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by d_watt 2y ago
I don't think I agree with this. Docker is an amazing tool, I've used it for everything I've done in the last 7 years, but this is not how I'd approach it. 1. I think the idea of local-equal-to-prod is noble, and getting
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by d_watt 2y ago
Some of the metaphors for interacting with the models, and visualizing as threads are interesting. Definitely does a good combination of ease of prompting + interogatability of the generated code. I quickly ran into a wall trying to do inte
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by d_watt 2y ago
Interesting project, I could see a use case for emerging markets where people don't have laptops. Maybe also include a local PG like https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-wasm for being able to play around with PG ed
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by d_watt 2y ago
I see the issue with these more as if you are paying for it, one of the decision factors to buy it might have been that you have the opportunity to go to an open source version if the relationship gets bad. Sole source vendors are really ri
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by d_watt 2y ago
I would think a key difference is once this was found out, Dan Rather was fired. There will always be failures of integrity. Our expectation can't be infallible people, but rather the rigor of an organization to care about the failures
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by d_watt 2y ago
I had a Tesla for a couple of years and then sold it. I'd buy another EV. I wouldn't buy another Tesla, because of the UX. Lack of physical buttons and changing UI. The infotainment screen crashed a couple of times in a year, the
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by d_watt 2y ago
When I tried it with a copilot trial at one business, it basically just dumped huge text blobs into big text fields. They push the "generate image based on prompt" as the main add for slides to make them not just bullets, but no r
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by d_watt 2y ago
I really want 365 or gemini to do the obvious thing: "Using this template, summarize this document into a slide deck." Maybe it won't be good, but it's surprising to me it can't do it barebones. Considering LLMs do
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by d_watt 2y ago
I'm not sure I agree with the framing of this article. It seems to be comparing two different things, 1. Points as a method for attributing difficulty to a work item, vs 2. The collaboration process of creating a task list as a method
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by d_watt 2y ago
It's due diligence to understand your cost of goods sold using open source models where possible. Don't actually spend the business effort to use them if it's not worth it, but have a business continuity plan to be able to sw
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by d_watt 3y ago
Streamlit, for one, was bought by snowflake for 800m, and they've been adding the ability to deploy streamline apps natively to your snowflake account.
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by d_watt 3y ago
I feel like this would do well to compare it to a more traditional CDN delivery method. Other than the obvious edge benefits of a CDN, this would seem to open up issues around asset versioning. EG it's pretty standard to include asset&
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by d_watt 3y ago
One of the things I've come to value as a "must have" for databases is the ability to stream CDC (Change Data Capture) out of the store. With redis's persistance mechanisms (RDP + AOF), I see how one could set up their
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by d_watt 3y ago
"NewSQL" is not about analytical performance, it's about multimaster distributed writes and reads. EG, you don't want to run count(*) on spanner. "HTAP" is the buzzword you're looking for. It's promis
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by d_watt 3y ago
8 million people across 300 square miles, so there’s variety. It’s fine near me, but canceled dinner plans because of train issues. Media will highlight the worst.
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by d_watt 3y ago
I think it's a sliding scale. The more unique your product is, and the more pain it solves, the more users are willing to put up with hard UI. I've seen a lot of bad ui make a lot of money, because it found a market segment that h
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by d_watt 3y ago
> I never understood the appeal of docker-compose Using a recent HN submission to spin up a local vector stack for analyzing notes, https://github.com/memgraph/odin/blob/main/docker-compose.ym... How
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by d_watt 3y ago
Sure, some OLAP databases let you add the same metadata that a OLTP database gives you as constraints, especially enterprise ones. A lot still don't, like Clickhouse, afaik. No OLAP database I know of would let you encode other semanti
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by d_watt 3y ago
For an article about LLM+OLAP, it doesn't spend much time on that part. Specifically it seems like their strategy is around using an LLM to generate a DSL query for an unnamed semantic layer, then everything downstream of that is norma
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by d_watt 3y ago
I'd caveat that it can be a good idea to make it a general api if you're building a B2B app. These days, purchasing checklists often include "do you have a public api?" Saying no to that can be a sign of product immaturi
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by d_watt 3y ago
I eventually found it under their pricing page. I suspect from how "MVP" their site is, plus only NestJS actually has a "use" button instead of a "request demo" button, that the only thing currently supported i
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by d_watt 3y ago
I definitely want some innovation in this space. Does this actually track dependancies at the code level, or just at the module import level. EG if have a redis connection file that's imported to a service library file, and only 1 of 8
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by d_watt 3y ago
I mean to be fair, even in using something like Postgres logical replication, there's no way to verify whether a particular change has replicated (minus xmin hackery). If I were to write a tutorial on how to set up PG replication and &
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by d_watt 3y ago
It can be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_leave
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by d_watt 3y ago
Regarding your comment on updating models, are you saying you think they're updating the "pinned" models. EGT gpt4-0314? Otherwise, I think effectively they already have what you're describing with LTS models as pinned v
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by d_watt 4y ago
If we're going to pedant about status codes, it seems like 401 is correct. 500 is a "server error" range, 503 would imply the service is down due to server side issues. 401:"not authorized" seems exactly correct for
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by d_watt 4y ago
Ah, almost like a little bit of a lower level trino, where DuckDB is able to push out queries to different data storage endpoints?
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by d_watt 4y ago
I see. Would it be fair to say you treat it almost like Pandas, except that it has a lower memory footprint since data is written to disk instead of memory. IE you use it for on the fly analysis of large frames of data, not like more tradit
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by d_watt 4y ago
I'm duck-curious. Looking at how it's deployed, as an in process database, how do people actually use this in production? Trying to figure out where I might actually want to think about replacing current databases or analyses with
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by d_watt 4y ago
Because when you have a DAG of 100s of CREATEs that need to be run in dependency, many of which are table materializations and not views, you will end up creating a poorly specified, half baked version of DBT.

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