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by efxhoy 6d ago
> we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models.” implied the humans sessions could have been (and probably were, why wouldn’t they be?) in the training set? If I was trying
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by efxhoy 28d ago
Ive built data warehouses and job queues on postgres. The DW got replaced with bigquery when we started doing more tracking. We still run postgres as an app-facing cache of the aggregated data from bigquery though. The job queue runs on the
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by efxhoy 1mo ago
This is really cool. I'm interested in getting into 3d printing parts to help with my wood working but I can't find the time to get productive in CAD software. Something like this feels like it might tip the balance into having a
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by efxhoy 1mo ago
Yeah I sold my apple watch after about 6 months and got a good old F-91W instead. The most useful thing about it for me was having an animated memoji unicorn on my wrist to amuse people. Wasn’t really worth the trouble of charging it every
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by efxhoy 2mo ago
I recently switched my router from pfsense to OpenBSD. I wanted a “vanilla” OS as opposed to a specific router OS like Opnsense. The setup on openbsd was very straightforward. I had to read up a bit and claude helped getting ipv6 and vlans
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by efxhoy 3mo ago
Great job on getting the fixes merged!
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by efxhoy 3mo ago
How could an agent bypass file permissions?
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by efxhoy 3mo ago
I came back from 6 months of parental leave in march 2026. When I left no one serious was using the tools for more than casual rubber ducking. When I came back my best colleagues were spitting out clauded PRs faster than I could review them
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by efxhoy 4mo ago
Nice. Would you mind explaining your current config?
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by efxhoy 4mo ago
> Enabled IPv6 autoconf (SLAAC) by default. Sweet! I’m just about to replace pfsense with openbsd on my router. Smoothly setting up ipv6 is a bit of a headscratcher atm, mainly because i’ve never had to understand it before.
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by efxhoy 6mo ago
Isn’t it just regular price discrimination? Profit maximizing firms with market power charge different prices based on willingness to pay in order to sell to people who won’t pay a higher single value monopolist price. https://en
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by efxhoy 6mo ago
I’ve only had their platforms explained to me by them (palantir) at a conference but the mental model that stuck with me was more of an operating system than a single tool. Think AWS managed services + databricks + whatever library of ready
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by efxhoy 7mo ago
How is the output quality of the smaller models?
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by efxhoy 9mo ago
It’s the clear OLTP winner but for OLAP it’s still not amazing out of the box.
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by efxhoy 9mo ago
Maybe my brain is oversaturated with culture war nonsense from too much doomscrolling but that’s where my train of thought went too, even if it wasn’t directly implied. By claiming our ancient predecessors had terrible taste you can make th
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by efxhoy 10mo ago
I like it! We have a service with a similar postgres task queue but we use an insert trigger on the tasks table that does NOTIFY and the worker runs LISTEN, it feels a bit tidier than polling IMO.
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by efxhoy 11mo ago
I had a few periods of doing the same in sublime text, I did use syntax highlighting though. It’s a really great feeling and very liberating, especially in a greenfield project. Can’t really justify it at work though, projects are too big t
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by efxhoy 1y ago
There's nothing wrong with nullable fields when it's appropriate. When kids are born they don't have names. Not all users want to tell you their names. A null value is data too.
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by efxhoy 1y ago
The best practice way to swap fullname for firstname, lastname would be to: 1. Migration that adds firstname and lastname columns will all nulls 2. Deploy application code change to start populating firstname and lastname alongside fu
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by efxhoy 2y ago
Looks great! Can I run it on my own bare metal cluster? Will I need to buy a license?
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by efxhoy 2y ago
Testing strategy? What’s that? I kid, but just a bit. Our use case is a data warehouse. We use DBT to build everything. Each commit is built in CI to a CI target project. Each commit gets its own hash prefixed in front of dataset names. Eac
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by efxhoy 2y ago
Timescale is definitely worth a look. Pg_partman gets you part of the way. We ended up going with bigquery for our workload because it solved a bigger bag of problems for our needs (data warehouse). It’s very hard to beat for big… queries.
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by efxhoy 2y ago
Reuters really broke the site for me when they did what looked like a rewrite about a year ago. Glad to see this as I hardly read it anymore. bbc news is going downhill too, another prime candidate for a project like this.
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by efxhoy 2y ago
That’s confusing. What DDL did it do? Create new partitions?
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by efxhoy 2y ago
My preferred way of working is plain sublime text and the terminal. I use command line tools for linting, formatting and type checking, wrapped in “make lint”. I find that sublime is just smart enough to go to the definition using only its
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by efxhoy 2y ago
Sounds like a win from a product perspective, higher retention! Clearly a feature, not a bug. The metrics don’t lie! /s
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by efxhoy 2y ago
This has been the case for years now, way before the AI craze. We just used to call it machine leaning. The best performing predictive models are black boxes which can’t practically be interpreted by humans the same way you can say a linear
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by efxhoy 2y ago
Interesting! Is there anything like this that I could host myself?
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by efxhoy 2y ago
Strategically this is huge for the US and NATO. Being able to put orders of magnitude more payload in orbit at a fraction of the cost of the competition is a huge advantage in controlling space. Starlink and starshield are already years ahe
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by efxhoy 2y ago
One of my teachers did a paper on maritime disasters and concluded that women were more likely to die in shipwrecks, despite “women and children first”. The Titanic and Birkenhead were the exceptions. https://www.ifn.se/medi

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