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trollied··on Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres
TL:DR; for people. Index your data properly.
trollied··on Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files
Auto play video when you scroll? Behave
trollied··on Oracle shed about 20k roles globally in the last year
They are hiring. I've seen one role listed for more than a year, and it's because of their hiring process. Here's a random job, by way of example: https://canonical.com/careers/3433732/application Search for "how did you perform", and be baffled at their recruitment strategy.
trollied··on Claude Fable 5
They just leased a massive spacex data centre.
trollied··on Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links
My bank has a feature whereby it'll tell you promoinently in their app if they are currently calling you.
trollied··on MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble
The “8gb gamble” could be seen as a misleading headline.

The review is very fair - it’s an amazing bit of kit for the money.

trollied··on Scaffold a 1990s Geocities-themed static website
<img src="underconstruction.gif">
trollied··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
That’s not how accounting works.
trollied··on We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
GitHub has already been bettered - gitlab is much better, in my opinion.
trollied··on What Happened to Abit Motherboards
They were amazing. I had a dual socket board. I do wonder what they'd be up to now if they still existed... 4 socket ryzen boards, 2kw? lol
trollied··on Foreign tech workers are avoiding travel to the US
Go ahead and explain why. There are some incredibly intelligent people in other countries.
trollied··on OrangePi 6 Plus Review
No idea - the ryzen based ones are better!
trollied··on What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO
No, you are confusing Transmeta with Transitive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTransit
trollied··on Building a 2.5kWh battery from disposable vapes to power my workshop [video]
They are illegal now in the UK.
trollied··on Near mid-air collision at LAX between American Airlines and ITA [video]
Government shutdown. ATC are not being paid.

Sort your country out!

trollied··on Why can't transformers learn multiplication?
Not true though. Internally they can “shell out” to sub-tasks that know how to do specific things. The specific things don’t have to be models.

(I’m specifically talking about commercial hosted ones that have the capability i describe - obviously your run of the mill one downloaded off of the internet cannot do this).

trollied··on Migrating from AWS to Hetzner
It's not hard to get right. It's expensive to get right. And that affects pricing and profitability. You have to have a threshold.
trollied··on Building a JavaScript Runtime using C
Yup. I clicked on it, based on the title, and expected a long-form article. Not a simple library utilisation post.
trollied··on Java 25's new CPU-Time Profiler
I hate to say it, but this is because you are not a Java developer. It’s very easy to debug.
trollied··on API, Claude.ai, and Console services impacted [resolved]
They should learn to write a few lines of code themselves while they wait.
trollied··on John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta
You can still do “unsafe” stuff in rust, and people do. It’s perfectly possible to write safe C and C++ these days. And you don’t have to deal with a borrow checker, and a very small pool of developers available to hire.
trollied··on Fuck up my site – Turn any website into beautiful chaos
You've just reminded me NTK was a thing.
trollied··on [dead]
Oh, I read "Delphi" and assumed Pascal! A sign that i'm getting old and kids are naming things :)
trollied··on Introduction to AT Protocol
+++ATH0

Those old enough will know :)

trollied··on Launch HN: Channel3 (YC S25) – A database of every product on the internet
I can't see this disrupting the EDI world any time soon. Big business people will know what I mean.
trollied··on Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature
Yes, your 2 seat small business isn't paying the bills.
trollied··on How to ingest 1B rows/s in ClickHouse
From yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44933452
trollied··on ClickHouse vs PostgreSQL UPDATE performance comparison
4000 times faster is hardly difficult if you’re not trying to be ACID compliant. I can write to a flat file that doesn’t give a shit about integrity very quickly - it’s not a boast.
trollied··on Mwm – The smallest usable X11 window manager
I wish things were as easy as they were with X11. Being able to ssh into a box and “export DISPLAY=192.168.0.7:0.0” then start an app and have it show up locally is just magical.
trollied··on Tram Trains
Sheffield in the UK has tram trains - it was the first such implementation in the UK, and runs on national rail lines as part of the journey to Rotherham.
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