switchbak

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by switchbak 3mo ago
PG has had incremental view maintenance on the horizon for many years. I expect it to remain on the horizon for a long time. What you're describing is amazing, and I wish I had it available to us. We've hand rolled far too many tr
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by switchbak 3mo ago
I imagine you're correct about course correction speed, although I'd also expect that the materials and their properties are quite classified at present. I would also imagine that there could be processing necessary that is mostly
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by switchbak 3mo ago
Good thing I'm not running games on my 4gb Pentium 4 then.
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by switchbak 4mo ago
"MRIs are actually widely available in most cities at reasonable cost" - I live in one of those first-world countries, and our citizens regularly wait many months if not over a year to get a single MRI scan. Yes, it's not jus
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by switchbak 4mo ago
Until your project has some success, and it turns out all those "complex" features actually turn out to be extremely useful. Which is exactly what is happening with us, too bad we didn't choose K8S from the get-go and stuck w
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by switchbak 4mo ago
I worked at a place (a big name in a given vertical!), where the SRE looked at K8S and said "hold my beer". Out came Docker, dnsmasq, miles of duct tape and a whole lot of swearing. Just to come nowhere close to reinventing someth
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by switchbak 4mo ago
Or perhaps: we don't want our adversaries fixing all the security holes we rely on. Or even: this is a good chance to stick it back to Anthropic.
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by switchbak 4mo ago
LargeCo is probably struggling under the weight of technical debt and organizational challenges/politics. I bet if you gave them the Codebase of the Gods, it’d be a heap of hacks inside a couple months.
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by switchbak 4mo ago
I wired up a stream deck to perform long-running tasks. Very much tailored to the kind of HCI that I prefer, so I can be interrupt driven versus checking on status all the time. Eg: push a button, it shows that it's working for a while
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by switchbak 4mo ago
What annoys me is this is how a lot of people expect social interactions to happen - so if you want to stay off the corporate platforms to maintain your attention/mental health, etc - you get treated like you're snubbing them.
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by switchbak 4mo ago
I'm a big YouTube addict, but I dropped social media well before that was cool. I've felt quite disconnected from folks I knew, and I presume they feel like I've pulled away. Sounds like this is kind of similar, you end up fe
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by switchbak 4mo ago
You must have one high-tech kitchen!
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by switchbak 4mo ago
They're also the ones that won't let their kids anywhere near the things. That really is a strong statement of the ethics here - they're happy to let "those" kids get addicted to it, have it help ruin their mental h
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by switchbak 4mo ago
Perhaps I've somehow avoided that for a long time and don't appreciate how lucky I am. I've maintained my own Linux based workstations for the past ~8 years. IT hates it, but we seem to have been grandfathered in from back wh
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by switchbak 4mo ago
This is what I've found, sadly. But there's always folks like Arainach in the sibling thread that'll chew you up if you dare complain about the usability of anything OSS. This is the new version of "GIMP is better than P
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by switchbak 4mo ago
Now the next bottleneck is the compiler - which we can model in an LLM! It's only wrong 15% of the time :) But truly, using Cerebras at ~2k tokens/s, with very low latency is like a vision into the future. You start to rework your
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by switchbak 4mo ago
Oh come on you can't be serious. Clearly this needs some JB-Weld :P
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by switchbak 4mo ago
Yeah that's a good point that I often forget about, thanks. I wasn't looking for RAW hdr, just plain jane RAW support that handles moderately new cameras. I stayed on with the old Lightroom as long as I could, but a) it didn'
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by switchbak 4mo ago
I don't care that much about performance - I imagine any modern machine can handle that load pretty well, for this context that's not a huge concern. The concerns are more about distributed systems issues, maintenance, etc. Typica
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by switchbak 4mo ago
That was a typo/thinko on my part - I meant to say mirrors. I find it scary when people just look from side to side, perhaps looking in the rear-view mirror, but not ever turning their head. This happens WAY more than you'd expect
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by switchbak 4mo ago
Absurd? What's with you folks and your strongly charged language? Please recommend these "powerful alternatives", because I have explored the space and found nothing that replaces Lightroom in a way that I find acceptable. Pl
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by switchbak 4mo ago
I don't have spite for Adobe, that seems like a projection on your part. But I can't justify the purchase, and have adapted the way I take photos as part of that. It's more like finding the subscription for a CAD program too
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by switchbak 4mo ago
I've heard so many stories, and have had so much recent close experience of those stories not ending on a high note. It's nice to hear that Burnt Sushi's and your wife's experience do sometimes end in a very positive way
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by switchbak 4mo ago
I was a lightroom user for almost 20 years, and their licensing ridiculousness was enough for me to: - change up my workflow, avoiding raw so I can use simpler editing processes - do way less editing - take way fewer photos It sucks, but
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by switchbak 4mo ago
"your employer won't provision you a Linux with root" - there's your problem!
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by switchbak 4mo ago
Yeah no - sharding SQLite? How about if you know you're going to scale like that, build with something appropriate in the first place.
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by switchbak 4mo ago
2022 data leak, investigated by MIT "A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet" https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/19/1065306/roomba-i...
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by switchbak 4mo ago
Well there's always "don't fuck with the way they had it", or "put it back the way it was". Also, in Canada "Older cars don't have automatic headlights" has not been true since the 90's. It&
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by switchbak 4mo ago
Sorry I meant to say their mirrors - but rear view cams do not give much in the way of peripheral vision (yes, I have modern cars too). I've regularly had dumb people cross right into my rearward path even though I'm currently bac
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by switchbak 4mo ago
Presumably there's more efficient hardware foundations to perform these efficiently, and potential at the various abstraction layers for more efficiency. Obviously this is not unbounded - simple things would seem to have a physical lim

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