otter-in-a-suit

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by otter-in-a-suit 22d ago
I take passkeys over the unbearable cargo cult that follows LLM companies, namely companies' newly found obsession to "sign in via email". Ideally optionally followed by a 2FA (naturally, via text, delivered straight to my Ma
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by otter-in-a-suit 1mo ago
Very cool. Curious how you parse all this data and where you get it from. For instance, https://isitdoneyet.gg/game/warhammer-40000-rogue-trader is getting a DLC, see https://store.steampowered.com/app&
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by otter-in-a-suit 1mo ago
I recommend the Eisenhorn books if you want to get into the lore. It's a good story and covers a lot of ground without expecting a ton of prior knowledge.
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by otter-in-a-suit 2mo ago
Very sad to hear. Rest in peace. I was at Dollywood a few weeks ago. I highly recommend a visit if you ever get the chance. She has a fantastic legacy in more ways than one.
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by otter-in-a-suit 2mo ago
There's a few options. Clickhouse, as I mentioned, can be a good final layer, as can postgres. You can still use duckdb for intermediate transformations, even if the final data lives elsewhere. duckdb can also access various external s
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by otter-in-a-suit 2mo ago
Super excited about Quack (partially due to the name). I use duckdb for both analytics and runtime, but I do have to serve/handle/manage a giant, multi-GiB duckdb file as effectively a runtime artifact[1]. I'm aware that this
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by otter-in-a-suit 3mo ago
Relatable. > with my colleague Douwe Wait, meltano Douwe? Small world. Glad to see you're doing well. I always liked meltano. > In an era when anyone can produce reasonable-looking UI Identical looking slop? Every Claude-based vi
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by otter-in-a-suit 3mo ago
This is a fantastic primer. A few suggestions: - Add a "last updated" note, since this space changes often (see the prefect/dagster situation that just happened) - Add a note about MCPs and other LLM-driven tools and features
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Zip codes are a bad spatial abstraction(skaldmaps.com)
3 points by otter-in-a-suit 3mo ago|0 comments
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by otter-in-a-suit 3mo ago
Still noodling on https://skaldmaps.com , which lets you compare and rank all US ZIP codes, counties, and census tracts to find good places to move to and/or invest in. Based on an early prototype that helped me find our cur
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by otter-in-a-suit 3mo ago
I had dinner with Evan at Scala Days last year and had no idea who he was until he casually mentioned Elm. He is delightful and had some great insights on the philosophy behind Elm and on programming languages in general to share. I have li
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by otter-in-a-suit 4mo ago
I'm sure they've done the math. Mac has ~8% revenue share for Apple and I (naively) assume they'll just account for a 20% drop in sales with 20% higher prices. Personally, if my Mac were to die right now, I'd scream and
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by otter-in-a-suit 4mo ago
I've been working on https://skaldmaps.com/ for a while. Lets you explore, filter, and rank locations (ZIP/counties/tracts) in the US to find places to move to and/or invest in. ~470 attributes with tons
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by otter-in-a-suit 4mo ago
This is exciting - congrats on the 1.0 release! I'm a big fan of QGIS, but doing stuff browser side is just _terribly_ convenient (I also never got anything 3D to work on my M2 Mac with QGIS, but granted, haven't tried QGIS 4 yet)
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by otter-in-a-suit 4mo ago
> This all means that small businesses, that have long used social media for free promotion have to up their game. I've recently tried to promote a product on social media (well, I still try, I'm just not successful) and, espec
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by otter-in-a-suit 4mo ago
I had this conversation the other day. I'm a native German speaker originally, which is why I hand out commas like it's candy and capitalize things unnecessarily. Sometimes I notice these things and leave them in when I write some
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by otter-in-a-suit 9mo ago
I just got a Bambu P1S (they are / were on sale since the P2S came out) and the difference to my Ender 3 is truly night and day. I almost never used the Ender, since it always resulted endless tinkering and even then, the prints never
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by otter-in-a-suit 9mo ago
https://chollinger.com/
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by otter-in-a-suit 9mo ago
I love Kagi. I understand the niche this fills. I even understand not open sourcing it yet. But what I really miss is a self-hosted sync server. I don't want to use a browser without sync, but I also don't want to trust this data
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by otter-in-a-suit 1y ago
> none single-thread performance (relatively) I find horizontal scaling with many smaller cores and lots of memory more impactful for virtualization workloads than heavy single core performance (which, fwiw, is pretty decent on these Xeo
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by otter-in-a-suit 1y ago
That's good to know, thank you. It's using the official charger in the rack, but I used the charger I've had on my desk while setting it up. I added a note to the article.
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by otter-in-a-suit 1y ago
Run whatever you like! I personally enjoy the big machines (I've also always enjoyed meaninglessly large benchmark numbers on gaming hardware) and enterprise features, redundancy etc. (in other words, over-engineering). I know others r
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by otter-in-a-suit 1y ago
I just commented on this above, but I actually got for the Pi for free and it's a very capable device. I wouldn't buy one for this use case (nor do I really recommend it, but it _does_ work).
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by otter-in-a-suit 1y ago
You'd be delighted (or terrified) to know that I just added an old gaming computer in a 4U case to the cluster, so I can play with PCI/GPU passthrough. The Dell is essentially the main machine that runs everything we actually use
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by otter-in-a-suit 1y ago
Proxmox is essentially a clustered hypervisor (a KVM wrapper, really). It has some overlap with K8s (via containers), but is simpler for what I do and has some very nice features, namely around backups, redundancy/HA, hardware passthro
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More random home lab things I've recently learned(chollinger.com)
207 points by otter-in-a-suit 1y ago|130 comments
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by otter-in-a-suit 1y ago
I usually agree (and enjoy reading angry threads years later), but wasting screen real estate and getting measurably worse in terms of accessibility is simply not a good design decision.
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by otter-in-a-suit 1y ago
I adore QGIS. I just built a map (and corresponding GeoPDF file for offline use) for two local wildlife management areas last weekend (and subsequently used them while on them).
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by otter-in-a-suit 1y ago
I do both. The primary server runs Proxmox and I have a physical TrueNAS box as backup server, so I have to do it by hand on Proxmox. “Have to”, since I no longer suggest virtualizing TrueNAS even with PCI passthru. I will say the same abou
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by otter-in-a-suit 1y ago
Seems interesting. The article is a bit light on details around producers and schema management - how would this look like for existing protobufs going to Kafka? How does it handle types that might differ between proto and Iceberg or evolut

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