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New comment by glogla in "Missiles are now the biggest killer of airline passengers"

glogla — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 20:31:55 +0000

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.

New comment by glogla in "British journalist held by police at Luton airport for five hours without arrest"

glogla — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 21:21:59 +0000

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.

New comment by glogla in "Apache Pinot 1.0"

glogla — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 08:25:00 +0000

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.

New comment by glogla in "Apache Pinot 1.0"

glogla — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 07:27:40 +0000

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

New comment by glogla in "British journalist held by police at Luton airport for five hours without arrest"

glogla — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 18:56:11 +0000

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New comment by glogla in "British journalist held by police at Luton airport for five hours without arrest"

glogla — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:44:18 +0000

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.

New comment by glogla in "British journalist held by police at Luton airport for five hours without arrest"

glogla — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:24:30 +0000

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).

New comment by glogla in "British journalist held by police at Luton airport for five hours without arrest"

glogla — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:22:46 +0000

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

New comment by glogla in "British journalist held by police at Luton airport for five hours without arrest"

glogla — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 15:44:38 +0000

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?

New comment by glogla in "Apache Pinot 1.0"

glogla — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 21:44:16 +0000

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).

New comment by glogla in "The daguerreotype is famous – why not the calotype?"

glogla — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 22:24:35 +0000

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

New comment by glogla in "BtrBlocks: Efficient Columnar Compression for Data Lakes [pdf]"

glogla — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 14:49:38 +0000

Only if I can be your data dragoon.

New comment by glogla in "Willingham sends Fables into the public domain"

glogla — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 09:24:35 +0000

> 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?

New comment by glogla in "Germany Will Force 80% of Gas Stations to Install EV Chargers"

glogla — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 10:14:29 +0000

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

New comment by glogla in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"

glogla — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 19:12:44 +0000

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.

New comment by glogla in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"

glogla — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 18:42:40 +0000

> terrible decision

I think you meant brave decision.

New comment by glogla in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"

glogla — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 18:39:41 +0000

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

Maybe $199?

New comment by glogla in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"

glogla — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 18:35:56 +0000

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

New comment by glogla in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"

glogla — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 18:28:02 +0000

> 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.

New comment by glogla in "The end of the subscription era is coming"

glogla — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 19:57:30 +0000

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