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captaintobs··on AI coding at home without going broke
i spent 8k and get close to a 2-3x slower sonnet. running 2x spark deep seek v4 flash
captaintobs··on Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)
18xx, hardcore economic train games. Think war games with money.
captaintobs··on Dbt – Incremental but Incomplete
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.
captaintobs··on Dbt – Incremental but Incomplete
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.

captaintobs··on Dbt – Incremental but Incomplete
Thanks! Yes, it's a much requested feature but it's difficult to get right!
captaintobs··on Mpire: A Python package for easier and faster multiprocessing
Why is this faster than the stdlib? What does it do to achieve better performance?
captaintobs··on Joins 13 Ways
Very cool work!
captaintobs··on How generative AI is affecting the software developers life
It's mostly affecting the amount of AI content I have to wade through these news aggregators...
captaintobs··on Goodbye to Flake8 and PyLint: faster linting with Ruff
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.
captaintobs··on First Republic - Order Taking Possession [pdf]
We used both svb and first republic!
captaintobs··on High salaries in tech are over forever
This is a garbage/sensationalist/click bait article. They source blind conversations.
captaintobs··on Monorepos are great! ... for now.
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.
captaintobs··on Coffee grinder hype and buyer's remorse
It's fun having the ritual of grinding coffee. Maybe I can't tell the difference but I enjoy it!
captaintobs··on Pydantic Started a Company
This and Astral (ruff) are similar. “hot” python frameworks, but unclear how they’ll monetize.
captaintobs··on Twitter removes govt funded labels after outlets flee
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.
captaintobs··on Can GPT pass my programming courses?
The real challenge is can a GPT deliver a product to a PM / Executive who doesn't know what they want??
captaintobs··on Ask HN: Is it worth it for me to learn Go or Rust as a Data Engineer?
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.

captaintobs··on Python 3.12 Nogil Benchmark
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.
captaintobs··on Show HN: We built a ClickHouse-based logging service
Why is this linking to a random markdown page?
captaintobs··on Alphabet’s Google Combines AI Research Units Brain and DeepMind
Ahh the big company reorg. Executives need to somehow look busy, gaining alignment etc etc...
captaintobs··on [dead]
It's really depressing to see the world crumble like this. It's not just twitter, but look at what's happening in Florida.
captaintobs··on Only one pair of distinct positive integers satisfy the equation m^n = n^m
Although I have a degree in mathematics, I was never very good at deriving proofs.
captaintobs··on Google employees label AI chatbot Bard ‘worse than useless’
Google had every opportunity to capitalize on the architectural innovation and failed tremendously.
captaintobs··on DataGrip: Many Databases, One Tool
I've always preferred using notebooks (Jupyter Labs) for data. It preserves history and I can bounce around and execute arbitrarily complex scripts.
captaintobs··on Netflix will end its DVD service after 25 years
It's such a funny story that Blockbuster had a chance to buy Netflix for $50 million.
captaintobs··on Arroyo – Distributed stream processing engine written in Rust
How does this compare to Flink and Spark? Is it performant for batch processing as well?
captaintobs··on Twitter “For you” content should be by user preference customizable
It's all a facade.
captaintobs··on Show HN: Mathsprint – online competitive math game
Nice and simple! I had a similar design on the iPhone back in the day where you could play head to head on the same phone.

Great work!

captaintobs··on U.S. advocacy group asks FTC to stop new OpenAI GPT releases
It's just not gonna happen unless the government does something.
captaintobs··on Is Y Combinator worth the money? Brutally honest review of W22 batch experience
i was looking to do yc but decided against it because of the remote aspect
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