PeterCorless

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by PeterCorless 11mo ago
Yes, for Redpanda. There's a blog about that: "The use of fsync is essential for ensuring data consistency and durability in a replicated system. The post highlights the common misconception that replication alone can eliminate th
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by PeterCorless 11mo ago
2) above is basically "Give a kid a hammer, and everything becomes a nail." The third camp: 3) People who look at a task, then apply a tool appropriate for the task.
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by PeterCorless 11mo ago
But in this case, it is like saying "You don't need a fuel truck. You can transport 9,000 gallons of gasoline between cities by gathering 9,000 1-gallon milk jugs and filling each, then getting 4,500 volunteers to each carry 2 gal
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by PeterCorless 11mo ago
Exactly. Just yesterday someone posted how they can do 250k messages/second with Redpanda (Kafka-compatible implementation) on their laptop . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CdM1WcuoLc Getting even less than that thr
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The Agentic Data Plane (Redpanda Data)(redpanda.com)
6 points by PeterCorless 11mo ago|3 comments
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Data freshness (end-to-end latency) in ClickHouse and Apache Pinot(startree.ai)
6 points by PeterCorless 1y ago|0 comments
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by PeterCorless 1y ago
Release notes here: https://docs.timeplus.com/enterprise-v3.0
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by PeterCorless 1y ago
Congrats on the major release! And good to see Redpanda mentioned as a first-class citizen with a native connector!
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by PeterCorless 1y ago
Downdetector had 5,755 reports of AWS problems at 12:52 AM Pacific (3:53 AM Eastern). That number had dropped to 1,190 by 4:22 AM Pacific (7:22 AM Eastern). However, that number is back up with a vengeance. 9,230 reports as of 9:32 AM Pacif
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by PeterCorless 1y ago
Yeah, it was my boof. I am presuming that when M5 Pro and M5 Max ship in February there will some sort of similar upshift. https://www.macworld.com/article/2942089/macbook-pro-m5-pro-...
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by PeterCorless 1y ago
You're absolutely right and my bad. (I feel like Claude saying that.) Apparently the M4 Pro and M5 Max are coming in February. https://www.macworld.com/article/2942089/macbook-pro-m5-pro-...
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by PeterCorless 1y ago
You've done yeoman's work, lad.
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by PeterCorless 1y ago
Someone I know saw the 14" starts from $1,599 and the 16" starts at $2,499, and quipped "The most expensive 2 inches ever." However, it is not just because of the larger display. M5 14" starts at: 10-Core CPU 10-Cor
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Encrypting vector embeddings prior to data ingestion (Redpanda, Cyborg)(redpanda.com)
1 points by PeterCorless 1y ago|0 comments
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by PeterCorless 1y ago
I remember doing plotter artwork at Professor Harry Holland's Art & the Computer Lab back in the 1980s. We could draw in 8 colors! They were also huge for architectural drawings.
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by PeterCorless 1y ago
Endless AI nightmare fuel. https://hai.stanford.edu/news/exploring-the-dangers-of-ai-in...
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by PeterCorless 1y ago
Correct. It is more provider-oriented proscription ("You can't say your chatbot is a therapist.") It is not a limitation on usage. You can still, for now, slavishly fall in love with your AI and treat it as your best friend a
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by PeterCorless 1y ago
Here is the text of Illinois HB1806: https://www.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus/FullText?GAID=18...
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by PeterCorless 1y ago
Can you "chunkify" output so that you can rate different elements independently? Like "This part of the answer is totally cool" and "Wait. This part right here includes a hallucination." Then allow for feedback
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by PeterCorless 1y ago
Another idea: allow more "chunkified" approvals, and verbatim feedback: "This part is correct, but this next paragraph? You're hallucinating / misinterpreting. What you really need to say is 'x'." Als
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by PeterCorless 1y ago
Great work Silas! Can this also be trained on externalized sites, such as human-written docs, our web site, public-facing Google docs, etc?
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by PeterCorless 1y ago
I also asked Devin a question: Can I use a star-tree index with upserts? I was pleasantly surprised by the answer: https://deepwiki.com/search/can-i-use-a-startree-index-wit_a... Briefly: "No, you cannot use a sta
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by PeterCorless 1y ago
I have tried this so far for the following repos of interest: • Apache Pinot - https://deepwiki.com/apache/pinot • Apache Pulsar - https://deepwiki.com/apache/pulsar • Apache Superset - https:&#x
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by PeterCorless 1y ago
Hanlon's razor: "never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by neglect, ignorance or incompetence." https://modelthinkers.com/mental-model/hanlons-razor
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by PeterCorless 1y ago
My favorite part is how incompetent they were in handling the redaction: "But when the Kentucky AG’s office was preparing to post their brief against TikTok, whoever was in charge of doing the redaction simply covered the relevant text
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
It's very cool, so long as you don't care it's eye-wateringly wrong.
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
The picture was clearly based on El Castillo [Temple of Kukulcán, in Chichén Itzá], which is on the Yucatan Peninsula. Note the chamber on top. It looks nothing like the Aztec Pyramid of Teotihuacan, which is flat on top and has no structur
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Systems Optimizations [Apache Pinot](ashishjayamohan.github.io)
2 points by PeterCorless 2y ago|1 comments
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by PeterCorless 2y ago
I do know of a shop where an OSS database written in Java was chosen over one written in C++ because of the ability of the internal team to read the code, modify it, troubleshoot it, etc. That makes sense. It that was driven by pragmatics —
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Secure and Low-Latency Queries at Scale with Raft Data Platform – [R]DP(teamraft.com)
4 points by PeterCorless 2y ago|2 comments

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