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Comment #47405814
Deployments can be on-prem or cloud-based depending on needs and constraints.
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Comment #46158476
Would be nice to see the actual wording in the cable, but I suppose Reuters are not allowed to publish that; we get a cable paraphrasing a cable.
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Comment #44012431
If batch sizes are sufficiently large, for example by staging updates, is this really necessary to achieve good insert performance?
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Comment #43397852
Google claims "On average, EV batteries weigh around 454 kg" ... pretty heavy stuff to carry around.
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Comment #41415853
Yes? https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/cr... .
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Comment #39872994
This 2011 addition to the XZ Utils Wikipedia page is interesting because a) why is this relevant, b) who is Mike Kezner since he's not mentioned on the Tukaani project page ( https…
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Comment #39765389
Here's another reference on this: https://www.yoursoundmatters.com/vinyl-vs-cd-in-the-loudness... . > As explained earlier, due to the physical limitations of vinyl, there are limi…
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Comment #39559961
Ah of course, that makes sense, thanks. In their comparison, perhaps they should still mention that just to clear up any confusion.
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Comment #39559861
They mention https://pola.rs/ and highlight how it has the exact same properties (out of core etc) but don't include it in benchmarks and no mention on their detailed comparison pa…
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Comment #39474226
The filmed entertainment industry is pretty massive and AI is going to make a big impact there (for better or worse), that's probably something most folks can understand. CGI is al…
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Comment #39302805
ChatGPT knows how to answer this question, but how I don't know. Perhaps it's programmed to answer that question?
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Comment #39262916
On MacOS, you have built-in sandboxing via "sandbox-exec" which shouldn't incur any noticeable overhead. It's used by Chrome, Bazel, etc. Not sure what's available on Windows.
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Comment #39260244
> A program run with Deno has no file, network, or environment access unless explicitly enabled. You can do this using containerization technology, no need to invent this per langu…
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Comment #38967771
They've "invested 5 million engineering hours" which is impressive, but are the design changes impossible for Apache Kafka to adopt?
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Comment #38959816
Since any argument after one or more "**" must be a keyword-argument, perhaps f(pos_a, pos_b, **kwargs, kw_a, kw_b, ...) or even f(pos_a, pos_b, **, kw_a, kw_b, ...). This would ma…
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Comment #38412495
Seems like the two main difficulties in moving forward on this proposal are the name itself and agreeing on an API that's idiomatic to JavaScript, basically finding the right balan…
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Comment #38263250
Perhaps this should be an incentive for library authors to finalize the 1.0 API and accept that there's eventually going to be a 2.x down the road, a "less is more" approach.
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Comment #37818828
Perhaps their team could have found something useful in KalDB from Slack which is based on Lucene: https://github.com/slackhq/kaldb
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Comment #37453562
Looks like you're asking for syntax sugaring for T::new wrapping, e.g. `"bar" |> Something |> Arc |> Mutex`.
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Comment #37431654
Active support ended a year ago (12 Sep 2022), but somehow it still saw a security release on 24 Jul 2023. Perhaps we will see one more?
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Comment #37334112
I have never met a productive software developer that didn't fundamentally enjoy his or her work ("happiness"). What do you do with an unhappy person? At some point, if everyone el…
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Comment #37333336
You don't need to measure software developer productivity. The article (or ad) admits as much: > Further, attracting and retaining top software development talent depends in large …