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by aduffy 18d ago
“…and the naming convention is load bearing” close tab
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by aduffy 1mo ago
This was true six months ago but today models are indeed excellent at coding especially if you give them guidance.
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by aduffy 1mo ago
It’s been wild watching smart people have their brain cooked on a constant diet of X and LLMs in the past two years. Models are excellent at code but they are not people managers. My guess this will ultimately lead a bunch of companies to r
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by aduffy 1mo ago
idk why this is getting downvoted, I also got this sense, plugged it into Pangram and indeed, 80% AI-written score. I guess that's fine, but after awhile I get a spidey-sense reading something that feels like a Claude session.
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by aduffy 3mo ago
That is fair. FWIW I think if you are just doing pure analytics and nothing else, Parquet will probably continue to do the job for you just fine, and you don't need to touch your workloads at all. These new formats I think will find a
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by aduffy 3mo ago
> Also, my main gripe with parquet (single table per file) is not even addressed, so, also the name is a bit hyped up. This is really more of an expectation that has been put on file formats by the query engines. Spark/Datafusion&#x
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by aduffy 3mo ago
> “I never got my driver's license, and I rely on Waymo to commute to an office every day," said Sarah Paige Roland, a Waymo rider in Phoenix. "I get privacy, time back, a safe ride, and I'm not obligated to talk to s
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by aduffy 4mo ago
Move fast and meltdown
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Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol(duckdb.org)
387 points by aduffy 4mo ago|83 comments
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by aduffy 4mo ago
I think I'm missing the excitement. This is an artist's rendering of a supposed massive orb in the sky? I am more impressed by the actual UAV footage that has been released previously.
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by aduffy 5mo ago
On top of this whole thing just being ridiculous, $50mm is also just not a very impressive amount of money to build out an AI data center.
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by aduffy 5mo ago
In the case of the "Gulf of America" thing there was a clear and open statement by the executive that they wanted the maps changed (note that even in the US the name is still legally "Gulf of Mexico"). Apple and Google b
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by aduffy 5mo ago
Sure, but I'm in the US, which is not a party to the conflict between Israel and Lebanon. To my knowledge the US continues to recognize Lebanon as a sovereign country.
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by aduffy 5mo ago
OSM is a foundational data layer for GIS. If you're building a mapping service, you're almost certainly using OSM augmented by satellite imagery and other sources to find population zones that OSM has not found yet. If you look at
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by aduffy 5mo ago
It is straightforward to visit any other online mapping service and see many villages labeled there. Bing: https://www.bing.com/maps?cp=33.185932%7E35.321974&lvl=11.9&... Google: https://www.google.com&#x
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by aduffy 5mo ago
I don't understand what using Scala has to do with anything here.
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by aduffy 5mo ago
This reminds me a bit of the Gulf of America fiasco from last year where if you changed your location to outside the US it would go back to showing Gulf of Mexico. I'm not sure why they would do this for US users unless the US governme
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by aduffy 5mo ago
I'm not sure how much of that converts to revenue. If it's free plan users, that's just cost. You can say what you want about "creating a training data moat" but that doesn't seem like it's prevented the o
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by aduffy 6mo ago
There's something a little off about the projection logic when you drop into the Leaflet view, you'll notice that when you pan around after zooming the planes shift their location. Very cool demo though!
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How to Get to Tomorrow(campedersen.com)
2 points by aduffy 6mo ago|0 comments
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Anthropic and The Pentagon(schneier.com)
5 points by aduffy 6mo ago|1 comments
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by aduffy 7mo ago
It's even funnier actually. Yes, Palantir does have free Zyn vending machines in every office, but the Zyn is only for visiting customers. Employees are explicitly prohibited from using the machines. Just vice signaling all the way dow
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by aduffy 7mo ago
They need to refund it *with interest*, according to filings cited in the article.
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by aduffy 7mo ago
Yea, the group commit is the real insight here. I read this blog post and to help wrap my head around it I put together a simple TCP-based KV store with group commit, helped make it click for me. https://github.com/a10y&#x2F
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by aduffy 8mo ago
> - They assume their hard-to-program but faster architecture will get figured out by devs. It won't. Or it will get figured out in the niche fields where people are willing to figure out really hard stuff to squeeze out max perform
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by aduffy 9mo ago
They’ve left the consumer market and only do defense now
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by aduffy 10mo ago
…you’re free to use other editors? People like Zed. They like IntelliJ. They like VSCode. If you have an aesthetic preference against all professionally maintained IDEs, I think you’re in the minority.
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by aduffy 11mo ago
I've had numerous encounters where doctors (and dentists) attempt to charge me for services they've already been reimbursed for from the insurance company. It's only after hours of scouring my EOBs and being on the phone with
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by aduffy 1y ago
QGIS is the shit. I absolutely love it, great for visualizing GeoJSON, GeoTIFF files, open data feeds, etc. My one gripe is that their macOS installers have been out of date for ages now, the best way I've found is to actually install
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by aduffy 1y ago
We don't get a tax write-off. The motivation is to move the IP and trademark into a separate organization so it's no longer owned by Spiral. This means we can't re-license it later, we'd have to fork it, because the Vort

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