1. matteuan Oct 1, 2025 parent

   (I'm italian) Some international pasta brands (e.g. Barilla) have different cooking times depending on the country/market. I moved from Italy to Germany and noticed the +1 minute in many types of pasta, so I always compensate. I find the cooking time precise and useful, I don't get why people want to reinvent the wheel. When I worked in a restaurant, we would pre-cook the pasta in the morning, store it and then cook the last few minutes when the order came in (this is actually very common also in good restaurants). Barilla/DeCecco sell restaurant targeted packages and they also report the cooking time split with the precooking. Results are basically the same
2. matteuan Feb 5, 2025 parent

   Behind this there is the wrong assumption that there must be a replacement for all. For sure there will be gaps filled by other powers, but it's not necessary, we just got used to it.
3. matteuan Apr 10, 2022 parent

   like central park? It's grass and asphalt without a tree, in hot days in summer becomes a furnace. Better put some buildings AND a nice park
4. matteuan Apr 21, 2021 parent

   What do you mean for "behave", there are a lot of usecases that require more than 8GB memory (expecially for developers) and there is no CPU magic that will help you with that.
5. matteuan Mar 22, 2021 parent

   Interesting, but still I don't think your comment is very relevant to this. Without cows we could have a forest instead of grass, instead of leaving it to rot. So if the number of cows remains constant you benefit from reducing methane emissions.
6. matteuan Mar 16, 2021 parent

   If you don't need the sea, I suggest some cheap german city like Leipzig or Dresden. Another not so common idea is Bulgaria: cheap, very low taxes (flat 10%) and a lot of english speakers (expecially in Sofia). I've been there several times and it's also a very nice place.
7. matteuan Dec 8, 2020 parent

   The living example of the aphorism "Si vis pacem, para bellum" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_vis_pacem,_para_bellum
8. matteuan Oct 21, 2020 parent

   If there was something better than Spark for distributed processing, we would be using it. The rest of your comment is a straw man argument, assuming everybody uses it for datasets fitting in memory of a single node.
9. matteuan Jul 30, 2020 parent

   For research, I created experimental RDF storage on top of Parquet and Apache Spark for querying big graphs[1]. It converts the RDF graph in a sort of property graph, where we have a row for each entity and where the columns are the all possible properties. The trick is to use a columnar format with the proper encoding (in our case Parquet), to solve the problem of having a lot of columns and a huge NULLs space. With this representation we can eliminate costly joins for most of the common queries, but also reduce the size of the necessary ones.

   [1] PRoST https://github.com/tf-dbis-uni-freiburg/PRoST

10. 3 points Jul 23, 2020

    Erfurt Latrine Disaster (1184)

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11. matteuan Jun 17, 2020 parent

    Does anybody have a price comparison between this and storing stuff in S3 bucket and loading it all the times?
12. matteuan Jun 17, 2020 parent

    We use Lambda with S3 as intermediate storage between different steps, sort of multiple-stages map-only MapReduce. And we still use Hadoop on premise :)
13. matteuan Jun 17, 2020 parent

    Preprocessing and forwarding data to on-premise
14. matteuan Jun 10, 2020 parent

    Wikipedia spends more than that only for "Donation processing expenses". Of course it is a nice contribution but, in my opinion, very small if compared to the huge value that Google is able to get for free. https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/2018-annual-report/fin...
15. matteuan May 19, 2020 parent

    Their handling of refunds and cancellations...
16. matteuan May 19, 2020 parent

    My guess is that some higher-up employee clicked on a bonus.pdf.exe and that's it
17. matteuan Apr 24, 2020 parent

    Tipo 00 is not special but very common flour n. 405 (german system). Many tutorials refer to this flour like there is something special inside that will make the pizza better...but there isn't.
18. matteuan Apr 23, 2020 parent

    AmazonBasics is just one of Amazon's brands. Take a look here: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-owns-these-brands-lis...
19. matteuan Mar 12, 2020 parent

    >In the Netherlands, seasonal influenza has ~1% mortality rate -- in the U.S. it's more like 0.1% Completely false, it seems 0.1% also in the Netherlands. "In the Netherlands, our closest comparisons are the Mexican flu of 2009/2010, with a mortality rate of just 0.02%, and the regular flu epidemics, with an average mortality rate of 0.1%" from: https://healthcare-in-europe.com/en/news/on-the-implications...
20. matteuan Mar 4, 2020 parent

    Under 10 seconds on which query? If your query involves big joins over a large distributed data-set there won't be a technology that can do it for you. SPARQL is not the problem, you can write the same queries in Cypher or any other language, you will hit the same performance problems
21. matteuan Feb 26, 2020 parent

    The only way to test is if you talk with an expert and he says you have understood. There are many things in linear algebra that you can use in practice even when you didn't really understand them. This is the reason why self-studying certain topics is very hard, you still need (good) teachers to give you constant feedback.
22. matteuan Feb 21, 2020 parent

    Schäuble was only 1/17 of the Eurogroup.
23. 2 points Feb 17, 2020

    Olm: Salamander that can survive up to 10 years without food

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24. matteuan Feb 14, 2020 parent

    It's impressive the amount of content inside! There are countless pages about literature, religion and physics. It's a good reminder of the original goal of WWW: share information.
25. matteuan Feb 10, 2020 parent

    Screnshotted this some weeks ago: http://geekpic.net/pm-WMNY1S.html It appears something like 10% of the times when I search for Chrome or Firefox. I find it shameful
26. matteuan Feb 5, 2020 parent

    "abused the system"? Fertility rate in Germany is 1.50 at the moment. Every new child will be a precious asset to sustain the future pension system.
27. matteuan Jan 27, 2020 parent

    You judge "with respect" my experience instead of answering to the argument. So why is it easier with Docker?
28. matteuan Jan 27, 2020 parent

    You are assuming that developers have enough knowledge of Docker to deploy in production confidently. Why is it different for other ops skills? What "degree of reliability" does Docker adds over bash, for example?
29. matteuan Jan 27, 2020 parent

    The author addressed exactly this type of comment. I don't see the real difference in complexity of maintaining 12+ bash scripts instead of the same number of Docker files. And for the deployment, the alternative given by the author is using fat binary.
30. matteuan Jan 21, 2020 parent

    Related to this post, I just listened to an interesting podcast about habits[0]. It debunks some of the common myths about willpower and self-control. According to the host, the "secret" is building healthy habits over time. The problem is that we need gratification (while forming the habit) and we shouldn't have many obstacles to perform the activity we want to make a habit. Basically, we're all (maybe not you Elon) wired lazy and the only solution is to force ourselves to have only one easy choice.

    https://www.npr.org/2019/12/11/787160734/creatures-of-habit-...

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