It isn't. I gave up on waiting and switched to starlink. The existence of starlink provides even less financial reward for for paying to wire up my house.
I'm not saying for you personally it is financially viable. I am saying that these companies have zero excuse to say that providing that service to every single American isn't financially viable. They were already paid to do that, and simply took the money and didn't provide the service. We could still hold them to account if there was any political will to do so.
I'm running unsloth/GLM-4.7-Flash-GGUF:UD-Q8_K_XL via llama.cpp on 2x 24G 4090s which fits perfectly with 198k context at 120 tokens/s – the model itself is really good.
And Germany would have been a much larger country economically if Hitler was executed after his first coup attempt. The Weimar government didn't choose that path though, and went for civility.
The brain drain was massive, both before the war, and even more so after. That didn't stop the peasant minded from supporting the Nazi regime though. They got to punish the people who they were told made them poor.
I live in FL, so I get to interact daily with people who are cheering for this crackdown, and have said the equivalent of "those rioters (protestors) should be put down in the street". I don't have much hope for where our country is headed.
The flags on any type of post like this are absolutely ridiculous. Glad the mods are at least for now letting this one stand.
They were saying "the same" in context of how often you have to replace the tires. Now, EV tires are often a slightly different compound (and more expensive) to deal with the higher weight and torque. I don't know how that plays into the particle emissions from those tires though.
It really is a good database. Give it lots of room. If you can distribute your workload on multiple machines though, you can't beat Postgres' licencing terms vs SQL Server.
Why is it a good database? Integration with Entra? I've heard arguments in favor of Oracle DB, but I've never heard anything good about MSSQL besides integration with the MS ecosystem.
The SQL Server query planner is head and shoulders above what Postgres offers in the types of optimizations it will apply to your queries. It also properly caches query plans.
It offers heap tables, as well as index organized tables depending on what you need.
The protocol supports running multiple queries and getting multiple resultsets back at once saving some round-trips and resources.
Also supports things like global temp tables, and in memory tables, which are helpful for some use cases.
The parallelism story for a single query is still stronger with SQL Server.
I'm sure I could think of more, but it's been a few years since I've used it myself and I've forgotten a bit.
It is a good database. I just wouldn't use it for my startup. I could never justify that license cost, and how it restricts how you design your infrastructure due to the cost and license terms.
I love Postgres and use it for _everything_. I've also used SQL Server for a couple of years.
I've lost count the number of times I'll read about some new postgres or MySQL thing where you find out that Oracle or SQL server implemented it 20 years ago. Yes they always have it behind expensive SKUs. But they're hardly slouches in the technical competence departments.
I found Oracle to just be a lot more unwieldy from a tooling perspective than SQL Server (which IMO had excellent tools like SSMS and the query planner/profiler to do all your DB management).
But overall, these paid databases have been very technically sound and have been solving some of these problems many, many years ago. It's still nice to see the rest of us benefit from these features in free databases nowadays.
As others have said, the query planners I used 25 years ago with Oracle (cost based, rule based, etc) were amazing. The oracle one wasn't visual but the MSSQL one was totally visual that actually gave you a whole graph of how the query was assembled. And I last used the MSSQL one 15 years ago.
Maybe pgAdmin does that now (I haven't used pgAdmin), but I miss the polished tools that came with SQL Server.
That's true for seeks into the clustered (primary) index because that index includes all fields, so you don't need to "jump" to the heap to get them.
However, seeking into a secondary index, and then reading a column not included in that index incurs an additional index seek (into the clustered index), which may be somewhat slower than what would happen in a heap-based table.
I have found very minimal penalty on secondary index reads in practice such that it has never made a difference.
Remember some databases always use clustered index internally (SQLite, MySql) such that even if you have no primary key they will create a hidden one instead for use with the index.
It is nice to have the choice which way to go and would be nice if PG implemented this. It can have significant space savings on narrow table with one primary index and performance advantages.
I absolutely reject your premise here. I feel like Bush Jr. is very responsible for the state of the world we're in right now. You can track back a whole lot of policies and erosion of democratic norms in our system directly to his administrations.
Or the fact we are woefully unprepared for a peer conflict. We wasted how many trillions in the middle east? We cancelled how many modernization programs to fund counter insurgency programs instead?
I read another post this morning that there was already an update last night with a bunch of tracking code added, and additional permissions required (that didn't trigger anything for the user to know of those additional permissions).
I am a paid Nova user from a decade ago, but haven't used it in ages fwiw.
I missed the post yesterday. Good to read it today. Uninstalled after reading this and switched to Octopi (interestingly the same name as the Pi-based 3D printing webservice). Only missing features so far is more icons on the drawer in width and top-used. Then again insta-search also solves this.
Currently going on? You mean the ones which were prosecuted a few years ago? Or are you talking about that "journalist"'s YouTube video that was hyped by the government to cause misinformed rage?
Yes I am talking about that "journalist"'s YouTube video, like I said the evidence out there is accessible on the Web. If there is a nanometer evidence that implies your tax money goes to Somalians bank account, you need to investigate that.
I'm pretty traditional conservative and I don't feel that our tax money should be funding child care directly like it does these days. I want to reduce the debt and taxes.
Looking at the "journalist", I really don't understand what people say he uncovered. He showed up with a bunch of people and expected to enter a non-public facility with children to investigate and when he was denied entry, made huge claims about how over half of the state's funding is going to illegal
Immigrants. I saw zero proof of anything in their "reporting" nor did I see anything credible in their approach. I fully support investigative reporting, but there's a bar that needs to be meet to be considered a journalist and rage content creators do not meet that bar.
If you want to link to specific videos that you feel do meet this bar, I'm happy to watch them, but as of now, I do not believe their reporting one bit.
This same guy, Nick Shirley, traveled to Ukraine and made a video about how there really wasn't a war and the Ukranians were just spending our money on luxury cars. A reporter, Caolan Robertson, who has spent years covering the war got an interview with him and called him out on his bullshit. If he lied about Ukraine, I am very disinclined to trust him about Somalians.
I'm not sure how this relates to what I said. The links you gave were to fraud found in Brooklyn. Did Nick Shirley uncover these cases?
I do believe that there's some fraud. I even believe there's a substantial dollar value of fraud going on. I do not believe that they uncovered 9 billion dollars in fraud visiting 5 Somali run daycare facilities and being denied entry into them with a camera crew and armed security.
Well, it seemed to work well enough on you. Maybe try and think harder about your information sources. They seem to be lying to you, and you don't seem to be able to tell.
I'm way more concerned about my tax money going to Donald Trump and his family and cronies. Followed by it going to billionaires and corporations. You know things that are actually happening today. I'm not very concerned at all by fluffed up recycled true crime by d tier content creators that the administration has turned into propaganda and people like you are pushing at every opportunity.
Seriously. What percentage of my taxes are going to a "Somalians bank account" as opposed to the greedy, blatantly corrupt pigs in power? I’m guessing there’s an order of magnitude difference, if not several. They are draining the coffers and laughing in our faces about it.
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