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jiggunjer··on Dbos: Durable Workflow Orchestration with Go and PostgreSQL
Sounds exactly like how Temporal markets itself. I find that the burden of creating idempotent sub-steps in the workflow falls on the developer, regardless of checkpoints and state management at the workflow level.
jiggunjer··on N8n added native persistent storage with DataTables
Nodemation
jiggunjer··on N8n added native persistent storage with DataTables
Who says they're not writing code? I imagine a declarative DSL with a typescript SDK for the primitives is appealing to some devs. There's an API too.

It's a bit too simplistic for complex workflows, its model assumes a workflow is executed entirely by a single worker...

jiggunjer··on Category Theory Illustrated – Natural Transformations
Lets software designers use fancy words and ask for a raise.
jiggunjer··on AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
So like: <prompt> <intent>Generate a metaphor-rich essay on the fragility of digital memory in the age of infinite storage</intent>

  <assumptions>
    <tech>LLMs understand metaphor but may default to literal interpretations unless nudged</tech>
    <audience>Reader is tech-savvy but emotionally attuned</audience>
    <bias>We romanticize loss and impermanence; permanence is sterile</bias>
    <style>Poetic, but not florid. Think Calvino meets cyberpunk.</style>
  </assumptions>
  
  <worldModel>
    <digitalMemory>
      <definition>Not just data retention, but emotional proxies, identity scaffolding</definition>
      <paradox>We remember too much, and thus forget how to forget</paradox>
      <analogy>Digital memory is a hoarder’s attic with perfect climate control</analogy>
    </digitalMemory>
    <humanMemory>
      <contrast>Fuzzy, selective, narrative-driven</contrast>
      <value>Its gaps are what make it beautiful</value>
    </humanMemory>
    <systemInteraction>
      <modelRole>LLM is not just a scribe, but a co-dreamer</modelRole>
      <risk>Model may over-index on coherence, losing the emotional fray</risk>
    </systemInteraction>
  </worldModel>
  
  <openQuestions>
    <q>Can forgetting be designed into digital systems?</q>
    <q>Is nostalgia a compression algorithm?</q>
    <q>What does it mean to "misremember" in a world of perfect logs?</q>
  </openQuestions>
  
  <edgeCases>
    <case>Model generates a dystopia instead of a melancholic tone</case>
    <case>Model literalizes metaphors (e.g., "clouds forget")</case>
    <case>Model assumes user wants a solution, not a meditation</case>
  </edgeCases>
  
  <bestPractices>
    <tip>Use metaphor as scaffolding, not decoration</tip>
    <tip>Let ambiguity breathe—don’t resolve every tension</tip>
    <tip>Favor rhythm over precision in sentence structure</tip>
  </bestPractices>
  
  <meta>
    <duration>Prompt typed in 2 minutes, no edits</duration>
    <mood>Sleep-deprived but lucid</mood>
    <goal>To make the model feel like it’s dreaming with me</goal>
  </meta>
</prompt>
jiggunjer··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
Then use a laptop instead? Or you have one of those "modern" banks that's app only?
jiggunjer··on Replacing cron jobs with a centralized task scheduler
Aka workflow orchestrator, pipeline manager, process runner, automation tool.

It's not clear if they used a product or DIY solution. The nice thing many existing products offer is a web UI and a database.

jiggunjer··on OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
But CC is more work to setup, especially if you want to use multiple models. Not even sure it supports all the models that the IDE products do.
jiggunjer··on SQLite Date and Time Functions (2007)
UTC is pretty stable though. I recall they will obsolete leap seconds somewhere in the next 10 years
jiggunjer··on My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle
Actually the ETHOS classification system for homeless focuses more on where a person is living as opposed to why they're living like that. OP would alternate between two categories.
jiggunjer··on Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature
Exists in R: Mydata %>% myfun -> myresult
jiggunjer··on Whenever – typed and DST-safe datetimes for Python
Pandas uses stdlib or numpy for it seems.
jiggunjer··on We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all different and confusing
Source? There are lossless and lossy transformations. In many scientific contexts raw implies no lossy transformations in terms of information.
jiggunjer··on Games Workshop and the big ambition of a miniatures business
It makes sense to just consider the category of tabletop games in terms of market analysis.

Saying those games are a small part of the overall games market is stating the obvious. Some people just wanna play tabletop games.

jiggunjer··on My second year without a job
Same. Mildy curious about the homeless life, just paid the last rent I could afford when I found a job. The main concern at the time was worrying my parents.
jiggunjer··on Police bust pirate streaming service making €250M per month
I never said it doesn't support live tv. But I was trying to point out that people who pay for the above service are not _necessarily_ interested in the live tv feature. I.e. it's not the reason for some. I'd guess convenience.
jiggunjer··on Police bust pirate streaming service making €250M per month
No? IPTV is a protocol. You can send on-demand movies etc too.
jiggunjer··on Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good
I suppose it's about kernel and driver packages mostly.
jiggunjer··on Started a guide to writing FUSE filesystems in Python
The API documentation can be referenced at https://github.com/libfuse/python-fuse

It doesn't seem to be a complex interfac

jiggunjer··on A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff
Isn't it the same with something like idrac?
jiggunjer··on 500 Python Interpreters
So this means modules like concurrent.futures can create a thread pool object (as opposed to processpool) and run in parallel?

Or is the functionality as of 3.13 still limited to low level python embedding applications?

jiggunjer··on Kotlin for data analysis
I've yet to find anything that beats R's ggplot, both in terms of DSL and graphic design defaults.
jiggunjer··on Ruby: A great language for shell scripts
Python's also not installed by default in (most?) official docker images.
jiggunjer··on Koheesio: Nike's Python-based framework to build advanced data-pipelines
Another snakemake?
jiggunjer··on FDA approves first gene therapy treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
CAT=CT
jiggunjer··on LTESniffer: An open-source LTE downlink/uplink eavesdropper [pdf]
Nah, 4g stands for 4g.
jiggunjer··on Dutch journalist who writes critically on China targeted in intimidation scheme
Yeah, important distinction from a government perspective. It's not the ccp, it's only the hyper nationalist zealots created by the ccp.
jiggunjer··on Parquet: An efficient, binary file format for table data
My understanding: they're like pickle files, but for programs that use the arrow standard.
jiggunjer··on Parquet: An efficient, binary file format for table data
I'm interested in a good tool for converting csv to pq. Seems many encoding features are not supported by most.
jiggunjer··on I'm a very slow thinker (2016)
Accuracy isn't binary. Not being perfect doesn't mean it is irrelevant. My map of the city could be more accurate but it still gets me where I need to go.
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