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Re:Www.semantic.art on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @11:59PM (#45678040)
A wonderful way of showing what AI can do to expose human creativity.
How is it different than other agents and co-pilots?
Re:Use Plaintext Email on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @05:53PM (#39034744)
I completely agree. I switched to neomutt three or four years ago and there are a few things with text-based emails that really accelerate my workflow.

1. Fewer distractions. 2. Scripting keyboard shortcuts through emails - creating a to-do from an email with just tapping a function key, for example, or adding a company to a CRM with another function key tap. 3. Being able to delete emails with a Regex filter, which is really important for mailing lists. 4. Much faster latency which Though it seems to be trivial Google's research has shown is important to great user experiences 5. Ability to use neovim within the email client. 6. Local search using not much which again much lower latency than Google even for very large mailboxes.

I'm curious where did you find the data point that they sold an equal number of units quarter over quarter?
Re:My Laptop Is Faster Than Your Cloud: Announcing MotherDuck on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @08:53PM (#33617853)
Yes fair point. I see that pattern when running background tasks locally vs on heroku's workers.

In this case, most of the analysis is happening locally without a ton of network use.

Re:My Laptop Is Faster Than Your Cloud: Announcing MotherDuck on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @08:52PM (#33617848)
Good addition. I should have been more clear.
Re:My Laptop Is Faster Than Your Cloud: Announcing MotherDuck on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @08:52PM (#33617846)
Yes, that's right.
Re:My Laptop Is Faster Than Your Cloud: Announcing MotherDuck on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @08:27PM (#33617690)
Author here: I agree with you on benchmarks. It's hard to compare different databases well.

MotherDuck is an analytics database optimized for reading with columnar compression. Postgres is more of a transactional/general purpose database. Tuning it well for analytics would surely improve performance.

Most people won't tune a db with custom indices though because it can be hard, so purpose built solutions like this offer value in those cases.

The article isn't purely about performance but also ease of use. MD is an in process database so starting with it is very easy.

Glad we agree on the power within a laptop! It's underappreciated.

Does anyone have experience running either of these three in production?
I love TUIs and I'm looking for a TUI calendar. But there's one feature they all lack: sending availability to someone. Using grep or rg would be great. That's where Calendly and Vimcal shine.

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