joelwallis

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by joelwallis 15d ago
Unrelated to the post – but if you're trying to build smt that "magically syncs" across devices, you'd like to use CouchDB (and it's front end companion, PouchDB). They solve this problem for you, and it's solv
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by joelwallis 15d ago
It's wonderful to see people trying to fork SQLite in any way possible, to supposedly build a better product with AI, out of smt that's been built by seriously talented people for over 20 years. Kudos to the team behind SQLite. Th
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by joelwallis 26d ago
OH GOSH! I remember VERY WELL the promises from Internet.org which, in fact, turned to be Meta, Microsoft, and some other big techs teaming up to build walled gardens up to today's people thinking that "Internet" resumes to j
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by joelwallis 2mo ago
So, Ahthropic pirated god-knows-how-many books from all around the world to build Claude models, launches multi-billion products out it, and then gets fined $1.5B. Sounds like the crime was worth the shot. It reminds me of: > "If th
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by joelwallis 4mo ago
"Building for the future"... then, "we're firing 1K+ people." What a BS.
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by joelwallis 5mo ago
So you're saying it's pretty low quality because it failed specifically to parse PDFs?
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by joelwallis 6mo ago
You got a point.
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by joelwallis 8mo ago
IIRC, multiple writers in SQLite is supported, their writes will just be serialized. What you don't have is concurrent writes. But, given SQLite writes are so fast, in practices it's not really a big deal. If you haven't used
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by joelwallis 8mo ago
THANK YOU VERY MUCH you and the team behind OpenPrinting for such GREAT contributions to Linux - and so to the Humanity itself!
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by joelwallis 10mo ago
SQLite is abolutely amazing as an app format! I couldn't list how many tools are available to read SQLite data, or how easy and friendly they are. Even its CLI does wonders when you're dealing with data with it. SQLite has been ar
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by joelwallis 1y ago
I wouldn’t say it’s so intuitive. We need more of these articles coming in — I learned nice things from this text, specially about the exact match over partial indexes, and to always QUERY EXPLAIN instead of assuming you’re right (my case h
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by joelwallis 2y ago
I could do it with Photoshop, two candles of Red Bull and a 5K USD payment in my account. Jokes apart — this is the best SciFi movie ever! It’ll become one of these movies one’s got to rewatch every 5y or so.
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by joelwallis 5y ago
You can definitely live in Brazil with 1K USD/month. And nowadays it's even better because the USD-BRL rate is about 5-something. For a comparison, 1K USD is about what I spend every month to live - and I definitely don't coo
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by joelwallis 6y ago
Omg it would be legendary