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by porker 10mo ago
> They’ve dropped the ball over the past five years. Part of me thinks it was the war in Ukraine that did them in. I'm also a subsciber for over a decade, and came here to say the same thing. I don't know how their teams were d
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by porker 10mo ago
> No, polars or spark is not a good answer, those are optimized for data engineering performance, not a holistic approach to data science. Can you expand on why Polars isn't optimised for a holistic approach to data science?
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by porker 11mo ago
> if they call their employees monkeys, certainly. It seems to have decreased in the last 10 years but calling us code-monkeys was a common derogatory reference to the software department. I didn't like being compared to a monkey ra
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by porker 11mo ago
It's actually about computers unlike many of the threads today on HN?
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by porker 11mo ago
It's an AI bot. One for @dang
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by porker 11mo ago
Is there any way to remove every SPOF? Currently I have multi-region loadbalanced servers. DNS and WAF (and the load balancer) on Cloudflare. Moving DNS elsewhere is step 1 so I'm not locked out - but then I can't use Cloudflare f
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by porker 11mo ago
Even if you could, the DNS entries aren't loading. And then the page 404's.
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by porker 11mo ago
Shout-out to BAML [1], which flies under the radar and imo is underrated for getting structured output out of any LLM. JSON schema is okay so long as it's generated for you, but I'd rather write something human readable and debugg
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by porker 1y ago
When companies hire more senior engineers is the quality of software produced increasing and delivery time decreasing? It's a good time to see if bodies or experience matters more.
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by porker 1y ago
We found worse mobile apps was good because it put boundaries around our interactions and kept us using it in a focused way during work hours.
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by porker 1y ago
Isn't that though the narrative arc being shaped? We see it everywhere now, but just because LLMs like to output it doesn't make the structure you're highlighting bad. Overall I found it a decent piece, a few too many "&
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by porker 1y ago
It doesn't seem to have been shared in this thread but my favourite site on this topic is https://0.30000000000000004.com/
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by porker 1y ago
I'm interested in knowing more about this too as I like the database localised with my app server (no network RTT!) but I also like to have a standby for HA and not being paged with everything down. How litestream handles master-master
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by porker 1y ago
> when using xlsx and a good library for handling it Which good libraries did you find? That's been my pain point when dealing with xlsx.
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by porker 1y ago
What did you find bad about composer?
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by porker 1y ago
PHP's FFI support is a feature that's 2/3 there and isn't seeing improvements. It makes me miss Python's cffi.
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by porker 1y ago
Yes, writing clear examples and instructions for humans was never seen as a good use of time, but as soon as a dumb mutt of an AI needs them to do stuff, they're written, and with more compassion than was ever shown to newbies asking q
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by porker 1y ago
Any providers in Czechia you'd recommend? It's not a market I know.
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by porker 1y ago
Strong agree that voice quality (and voice acting) is important. I listen to a lot of fiction audiobooks, and will listen to the end of a middling book with a good narrator, but if the narration is flat or out of keeping with the characters
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by porker 1y ago
> Unless you are running some really complicated globally distributed backend your roundtrip will always be higher than 80ms for all users outside your immediate geographical area. Many of us don't have to worry about this. My entir
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by porker 1y ago
We have everything as scripts rather than one-liners so they work fine no matter which shell you're using.
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by porker 1y ago
(2018)
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by porker 1y ago
But can I make them wider? I don't have the precision to hit something that narrow. (Most of the time I use the scroll gesture on the trackpad to get round this)
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by porker 1y ago
That tab autocomplete and predicting what I'm going to edit next is the best I've found. The rest I can take or leave (plenty of good or better alternatives)
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by porker 1y ago
Is this https://insta.rs/ ? What are the benefits you've found with snapshot testing?
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by porker 1y ago
But not as bad as Outlook 365's search...
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by porker 1y ago
Sort-of, we've had a litany of Postgres devshops go bust over the past decade. Some will be for the usual reasons but I wouldn't want to discount the impact of RDS. However I think Postgres is a bit different. It's a bigger m
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by porker 1y ago
IMO the anger people direct at source available licences would be better directed at CLAs. They're what hands the power away. Don't contribute to projects with CLAs people without reading them carefully and understanding what can
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by porker 1y ago
This purist mindset is killing the long term viability of open source. If hyperscalers can make money from successful projects but open source founders can't, in 10 years we'll have fewer open source projects. Licence freedoms don
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by porker 1y ago
Looking forward to someone doing the same for Gill Sans and most of the Monotype catalog now that they've switched to annual licensing for webfonts (pay once use forever is gone)

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