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nchmy··on Benchmarking Vector Indexes
when i saw your comment, i was confused. Then I read the article only to find there's no result shared. Nonsense.
nchmy··on Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat
where i live in central america, there's normally rain almost every day from may to September. We've had rain perhaps twice in the past 2+ months. Meanwhile, on the other side of the country (and a mountain range), they have had lots of flooding. Crops lost in both cases.
nchmy··on Highlighting My Code Based on How Much I Care
Yeah, it's just offensive to look at. Makes it significantly less likely that the author has useful things to say about font, highlighting etc. Not gonna bother finding out
nchmy··on Bug Blindness
Indeed. It is unreadable without a Reader mode.
nchmy··on Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]
Hah, I wasn't aware of that. I was sort of referring to what seems to be not such a meme that jblow is always introduced like that. It just seems weird, even if true...

Yeah Ive been meaning to watch that talk - I love listening to pretty much anything Casey says/does. He's extremely thoughtful and fair.

nchmy··on Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]
Isn't that Jonathan blow?

(to be clear, I'm a big fan of Casey)

nchmy··on SQLite as a Document Database (2020)
"hatred" is an... interesting... way to describe the joke the person was trying to make
nchmy··on SQLite as a Document Database (2020)
obviously the example is contrived, but it seems strange me that they are not storing the json in its own column - just extracting a single key from it and storing in a generated column. Why not do that in the app code if youre just going to discard the rest of the json?

Here's an example i saw yesterday from mariadb, which is improving its json support in its upcoming releases.

https://mariadb.com/docs/server/ha-and-performance/optimizat...

``` CREATE TABLE t1 (json_data JSON); INSERT INTO t1 VALUES('{"column1": 1234}'); INSERT INTO t1 ... ```

In order to do efficient queries over data in JSON, you can add a virtual column, and an index on that column:

``` ALTER TABLE t1 ADD COLUMN vcol1 INT AS (cast(json_value(json_data, '$.column1') AS INTEGER)), ADD INDEX(vcol1);

```

nchmy··on SQLite as a Document Database (2020)
why is this downvoted...?
nchmy··on An $18B settlement – and Zuckerberg barely blinked
Just a cost of doing business. Makes me think of how Apple's legal team was defended/celebrated by Tim Cook for their constant shenanigans - every year they continue to extort App Store developers, for example, they make far more than they'll ever pay in fines.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/06/10/tim-cook-supporte...

nchmy··on Htmx 4.0
how so? that's what they do - incomparably faster than dealing with JS
nchmy··on Htmx 4.0
apologies, i thought you were saying you were switching to SPAs because LLMs understand it better. I see some version of that comment nearly daily now. Carry on!
nchmy··on Htmx 4.0
the browser is and always will be built for dealing with SSR HTML
nchmy··on “It works better in the app”
Apple is almost completely to blame for all of this.

https://infrequently.org/series/browser-choice-must-matter/

nchmy··on “It works better in the app”
Again, this is Apple's work. Developers don't make good web apps when they cant work on iOS.

https://infrequently.org/series/browser-choice-must-matter/

nchmy··on GLM-5.3-Flash
seems unlikely that they'll get nearly as much demand now that it isnt free
nchmy··on GLM-5.3-Flash
they also conspicuously omitted GPT 5.6 Luna from comparison. It scores lower, but is also cheaper. MiMo 2.5 is not a valid comp at this point

edit: nevermind. it is there in the artifical analysis scatter plot, but is greyed-out.

MUCH more interesting is that in that chart, their cost is WAY off. The actual chart shows GLM 5.3 Flash at $0.09, but their chart shows $0.045...

nchmy··on Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future
I cant believe I'm actually going to try to explain how your joke wasn't a joke, because you missed the initial joke. But here we are... the "meme" is leopards ate my face https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/, and they said "cheetahs at my face". And for some inexplicable reason you then tried to correct/FTFY to proper "Cheaters" spelling, ruining the joke/pun entirely. Erroneous pedants are surely the saddest of people...
nchmy··on Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future
whoosh
nchmy··on Fable and the end of the free lunch
I have a similar process - its just a pair programmer most of the time. I dont understand how people can have a fleet of agents working a bunch of waterfall specs..
nchmy··on Fable and the end of the free lunch
The real revolution is Deepseek v4 flash and similar models (GPT 5.6 Luna, muse spark 1.2, mimo, etc...) - Genuinely good performance for a tiny fraction of the cost of Fable and even GLM etc...

I think a lot of people would be very content if they never got smarter, and just kept getting even cheaper/faster. Of course, both things continue to happen on a seemingly monthly basis

nchmy··on Omacom Foundation launches with $8M
eating seafood with lots of bones in it makes no sense to me, but is otherwise great. Tiling managers are full of bones, as far as I can see. But evidently lots of people are talented surgeons with it!
nchmy··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
Yeah, quite likely. It is surely for the best to stand up
nchmy··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
Ah! I was not aware that it was a transcription.

Yes, I had the thought that it sounded a lot like speech.

Thanks.

nchmy··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
Nice to see them putting up a fight. Though I assume this will cause pain for everyone.

One note: aren't these sentences strange - like a series of half-thoughts? Especially the 2nd paragraph.

> Our government understood, before many, that America is altering all its trade relationships. Putting tariffs on its closest allies and charging for access to its vast market. > > We have worked in that context. To strike a fair deal that would provide the best access to the U.S. market and greater certainty to Canadian businesses and workers.

nchmy··on Omacom Foundation launches with $8M
There's nothing wrong with the docs. It's the entire tiling experience, config, hotkeys etc that sounds hellish. I can't fathom why anyone would like it, but evidently many people do - great! I'm glad that there's various options available to everyone.
nchmy··on Omacom Foundation launches with $8M
I just read the relevant Navigation doc and it sounds as hellish as i remember. I'm happy that folks are happy with it, but I'm sticking with traditional windows (in linux).

https://omarchy.org/manual/navigation/

nchmy··on Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article
i havent used a claude model in a long time, but it seems quite clear to me that the chinese models have trained on claude (at the very least) - they write just the same
nchmy··on Omacom Foundation launches with $8M
I tried Omarchy 10 months ago. I liked how easy it all was, like the PWAs installed, etc...

But I was completely lost with, and even offended by, how the tiling window manager worked. Windows were just moving around all over the place, changing sizes etc... It was by far the worst computing experience that I've had in a very long time. And it was particularly awful on a small laptop screen where you REALLY need to make the most of how your windows are arranged.

After a couple days, I installed Pop!_OS and, despite its new COSMIC desktop having tiling-like features, I've been happy with its normal Windows-like UI, where I can just use windows/super key + arrow keys to move and resize windows to the side or corner of the screen, and they stay there.

Yet, so many people are raving about tiling window managers. Surely it cant be as awful of an experience as I had. What was I doing wrong? Is there some configuration that I wasn't using in order to set preferences for applications or profiles or something?

nchmy··on What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x
I've been working with the chinese open models for 4 months. They are more than capable for a tiny fraction of the cost of the frontier ones. And yet they also continue to get significantly better and (Deepseek's recent price increase aside) cheaper. Its hard to fathom how the truly frontier stuff will be able to compete long-term.
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