They also do bunch of stuff that ClickHouse can't do, like correlated subqueries [1] or recursive CTEs.
I kinda wish for a database with ClickHouse storage and DuckDB optimizer. At least my experience with ClickHouse is that MergeTree is incredibly good at what it does, but the optimizer hurts.
Last time this showed up on HN, I complained about it not having CASE WHEN equivalent, which I've seen heavily used in ETL usecases. Now I see they added it!
Pretty cool and responsive. I'll go take it up for a spin.
Fun fact, in Matrix (if that's what you're referring to) people were originally enslaved by the machines to provide compute capacity of their brains. The battery part came later, when someone (studio executives?) jumped in, and said that's too smart and people wouldn't get it so it was changed to batteries.
Oh sure, I understood the effort to make it easier to "plop down" bunch large plants at once, not hundreds of small ones - though those are kind of interesting in isolated locations.
The other thing is old Soviet idea of using small nuclear reactors for heating - put small reactor to every town and run central heating to the housing estates, meaning you get to use close to 100 % of the heat output of the reactor, instead of the ~ 30 % the turbines give you in electricity.
Of course, if things go wrong, you have very efficient radioactivity delivery mechanism to every home. And outside of very cold climates it might be actually less efficient than a modern heat pump, even accounting for the heat conversion.
One common complaint is that every plant is a special snowflake that is validated, qualified and certified from scratch. Building more at once as a single project using a single plan could bring a lot of efficiency in the process.
I think that was the promise of Small Modular Reactors - you certify reactor by itself, making the plant certification much easier and faster. I'm not sure that materialised, though.
Someone drawing or 3d modelling fictional underage character?
In many jurisdictions thats the same thing as genuine child abuse base child porn. In my jurisdiction, Harry Potter fanfiction with sex counts as child porn - and as one with extended penalty because it is "delivered through very efficient means like computer network".
Not all things are all the same, even with the same label.
I have to admit, the whole exchange is pretty funny:
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I kinda wish for a database with ClickHouse storage and DuckDB optimizer. At least my experience with ClickHouse is that MergeTree is incredibly good at what it does, but the optimizer hurts.
[1]: https://duckdb.org/2023/05/26/correlated-subqueries-in-sql.h...