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by pbowyer 4y ago
Have you tried enabling Virtiofs in Docker Desktop? On my M1 Mac that sorted the performance for me for large PHP apps, and I haven't experienced the permissions problems that some people have (there is a test build that appears to fix
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by pbowyer 4y ago
In some ways the Electron app is better because there's more formatting options (code blocks, finally!) but most ways not. On my systems it's so slow to startup, and I don't have that complaint about other Electron apps.
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by pbowyer 4y ago
I'm using UpCloud who are good, but a bit more expensive than Linode or DigitalOcean.
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by pbowyer 4y ago
Can you share the settings that have worked well for high contrast, darker images? I agree the default settings are not great.
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by pbowyer 4y ago
At least writing Python extensions is relatively easy (I understand, not done it) unlike PHP. PHP leans heavily on poorly documented C macros and the internals is tricky to grasp. At least it now has a minimal FFI module.
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by pbowyer 4y ago
> (2) it is so easy to write numeric codes that do the wrong thing with rounding and numerical instability. Are you saying FORTRAN avoids these problems, or that it is prone to them? If the former, how does it do it?
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by pbowyer 4y ago
> But I can name a tool that focuses specifically on each area and query type and is better for that specific subset of functionality. Please do name them, because I for one would like to never run ElasticSearch again for faceted, full-t
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by pbowyer 4y ago
> This is just incredibly frustrating and disheartening to read. How is one supposed to plan for a future in this career when your lifestyle can just disappear overnight? Plan like everyone else in your country who has to deal with this
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Ask HN: What have you used DuckDB for?
1 points by pbowyer 4y ago|0 comments
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by pbowyer 4y ago
There's a third reason for companies outside the USA who buy cloud services in USD - the strengthening dollar/falling exchange rates means everything is more expensive so to keep the budget the same you have to cut usage.
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by pbowyer 4y ago
I'm sharing this because on my M1 Mac I couldn't get Whisper to work with MPS. CPU transcribing was taking around 2x the audio time. With Whisper.cpp with 4 threads and using the base.en model, a 40 minute podcast transcribed in 1
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Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++(github.com)
8 points by pbowyer 4y ago|1 comments
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by pbowyer 4y ago
Good. PHP-FPM needs a challenger as anyone who has tried to debug it or its pools knows. Or to tune it (so many modes, so many configuration options). Litespeed's PHP LSAPI [1] shows how good performance can be with other setups. It&#x
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by pbowyer 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32997774
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by pbowyer 4y ago
> Next quarter I'm faced with the decision of either doubling down of Cloudflare and getting an Enterprise plan with them ($20k+) or just ripping them out of our stack and going back to our old AWS Cloudfront set up which has fewer
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by pbowyer 4y ago
It's always been blisteringly fast when we've used it, and I like the power of the configuration (it has its quirks but so do most powerful systems). But the overhead of setting it up and maintaining it due to having to handle TLS
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by pbowyer 4y ago
> Though I kinda want to buy it just to support the team. That's kind but they have earned shedloads already (over $2m USD as of Jan 2021 [1]). That's on top of the $2.3m for the Refactoring UI ebook [2]. 1. https:/&#x2
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Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16(coutts.com)
296 points by pbowyer 4y ago|298 comments
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by pbowyer 4y ago
I've found Virtiofs and Docker to get it to the point where I don't really notice the filesystem slowdown. YMMV
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Ask HN: Why are front end developers (esp React) in such high demand in 2022?
28 points by pbowyer 4y ago|39 comments
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by pbowyer 4y ago
Been reporting many ~bugs~ spec inconsistencies there :) Apart from parser differences there's no support for SQL_MODE options yet.
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by pbowyer 4y ago
Anyone know of the same for MySQL/MariaDB? I've found their grammar in the repository, but having a library would be better. I've found unofficial attempts but they have all mishandled parts of SQL compared to the built-in My
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by pbowyer 4y ago
> You could do worse than go back and make sure your foundation maths is solid. This. Though I have no textbook I'd recommend; all of the ones I used were a very hard slog to read, let alone grasp the maths in them.
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by pbowyer 4y ago
We're good at logging text, but how do you handle logging assets (images, audio - anything non-textual but generated) and associating them with your logs? For example an image processing pipeline. You don't always want to log (it&
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by pbowyer 4y ago
Have you had any luck with FB this way? There's local history groups I'd dearly like to back up for future generations - plus posts from 6 months+ ago are already hard to get to.
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by pbowyer 4y ago
> Wait, you are using PHP for scientific computing? I would love to hear more about that part. Not OP but I wish PHP was usable for scientific computing. If I had better C/Rust/PHP internals insane macro skills I would integrat
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by pbowyer 4y ago
> I honestly can't find a good option in this space anymore... What happened? They took lots of VC money, got crazy valuations and picked up a few enterprise customers as the JamStack trend grew - and now have to try to generate a r
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by pbowyer 4y ago
Congratulations on the release! In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27134785 in reply to me you said: > You can display real production source code in code blocks in any language without having to copy-paste and it c
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by pbowyer 4y ago
> And also we are likely entering into a recession which will also hit them. This is a key insight. The Shopify powered shops I buy from are luxury expenditure. The small producers who make nice stuff at high prices. The last couple of m
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by pbowyer 4y ago
> It's interesting to see people rediscover this idea of "develop locally, push static site to web," Yes! Dreamweaver was good 19 years ago and remains good today. Being able to see what you're doing, without running

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