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Comment · 3 years ago
- Li Ka Shing, richest man in Hong Kong, just offered an immediate 30% off on his newest buildings for sale

-> This also result in immediate sold-out with 22X over-subscription.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
> Unfortunately for the believers, new research mostly runs counter to this, showing that offices, for all their flaws, remain essential. A good starting point is a working paper that received much attention when it was published in 2020 by Natalia Emanuel and Emma Harrington, then both doctoral students at Harvard University. They found an 8% increase in the number of calls handled per hour by employees of an online retailer that had shifted from offices to homes. Far less noticed was a revised version of their paper, published in May by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The boost to efficiency had instead become a 4% decline. The researchers had not made a mistake. Rather, they received more precise data, including detailed work schedules. Not only did employees answer fewer calls when remote, the quality of their interactions suffered. They put customers on hold for longer. More also phoned back, an indication of unresolved problems.
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Comment · 3 years ago
Problem is not all managed postgre services support pgvector
Comment · 3 years ago
I think relatively it is more important/useful for kids to retain the natural ability to sing high note
Comment · 5 years ago
It's not like that at least when it comes to running. The more I run, the more will power I have for all the other stuffs.
Comment · 5 years ago
SWE for a top tier investment bank. Pays good. Attend meeting all days, no harsh deadline, work from home, boss doesn't do micro management, got plenty of free time so I end up running 10km everyday during lunch hour.
Comment · 5 years ago
I had brain fog since college and I am now 31, I started running 1 year ago, and I am now running 50+ km per week. Haven't had even one brain fog ever since, feel like iron man everyday.
Comment · 5 years ago
Serial killers feel offended.
Comment · 6 years ago
Oh yeah, so basically had he pushed further, he would have realized to avoid corruption, he would need to implement "write ahead log (WAL)". An for the implementation of WAL and other performance concern, he would have realized that storing the JSON as string is not the way to go, he'd need to implement other binary data structure. Then he'd have realized that he had just invented another NoSQL DB.

Had he pushed further.....

Had he pushed further, he'd have raised funding for the newly invented NoSQL DB, and built a startup company on top of it.

Comment · 6 years ago
This is the cutest thing I have heard recently.
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Comment · 6 years ago
Interesting, if you ask a computer scientist what is the max number that can be counted with two hands, he will say 2^10 = 1024. 9,999 is far from 10-bit.

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