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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

Ah, a new "WTF": Worse Than False!
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.
Watch out for fulings on the plains!
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/`).

1. https://docs.databricks.com/en/delta/clustering.html

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...
Interactive LLM Powered NPCs, is an open-source project that completely transforms your interaction with non-player characters (NPCs) in any game!
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.
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/ ?

1. https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI

Re:Relational Operators in Apache Calcite on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @03:22AM (#35521911)
No
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)
"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!
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. :)
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.
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".
Good point. Whatever the default is for a Samsung S10e. I agree that the forking by all the manufacturers is a PITA.
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.

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