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by nerdponx 2y ago
I've had a nice experience using Docker Compose for this, although you might still want a task runner wrapper around it. Podman Compose should work fine as well.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
We had some pretty bad performance with $lookup queries but it all magically went away after adding some indexes. I have a lot of grievances with teams that use MongoDB, but relatively few grievances with MongoDB itself along these lines.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I used MongoDB at a company where engineering policy was strictly that MongoDB was our only allowable database, including in cases where it was clearly not the best choice. Were there good aspects? Sure... kind of. It was super super easy
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by nerdponx 2y ago
This is one of many reasons why "isolating" I/O within your application is so important, whether that means pushing it to the edges or otherwise carefully corralling it in known-critical areas where it can't be removed.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Seems like an effective technique for preventing your content from being included in the training data then!
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by nerdponx 2y ago
The biggest impediment to government efficiency is lobbying and propaganda by various special interests that do not have the public good in mind. Imagine how much would get done without those things.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
The FDA guidelines only look at macronutrients. There a lot of "unhealthy" things that would be considered "healthy" by both the old and new standards.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Not to mention several high-profile whistleblowers in various unrelated situations have all suspiciously "committed suicide" in the last few years. Suspicion should be high at this point.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
You're not "allowed" to do that. Frivolous litigation is against federal law in the USA. There are also laws against harassment. You can get away with it, but you aren't technically allowed to do it.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Yeah but how much of the Microsoft and Facebook effort was due to AI directly, as opposed to the general popularity of Python? which is undoubtedly driven nowadays by AI, but indirectly.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
The comment thread was specifically about AI, so my comments were specifically meant for that context. I wasn't clear enough, sorry for the confusion.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> AI The push for Python performance and JIT compilation has little to do with AI and more to do with Python's explosion in adoption for backend server applications in the 2010s, as well as the dedication of smaller projects like Py
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by nerdponx 2y ago
That's not how it works in Python. The C/C++ is shipped in the form of well-established libraries like Numpy and PyTorch. Very few end users ever interact with the C/C++ parts, except for specialists with special requirements
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Poor emotional regulation skills and executive function, perhaps.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> In the US and EU it would probably have to be voluntary at first with really good incentives to get people into it and would probably have to remain voluntary for one or two generations. Health insurance companies already offer gym rei
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by nerdponx 2y ago
But won't all the scripts break?
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> Coming into 2024, the public consensus vibe was that pure deep learning / LLMs would continue scaling to AGI. Was it? What did the "public" consist of exactly?
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Direnv is a great tool for this FWIW.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I mainly don't understand how Just is any better than a run/ directory full of executable shell scripts.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
That's a huge amount of effort (and carbon-fuel-powered energy) involved in capping the well. Based on the numbers they provide, I guess it's still worth it even if you consider the lifecycle of all the trucks and equipment and co
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> We are a Euro FREE Zone which means no sports will be shown at the pub. American here. What the heck does this mean?
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by nerdponx 2y ago
As far as I know, none of the tricky Unix details here would be handled by Python. The "async" part isn't the problem, it's the coordination around syscalls.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> Would you trust a mechanic who didn’t read any books? I sure wouldn’t discount them because of that. Machinist or woodworker might be a better analogy.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> I would argue that nothing would really fundamentally change. I argue that there would be a huge collective sigh of relief from a large number of people. Not everybody, maybe not even a majority, but a large number nonetheless. So I th
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> There is another level to AI and how we fundamentally structure them that nobody is doing yet to my knowledge And that is...?
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Just like nuclear fusion, right? "When" will always be some time after the next fundraising round.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Right, but the breathless technobabble about the future of our AI-driven world crowds out actual consideration of these important topics.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
There are sections of the Hebrew Bible that are supposed to be the directly quoted word of God. And there are various religious traditions that claim various holy texts as being the direct product of a deity.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Right, I don't need to know what they are, I just need to know what "64" means. Is the baseline actually 0? That detail is enough to avoid actually drawing 0 on the axis.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
This is new since Covid era. You used to be able to get an appointment for a physical just a few weeks out, and it was easy to find a new doctor if you needed to.

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