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The other thing that I think people tend to forget is that there are plenty of situations where N+1 queries just aren't that big a deal. Not every view in every application that ev…

As someone who's used Django since 0.97 and loves it, Content Types are one of those features that I recommend avoiding. It looks amazing at first but you will eventually regret it…

> Having that in mind, the next project was entirely in Pylons. All was good, until we were asked to add Unicode support. How long ago was this? I feel like unicode has kind of bee…

You realize he's not a native English speaker, right? His English grammar is better than my Italian, so I don't feel the need to criticize.

Not every application uses LLMs the same way. For some use-cases, price per 1M tokens is absolutely meaningful. Eg, we do a lot of pretty basic classification/entity-extraction/sum…

Inrupt, TBL's company, is doing SOLID for enterprise customers.

Have you looked at the W3C's SOLID standard? I haven't looked deeply into what you're doing, but it sounds like a less interoperable version of what SOLID already does. https://sol…

Interesting to read the comments and see the reaction here. I didn't use Fable (just Opus and Gemini) but I recently ported the `djlint` Python library to Rust, also relying heavil…

I took his Introduction to Cryptography class when he was a visiting professor at Columbia. Absolute master of an old-school chalkboard lecturer. They don't make them like that any…

Yeah. Back when Gemma2 came out we benchmarked it and were looking at open models. For our use case though, while the tasks are pretty simple, we do need a pretty large context win…

Thanks. Yeah, for now we're moving to 3.1 flash lite as that's the new cheapest at $.25/1M and is also still "good enough". 2.5 flash is more expensive at $.30/1M (looks like Deep …

No. Right now I'm upset that Google has removed (or at least is in the process of removing) the Gemini 2.0 flash model. We use it for some pretty basic functionality because it's c…

Last time I went through SOC 2 we talked to our auditor about this. His view was that there are and basically always have been auditors/companies that will sign off on anything wit…

Shameless self-promotion, but my own post on Ratchets from a few years back: https://thraxil.org/users/anders/posts/2022/11/26/Ratchet/ Similar basic idea, slightly different take.…

Leonard Susskind's "The Theoretical Minimum" series is a great start. His corresponding Stanford lectures are on youtube as well and are a nice supplement.

Working heavily in Python for the last 20 years, it absolutely was a big deal. `pip install` has been a significant percentage of the deploy time on pretty much every app I've ever…

Nope. Out of the box GCP Cloud SQL instance.

Yep. We have tables that use UUIDv4 that have 60M+ rows and don't have any performance problems with them. Would some queries be faster using something else? Probably, but again, f…

I switched from EE to CS (well, "Computer Engineering" technically) in the late 90s. Not specifically due to Smith charts, but that's relatable. For me it was just realizing that I…

Obviously nothing solid to back this up, but I kind of feel like I was seeing emojis all over github READMEs on JS projects for quite a while before AI picked it up. I feel like it…

Erlang/Elixir supervision trees also rely on process linking, which is implemented in BEAM and doesn't have a real equivalent in most other language runtimes (modulo some attempts …

Yeah, I switched from XMonad (which I used for over a decade) to Sway a few years back. Spent some time trying to duplicate the XMonad behaviour but eventually just realized that s…

The description of the "meta framework": * Thesis/Starting Argument * Counter-Argument (paper requirement from Naval War College) * Rebuttal (different perspective, not your starti…

I've always just gone to the youtube channel page, view source, search for "rss", copy the URL and paste it into my feed reader. It would be great if it was more discoverable, but …

You can write a parser and type checker for pretty much any language in pretty much any language. It's just text files as input and text as output.