-h for years, you had exasol as a top dog, but in the real world that meant nothing for them.

New comment by AtlasLion in "Snowflake’s response to Databricks’ TPC-DS post"

AtlasLion — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 09:02:16 +0000

That doesn't allow end users any configuration, but this doesn't apply to the company itself which can apply settings from the background on behalf of end users.

New comment by AtlasLion in "I Miss Working from the Office"

AtlasLion — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 14:30:45 +0000

I live in the Netherlands and I have secured an office on "temporary" basis 10 minutes by bike from home. I have 3 huge rooms, internet, water and electricity for a total sum of 250 Euros a month. I'm really enjoying this and I'm not looking forward to commuting 3 hours a day past Vivid.

New comment by AtlasLion in "macOS unable to open any non-Apple application"

AtlasLion — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 07:12:29 +0000

Re colour accuracy, checkout thinkpads, they even come with a colour calibration sensor so you can have them autocalibrate daily/weekly or whatever suits you.

New comment by AtlasLion in "How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges"

AtlasLion — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 12:56:06 +0000

I use inkjet printers and I am very satisfied. I am using an Epson printer with what they call EcoTank. Just tanks with different color inks that you can refill yourself.

Teradata is laying off people today

AtlasLion — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 18:25:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thelayoff.com/teradata

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24899353

Points: 22

# Comments: 2

New comment by AtlasLion in "Why is Snowflake so Valuable?"

AtlasLion — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 21:36:24 +0000

Same applies to Teradata vantage on cloud.

New comment by AtlasLion in "Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians"

AtlasLion — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:19:27 +0000

they are human, not a robot you can reset to factory settings. it's only human that people have values that they uphold as the truth and that is hard to change. the place where you immigrate to is not necessarily superior. Immgrants could bring in values that improve their new home country.

New comment by AtlasLion in "U.S. Orders Al Jazeera to Register as a Foreign Agent"

AtlasLion — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 18:49:53 +0000

and the big power using them as chess pieces to keep the petrodollar safe.

New comment by AtlasLion in "U.S. Orders Al Jazeera to Register as a Foreign Agent"

AtlasLion — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 18:47:46 +0000

Our it could be that it really doesn't fit your views on mideast politics. Western media is totally silent on many issue directly caused by western powers in the region.