AsyncBanana

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How much would you pay for a smarter baby?(economist.com)
2 points by AsyncBanana 1mo ago|0 comments
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by AsyncBanana 1mo ago
You have no idea how long I have been waiting for adaptive planning. One of my biggest annoyances with the Postgres core team has been their reluctance to implement any sort of adaptive planning despite it, at this point, being a well-estab
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by AsyncBanana 2mo ago
The more I read about LLMs and more complex ML in general, the more I realize nobody really knows what is going on.
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Refinement types for Rust(github.com)
2 points by AsyncBanana 2mo ago|0 comments
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by AsyncBanana 2mo ago
A lot of these things are continuations of previous trends too. The shimmering text effect is strongly reminiscent of skeleton UI, only repurposed for chat interfaces. As always, design is more continuous evolution than discrete shifts.
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by AsyncBanana 2mo ago
I have never really needed something like this. The cloud aspect is a bit different, but Tailscale already does that better at a way lower price.
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by AsyncBanana 2mo ago
China is still far behind modern lithography. It took ASML almost 2 decades to get from immersion DUV (and EUV prototypes) to commercial EUV machines.
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by AsyncBanana 2mo ago
I don't love the increasing move towards industry research instead of traditional academia. It is just going to mean more closely-held, proprietary advancements.
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It is past time to upgrade to post-quantum encryption(economist.com)
2 points by AsyncBanana 2mo ago|0 comments
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Europe's fires are just the start(economist.com)
5 points by AsyncBanana 2mo ago|0 comments
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by AsyncBanana 2mo ago
"prompt engineering" in general just boggles my mind. It is amazing how all of this investment has just created software that doesn't follow instructions well.
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Making Postgres slower(byteofdev.com)
355 points by AsyncBanana 1y ago|39 comments
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A Quick(ish) Introduction to Tuning Postgres(byteofdev.com)
2 points by AsyncBanana 1y ago|0 comments
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by AsyncBanana 2y ago
At this point, most people likely associated the word "phone" with something closer to a modern smartphone than a landline. Language can change. From my point of view, the problem is more that Apple set a precedent of these restri
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by AsyncBanana 5y ago
True, although people need to make green NFTs more mainstream if they want NFTs to be more supported.
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State of the Web: Static Site Generators(byteofdev.com)
161 points by AsyncBanana 5y ago|173 comments
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State of the Web: Bundlers and Build Tools(byteofdev.com)
2 points by AsyncBanana 5y ago|0 comments
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by AsyncBanana 5y ago
I agree it can be pretty easy to set up a basic version of this, but eliminating edge cases, optimizing, and unit testing can make it take significantly longer.
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by AsyncBanana 5y ago
Thanks for your interest! Currently, Microdiff does not have a patching functionality by default, and the API is different. If there is enough interest, though, I might make a compatibility layer to ease the differences, and it probably wou
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by AsyncBanana 5y ago
For a bit of info on why it is often faster, you can look at https://github.com/AsyncBanana/microdiff/issues/2 . I will probably add something to the README about that soon too.
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The fastest object diff library in JavaScript(github.com)
100 points by AsyncBanana 5y ago|44 comments
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by AsyncBanana 5y ago
This was not surprising, as many people already knew sleep helps your brain remember things. However, it is good data to back this up for people skeptical of the benefits and the "cutoff" time was interesting.
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by AsyncBanana 5y ago
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