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Re:AI coding at home without going broke on Saturday June 13, 2026 @01:26PM (#48519393)
i spent 8k and get close to a 2-3x slower sonnet. running 2x spark deep seek v4 flash
Re:Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022) on Thursday April 23, 2026 @10:41AM (#47876325)
18xx, hardcore economic train games. Think war games with money.
Re:Dbt – Incremental but Incomplete on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @09:58PM (#41854908)
They're using it for data transformation.They're long time dbt users, but are switching to SQLMesh because it's extremely efficient, provides a better development experience, and can help them become warehouse agnostic.
Re:Dbt – Incremental but Incomplete on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @04:43PM (#41852892)
There are many teams using SQLMesh in production. Fivetran, Harness, Hopper, Pitchbook to name a few.

You can read some case studies here https://tobikodata.com/harness.html or join Slack to meet with folks to learn more about their experiences.

Re:Dbt – Incremental but Incomplete on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @02:41PM (#41851717)
Thanks! Yes, it's a much requested feature but it's difficult to get right!
Why is this faster than the stdlib? What does it do to achieve better performance?
Re:Joins 13 Ways on Monday July 03, 2023 @04:50PM (#36578631)
Very cool work!
It's mostly affecting the amount of AI content I have to wade through these news aggregators...
There's a lot of hype with ruff, but I've been doing fine with black and autoflake. I have a pretty sizeable project and have never thought to myself it's problematic because it's slow.
Re:First Republic - Order Taking Possession [pdf] on Monday May 01, 2023 @01:01PM (#35775694)
We used both svb and first republic!
Re:High salaries in tech are over forever on Friday April 28, 2023 @02:49PM (#35745465)
This is a garbage/sensationalist/click bait article. They source blind conversations.
Re:Monorepos are great! ... for now. on Friday April 28, 2023 @11:35AM (#35742548)
Monorepos at scale only really works if you have the tooling and infra to support it. Otherwise, you're going to be miserable with slow builds, pushes, pulls, impossible merge conflicts.
Re:Coffee grinder hype and buyer's remorse on Thursday April 27, 2023 @02:45PM (#35732790)
It's fun having the ritual of grinding coffee. Maybe I can't tell the difference but I enjoy it!
Re:Pydantic Started a Company on Sunday April 23, 2023 @08:21PM (#35682199)
This and Astral (ruff) are similar. “hot” python frameworks, but unclear how they’ll monetize.
Re:Twitter removes govt funded labels after outlets flee on Friday April 21, 2023 @10:34PM (#35662836)
It's surprising how these rash decisions are made with seemingly little thought. You'd think someone so successful would be logical... I guess it's optional.
Re:Can GPT pass my programming courses? on Friday April 21, 2023 @11:24AM (#35655148)
The real challenge is can a GPT deliver a product to a PM / Executive who doesn't know what they want??
Go and rust aren't going to help you as data engineer. Data Engineering is dominated by python, sql, java, and scala.

Writing a pipeline in those languages isn't particularly great unless you have very specific reasons for it because there's no ecosystem for them.

Re:Python 3.12 Nogil Benchmark on Thursday April 20, 2023 @03:58PM (#35645432)
In general removing the gil will make things slower because you need to make sure things are safe. If most code out there is single threaded, removing the gil may not really have a benefit.
Re:Show HN: We built a ClickHouse-based logging service on Thursday April 20, 2023 @01:30PM (#35643317)
Why is this linking to a random markdown page?
Ahh the big company reorg. Executives need to somehow look busy, gaining alignment etc etc...
It's really depressing to see the world crumble like this. It's not just twitter, but look at what's happening in Florida.

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