gdubya
Re:AI-Assisted Cognition Endangers Human Development
on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @04:31PM (#47784829)
That is a sharp and slightly chilling analogy. If Steve Jobs saw the computer as a tool that amplified human effort (the bicycle), and AI represents a tool that automates that effort entirely (the car), then the "obesity epidemic" of the mind is likely Cognitive Atrophy.
- Gemini
Re:US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
on Friday February 20, 2026 @03:12AM (#47085157)
Ah, a new "WTF": Worse Than False!
Re:Kubernetes Is Your Private Cloud
on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @11:42AM (#45902302)
Re:Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors
on Sunday October 12, 2025 @03:50AM (#45556196)
Public sector? In my country working for the energy grid operator feels like a constructive and positive contribution.
Sorry about your dark place. Keep looking for the light!
Re:Energy Dashboard (UK)
on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @07:55AM (#45114691)
Very interesting! Who made this?
Re:Embedding user-defined indexes in Apache Parquet
on Monday July 14, 2025 @03:13PM (#44564148)
The technique can be applied by any engine, not just DataFusion. Each engine would have to know about the indexes in order to make use of them, but the fallback to parquet standard defaults means that the data is still readable by all.
Re:Sailing the fjords like the Vikings yields unexpected insights
on Friday June 27, 2025 @09:51AM (#44396814)
Watch out for fulings on the plains!
Re:Weaponizing Dependabot: Pwn Request at its finest
on Friday June 06, 2025 @10:18AM (#44201178)
Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed
on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @12:37PM (#42952148)
That transcription reads very much like a NotebookLM "podcast" summarising the actual article at https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/outrage-fatigue-i...
Re:Portrait of the Hilbert Curve
on Saturday January 18, 2025 @02:08PM (#42750588)
Hilbert curves are used in modern data lakehouse storage optimisation techniques, such as Databricks' "liquid clustering" [1]. This can replace the need for more traditional "hive-style" partitioning, in which the data files are partitioned based on a folder structure (e.g. `mydatafiles/YYYY/MM/DD/`).
Re:Podman Desktop v1.5 with Compose onboarding and enhanced Kubernetes...
on Friday November 03, 2023 @06:54PM (#38136149)
I wanted to build a Windows container image but I really did not want to install Docker Desktop. After some digging around I found my way to the Docker server / client binaries for Windows page that allowed me to do this: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/binaries/#install-ser...
Re:LLM Powered NPCs: Enabling Dynamic Dialogue with LLM-Powered NPCs i...
on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @11:34AM (#36494362)
Interactive LLM Powered NPCs, is an open-source project that completely transforms your interaction with non-player characters (NPCs) in any game!
Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hostile redesig...
on Monday June 12, 2023 @03:53AM (#36289861)
Like Mastodon to Twitter? I like the idea, but it's not really taking off, is it?
Re:Databricks acquires serverless Postgres vendor bit.io
on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @02:21AM (#36135126)
Fabric does not use Databricks, but both Databricks and Fabric rely heavily on Delta. Let's just hope that they remain compatible.
Re:Databricks acquires serverless Postgres vendor bit.io
on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @04:45PM (#36130510)
This is interesting... possibly a move by Databricks to try and build on their "data lakehouse" concept to counter the recent "Fabric platform" announcements at MS Build.
Databricks coined the "Delta lake" concept and are still (just about) leading the way, but Fabric has the potential from MS to take away that marketshare. Databricks need to improve their "serverless SQL" offering, and add a serious "data warehouse" component alongside the lake.
Re:CLI tools for working with ChatGPT and other LLMs
on Friday May 19, 2023 @03:08AM (#35998711)
Does it work with LocalAI [1] if you change the openai.api_base value to http://localhost:8080/ ?
Re:Relational Operators in Apache Calcite
on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @03:22AM (#35521911)
No
Re:The Roll-Out of Windows 11 Is the Perfect Time to Decide to Switch ...
on Friday October 29, 2021 @09:34AM (#29038180)
Windows 11 is the perfect time to switch to Linux (especially for first-timers), using WSL2. Then, once you're familiar with Linux, it's a shorter jump to replace Windows completely (and appreciate how fast Linux can be without WSL)
Re:Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes financial sec...
on Sunday October 03, 2021 @02:52PM (#28739573)
"it ain't great, but it could be a lot worse..."
Re:Act: Run your GitHub Actions locally
on Sunday August 22, 2021 @10:42AM (#28265852)
Oh, this has been submitted before, sorry!
Act: Run your GitHub Actions locally
Re:Atlantic Ocean currents weaken, signalling big weather changes: study
on Friday August 06, 2021 @05:14PM (#28092817)
Good work! Keep at it. You're not alone.
Re:Life before smartphones (2020)
on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @03:23AM (#28046530)
Exactly! We're never old, we're new, constantly. :)
Re:The rise of E Ink Tablets and Note Takers: reMarkable 2 vs Onyx Boo...
on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @08:25AM (#27514253)
TL;DR: no, because physics! :)
Re:Terraform 1.0
on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @03:35PM (#27439755)
The operators we offer in our clusters (e.g. ECK, Prometheus, etc... the ArgoCD ApplicationSet generators make it easy to configure which features are installed on each cluster), as well as the applications developed by the development teams. Our work isn't complete yet (still working on sync for secrets and RBAC), but it's working nicely so far.
Re:Terraform 1.0
on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:03AM (#27434595)
I like Terraform for infrastructure, up to the point of creating the K8s cluster, then ArgoCD for keeping K8s in sync.
Re:Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more magnetic than...
on Thursday April 08, 2021 @02:19AM (#26735662)
That doesn't necessarily mean that the content is the problem. 200 years ago you could probably say the same thing about "basic algebra" instead of "serious physics".
Re:Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update
on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @01:44PM (#26081095)
Good point. Whatever the default is for a Samsung S10e. I agree that the forking by all the manufacturers is a PITA.
Re:Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update
on Monday February 08, 2021 @02:05AM (#26061605)
I had this one (by ZXing Team) and never noticed any negative behaviour, but given that the default camera app now supports QR Code scanning I don't see a reason to keep the Barcode Scanner app.