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Any thoughts on https://github.com/dylan-sutton-chavez/edge-python or http://edgepython.com/ ?

Almost had this with dart

https://github.com/ggozad/haiku.rag/ - the embedded lancedb is convenient and has benchmarks; uses docling. qwen3-embedding:4b, 2560 w/ gpt-oss:20b.

Lance graph?

Agreed.

I feel like dart is where Python was 20 years ago. It’s exciting and its integration story is taking off.

Yes check out haiku-rag benchmarks and evaluations

What we use: - https://github.com/ggozad/haiku.rag

Why?

- developer oriented (easy to read Python and uses pydantic-ai)

- benchmarks available

- docling with advanced citations (on branch)

- supports deep research agent

- real open source by long term committed developer not fly by night

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Asciidoc

I would like to point out that asciidork provides ability to get AST representation of asciidoc. It’s very nice package. Not the author but have used it.

https://github.com/jaredh159/asciidork

can you be more specific about this?

How does the js compilation compare to dart?

Unlikely to be authentic for 250$ for sure no provenance

Wow

If you’re in tech and “inside the loop” driving isn’t a problem. You can use a scooter. If Houston could fix its air quality and climate (100F w/ 90% humidity for 4 months:year) - it would be much more attractive. It’s brutally hot - it’s the tropics.

Thinking is required but knowing your thinking is the first step. We slip into thinking without knowing and that is the problem. How many hours does the depressed person wallow? Enjoying the trauma they control in their mind as they "future" the coming doom they will face or the regret of the past. There is nothing esoteric. Less than 100 hours of meditation can get you to this insight.

I would imagine he is referring to attaching your self-worth to external objects. External objects can change and if you lose such an anchor that you have made a pillar of identity - one can become destabilized. Some personalities/mind can't "pull up" (out of it) and frequently suffer the Porkins fate (death, suicide, depression, etc).

This is a fantastic story. Parker's Back, as well.

good country people

Is it? Or is he a monster who brought 5 beings into a existence of suffering?

https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/is-life-actually-wort...

What about the original "challenge" website?

http://www.pythonchallenge.com/

How many plumbers, carpenters and electricians do we need?

They could have just asked the Dutch if this was going to work.

Sam Harris said it well, "We spend our entire life seeking out pleasure and avoiding pain." In my opinion if you are going into solitude for avoiding pain - the pain will continue. Like others here have posted: your heart (emotions, thoughts, etc) follow you.

There is a show on Youtube by BBC _Extreme Pilgrim_ that is pretty good first hand documentation of solitude in 3 different traditions or flavors. Think the guy spends 3 weeks in each location in solitude.

I believe if I were to start this sort of exercise I would attend some sort of Vipassana retreat. This way I would have some framework for managing thought. I could not imagine going out into nature and having mind relentlessly "work its way through things".

Jim has been saying this for past 6-8 years. He will eventually be right.

Agree, storing binaries in database is generally a bad idea. It would be a really miserable idea if it were being done without a sane persistence API. In the Python world, ZODB - http://www.zodb.org/en/latest/ is tightly coupled with the language but works reasonably well in practice. The storage layer is pluggable and https://pypi.python.org/pypi/RelStorage provides storing pickles in RDBMS.

ZODB is arguable a novel approach to persistence using Python. And certainly worth taking some time just to play with it -- the barrier of entry low, e.g. `pip install`. But for each positive there are negatives..

"You got it buddy: the large print giveth, and the small print taketh away"