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New comment by PaulWaldman in "Ferrari Luce"

PaulWaldman — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:57:30 +0000

Porsche has a similar steering wheel mounted rotary switch. Traditionally it was on models optioned with the Sport Chrono package. They recently rolled it out to all new models over the past few years.

https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/press-kits/taycan/Die-Driver...

TimescaleDB – Introducing Direct Compress: Up to 40x Faster

PaulWaldman — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:37:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/introducing-direct-compress-up-to-40x-faster-leaner-data-ingestion-for-developers-tech-preview

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45183489

Points: 2

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New comment by PaulWaldman in "Run a C# file directly using dotnet run app.cs"

PaulWaldman — Thu, 29 May 2025 12:56:39 +0000

Powershell 7 was released 5 years ago, was this not an option?

InfluxDB 3 Enterprise free for at-home use and an update on Core's 72-hour limit

PaulWaldman — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:03:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.influxdata.com/blog/influxdb3-open-source-public-alpha-jan-27/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42842518

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by PaulWaldman in "InfluxDB 3 Open Source Now in Public Alpha Under MIT/Apache 2 License"

PaulWaldman — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:59:10 +0000

> InfluxDB 3.0 open source will be called InfluxDB 3 Core, a recent-data engine persisting Parquet files and enabling queries against the last 72 hours of data. Development of Core will carry on under the permissive MIT or Apache 2 license

> InfluxDB 3 Core gives developers a new tool for time series data management—a high-performance recent-data engine optimized for querying the last 72 hours of data. This focused approach enables Core to deliver exceptional performance for real-time monitoring, data collection, and streaming analytics use cases. By optimizing specifically for this pattern, we’ve achieved query response times under 10ms for last-value queries and under 50ms for hour-long ranges.

The limitation of 72 hours of data is a bit disappointing. There are use cases that don't require 50ms query response times, but instead need longer on-prem storge. InfluxDB 1.X and 2.X supported these well. Would it be possible to reduce query performance and extend data retention?

Is there any guidance on a planned EOL for InfluxDB 1.X and 2.X once Core reaches GR?

New comment by PaulWaldman in "Bill requiring US agencies to share source code with each other becomes law"

PaulWaldman — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 04:25:05 +0000

This article references "custom code." What about custom applications?

Are all government contractors required to provide the source code for all developed applications? Or does this bill only apply to contracts where the deliverables actually include source code?

New comment by PaulWaldman in "A new video captures a 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal"

PaulWaldman — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 03:11:07 +0000

It will be interesting to see the durability of print vs digital content of time.

Many web properties are no longer accessible due to M&A activity and Small/solo publishers unable or unwilling to maintain their assets. Archives like WayBack Machine mitigates some of the loss of digital content so long as the archives themselves are still maintained.

Will spinning rust be as durable as Microfiche?

New comment by PaulWaldman in "Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era"

PaulWaldman — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:06:17 +0000

Anecdotally, using the Gemini App with "Gemini Advanced 2.0 Flash Experimental", the response quality is ignorantly improved and faster at some basic Python and C# generation.

New comment by PaulWaldman in "GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house"

PaulWaldman — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 01:58:54 +0000

Eh, Tesls's FSD and Autopilot as well as GM's Supercruise are all classified as SAEJ3016 Automation Level 2.

New comment by PaulWaldman in "Rivian is opening its charging network to other EVs"

PaulWaldman — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 21:36:37 +0000

> I've come to notice that there is no incentive for 3rd party ev-chargers to be dependable.

I don't know, how often would you stop at a gas station if their pumps weren't reliable? Many 3rd party chargers are selling electricity at a mark-up.

New comment by PaulWaldman in "Broadcom loses another big VMware customer"

PaulWaldman — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:44:46 +0000

Has VMware won any significant customers since Broadcom's acquisition?

New comment by PaulWaldman in "GM electric vehicles can now access Tesla Superchargers"

PaulWaldman — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:55:30 +0000

This still feels a long way off. I have yet to encounter a charger, not made by Tesla, that has an NACS plug.

New comment by PaulWaldman in "Judge tells Google: Play Store shakeup coming; punishment for running a monopoly"

PaulWaldman — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 18:55:59 +0000

Not only sideloading, but there are actual Play Store alternativities already available for Android.

New comment by PaulWaldman in "Putting DuckDB in Postgres to Query Iceberg"

PaulWaldman — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 03:10:41 +0000

How does this compare to the Parquet S3 Foreign Data Wrapper?

https://github.com/pgspider/parquet_s3_fdw

New comment by PaulWaldman in "Thousands of Pablo Picasso’s works in a new online archive"

PaulWaldman — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 20:57:38 +0000

Interesting this post appears in the same week as Paramount pulling the content of much of their archived cable TV content. The internet giveth and the internet taketh away.

New comment by PaulWaldman in "Ryanair Boeing 737 MAX plunges 2,000ft in 17 seconds"

PaulWaldman — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 16:05:18 +0000

Anyone want to take a guess of the terminal velocity of a 737 Max?

New comment by PaulWaldman in "gRPC: The Bad Parts"

PaulWaldman — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:17:36 +0000

This anecdote highlights scope creep and mismanagement, not a fault of gRPC.

New comment by PaulWaldman in "gRPC: The Bad Parts"

PaulWaldman — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:11:04 +0000

Why is this ironic?

New comment by PaulWaldman in "Volkswagen to invest up to $5B in Rivian"

PaulWaldman — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 21:15:16 +0000

Let's also not forget the moron at GM.

New comment by PaulWaldman in "Volkswagen to invest up to $5B in Rivian"

PaulWaldman — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 21:14:08 +0000

I understand the cost to the end user is much less, but in what ways is their technology more advanced?