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by potamic 3y ago
Clickhouse has been around for longer and battle tested at Yandex. In what cases might VictoriaMetrics be a better fit?
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by potamic 3y ago
We most certainly don't, but it's an interesting thought exercise whether it's a better model than everything else we have seen so far. Of course, it asks for very different trade-offs. For instance, you should be willing to
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by potamic 3y ago
See people, this is why free speech must be absolute. The moment you let someone become the gatekeeper, they will absolutely use that leverage for their own benefit, at your expense. What is worse? Allowing fringe boneheads to spew hate and
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by potamic 3y ago
The online demo doesn't work because Stackblitz is asking for third-party cookies
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by potamic 3y ago
What are the traditional BI tools?
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by potamic 3y ago
Don't know why, I just love esoteric words thrown into a sentence when a simple one would do.
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by potamic 3y ago
Will companies want to deal with individual websites?
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by potamic 3y ago
How do you ensure two backends don't pick up up the same request?
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by potamic 3y ago
Doesn't Google have any patents on the transformer architecture? I assume large enterprises tend to patent everything that comes out of their research.
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by potamic 4y ago
> Once you reach a certain level, all problems are solved by people. There is no such thing as a purely technical problem. It's a good summary overall, but in my view the best principal engineers are the ones who also solve pure, ha
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by potamic 4y ago
for the love of all things sanity, please read the article before commenting!
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by potamic 4y ago
Very precisely my course of action. As consumers, we will do well to protest and boycott services that ask you to identify yourself unnecessarily. But I had to scroll far to see this comment. The general interest here for a new product and
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by potamic 4y ago
What does a policy lead do and how are they relevant to an early stage startup? I would be more interested in seeing which researchers and engineers join.
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by potamic 4y ago
It doesn't work when investors can exit before the fraud is discovered
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by potamic 4y ago
We generally equate venture capital to building businesses, but it helps to take a different perspective. The ultimate objective of venture capital is to find an exit for your investment. Wherever you see your investment will give you a pos
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by potamic 4y ago
It's very cool stuff! Especially if you're training your own model. What are the training costs like and what data do you use for training? I'm wondering if this is something where you feel you have sufficient moat or is it l
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by potamic 4y ago
Concur. Composability, separation of concerns, do one thing and one thing well, etc. are all philosophies as old as time in this industry. Any programmer worth their salt would understand the value they provide. Source code hosting has noth
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by potamic 4y ago
I don't think you understand the spirit of the GNU license. The idea is to contribute your sources back to the community so that it can be built upon. Ultimately one individual can do only so much, but allowing the community to extend
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by potamic 4y ago
Am I the only one who dislikes these hand drawn diagrams? At least the text parts of it. Pod looks like Pool, watch* looks like watcher and rewrite looks like rent. Look at the diagrams with both print as well as hand drawn text next to eac
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by potamic 4y ago
I think this is the best use case of ChatGPT, as a first level search engine to surface out any potentially relevant information. But I would be careful using it on a subject I'm not familiar with or relying on its content directly. Wh
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by potamic 4y ago
Unfortunately, in the manner of your rant, you may have strengthened skeptics resolve to stay away from crypto even more. Besides the hundreds of scams abound, the past few years, a major theme of skepticism here has been around the use cas
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by potamic 4y ago
Here we go again. I don't know if it's the PR machine gaining steam, but there has been a flurry of posts propping up Sam Altman across social media lately. He's just another serial investor who struck timely fortune during a
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by potamic 4y ago
That kind of protectionist thinking isn't sustainable in the long run.
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by potamic 4y ago
It's terrible for the workers, because currently they get overtime pay beyond 9 hours, this law effectively reduces overtime by 3 hours. Women also play a bigger role in running the household, and with 12-hour shifts plus commute time,
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by potamic 4y ago
Isn't a deviated septum a mechanical problem in the nasal passages? How does rinsing help?
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by potamic 4y ago
What is inclined rate?
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by potamic 4y ago
One of the problems when people talk about the scientific method is that they treat it as a sort of a process or a formula to apply, but it couldn't be further from the fact. The point is the concept and there are different ways to rea
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by potamic 4y ago
While there is the rare hidden gem, the most reliable way is to seek out reputable brands. That's the whole point of a brand. A brand encompasses a set of ideals and principles that become characteristic in the product, creating a mark
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by potamic 4y ago
> accusing the whole New Zealand academic establishment—and the seven Auckland Uni professors who, in the infamous Listener letter, said that MM was not equivalent to science—of being riddled with racism. I was a junior when I first gras
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by potamic 4y ago
None. All the niggles and lousiness here serve well to keep a critical mass of people away who will be the eventual ruin of this place. It's an unignorable trade-off.

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