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I think this is a bit of a non issue. The UI is just that, a UI. Take it or leave it. If it makes your life easier, great. If not, nothing changes about how you use DuckDB. There i…

Owning things is breaking things (and fixing it).

salesforce is a sales and marketing company first, tech company second. it's in their interest to create a ton of buzz and hype on whatever the current thing is and how they are th…

that's been supported in striim since 2016 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3129292.3129294

I agree that it's not particularly surprising that if you try to trick an LLM with irrelevant text will make it perform worse. I don't see this as an material limitation of LLMs bu…

Why is it a good candidate to disrupt? 1 year in, the “disruptor” would run into the exact same problems if they reach any meaningful scale or adoption. Asking happy team members t…

Anecdotal but my wife actually likes that she’s fed such relevant ads on instagram and ends up researching and buying many of the products.

reminds me of this blog on streaming data to Parquet files and running queries on data in the native format. https://pedram.substack.com/p/streaming-data-pipelines-with-...

I had a friend who actually took the “unlimited PTO” thing at face value when he was fresh out of college and joined a cool tech company. He was literally traveling every 2-3 weeks…

It could also be corruption caused by log-based database replication

Coinbase basically played by the rules, wanted to work with the SEC, takes public audits and a 1:1 ratio between liabilities and reserves in US dollars (not their own funny money t…

FTX is a centralized (not DeFi) exchange that used their own coin as collateral and obfuscated their liquidity. This wouldn’t be possible in open decentralized exchanges that many …

It’s a free cloud service. If you rely on someone else to host your compute/storage at no cost, prepare for getting little or very delayed support. Ask all the YouTube creators or …

Zoom and Netflix both lost 60-80% of their value in the last year and I don't see anyone declaring them dead. I don't work in crypto but I think there's a bit of a knee jerk reacti…

I wonder if a recession or bear market environment will quickly make this type of advice – that worked well for the 2010s boom – obsolete in a harsher climate. Might be hard to sca…

I guess all people with money have bootstrapped companies that launched mankind into space?

Maybe when the open source community successfully executes manned space missions, we can free ourselves from the tyranny of proprietary satellite technology…

+1. My tesla got side-swiped in November. The shop is estimating Mid-February (so probably March) for all parts to ship and labor to be completed.

"The failure modes are huge. Most notably, the Cheernobyl Absolute Exclusion Zone stands at 1000 square miles 35 years after the fact" We can also talk about all the tragedies and …

" simple enough to understand but realistic enough that the student can see the issue matters." Exactly this. My least favorite method of teaching is when they dive into a tutorial…

Clubhouse is fundamentally a poor user experience. Dropping into a live discussion mid-stream is a pretty inefficient way to consume content...takes about 10-15 minutes to understa…

There’s no evidence that it’s more deadly at this time. In the words of Derek Lowe... “Many infectious pathogens, in fact, gradually evolve versus a given animal host to be more in…