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by moonchrome 3y ago
Enabling pgvector in Azure was trivial. I think if you're past pgvector performance you won't be listening to a random guy talking about pgvector but have a good understanding of the space. If you're new (like I was a few mon
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by moonchrome 3y ago
Anything talking about Lucene is non trivial from start. I'm coming at this from a perspective of a competent dev trying to build a tool with OpenAI APIs - which, from what I can tell, is a growing topic. If you're experienced wit
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by moonchrome 3y ago
I'd say Postgres + pgvector is even simpler if you're doing small scale document search (eg. internal knowledge bases, documentation sources, codebase indexing, etc.). pgvector is even supported out of the box on Azure and AWS RDS
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by moonchrome 3y ago
I feel the opposite. I've been programming for fun since 13 and have a similar experience as op - where I did my own projects for ~10 years before I got a job. I always hated professional programming. It's boring, problems I'
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by moonchrome 3y ago
Hmm would this be compatible with GPL ? I think not but not sure. Anyway this seems like it would be killer for blender to integrate camera tracking.
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by moonchrome 3y ago
My point was more that Ruby exploded because of a period when Rails was growing super fast. I don't know what the growth in RoR space is but I'm certain it's nowhere near what it was in late 2000s/early 2010s. And outsid
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by moonchrome 3y ago
I think that's just building on RoR hype in that same field. Puppet even moved away from Ruby AFAIK.
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by moonchrome 3y ago
Ruby was never similar in popularity to Python. It was just a fad in webdev circles. I've rarely seen ruby before RoR and I've seen python all over. Python was popular as a teaching language, how it gained a foothold in academia.
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by moonchrome 3y ago
If there's any airflow (and there better be for breathing and ventilation) there's wind noise at speed. You're always better off with plugs.
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by moonchrome 3y ago
There's a name for this feeling [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
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by moonchrome 3y ago
Is the cheat detection searching for "as a virtual chat bot assistant" text students don't bother to remove ? Otherwise seems like snake oil thing.
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by moonchrome 3y ago
Stop using Google if you want to promote alternatives. Otherwise you're just rationalising freeloader behaviour.
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by moonchrome 3y ago
No that's what you get when you're the product by being a free user. Paid service relationship works just fine for me - Google isn't ideal but YouTube is one of my main content sources + YouTube music for my family for slight
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by moonchrome 3y ago
I'm guessing the problem is that you're constrained by memory bandwidth and not computation power and this is inherent to the algorithm, not an artifact of any one implementation.
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by moonchrome 3y ago
> but the rate of progression feels like they will soon The rate of progression seems to be logarithmic - so we got "something looks plausible" but to get that last 10% it's probably going to cost more in HW than just usin
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by moonchrome 3y ago
You're still overseeing other subcontractors. My next step is likely in a similar direction but I want to start out with a couple of former colleagues in more of a partnership role. IMO being responsible for other people is tiring and
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by moonchrome 3y ago
Arguments there are bullshit - talking about stuff that's completely irrelevant to beginners to make things sound complicated - personal fitness trainer playbook. If you're a couch potato dev who sits all day and does no physical
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by moonchrome 3y ago
> MacOS also has telemetry. And who do I trust more - company that bundles third party crap ware and openly talks about OS ads as monetization avenue. Or a company selling me xxxx$ machine and wanting to sell me a next one with the OS in
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by moonchrome 3y ago
You haven't used Windows in quite a while have you ? Past Windows 7 it's been sliding downhill into bullshit UX, crapware, backend migration to Linux almost exclusively, etc. Random things on top of my head : MacOS doesn't co
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by moonchrome 3y ago
I haven't used clojure since forever but I don't think this was particularly problematic. They even had nice literal syntax for different collection types and fairly powerful generalized collection abstractions, way better than th
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by moonchrome 3y ago
No argument from me, just saying lumping in all those languages together sounds reasonable in theory, in practice they are very far apart. You'll probably have similar overlap between C# and F# implementations as you would with say Typ
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by moonchrome 3y ago
That's some very high level view - in reality even tough those languages are in similar categories the experience would be vastly different : TypeScript - powerful type system but shit underlying stdlib and language (no pattern matchin
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by moonchrome 3y ago
That's what I get for reading HN before going to sleep...
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by moonchrome 3y ago
That's an extreme oversimplification. Most apps are budget constrained - doing 2x native over flutter budget doesn't get you 15% better UX. It probably doesn't even give you two working apps in the budget. And getting to them
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by moonchrome 3y ago
I also believe COVID fucked productivity globally and executives thought it was a temporary thing due to measures in place. But I feel like COVID situation triggered stuff that either accelerated existing trends or introduced new problems,
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by moonchrome 3y ago
If you don't want people to learn from your code then don't open source it. Learning via LLM vs person learning is a distinction that sounds unenforceable in practice.
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by moonchrome 3y ago
> So I need 1-to be able to write text, 2-syntax highlighting. If you just need those two things there's plenty of options - why are you forcing yourself into vscode ? VSCode is great because of the plugin ecosystem - if that&#x27
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by moonchrome 3y ago
Do they even offer managed database services ? If you don't even have rudimentary stuff like message broker/database you're not an AWS/Azure alternative.
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by moonchrome 3y ago
Since GPT4 I've seen it regress in attempts commercialise and any alternative I'm aware of isn't even close. Depends on the timescale are we talking about ?
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by moonchrome 3y ago
> It just needs to get a bit smarter and somewhat faster every few months. Within less than a decade we will have systems that output "thoughts" and actions at least dozens of times faster than humans. I don't think this w

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