Akiva Lichtner

Life on the bumpy plateau.

[Akiva Lichtner @LichtnerAkiva]

Somebody who says he is mentally ill has missed an opportunity to see what’s really going on with him https://t.co/wsaEIgNKVI

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Peter Schiff once said that Madoff can say the economy is a pyramid scheme because he knows about those ... https://t.co/CddYZMJyb2

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Model X towing a semi uphill is fun to watch, but I think it only works because it’s on ice. Still, another vehicle would have gone nowhere https://t.co/ra5Wfe6wBa

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@TanelPoder He took words out of my mouth: “Now that’s really putting the C in CISC!”

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@JLOracle Depending on the pot it might withstand a self cleaning oven ...

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@JLOracle Blowtorch, perhaps?

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Well said. I also think that the target in a step exponential is useless, so Q1 may well end up above 5,000 despite the lower target https://t.co/BQ30EUDOfN

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I could kind of see Musk buying BMW if it drops a lot, but as long as money is free buybacks should keep it afloat https://t.co/ivwMcTzmQC

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Now starts the long list of model 3 wows which Musk likely takes for granted, and which inevitably support the stock ... https://t.co/RiegW3HdpQ

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Tesla has single-handedly created a revolution in transportation, and the substance of the revolution is the desire to find a much better solution to every problem and to attack obstacles head-on, something this type of article misses entirely https://t.co/LWQOHEPkCS

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@connor_mc_d Looks like sys.sqlobj$ has plan hash and (spm) plan name next to each other, but the plan hash is called plan_id

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@SQLMaria @vldbb Thank you. There appears to be a coarse grained mutex protecting spm histories, so when adaptive is on with complex queries you inevitably create a huge bottleneck (cursor pin ...) I got around by fixing the baselines so plan histories don’t grow.

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I think the real point of the Tesla Q4 Deliveries report is that @elonmusk knows how to efficiently scale the building process but not the quality control, and it makes sense, if a robot is moving faster than you can see and anything goes wrong ...

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Musk thinks like (and is) a developer. He has his own goals and his view of the state of a project is determined by that. Like when a developer says “it’s basically done.” He’s happy now because now he believes they will actually reach 5,000/wk some day https://t.co/SJbRfEtCZp

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I think this may look better when they actually issue the quarterly results, the earnings call https://t.co/SJbRfEtCZp

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@elonmusk I think it would be ok to miss an estimate that is six months away if you publicized step changes, then people would believe the S curve. And you could delay them by two weeks, just like stock quotes are delayed by 20 minutes.

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@SQLMaria feature request: SELECT ... FROM ... ONCE, to read rows only once, would fail on attempts to re-read rows but not on snapshot too old, a lot of data migrations would benefit

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In 2018 GM vs Tesla will be like choosing between Windows NT and Linux https://t.co/6eWOhoxRfL

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Kicking and screaming they built the car for the liberals they despise https://t.co/6eWOhoxRfL

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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win https://t.co/6eWOhoxRfL