phanimahesh

Joined 12 years ago

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Member since
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Comment · 7 months ago
A powertool that needs discretion and good judgement to be used well is being restricted to people with a track record of displaying good judgement. I see nothing wrong here.

AI enables volume, which is a problem. But it is also a useful tool. Does it increase review burden? Yes. Is it excessively wasteful energy wise? Yes. Should we avoid it? Probably no. We have to be pragmatic, and learn to use the tools responsibly.

Comment · 7 months ago
Me too. This is funny
Comment · 8 months ago
Wait dbus isn't considered modern? What's the alternative these days?
Comment · 8 months ago
The issuer knows everything and can help track if the wish to. The issue here is lack of trust in any corporate or government entity.
Comment · 8 months ago
Crontab entry to read a file and run a prompt?
Comment · 8 months ago
The long list of domain names that vercel deployed to is interesting
Comment · 8 months ago
Am I the only one who found the terminal more interesting?
Comment · 8 months ago
Excuse me what? Fonts? How do fonts signal LLM usage now
Comment · 8 months ago
That blog post is very light on details can be condensed to a single line/paragraph. LSM trees are more efficient for SSDs and modern databases use them.

I don't know enough to comment yet but will go read about it.

Comment · 8 months ago
But that has no moat. Anyone can generate a database of natural numbers using SOTA models.
Comment · 8 months ago
How would that help in this case?
Comment · 8 months ago
Can you share examples of new database architectures and products using them that are built for SSDs?

I'm sure we have different capabilities and constraints, but I am unaware of any fundamentally different approaches to indexes.

Comment · 9 months ago
I only see **. Must be the security. When you type your password it gets converted to **.
Comment · 9 months ago
Before commenting water is cheap and plentiful please read the proposed definition.

> Water bankruptcy refers to “a state in which a human-water system has spent beyond its hydrological means for so long that it can no longer satisfy the claims upon it without inflicting unacceptable or irreversible damage to nature.”

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