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Back in college, I thought I could compress my phone number by telling people its index in pi, but my 7 digit phone number is at an 8 digit index.

I didn’t have the compute to find my 10 digit number with the area code.

I had this too until I lowered it's memory limit. In ~/.duckdbrc `set max_memory='1GB';` or even less

By default, it tries to take 80% of your memory. I've found that you need to set it to something much smaller in ~/.duckdbrc `set max_memory='1GB';`

The best way to get software engineers to solve your issue with X is to phrase your question “Why is X so horrible? It can’t even do Y.”

The engineers will inevitably reply “That’s so simple. You just need to …”

The ecosystem for managing python dependencies has improved a lot: pyenv, virtualenv, poetry.

PATH isn’t innate to Python. Understanding PATH will definitely help with other issues in the future.

I hadn't heard of Opera Unite. It's similar and 10+ years older!

Thanks for the kind words - friends have been mostly confused by this project.

Heroku's github integration has been down for 2 weeks

> there's actually proportionally less failures in Product Hunts busiest period

This is a really interesting post! I think there's a little survivorship bias. As Product Hunt grew 2015-2017, users posted old projects of theirs which were already popular and successful.

This is advice that seems reasonable but is actually pretty harmful.

Take a startup with a few users. The senior engineer decides they need pub/sub to ship a new feature. With Kafka, the team goes to learn about Kafka best practices, choose client libraries, and learn the Kafka quirks. They also need to spin up Kafka instances. They ship it in a month.

With postgres, they’ve got an MVP in a day, and shipped within a week.

This is a neat idea, but I think the site is a bit too barebones for people to want to trust with their data.