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So why not take the approach all the fast olap systems are going and serve as the indexing and query layer and put storage at the object store level?

Im just not convinced that prompting is faster for many programming tasks than writing it myself, when considering the downstream effect on the next task on the same codebase. If I…

How long will it last though?

I was under the impression ferrying migrants over the border and avocados were almost as big revenue streams as the drugs. Et tu, avocado toast and gardener?

TempleOS blows my mind, honestly.

I agree: Re happiness is greatly increased by not having stress of worrying about paying bills. Re wealth distribution, that works for a generation or two maybe, but you do need pe…

That seems like an awesome reason to use it in an era of most software is an AI slopfest.

The easiest weapon to use is demographics: Offer a visa to any Iranian woman under 25.

The benefit of StarRocks/ClickHouse over Trino is that you get secondary indices, but that means you have to do the indexing somehow. Native format is faster (especially for coloca…

I'm very curious about the convergence of the best in class fast OLAP products (StarRocks, ClickHouse) with Trino. It sounds like everybody is going for decoupled compute/storage, …

Apparently engineers are running out of tokens with our mediocre token budget, and there is talk of trying to run local LLMs. Meanwhile execs get unlimited tokens... And here I am,…

You are absolutely right to push back...

They used to care about developers. Peak cocoa and uikit was a thing of beauty and objc remains my favorite programming language of all time. When Swift came along i tried and was …

Country of lawers vs country of engineers

Nah, gonna be populist idiots from the other side.

The same way we dont want smart people on juries, smart people in government is haram. especially people with technical educations who care about privacy. very haram!

You mean token holders

Any reason SpaceX cannot just build a giant solar shade at L1? This seems fairly doable on the decade timescale, plus it could do double duty as a weapon.

"in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard"

And the surname "matamoros"!

I hate Java and would still choose it for all sorts of distributed systems work. It has fantastic tooling and is robust, performant and well understood.

It's called having a tailor, and it is expensive (in the US)

Yeah, no. If you are digging deep into database internals, query optimization and schema design, it helps to have someone with some experience in the domain. Otherwise your team wi…

The hammer is open weight models, and the anvil is Apple's m7 chips with higher memory bandwidth

better dim sum, hopefully. the local chinese food is a crime against gastronomy.