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by kermatt 4mo ago
Companies do not have moralities. They have revenue targets. Any statement to the idea of a moral compass is just a form of marketing when the politics of the day align with it. The best we can to is have independent moralities, while balan
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by kermatt 4mo ago
Because Astral is now owned by a profit driven org, and that often becomes problematic. Also because Pip ain't perfect, but it is stable in a sense.
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by kermatt 4mo ago
Not quite as simple as learning it once. SQL evolves like other languages, across vendor implementations. The ClickHouse and DuckDB dialects for example extend the language with analytic options not found in ANSI SQL, nor T-SQL, Pl/PgS
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by kermatt 4mo ago
His investment in time is guaranteed to pay off for him, and the investment in time of the people who work for him is guaranteed to pay off for him. The rest of us have no guarantees, and have learned the trade-offs are less and less likely
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by kermatt 4mo ago
My org has a monthly team plan, and because I don't use what I would call unsupervised agents, I rarely come close to exceeding limits. I guess I am one of those "chat only users" that so many articles limit my output. A spli
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Project Feather – Faster local mode Spark(docs.google.com)
2 points by kermatt 4mo ago|0 comments
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by kermatt 5mo ago
Share some examples?
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by kermatt 5mo ago
What would people here _not_ use DeepSeek for? Obviously business IP for non-China based companies should be treated carefully, but for personal projects where would the cost savings not be worth a risk?
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by kermatt 5mo ago
The mistake is university choosing commencement speakers that are completely out of touch with what students about to enter the workforce need. Unless of course the university itself is choosing speakers based on their contribution to the u
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by kermatt 5mo ago
> Tired of decyphering the Perl code you wrote last week? This is what brought me to Python (1.5) Working on Windows servers, using the ActiveState Perl Development Kit satisfied the need for a better scripting environment than batch fil
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by kermatt 5mo ago
> What is the advantage of building a browser engine from scratch? Same reason some of us choose Linux over Windows.
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by kermatt 5mo ago
> I can create more videos as soon as your limit resets. Check your usage in Settings. I have not used Gemini in a month.
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PostgreSQL ext makes LLM available as an index for similarity searches,inference(codeberg.org)
1 points by kermatt 5mo ago|0 comments
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by kermatt 5mo ago
It is more than one fiscal quarter away. May as well be a lifetime.
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by kermatt 5mo ago
Same here, but on Windows 3.1 or OS/2 in my case. I think use of the Watcom compiler led me to Vi way back then, and I am still trying to learn to not use the arrow keys.
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by kermatt 5mo ago
> The very first thing they show this new machine doing is helping people shop for clothes using AI. I can only imagine the fashion horrors created by AI sycophancy. That said, most "fashion" is already a horror show.
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TI-84 Evo(education.ti.com)
6 points by kermatt 5mo ago|0 comments
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by kermatt 6mo ago
Although not quite the same without a pipe operator, https://pola.rs was an improvement for me when missing the R dataframe syntax.
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by kermatt 6mo ago
So just starting a new and completely different company, but using an old brand name from a completely different business?
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by kermatt 6mo ago
> If Austerity is not working as an economic model; the answer isn't to invest in growth, it's to cut even more corners. The do-more-with-less cancer that is infecting so many companies, where the tumor is Continuous Growth.
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by kermatt 6mo ago
> “Agile” doesn’t mean that you release the first iteration Someone needs to inform the management of the last three companies I worked for about this.
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by kermatt 6mo ago
"Non Features: No Electron. No telemetry. No subscription."
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by kermatt 6mo ago
OS and Cloud quality do not result in next fiscal quarter revenue gains, but AI "features" might due to hype. Reliability while important to users is less important to investors.
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by kermatt 6mo ago
Could this be used for Clojure as well?
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by kermatt 6mo ago
A bit confused: > SparkID generates 21-character IDs using the Base58 alphabet, which specifically excludes 0, O, I, and l. No visual ambiguity, no hyphens, no underscores. Just clean, alphanumeric strings. But the example ID has both th
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by kermatt 6mo ago
Voyager only needs to track itself. Plus, no ads.
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by kermatt 7mo ago
Podman approach: https://github.com/containers/podman/discussions/28238
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by kermatt 7mo ago
The problem is not the AI users who frequent this board and are shipping code they don't understand. It is the moronic MBA trained executives who can only think about speed, more speed, more revenue for less cost. Quality is an optiona
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by kermatt 7mo ago
How would this improve the functionality of lnav?
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by kermatt 7mo ago
I found applying to job postings was effectively a waste of time. The number of replies I received from a person was < 1% What was effective was advertising my availability on LinkedIn, Indeed, and Dice, and waiting for recruiters to con

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