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Google may be getting AI to write good SQL, but they aren’t getting it to write good blog posts.

You can’t fake human clinical trials.

fourfunon A chemist explains the chemistry behind decaf coffee

Definitely not worldwide, Colombia has a plant doing EA decaf

The Discogs integration is a great feature. I’ve checked out musicbrainz but it’s no where near as complete for the music I listen to.

fourfunon Mp3tag – Universal Tag Editor

Not on Mac. Absolutely worth it though

fourfunon Bayer is getting rid of bosses and asking staff to ‘self-organize’

Your stakeholders?

fourfunon Aho – a Git implementation in Awk

One case I saw it used was for processing genomics data. It was kinda ok at first but when we needed to add a new sequencing type it was laborious.

Personally I don’t think awk is a good choice for anything beyond one liners and personal scripts. Here it was fine because it was (initially) some write-once academic code that needed to not be insanely slow.

fourfunon Aho – a Git implementation in Awk

I’ve seen enough awk behemoths in my time, no thanks.

fourfunon We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres

I definitely agree that using a tool like Fivetran is generally needless complexity when FDWs would get the job done.