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    Comment #34693561

    What do you use to index image vectors? Does a "retrieval based modal" not require an index?

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    Comment #34491262

    Maybe because other people search in different places. Events/Businesses: Google Maps, Instagram Trend/Tutorials: Tiktok, IG Reels News: Twitter/Social Media/News Outlet of choice …

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    Comment #32013808

    PTG => Parse Thingy: https://poi.apache.org/apidocs/dev/org/apache/poi/ss/formula...

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    Comment #28970115

    So many interesting findings in the post. The tantivy binary search & rust binary search only has one different at the end, knowing the size of the slice ahead of time, right? Coul…

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    Comment #26031429

    Even if your current employer let's you talk about specific numbers, without context they don't tell the recruiter anything. "The API latency was 10 seconds, now it's 8.5 seconds."…

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    Comment #22958412

    So costco pays a small companies to sell their product and extract sales data. Should amazon start paying small companies at the same margin that costco does?

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    Comment #22655528

    i suggested building this at a bigco where i work last year, built a prototype using postgres and wrote the design doc. sadly it wasn't picked up. Congrats on product, there is a b…

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    Comment #22556379

    zoekt is absolutely awesome, I was reading it’s code yesterday to figure out how it does ngram indexing and search.

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    Comment #22045539

    Capitalism is the way a system set of connections between subsystems and politics is a way to reorganize a system from within itself. > can the system still be simplified enough to…

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    Comment #21903026

    I am all for the Go idiom that variable name length should be directly proportional to it's scope, the code samples in the post have take it a bit too far and make the code harder …

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    Comment #21719628

    Why do you hope so? Vala is a decent language which let's users build Gtk applications easily.

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    Comment #21399024

    Sometimes it's not about show how smart they are, developers aren't clear about the code they are writing. when I write code for a concept i don't understand completely, it tends t…

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    Comment #21361045

    H1B is a lottery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#Lottery You might be thinking of the L1 visa

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    Comment #21361030

    > the evolution of slave labor is going to make the H-1B horror stories from the 90's to the present sound like fairy tales. Sorry, english is not my first language. can you please…

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    Comment #21166971

    Immigrant here, and I can read, write & speak english. If i don't have a job with a company willing to sponsor my visa I would have to get back on the boat and leave. My friends, w…

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    Comment #21166915

    can you please link the study?

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    Comment #21104213

    > This is a little silly. Is it though? I interpreted question the following way. "Rust is a tool in my tool box, when the reason for picking it over other tools isn't demonstrably…

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    Comment #20609212

    >The Server package contains the Register function. Main package implements the QueryUser function that does the work of querying the DB. When Main calls Server.Register to registe…

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    Comment #20493051

    >Poor programmers are optimistic completely agreed, just had a long conversation with a junior engineer about how adding a cache would not solve a complex architectural problem and…

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    Comment #19722625

    >The best parts of rust's error handling are the try!() macro (aka `?`), Go's way of providing try!() macro is less magical but almost as useful.[1] > From/Into error types allow t…

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    Comment #19617086

    > AWS to provide a docker on lambda option isn't that AWS Fargate?

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    Comment #19295943

    They are important in Haskell because they allow "real world" tasks to performed and give the ability to reason about functions. They are _useful_ for non-pure function programmers…

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    Comment #19295917

    that's a good generalization but has one small thing missing. The main benefit of a monad is composition. It allows a programmer to chain computation and put some logic in the chai…

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    Comment #17293958

    are you following a book or a website for the recipes? I would love to cook more at home but it takes time to find good recipes.

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    Comment #16271846

    Do as the docs says not as the doctor does.