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Were you not around for the Big Data heyday a decade ago?

Hell you mean a decade ago? I still see businesses running losses left right and center saying that they're gonna monetize user data, any day now.

Related "monetizing user data" seems to just mean ads. Ads on everything, forever, until the userbase gets fed up and moves to a new service that definitely won't do that, and the cycle repeats about every 3 years.


Until thumb drives became large enough to fit most datasets it stopped becoming Big Data. Just normal data.

We have thumb drives that can store petabytes of data?

Or did you mean the "big data" crowd which thought 500GB was noteworthy? I don't think anyone took those serious, neither in 2010s nor now. That was always "small" data


Most companies using term "big data" had datasets in TB region. One company I had a gig at had full Hadoop cluster setup and their whole dataset was 40GB. Their marketing had all the big data adjacent keywords over the brochures for clients.

That's a decent quality 3 hours movie :D

My rule of thumb was "can it fit in RAM on a server?" If it can, then it's not big data.

500GB is in the "fits" category.


You can quadruple that and could still fit in server RAM

Correct, and until then it won't be "big data"

> We have thumb drives that can store petabytes of data

We do?


It was a question that you've edited out the punctuation. You're asking the exact same thing as the person you've replied

Please provide a link.

You would need 4 and change of these 245tb Kioxias to hold 1 petabyte, and an entire server grade computer to run them.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/kioxia-unvei...

Or 250 of these ~$400 4tb flash drives and an insane number of dongles to connect them all:

https://www.slashgear.com/1847725/largest-usb-thumb-drive-hi...


Plus one more for your parity drive.

To some degree IMO big data is still a mindset when it might take a day to process your data in a normal SQL query. Some tech doesn't scale to the data size for all use cases, and you need different solutions.

Can you give a summary of his videos?


tl;dr: teach people how to regenerate soil health, even in the Sahara (or other inhospitable places); teach people how to grow food while regenerating soil to help fight food insecurity which helps prevent violence


Just casually dropping a link to a 54-minute video? Back in my day the internet was a series of links to webpages that were short reads!


Do Stories show up differently than posts? Asking as someone that has not used Instagram beyond looking at a few specific profiles.


Stories are the purpley-yellow rings at the top of the main page with people's profile pictures. Or if you go to their profile you'll see the ring around their profile picture. Stuff you post there stays viewable for 24 hours.

Posts are the stuff that appears in the main feed and your profile permanently (unless you remove it manually)

You can also get into the difference between posts are reels but... they've kinda fuzzied that over the years.


Why do you choose to live this way? Such a long commute sounds life-sucking. Consider moving to a smaller city.


where you can get a job dictates what city you live near, how much you are paid determines how close you can live to that city, and how much distance you want to keep from your neighbors sets the density you can stand.

Moving to a smaller city changes your job, which changes how much you are paid, which changes how close you can live to the city, and your neighbors may still suck. It's likely that you'll end up in the same soul-sucking commute life that you just left.


If I didn't value my career at all, that would certainly be an option.


That's what a lot of people did when "WFH"


Cincinnati Chili


The fraternity's mission is to protect the food, but in the case of Cincinnati Chili, I'd prefer to be protected from it.


Your employer (large employers usually dictate what is covered by their insurance benefit offerings) may not care much about whether you end up with obesity-related diseases in your 60s and above.


What are some reasons someone would be interesting in buying this? It doesn't seem very useful.


One value is in searching for additional vulnerabilities.


Yeah, Target flopped in Canada because of bad code


Aggressive expansion, misunderstanding the market, higher prices, limited selection, data breach. Funny, they don't mention software (although they were using SAP ECC)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/target-admits-it-missed-the...


If no plain text version exists, maybe search for your plates plus a bunch of other random plates too. If you're interested in LMT-487 for example, maybe search for that plus and minus 100 on either end? Or go to the grocery store and search for all the plates you see there? :)


Can anyone summarize the 31 minute video?


Palantir is a company chockful of dishonest and unethical people who should have no power whatsoever in our society because they've shown that they're happy to crush people for profit.


That would be a powerful message were it not for the current POTUS.


Mr. Smith (GN) goes to Washington (Palantir).


TLDR: the watchers don’t like being watched


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