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by asah 10mo ago
serious q: maybe not 60 sec, but why 45 days instead of ~1 day or even hours? at 45 days, it pretty much has to be automated.
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by asah 10mo ago
PostgreSQL extension providing big speedups on COUNT/SUM/DISTINCT and GROUP BY for the most common data types. I'm looking for people who have pain around slow analytics, avoiding migration from PostgreSQL, delaying pg upgrad
93.
by asah 10mo ago
I want an AI optimization helper that recognizes patterns that could-almost be optimized if I gave it a little help, e.g. hints about usage, type, etc.
94.
by asah 11mo ago
That was true six months ago - the latest versions are much better at memory and adherence, and my senior engineer friends are adopting LLMs quickly for all sorts of advanced development.
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by asah 11mo ago
well... it's a certain KIND of reality... one where numbers fight with "common sense"... examples... a large paying customer can kill a business... tiny or free users can be great for free marketing and product testing... a w
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by asah 11mo ago
LOL "The entity is named “Beignet,” presumably because “Off-Balance-Sheet Leverage Vehicle No. 5” tested poorly with focus groups."
97.
by asah 11mo ago
??? seems straightforward... among other things, require the applicant to do the work / provide evidence...
98.
by asah 11mo ago
True serializability doesn't model the real world. IRL humans observe something then make decisions and take action, without holding "locks" on the thing they observed. Everything from the stock market to the sitcom industry
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by asah 11mo ago
Interesting analogy! One big difference: - ~10% of Americans work in healthcare (i.e. big source of income) - ~66% of Americans own their homes (i.e. big asset want to protect) - there's societal stability reasons to encourage home own
100.
by asah 11mo ago
-1: there's lots of "kingdoms" (openai, anthropic, google, plus open source) - if one king comes for your castle, you can move in minutes.
101.
by asah 11mo ago
I hate these kinds of bills too, but it's a logical fallacy to address only the single biggest problem (assuming you agree on what it is).
102.
by asah 11mo ago
But then we'd complain about Google being a slow moving dinosaur. "Move fast and break things" cuts both ways ! (ex-Google tech lead, who took down the Google.com homepage... twice!)
103.
by asah 11mo ago
Competing species (non-calcifying) then take over...
104.
by asah 11mo ago
New (open source) PostgreSQL index type for analytics workloads, which is a read-only drop-in replacement for B-trees. Smol is multiplicatively faster than B-Trees and radically smaller. https://github.com/asah/smol He
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by asah 11mo ago
lol, the majority of the world isn't remotely Christian...
106.
by asah 11mo ago
WeWork was taking on long term liability commitments and paying for them with short term revenue commitments. One bad thing and poof. Everybody in the commercial real estate market saw this coming. OpenAI maybe in the same situation, commit
107.
by asah 1y ago
"500 KB/s workload should not use Kafka" - yyyy!!! indeed, I'm running 5MBps logging system through a single node RDS instance costing <$1000/mon (plus 2x for failover). There's easily 4-10x headroom for gr
108.
by asah 1y ago
FTFY: "for now"
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by asah 1y ago
+1000 every time I swing by PH I'm impressed. Unlike other NYC museums, there's never a line and you can be in/out in 30-45mins. Also, located on 23rd st right near 3 subway stations serving a slew of lines. It's a regul
110.
by asah 1y ago
Does this include your SPoF Internet connection?
111.
by asah 1y ago
This is backward looking. Future advances don't have to work like this Example: 20ish years ago, stage IV cancer was a quick death sentence. Now many people live with various stage IV cancers for many years and some even "die of s
112.
by asah 1y ago
Depends on the definition, I might take that bet because under some definitions were already here. Example: better than average human across many thinking tasks is done.
113.
by asah 1y ago
try codex and claude code - game changing ability to use CLI tools, edit/reorg multiple files, even interact with git.
114.
by asah 1y ago
note: Waymo typically spends 8-12+ months with safety drivers, before they launch true driverless.
115.
by asah 1y ago
There's a lot more to this y'all aren't seeing. Difficult family situation you shouldn't judge.
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by asah 1y ago
new PostgreSQL index type which outperforms B-Trees for many common cases. As a wild experiment, I'm entirely vibe coding this and not hand-writing it. It works by specializing for the common case of read-only workloads and short, fixe
117.
by asah 1y ago
naive q: could games detect when the user is "looking around" at breathtaking scenery and raytrace those? offer a button to "take picture" and let the user specify how long to raytrace? then for heavy action and motion,
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by asah 1y ago
"DDL is a nightmare" Can I ask more about this? I assume you created a procedure around making DDL changes to the global cluster... what was that procedure like? what tools did you use (create) to automate/script this? what
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by asah 1y ago
Agreed!!!! Serious q: but how does this sentiment change with LLMs? They can pickup new syntax pretty fast, then use fewer tokens...
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by asah 1y ago
In general food production enjoys heavy government support... ... but then again, many industries do too. Libertarian tech bros think they are "self made" even in fact the government supported them with absolutely massive support,

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