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by jwr 1y ago
> grave misconceptions regarding the true value of products like Oracle, MSSQL and DB2 In the context of this discussion, I would offer that we are getting into "apples vs oranges" comparisons here. If you are doing custom quer
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by jwr 1y ago
Theoretically you could write your own client library, but this is nontrivial — this is a distributed database. The client library talks to multiple servers. It's not a "connect to a socket and send commands" type of client l
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by jwr 1y ago
I'm not sure if you mean indexing implementation, or indexing of my model objects. Indexing functions take model data and return: * single index value which can be an UUID or a string * single index value with multiple elements (e.g. a
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by jwr 1y ago
Kind of — Harmony remotes still had way too many buttons, you had to keep them pointed at the thing being controlled for the entire duration of a sequence, things could get desynced, and we shall not mention the horrible software, right?
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by jwr 1y ago
> 90+% of the things people complain about would no longer be a problem if they got a traditional A/V receiver, plugged all their sources such as streaming boxes and game consoles into the receiver, and just used the smart TV as a m
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by jwr 1y ago
> Google's pricing for a general search API As I discovered recently, and much to my surprise, Google does not offer a "general search API", at least not officially. There is a "custom search" API that sounds lik
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by jwr 1y ago
FoundationDB is pretty much the best distributed database out there, but it's more of a toolkit for building databases than a complete batteries-included database. I found that once I took the time to learn about FoundationDB and think
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by jwr 1y ago
The best technologies aren't always the most fashionable technologies — FoundationDB is very good, but it isn't flashy or fancy and the concepts that it addresses are hard to understand, so it isn't that popular. It also does
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by jwr 1y ago
> An engineer that can talk to customers, find bugs, and fix them, is not worth $200k? I always watch these kinds of discussions on HN with interest, because depending on what is being discussed, one of two viewpoints dominates: * If we
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by jwr 2y ago
None of that applies in my particular case: my country does have a database of addresses and the lookup of the address in question (my address) did produce the correct geographic location. It was Google that did not bother to update their d
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by jwr 2y ago
The real problem is that Google Maps isn't regulated like a utility. I know, I know, we all hate regulation, we love free markets, and all. But bear with me for a moment. I had a problem where Google Maps showed the wrong location for
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by jwr 2y ago
I am very disappointed to see that. I've been using Synology NASs for the last, oh, 14 years or so, and I have nothing but good things to say about them. Most importantly, their software works and requires nearly zero maintenance in th
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by jwr 2y ago
I love the hack value, this is the kind of content I am here for!
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by jwr 2y ago
I use Claude Code. I read the discussion here, and given the criticism, proceeded to try some of the other solutions that people recommended. After spending a couple of hours trying to get aider and plandex to run (and then with Google Gemi
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by jwr 2y ago
This looks fantastic and I'm looking forward to trying it out! Thank you!
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by jwr 2y ago
Seconded. I was surprised by how good Claude Code is, even for less mainstream languages (Clojure). I am happy there is competition!
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by jwr 2y ago
Most urinals in Japan look like the "Nautilus" design already.
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by jwr 2y ago
Thanks for posting this! I'd be very interested in more real-life usage comments from people, I don't trust YouTube "reviewers" (who get stuff for free and want cosy relationships with companies). I wonder specifically i
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by jwr 2y ago
I read this article (and others) and I am still unclear. I thought this whole idiotic crusade applied only to newly born children. It never even crossed my mind that you could revoke citizenship from your citizens. I mean, the principle o
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by jwr 2y ago
I use React in ClojureScript and I don't have problems with state. I treat react mostly as a rendering interface of sorts: my code is a function of state, and React is just a tool that does the shadow-DOM thing. I don't see a reas
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by jwr 2y ago
But… they can't remove citizenship retroactively. What I mean is today there are citizens and non-citizens, but there are no classes of citizens. Either you have citizenship or you do not, it doesn't matter how you acquired it.
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by jwr 2y ago
Or, just use TypingMind or something similar to get access to all the major models through a single interface.
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by jwr 2y ago
> birthright citizens and full citizens Is there a difference?
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by jwr 2y ago
After watching several platforms undergo successive enshittification, I learned my lesson. I am done with commercial platforms, no matter how shiny and inviting they look right now. Puppies always look nice, for a reason. Threads or Bluesky
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by jwr 2y ago
Based on my 30 years of experience building software systems, state really is the biggest cause of problems and bugs in systems. The less state you can have, the better. If you can compute something instead of storing it, do so. Obviously y
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by jwr 2y ago
But in this case it is me who controls when anything gets updated. And I have all of my dependencies in the container. So I get reproducible builds. Also, dependencies of one package do not interfere with dependencies of another package.
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by jwr 2y ago
I find the discussion here somewhat amusing, because I am on another level of disbelief when looking at the state of things in the npm world. Most people ask "why ship bun (whatever that is), why not just be an npm module". I am b
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by jwr 2y ago
For those unfamiliar with the "active parameters" terminology, what would be the RAM requirements? E.g.can I run the smallest one on my Macbook Pro (M4 Max, 64GB) like I can run gemma3?
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by jwr 2y ago
But where's the fun in that?
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by jwr 2y ago
Well, but that API Gateway x Lambda x DynamoDB combo will not answer support E-mails, will it? Especially with B2B, it's easy to underestimate the support load for non-technical issues.

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