Because there is no intellectual property in the toilet?

It gets worse. I've seen some managers hold back strong developers because they want everyone to be a replaceable cog. They push for average work across the team so no one becomes irreplaceable--even if it means the product ends up weaker than it could be.

There are two broad types of databases: operational and analytical.

Operational databases store transactions and support day-to-day application workflows.

For analysis, data is often copied into separate analytical databases (data warehouses), which are structured for efficient querying and large-scale data processing. These systems are designed to handle complex, random queries and heavy workloads.

LLM agents are the best way to analyze data stored in these databases. This is the future.

> LLM agents are the best way to analyze data stored in these databases

Why, and how?

> Why

Based on my experience with Claude, it's pretty damn good at doing data analysis, if given the right curated data models. You still need to eyeball the generated SQL to make sure it makes sense.

> and how?

1. Replicate your Postgres into Snowflake/Databricks/ClickHouse/etc, or directly to Iceberg and hook it up to Snowflake/Databricks/ClickHouse/etc.

2. Give your agent read access to query it.

3. Build dimensional models (facts and dimensions tables) from the raw data. You can ask LLM for help here, Claude is pretty good at designing data models in my experience.

4. Start asking your agent questions about your data.

Keep steps 3-4 as a tight feedback loop. Every time your agent hallucinates or struggle to answer your questions, improve the model.

Side note: I'm currently building a platform that does all 3 (though you still need to do 2 yourself), you just need Postgres + 1 command to set it up: https://polynya.dev/

> Claude is pretty good at designing data models in my experience

Yesterday, Claude decided to go with nvarchar(100) for an IP address column instead of varbinary(16), and thinks RBAR triggers are just-as-good as temporal tables.

So, no. Claude is not good at designing data models in my experience.

If you quit at age 55 or later and you have been with Microsoft for 15 years your stock continues to vest. That has always been the case.

This "buyout" appears to extend that benefit to employees who are >= 50 and have been with the company for 20 years. (Or any other combination that adds up to 70, for example you are 46 and have been with the company for 24 years).

Neither... it is illegal when used against citizens

What law are you thinking of? Some tools used in riot enforcements would be illegal to use in wars, so it actually seems to be the other way around to me.

> What law are you thinking of?

Posse Comitatus [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

That sounds like some woke shit that doesn’t stand up to the rights of the President, unless that President is a Democrat.

“Woke shit” signed into law in 1878. Maybe woke was what the world was like most of the time.

I was being sarcastic clanker and/or throwaway account.

It’s obviously the law but this admin doesn’t respect the law, as they believe we’re in a post Constitutional era. It’s looks like they are manifesting their beliefs since so many people support them, both sides them, or decide it’s not that big a deal when the executive branch of the American government starts executing American citizens and trying to EO away the 14th amendment on farcical grounds.

The word "prosecution" implies criminal case brought by the government. This was a civil case brought by the victims.

If you mean higher bar for litigation, then maybe this lawsuit and its outcome shows that the bar isn't as high as you think when it comes to defamation?

Yes I did mean litigation (didn't know that that term was a distinction learned something today).

To my understanding the case outcome is pretty much what I would expect, even considering the first amendment raising the bar. It's also interesting that there's been so many legal shenanigans in the case that it's hard to even keep track of them all.

The principal legal shenanigan came from Jones and his team - stubbornly refusing to engage with either court via a kind of sovereign citizen "I know my first amendment rights, F- you" vibe.

That sealed the case outcome as, IIRC, at least one of the judges just ruled against them for not mounting any defence.

But is Medicare as good as the insurance you had before?

I can't speak for aworks, but most of the people I've spoken to on it, like my mother, say it's better than the private insurance they had before.

For general medical coverage, it was better for my Mom and now it seems better for me. Some things are not covered with traditional Medicare e.g. dental and vision.

Dental and vision aren't covered by private medical insurance either, and private dental insurance typically has max annual payouts low enough (like $1k/1.5k) to make it basically a scam unless you know you'll actually get use out of it.

I had a separate dental insurance policy but as you suggest, it didn't make much sense and I dropped it.

So yes, dental/vision was a wash versus private medical insurance. There are some other therapies I no longer have any coverage for under Medicare.

I’m going to need to buy on the individual market. Talking to a broker he said Medicare is a great deal, and you should take it if you can.

A lot depends one what you do for Part C (if you do).

Why would Craig have been great? macOS usability and quality has suffered greatly under Craig.

To what extent do you think Apple software has done well under Craig's leadership?

Tim Cook stepped down when he hit 65. Sundar has 12 years to go to hit that milestone.