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I am now wondering if anyone has done a graph db where the edges are embedding vectors rather than strict terms.

Curious: how would you imagine it working if there were such a graph db?

Modern, but sane syntax (readable), good defaults (strong typing, null safety...), good-enough runtime performance, good APIs and tooling out of the box, cross-platform (also hot-reload on some, AOT). The list goes on, what specifics do you care about more?

Basho team was very kind to open source contributions in ~2011-12: I've written an open source Riak client in Dart, and they had sent me t-shirts (the quality ones that are rare today). Nice treats for a fun project :)

One of the postgresql client packages (posgres) is roughly 8 years old. That's how "client side" it ever was...

It sounds like you need a desktop workstation with replaceable extension cards, and not a mostly immutable laptop, which has different strengths.

Clearly not all, that would be a different announcement.

Why do you think it must be one thing or the other? It can be better than Javascript, used for Flutter and app development, and also cross-platform compiled and used for backend.

Nit: Approval voting (yes/no for each candidate) is easier to implement and also understand. I couldn't rank 82 people, but could yes/no them...

Note: the title is missing "unless the open source model evolves".

Is your work open source?

I remember a similar read. I think it also helped that armies become more disciplined, could march longer (coffee was a stimulant vs. alcohol), also the workforce had fewer errors. Any chance that somebody knows the reference?

Depends on the definition of widespread use, but e.g. CockroachDB and YugabyteDB offer scaling of a subset of Postgresql features (and extending on the cluster capabilities).

Nevertheless, Citus is now a promising open source alternative.

Do you have any further notes on the design and required accessories?

Wouldn't the increased swap load reduce the lifetime of the nvme drive?

I don't really care if somebody blocks a random port of sshd. I just don't understand why people are eager to block public https traffic, which is exposed to the public internet anyway.

Shouldn't you protect that endpoint, regardless of the traffic coming from tor or not? It is really cheap to get traffic through domestic VPN proxies, so a dedicated attacker will get to it anyway...

I use tor for exploring topics that I don't want to tie to my regular profile (ranging from professional software development, through health care issues, but also hobbies, fiction and nsfw content). Having these browsing in a separate profile and also IP address makes it much more relaxed to look for interesting stuff on the internet. (I am not really fond of advertisement that tries to sell me whatever I've visited in the past month, on unrelated pages.)

It saddens me that the default response is ban, increasingly so for services that need account, but even just reading a webpage can become tedious or impossible :(

Please, do not ruin this option, because even though you may not use it today, you may need it in the future.

Note: I also use tor for low volume crawling. When high volume is needed, it is more favorable to subscribe for domestic VPN proxies, so you may be blocking tor, but you won't block those ranges, and the robots will get their content anyway.

To be fair, waze is perfectly usable without using any account.

Proposal for web-scrapers to self-coordinate: monitor the response latencies and rate limit yourself based on that.

(1) Limit your load / parallelism: do not use more than 4 threads, and if the site takes more than a few seconds to respond, use fewer.

(2) Limit aggregate load: after each request, sleep/wait at least the amount that the previous request took to get served.

(3) If you need more than that, ask the site owners for direct channel.

This way if multiple crawler happen to crawl the same resource-limited site, the site may have a fighting chance.

Also: public money, public data. One can dream....

To be fair, tor is a really crappy network to orchestrate a DDOS attack. On the other hand some sites just can't take much traffic, especially if it is a consistent inflow of requests. It may be that somebody just used tor as a proxy to crawl your website and it crumbled.

I happen to speculate this because I may have used tor for web crawling, which may have caused a specific site to crash before I cut back the crawl rate. Punishing tor for such incident is mostly FUD.

I know a company that already reaches test coverage metric goals by feeding chatgpt with code that they need test for. These are tests based on mocks, running trivial things, providing little to no value to the overall codebase. But if the requirements are garbage, the delivered items will be garbage too.

I'm curious: what was your first 3 bootstrapped business?

This looks like a common pattern at other places too: you won't get "best-neighborhood" wealth from being first- (or sometimes even second-)generation high achiever. The root cause seems to be that there are usually more high achievers than properties in good neighborhoods, and old wealth erodes slowly (may take a generation or two), so there is very little pressure for old occupiers to sell their properties.

Every user stores their application state in a git repo they own and control. No other infrastructure is necessary!

As a long-time user (and writer) of static site generators, I welcome these ideas, as I think these would allow us to organize static sites into some kind of decentralized social networks. Think of this as a bulkier version of RSS, because - for most practical cases - it is relative cheap to just fetch everything from a source and present it in a consistent way.

Even if people were using centralized git repositories, a separate naming service could allow easy (and cheap/free) redirects, so data migration wouldn't be an issue.

Can this be done with mastadon? Of course. But it requires a database server and other moving parts that need occasional maintenance. Treating the social network as a network of static sites makes operations (and federation) so much easier.

Would this be this specific project that wins us over? Maybe not, we shall see. But I think the concept could evolve into something useful.

It works with a politician even better.

Not every radio is about music, but yeah, it is a good point to double-check free to use music licenses.

Now, I am fully aware that there's a low of people for whom the horror of commute doesn't make up for the gains of socializing and others that just abhor having to talk to real-life people. Then there are people who work mainly to get paid and do not care to invest themselves beyond what is necessary.

There are people who hate commute, and at the same time do care, and "invest themselves beyond what it necessary". It just happens that they don't want to invest themselves in their commute.

what else are you going to do?

Depends on the team and the product. My personal approach is to have 2-3 larger things to work on, so while I wait for reviews on one, I can switch and work on the other. This usually means minimum 1-2 weeks of planned work, sometimes even more, without being blocked on reviews. If everything is blocked, then it is time for some code health cleanup, refactoring and fixing those TODOs that are just lingering around, and also nudging the reviewers...

On top of that, even after you lose your "US person" status, some financial institutions may just claim that "you have been found in a US registry" without any specification which registry, and now either you prove that you are no longer in the unspecified US registry, or they just deny business with you. Not fun, and a fight that you cannot win.