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by abraxas 1y ago
To the contrary when the PK has to be a BTree it already ties my hands because I can't have good disk layout for say, time series data where I might use a ligher index like BRIN at a cost of somewhat slower queries but much better inde
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by abraxas 1y ago
Yes, the nosql fad that swept the industry was nearly as insufferable as the SPA craze that followed alongside. Now everyone's back to tried and true. Most data once more sits in RDBMS and most html gets render on the server. Us grizzl
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by abraxas 1y ago
> and they were paying 6 figures for database services annually? Might have been monthly. 100,000,000 rows is what I handled on a single Sun server in 2001 with Sybase, no problemo.
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by abraxas 1y ago
> when you spend days building a feature only to find its not wanted. lol, this makes me very old school but I suffered jobs where that was the outcome of months if not years of my work!
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by abraxas 1y ago
This is an app I'd love to have if done right. There is a lot of hidden complexity within it around automatic topic categorization and clustering but if I had something that was able to turn my streams of consciousness into a sensible
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by abraxas 1y ago
I like your project. If I may suggest a feature, DPI option in the side panel would be valuable to me. I won't consider any products that have a screen with less than 220 DPI (e.g. laptops, tablets, monitors etc).
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by abraxas 1y ago
I'd say the OLD Bank of Nova Scotia page is a good example. There are a lot of details and almost everything is a hyperlink but it's quite easy to navigate once you've used it a few times. The new UI they are trying to publis
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by abraxas 1y ago
This mirrors my personal experience. My writing skills have been above average and my parents' presumption was that I would pursue some humanistic studies. I ended up studying software engineering and made a career out of it of almost
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by abraxas 1y ago
Ah but we have those too :) The 'rz' phoneme has the same sound as the letter 'ż' which is a different sound from the letter 'ź' (the latter being a softer sound - one that foreigners usually find easier to rep
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by abraxas 1y ago
It's 20+ years of Microsoft fucking with it and bringing Eternal September to our inboxes. In years prior the email/usenet etiquette was simple: The '>' sign as the first character indicated a quote block in a reply w
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by abraxas 1y ago
Agreed on the animations but that isn't my top of the list because as you observed, those can usually be disabled. The most annoying aspect of modern interfaces is total inconsistency in looks and behaviour across different application
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by abraxas 2y ago
Very clear signs of Pareto distribution. Each ranked member near the top produces almost as much output as the rest of the tail combined.
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by abraxas 2y ago
This is not the onion? Just wow. What else can be said at this point?
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by abraxas 2y ago
Good idea. Those who will abandon the platform will yield their usernames to squatters making this thing implode even faster. Can't happen soon enough. Or is this another lame attempt to keep users hostage on the platform?
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by abraxas 2y ago
At this point he gives no fucks about what anyone thinks because the plan is to consolidate the oligarchic power to its maximum, russia style. Winning the hearts and minds is not and never was a part of his plan. And the sad thing is that t
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by abraxas 2y ago
Let's hope solving aging is beyond the grasp of even the smartest AI. No surer way to end up in a world full of calcified ideas than having lot of calcified humans clinging to power and enforcing their ways on younger generations. Not
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by abraxas 2y ago
I had those feelings about the crypto mania. The AI craze has at least some justification coming from genuine usefulness.
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by abraxas 2y ago
Mostly latency. But even if a single robot could be driven by a data centre consider the energy and hardware investment requirements to make such a creature practical.
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by abraxas 2y ago
I think LLM or no LLM the emergence of intelligence appears to be closely related to the number of synapses in a network whether a biological or a digital one. If my hypothesis is roughly true it means we are several orders of magnitude awa
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by abraxas 2y ago
TSLA is now a pure US oligarchy bet. If the US turns into russia style kleptocracy, sales figures today are largely unimportant.
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by abraxas 2y ago
Not the OP but I share the sentiment. Doesn't everyone have a default text editor with a Ctrl-N shortcut or equivalent to create an empty text file? That's what I do every time I need to create a quick note. Maybe I don't spe
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by abraxas 2y ago
The fake 3d is actually very useful in communicating what is a button or another interactive piece of the interface and what's not. The modern clean uis where everything is a thin rectangle or just text that you are supposed to click a
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by abraxas 2y ago
would it be better for energy efficiency and overall performance to use workstation cards like A5000 or A4000? Those can be found on eBay.
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by abraxas 2y ago
Would a 40GB A6000 fully accommodate a 32B model? I assume an fp16 quantization is still necessary?
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by abraxas 2y ago
How many vectors is that? If under 100K then keep it all in memory. Hell probably in the low millions would be OK. You can literally write them to a flat file and load into memory and do a full scan for every lookup and it will be fast enou
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by abraxas 2y ago
postgres pgvector is a decent implementation by now which is likely available in most setups that postgres will run on. You can also use faiss if you want it all in memory at all times and have the RAM to support it. What's your use ca
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by abraxas 2y ago
Sadly for the current regime, reality has a liberal bias. I guess US based AI models will become Q-Anon nonsense spewing hatebots.
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by abraxas 2y ago
Nothing is working for me. Pressing play video gets stuck on step 1. I disabled the ad blocker in case it was interfering but looks like it's something else. Firefox 135.0.1 on Arch Linux
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by abraxas 2y ago
I on the other hand, found no such correlation. The primary bully did not do it to get approval of the crowds but because he was a psychopath.
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by abraxas 2y ago
My issue with dosing shrooms (micro or otherwise) is that I find myself building up tolerance extremely fast. Literally within a couple of days my tolerance of psilocybin shoots up so much that even doubled doses seem to have little effect.

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