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Making a Postgres query 1k times faster(mattermost.com)
228 points by d0mine 2y ago|60 comments
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by d0mine 2y ago
How often did towns burn in the written history? Closely packed wooden structures are prone to fire — nothing remarkable
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by d0mine 2y ago
Software is too complex to rely on predictions along. Predicting is useful but eventually you must measure. For example: "In conclusion, the issue isn't software-related. Python outperforms C/Rust due to an AMD CPU bug."
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by d0mine 2y ago
There are tools such as TLA+ that help with modeling at the level higher than executable code. Recent talk for example: Fifteen years of formal methods at AWS Marc Brooker, Amazon AWS https://youtu.be/HxP4wi4DhA0
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by d0mine 2y ago
Timely dataflow in Python: https://github.com/bytewax/bytewax
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by d0mine 2y ago
Looking at Navier-Stokes equations tells you very little about the weather tomorrow.
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by d0mine 2y ago
Except the model is not open-source. You can't calculate anything.
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by d0mine 2y ago
Why do you think systems of partial differential equations (common in physics) are somehow provide more understanding than the corresponding ML math (at the end of the day both can produce results using a lots of matrix multiplications).
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by d0mine 2y ago
There are only two types of software: those that people hate and those that nobody uses (a paraphrase)
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by d0mine 2y ago
Stackoverflow answers are under CC BY-SA license: "The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms." https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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by d0mine 2y ago
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by d0mine 2y ago
Examples of building blocks for UI in Emacs: - transient (notable app: magit) - hydra (another menuing package for emacs) https://youtu.be/_qZliI1BKzI - minibuffer helper packages: vertico, orderless, embark, etc https:&#x
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by d0mine 2y ago
Python both type and memory safe e.g., ""+1 in Python is TypeError and [][0] is IndexError But you can perform unsafe operations e.g., import ctypes ctypes.string_at(0) # access 0 address in memory -> segfault
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by d0mine 2y ago
Or even better: push a cryptographic protocol with a builtin weakness as a standard and deprecate others as "insecure." Any implementation would be vulnerable.
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Even sprinting 100m takes 60% ! energy from aerobic system.
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The World Wide Web. HyperCard is an early hypermedia system predating the web.
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by d0mine 2y ago
iPad (any model) with keyboard-cover can be used as a great portable ssh/mosh terminal (eg with Termius app). I work in Emacs--most functionality is available via terminal.
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by d0mine 2y ago
The Python source code is utf-8 by default in Python 3. But it says nothing about a character encoding used to save to a file. It is locale-dependent by default. # string literals create str objects using utf-8 by default Path(&qu
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by d0mine 2y ago
unrelated: the word "toxic" is meaningless nowadays e.g., "dunking on noobs" is more specific.
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by d0mine 2y ago
I've never seen HN article where Putin is portrayed positively.
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by d0mine 2y ago
Interesting, thanks. "However, Gisela Kaplan at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia, says she found the paper extremely frustrating and that the word “aggression” is being misused. Chimpanzee groups are ruled by one do
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by d0mine 2y ago
why "violent pack of chimps" instead of free-loving bonobos?
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by d0mine 2y ago
Can chatgpt help you find the book on the photo of your shelf?
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by d0mine 3y ago
Here's solution using networkx Python module: cutset = nx.minimum_edge_cut(G) for e in cutset: G.remove_edge(*e) size1, size2 = map(len, nx.connected_components(G)) answer = size1 * size2
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by d0mine 3y ago
"After Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Telegram has become the main source of unfiltered - and sometimes graphic and misleading - content from both sides about the war and the politics surrounding the confli
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Cooperative C++ Evolution – Toward a TypeScript for C++ – H.Sutter – CppCon 2023(youtube.com)
2 points by d0mine 3y ago|0 comments
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Music can affect emotions and jump start the necessary action to overcome the Wall of Awful https://youtu.be/hlObsAeFNVk Other tricks to get started from the video: - time limit/time boxing e.g., prepare a meal in 20
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by d0mine 3y ago
aka "eat the frog" method.
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You are talking as if ordinary people can have any influence on the topic.
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by d0mine 3y ago
Current LLMs are biased (English): different bits per second for different languages (assuming constant tokens/s for a model, and the paper is true (same 39 bits/s for different languages)). Because tokens (as they are used for

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