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by pbronez 2mo ago
And this is fine! This is the whole point of living in a civilization. Master your craft, get useful, trade with people who know other useful things, everyone is better off. You could just as easily point out that subsistence farmers exist.
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by pbronez 2mo ago
I once had a customer threaten to reject a delivery over a CVE. I dug into it. The CVE was that an Ocaml PostgreSQL client didn’t implement an authentication feature. I convinced the customer to accept the delivery by pointing out that (1)
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by pbronez 2mo ago
Pretty extreme solution… you can get Claude models from AWS Bedrock and Google Model Zoo. These are both very helpful for compliance and security, but do require you to have a cloud strategy.
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by pbronez 2mo ago
Yes. Fine tuning is an optimization. Like all optimizations, it’s downstream of figuring out your problem, implementing a naive solution, scaling the naive solution, and getting frustrated by SWAP-C. THEN you start poking at what optimizati
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by pbronez 3mo ago
Cool idea. Hard problem. To do this properly you need access to all communications of all family members. iMessage and email would be needed for my family to really take advantage of this. That level of access would demand more trust than I
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by pbronez 3mo ago
How do you get the flashing LED synced up to the spinning pinholes? Maybe the motor provides some positioning feedback so you just have to line it up once…
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by pbronez 3mo ago
This prompted me to revisit my own decision to avoid Codeberg by re-reading their Terms of Use[1]. A few things stand out: - They explicitly require all hosted software to have a FLOSS license - Private repos are only allowed in su
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by pbronez 3mo ago
Nice use of regression analysis to understand your experimental dataset > But again, some combinations might be just harder to draw than others. > To account for that, I fit a fixed-effects regression on all 1,008 images: score ~ lab
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by pbronez 3mo ago
Great article… been worrying about this one quite a bit: > If these tools demand expertise, yet the tools can actively circumvent the friction that cultivates expertise, then what is the path for one to become an expert so they can effec
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by pbronez 3mo ago
How does "standard Bolt" relate to OpenCypher? Does Bolt support imply OpenCypher support?
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by pbronez 3mo ago
The medium is the message! Well written.
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by pbronez 3mo ago
Feels like a reaction to the Fivetran/DBT merger. That was announced October 2025 but operationally is just getting some steam. Airbyte is probably also part of the story.
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Prefect Is Acquiring Dagster(dagster.io)
10 points by pbronez 3mo ago|1 comments
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by pbronez 3mo ago
Yes it’s an add for a book but it does provide a sample chapter: https://nostarch.com/download/samples/automate-excel-with-py...
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by pbronez 3mo ago
What are best practices for using Excel as a front end for python tooling? I’ve got a use case where the business users are maintaining a complex spreadsheet and we need to hook some genuine optimization into it. It’s all fine and good if y
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by pbronez 3mo ago
I don’t see why HP would want to do that. They have huge margins on ink, right? I’m sure the increase in cartridge sales would offset lost subscription revenue from useless cloud services, if only because the people who are gonna use an ope
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by pbronez 3mo ago
Thought-provoking closing paragraph from the linked Cornel Chronicle article about the transition: “It’s now difficult to prepare for the world three months from now if the median LLM-produced computer science paper is better than that prod
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by pbronez 3mo ago
1000% this. I write to force myself to think deeply and crystallize my opinion on things.
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by pbronez 3mo ago
Interesting, I was wondering why Snowflake was investing in PostgreSQL. Looks like Snowflake bought Crunchy Data and Databricks bought NEON… so the two leading DWaaS companies have managed PostgreSQL offerings now.
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by pbronez 3mo ago
I am currently fighting my way off SQL Server towards PostgreSQL. Windows Server is a real pain to operate and the SQL Server ecosystem expects you to run a lot of add-ons on the server alongside your database. Those don’t translate to mana
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by pbronez 3mo ago
Same, although I prefer Endel. It’s a paid subscription, but their objective-focused playlists work really well for me. Relax, Focus, Deep Focus… very effective.
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by pbronez 4mo ago
“As with all bunny.net services, accounts using the platform are subject to our standard $1/month minimum spend, but DNS itself no longer incurs any usage-based charges.” This is smart. Ensures you have valid payment information, which
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by pbronez 4mo ago
Maybe? Would be nice for it to be optional. The site says the camera saves the original images, so they should be able to provide multiple stitching approaches. If it’s a lighting flicker issue, you can probably address with frame stacking
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by pbronez 4mo ago
OP’s wigglegrams are fun but a bit jarring; your “at the concert” is much smoother. I wonder how we could bridge that gap. My first thought was to use video stabilization algorithms. I suspect they would either fail do to insufficient frame
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by pbronez 4mo ago
In that scenario, maybe SSD prices drop enough that spinning disk loses relevance.
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by pbronez 4mo ago
Yeah this is a better link https://squeezlabs.github.io/handcrank/
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by pbronez 4mo ago
That’s really cool! I’ve been thinking about how LLMs could help me with long running series. I read lots of stuff that’s thousands of pages long with a huge cast of characters and locations. Amazons X-Ray is okay ish but (1) not supported
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by pbronez 4mo ago
That’s really cool! I’ve been thinking about how LLMs could help me with long running series. I read lots of stuff that’s thousands of pages long with a huge cast of characters and locations. Amazons X-Ray is okay ish but (1) not supported
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by pbronez 4mo ago
It's weird how hard it is to get programmatic access to a mobile-first messaging service. Telegram is the only one that makes it easy. WhatsApp and iMessage have first party solutions that assume you're a business with 1:M comms.
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by pbronez 4mo ago
Interesting, Project Sunrise aims to run non-stop flights between Sydney and London + New York. They needed to design a new airplane to do it. Targeting service starting late 2027.

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