benjiro

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by benjiro 1y ago
You forgot the read the original text above my response. > I looked Neon recently, and it appears that it's designed as a SaaS product from the outset; while it is technically possible to self-host the individual components of the a
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by benjiro 1y ago
Your probably better off with the original flavor (the guy that made Vitesse) https://multigres.com/ He is making a open source version of porting Vitesse to Postgres.
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by benjiro 1y ago
And you get the luxury of paying 50% more, for that privilege (vs a ICE engine). I said it before, give me that BYD (reverse) hybrid engine, that does 1080km on a single tank. Unfortunately, battery tech despite all the lab "super impr
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by benjiro 1y ago
One of the big questions is going to be, can you still find the battery packs 15 year, 20, 30 years later. The problem is that rebuilding battery packs is not a joke (and expensive). Assuming the same cells can be found / are not some
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by benjiro 1y ago
Yep, their goal was to use a monolite solution, instead of a clustered elasticsearch. Postgres + pg_search (= tantivy) will have gotten them there for 80%. Sure, postgres really needs a plugin storage engine for better SSD support (see orio
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by benjiro 1y ago
Why not just use a open source solution like paradedb ... . Paradedb = postgres pg_search plugin (the base is tantivy). Need anything else like vectors or whatever, get the plugins for postgres. The only thing your missing is a LSM solution
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by benjiro 1y ago
Never owned a Tesla, but the amount of horror stories involved with Tesla, its often a hard battle to get warranty, especially around the battery when it involves a second hand vehicle. Even first owner vehicles are often a mixed experience
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by benjiro 1y ago
> GPT-5 is a bit better -particularly around consistency - and a fair amount cheaper. For all of my use cases, that's a huge win. What is more or less a natural evolution of LLMs... The thing is, where are my benefits as a developer
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by benjiro 1y ago
Those are just the official recalls, not the stuff they know is wrong with the car, but never got a recall. Trust me, it was more issues then that. In general, Toyota is known for their good engines. And the engine itself was indeed good, i
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by benjiro 1y ago
The problem is that a lot of companies all want to sell those $10k+ purchases but then forgot that their products are actually useable to the "common man". So they then lack any easy to see price overview or reasonable models for
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by benjiro 1y ago
> Toyota Corollas are exceptionally well-engineered cars. The thing is, they're engineered for convenience, reliability, and affordability. Say that to the half a dozen recalls my 2007 Toyota Corolla had. The constant sensor issues.
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by benjiro 1y ago
> It added 2,300+ satellites in the one year period ending Jun 2025. Take in account, that a lot of those are replacement sats for the first generations that they are deorbiting already. Do not quote me on this, but its a insane amount
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by benjiro 1y ago
Noticed that my productive usage of CoPilot dropped like a brick, after they introduced those limits. You feel constantly on the clock, and being forced to constantly change models gets tiresome very fast. Unless you use "free" GP
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by benjiro 1y ago
Ignoring its biggest advantage vs mdraid, or zfs raid: The ability to sleep all / individual HDDs: * only keep awake the drives that your actually read data from * only keep awake the drive that your write data too + n parity drives Fo
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by benjiro 1y ago
Unless your running cheap consumer NVME drives, that is not a issue on Enterprise SSD/NVMEs as they have their own capacitors to ensure data is always written. On cheaper NVME drives, your point is valid. But we also need to add, how m
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by benjiro 1y ago
fsync waits for the drive to report back the success write. When you do a ton of small writes, fsync becomes a bottleneck. Its a issue of context switching and pipelining with fsync. When you async write data, you do not need to wait for th
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by benjiro 1y ago
Speaking from experience, its easy to make Postgres (for example), just trash your system usage on a lot of individual or batch inserts. The NVME drives are often extreme underutilized, and your bottleneck is the whole fsync layer. Second,
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by benjiro 1y ago
I think you missed the part in the middle: ----------------- So the protocol ends up becoming: Write intent record (async) Perform operation in memory Write completion record (async) Return success to client ----------------- In other words
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by benjiro 1y ago
Here is my question. Who is paying for it all to get to a 1000 bucks bounty per person / year? The same question, who is paying for all the data collection they do on customers? You keep hearing about xxx billion dollar industries but
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by benjiro 1y ago
Also not in the US, i am using the term IRS because people are very used to it on the internet. Banks in the US and EU are legally required to report large transactions. I know for a fact that in Europe, that cash handeling over 10.000 euro
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by benjiro 1y ago
The problem is not SQLite struggling with databases in GB range. It does that with ease. OLAP requires a different database structure, namely column storage (preferably with compacting / compression / and other algorithms). That i
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by benjiro 1y ago
Unfortunately, cash is slowly getting phased out. Try buying a second hand car and you want cash from the bank. Used to be very easy, but now you need to declare what your spending your money on. You sold your car. O, its over 7 or 10k, we
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by benjiro 1y ago
Sqlite != DuckDB... two totally different DB types. One is a row based, the other is a column based database. Both run different workloads and both can handle extreme heavy workloads.
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by benjiro 1y ago
One rule for you, one rule for me ... You never noticed the hypocrite behavior all over society? * O, you drunk drive, big fine, lots of trouble. * O, you drunk drive and are a senator, cop, mayor, ... Well, lets look the other way. * You
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by benjiro 1y ago
I think the correct term is, that unrestricted LLM scrapers have dramatically been increasing the cost of hosting various small websites. Its not a issue when somebody does "ethical" scraping, with for instance, a 250ms delay betw
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by benjiro 1y ago
Talk about misleading blog posts... Compares TiDB, a distributed easy scalable database, vs Postgresql. Two totally different databases as Postgresql simply does not data scale horizontal like a distributed DB does.
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by benjiro 1y ago
The "lifehack to buy car or motorcycle in Belgium and save 20%" is a Dutch only problem, as the Dutch Government makes car (and house) ownership extreme expensive. There is a reason why so many better off Dutch people buy properti
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by benjiro 1y ago
> so 20k-equivalent from 2015-2019 is already above 25k just by inflation. Its not inflation alone ... The same brand/car type, tends to have seen a 75% price increase over the mentioned periode. Something that used to cost 20k euro
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by benjiro 1y ago
Its more about money. If you know that something can be done, and there is a potential market for such a project, it then becomes easier to get the funding. Chicken or the egg... One thing we also need to point out, is that SpaceX uses like
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by benjiro 1y ago
And yet, people have moved from often single income households, to double income households, and still struggle to buy homes... So there is a disconnect between those real/disposable income numbers and the actual market realities, no?

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