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by hobofan 2y ago
Half of German software is SAP-infected due to that fact that if you are targeting German companies you have to interface with SAP sooner or later, and every option I've encountered to do that in the past was awful.
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by hobofan 2y ago
> He makes no videos anymore sadly. Has he stated that anywhere? Because looking at the upload date (8 months) of the latest video and the gaps between previous uploads (sometimes multiple years), it doesn't look uncharacteristic fo
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by hobofan 2y ago
For people looking at Darcs, Pijul[0] is an interesting advancement in the space, as it solves the exponential merge time problem that can make Darcs intractable. Sadly Pijul also doesn't have the consistent maintenance one would like
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by hobofan 2y ago
Rewrite from scratch is exactly what the Python ecosystem needs more of. The strong push to always contribute to the existing projects rather than starting new ones in the Python community is what caused the previous subpar state of tooling
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by hobofan 2y ago
Most uv commands will (unless otherwise instructed like e.g. with --frozen) by default update your lockfile to be in sync with your pyproject.toml.
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by hobofan 2y ago
> What I don't understand - what makes this so difficult to solve in Python? I think there are many answers to this, and there are many factors contributing to it, but if I had to pick one: The setup.py file. It needs to be executed
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by hobofan 2y ago
> High paid professionals with multiple clients per week (like most fractionals are) are not the target. Yes, that's also what used to be the common knowledge in Germany. However (according to my tax advisor), the tax office here ha
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by hobofan 2y ago
I think the crux is here (from their explanation post): > extract the most valuable 10 hours/week ... > ... don’t pay payroll taxes, don’t pay bonuses, and don’t need to offer benefits How they define a "fractional" is
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by hobofan 2y ago
It doesn't feel too surprising to me. The core developer tooling for Python was (/is) about on par with some of the other top languages (C, C++, Java), but lacking when compared to some of the others (Rust, Go, JS/TS). There
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by hobofan 2y ago
Numbers aren't everything. Python has been around for a long time and there were some attempts at creating a modern package manager for it. If it were feasible to create uv in Python, it would have probably happened by now.
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by hobofan 2y ago
Where is your cutoff for lightweight? I personally am a big fan of self-hosting Sentry via their Helm chart. It's quite easy if you know your way around Kubernetes, but it probably also doesn't qualify as lightweight.
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by hobofan 2y ago
It's not 1:1 the same, but I think the episode "Take me private" from series "Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On", gives a glimpse into that. It's released in 2017, so more cam-girl than OF model, but it shows a deepl
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by hobofan 2y ago
One thing I always dislike about Elm and most of its offshoots is the lack of good composability of widgets. In most other architectures, most widgets are registered with their parent component in one single location, and are otherwise full
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by hobofan 2y ago
> I think one of the problems is that as more and more individual consumers buy domains Huh, I was always under the assumption that the percentage of domains bought by individual consumers is shrinking. As in, in the early days of the in
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by hobofan 2y ago
> Also if that sounds like a useful feature, consider using Make Just not having that feature is _the_ defining difference in design between the two. If just were to ever add that it would likely kill its appeal. Not having that is what
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by hobofan 2y ago
> On X everyone talks about Perplexity Must be your X echo chamber. I haven't heard about Perplexity in ages. > Do they both search -> put results in an LLM as input text? No. Kagi does have optional LLM-based answers, but at
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by hobofan 2y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42331258 I feel like the article is written mainly for Database power-users (= people that look beyond the horizon of the default DB choice of Postgres/MySQL), as well as for pe
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by hobofan 2y ago
> only these four categories on their docs page Only? For many projects having a medium quality version of just one of those would be an improvement. ---- Where the approach hits a wall in practice I think is when there is a lack of inte
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by hobofan 2y ago
> it looks at that gene I think it may help to not think of genes as lookup tables. It's rather that genes act as blueprints for compound (protein/RNA) factories (which can also be potentially turned off/on). So the compou
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by hobofan 2y ago
AWS raised the prices (/slashed the free tier) for Cognito literally last week[0], in a way that's quite similar to Hetzner. [0]: https://saasprices.net/blog/aws-price-rise
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by hobofan 2y ago
The Formlabs Form 4 uses a CM AFAIK and at a 4-5k price point it's not hard to see how they sell them at a profit.
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by hobofan 2y ago
I do like PL\pgSQL functions, and I think they can to some extent be used to solve this problem, though I think they are limited in how their internal structure is parameterizable. I am rarely in a position at my client projects where I can
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by hobofan 2y ago
> VIEWs allows you to not repeat yourself too often. No they don't. They only offer a solution to the problem "many different predicates for a few tables", but don't offer a solution to the problem "a few similar
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by hobofan 2y ago
Sure, I could do that in Zillion the same way I'm currently composing queries in Python at runtime with PyPika. I'm looking for a more programming language agnostic solution that tools like this (e.g. also PRQL, Malloy) usually of
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by hobofan 2y ago
I think your blog post frames the problem very well! Seeing that both someone working on PRQL and Malloy replied and to both of you it's an understood pain makes me feel a lot better about the future of these tools! When talking about
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by hobofan 2y ago
Thanks for the thorough reply! Really glad to see at least one of the solutions working towards it, and I'll definitely check PRQL out again in more depth!
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by hobofan 2y ago
See my reply to hn_throwaway_99. The example is overly trivialized and should expand to more complex relational logic as well.
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by hobofan 2y ago
Oh, I 100% agree with you. > IMO these kinds of "shortcuts based on column naming across tables" usually end in disaster down the road. I can see that point, and that was not what I wanted to express with my litmus test. It&#x2
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by hobofan 2y ago
One thing that I am always looking for in a new "reusable", "composable" SQL tool is reuse of the same analytical queries across different source tables. My litmus test: I have a table "people" with the columns
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by hobofan 2y ago
Every single business I know that pays for LLMs (on the order of tens of thousands of individual ChatGPT subscriptions) pay for whatever the top model is in their general cloud of choice with next to no elasticity. e.g. a company already co

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