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pachico··on HashiCorp adopts Business Source License
Well, the timing is right: env0 just raised 35m in CV and now Hashicorp says you cannot offer something similar to Terraform Cloud anymore.
pachico··on Don't be clever
I read this like "if I was was really clever back then I would do what now I think is clever" and my humble opinion about the ultimate solution for it really horrifies me (the class generator).

Maybe I'm not clever enough. Maybe I don't hate copy and pasting enough.

pachico··on Stopping at 90%
This is why, at least at work,you need a strict definition of done. A DoD isn't only useful to you and your team but also to the rest of your organisation so that everyone knows that you might still be working on a task/project although you have already finished the most visible part of it.

It helps, in general, to manage expectations.

pachico··on Show HN: Khoj – Chat offline with your second brain using Llama 2
Would anybody be able to recommend any standalone solution (essentially data must not leave elsewhere) to chat with documents with a web interface?

I tried privategpt but results were not great.

pachico··on Documentation as Code for Cloud Using PlantUML
I have been using plantuml with Aws icons for years, already. I love it. I can write locally, in gitlab and in Confluence. I can iterate over it and it says right embedded in my docs.
pachico··on Forced rhubarb, a vegetable deprived of sunlight, is having a renaissance (2019)
From what I know, not everywhere in France but in the north. It was impossible to me to find this month in Occitane, at least.
pachico··on Forced rhubarb, a vegetable deprived of sunlight, is having a renaissance (2019)
I live in Spain but I had the chance to travel to northern Europe dozens of times, where I learned to love rhubarb.

I really would love rhubarb to grow here but it is almost impossible to find, even in big cities.

pachico··on The Perfect Laptop
I'm tempted to say that it also needs IPS/anti-reflection screen.

I am currently in the process of choosing a laptop and it's one of my main requirements. So far, I'm looking with tender eyes to the MSI Prestige 13 EVO. I have no idea about Linux compatibility, thought.

pachico··on Thunderbird 115 “Supernova”
Thanks a lot!
pachico··on Thunderbird 115 “Supernova”
Good questions. No, I don't need a local copy and I'm quite ok with Gmail at the moment.

I was thinking about using Thunderbird to interact with Gmail, in reality.

pachico··on Thunderbird 115 “Supernova”
Maybe someone can help me out. I am always wondering if I should use Thunderbird considering I only use Gmail, both as in private and at work.

I fear the integration with calendar won't be the same but I'm considering it.

Can someone tell me good reasons to switch?

pachico··on GPT-4 API General Availability
Thank you but for legal and compliance reasons data cannot leave my premises/cloud. The entire point is precisely that, to be honest.
pachico··on GPT-4 API General Availability
OK, now I am intrigued by so many comments about how to do this yourself and, especially, for getting answers about your own document, which is what I'm really looking forward.

I checked many of the links you posted and, although I am a fluid programmer in several languages, I lack the specific python background that many of these links seem to state as a requirement.

Would any kind soul put me in the direction of an easy solution to run LLMs, potentially in AWS, that answers questions about your own docs? (I use Confluence but I can happily export pages.)

Thanks a lot in advance!!!

pachico··on Cloud Backed SQLite
I am very puzzled by this. Wasn't the very point of Sqlite to be local? If it's not anymore, why would you prefer to use it rather than any other relational database?
pachico··on Sqlpkg – SQLite Package Registry
> Bloom filter — a fast index to tell if a value is probably in a table or certainly isn't.

I will start using this way to communicate "true/false negative/positive" that always requires a further explanation. Clear statements are part of the user experience.

pachico··on The Rise and Fall of CORBA (2006)
Damn dyslexia, I was expecting an article about G.I. Joe...
pachico··on The damaging results of mandated return to office
Sorry but, who isn't struggling with hiring?
pachico··on Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser
I would allow people to scrape a LinkedIn profile and get the resume from there.
pachico··on About GitHub’s use of your data
When then product is free...
pachico··on Unexpected downsides of UUID keys in PostgreSQL
How can this be unexpected? Isn't this what Percona discussed for MySQL already several years ago?

Or am I missing something?

pachico··on Converting Full Terraform Programs to Pulumi
We use Terraform but mostly because of its ecosystem. I was always tempted to use Pulumi, especially because they got something right from the beginning: pure declarative code is an illusion.

You always need loops, control structures, etc. and this is automatically a feature in Pulumi as it is in the language you use it with.

Terraform users hack it all the time (think of the "count" as if/else, for instance) precisely because it's never a purely a declarative config what you need, and the level of dynamism you need is not been semantically supported by Terraform.

So, we are stuck with hacks...

pachico··on Converting Full Terraform Programs to Pulumi
Because you can use Terraform not only for infrastructure. In our case, we use it also to setup GitLab and other services.
pachico··on HashiCorp just let go 8%
Unrelated, but they recent change of the free tier, from sits to resources, made me switch to self managed backend.

I might be far from the 500 resources limit but I can't avoid seeing it as a Damocles sword on my infra :)

pachico··on Air quality monitors: paying more does not get you more accuracy
This is not a joke, I am really asking: how do you measure the accuracy of an air quality monitor? Comparing it to another monitor? Creating an air pollution condition and seeing how close to that is the measurement?
pachico··on uBlock Origin 1.50.0
Weirdly enough, some people I know are still are afraid of it. I can't really know why but they distrust change.
pachico··on uBlock Origin 1.50.0
From time to time, I happen to browse using someone else's computer (browser) and I get immediately overwhelmed by how crappy the experience is without uBO.

Yet, I cannot convince people to install it :)

pachico··on Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira
I don't know how Plane is but I know very well how Jira is and it definitely needs a viable alternative.
pachico··on 300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's total blocking time
Server side issues? Images being too big? Maybe slow CSS, if there's such thing?
pachico··on 300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's total blocking time
> Remember, the fastest way to speed up a site is to remove JavaScript.

I'm not entirely sure this can be so axiomatic...

pachico··on Nirvana fallacy
I like this Wikipedia article, however, I would have preferred it's contents to be transmitted directly to my brain in real time when I opened Hacker News. That would have been so much better.
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