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memhole commented on DuckLake is an integrated data lake and catalog format ducklake.select/... · Posted by u/kermatt

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but from my understanding, DuckDB will always be the query engine, thus I suppose you will have access to DuckDB query parallelism (single node but multithreaded with disk spilling etc) + statistics-based optimizations like file pruning, predicate pushdown etc offered by DuckLake. I think DuckLake is heavily coupled to DuckDB (Which is good for our use case). Again, this is my understanding, correct me if wrong.

memhole · 7 months ago

From my perspective the issue is analytics support. You’ll need a step that turns it into something supported by BI tools. Obviously if something like Trino picks up the format it’s not an issue

memhole commented on On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots hedgehogreview.com/issues... · Posted by u/pseudolus

andrehacker · 8 months ago

When I was young and easily swayed, I took life advice from a well-known Dutch comedian (Youp van 't Hek) who loved to mock tourists taking those cringe “holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa” photos. The message was clear: tourist photos were tacky, and besides, you could always find a better photo in the gift shop anyway.

So for years, I smugly avoided taking photos—too cool for clichés. It only hit me much later that I wasn’t missing out on better shots of monuments… I was missing pictures of the people I was with. Family and friends looking younger, sometimes happier, and—how shall I put it—sometimes still alive.

memhole · 8 months ago

On a backpacking trip, a guy and I were hiking together for a moment. I was snapping photos of the landscape and he started to chastise me for it. He made the same point. It’s about the people you’re with. Eventually, all the photos blur together.

He’s not wrong. I’ve got tons of pictures of the outdoors. Not that they aren’t beautiful. Pressed, I mostly couldn’t tell one from the other.

memhole commented on The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis chris-martin.org/2025/the... · Posted by u/dralley

dsign · 8 months ago

Without any hard data about anything, this is just a speculative rant. Go and read my books if you want one of those. But I do agree on one thing: we are lacking a new frontier, a meaningful one. My hope for the years I have left is to see one.

memhole · 8 months ago

This is part of what I feel keeps driving AI/LLMs. The hope that there’s a new frontier to cash in on.

memhole commented on Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model github.com/XiaomiMiMo/MiM... · Posted by u/thm

rahimnathwani · 8 months ago

When you guys use gguf files in ollama, do you normally create a modelfile to go with it, or just hope that whatever default ollama has work with the new model?

https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs%2Fmodelfile....

memhole · 8 months ago

I’ll typically use the defaults initially and then use a Modelfile if it’s something I plan on using. I think you can dump the modelfile ollama uses to have a template to work with.

memhole commented on Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they think verdikapuku.com/posts/bus... · Posted by u/frenchmajesty

edoceo · 8 months ago

Demonstrate traction. The idea person should have at least an audience for the problem space. If not, they are Field of Dreams - build it and they will come. That doesn't work.

memhole · 8 months ago

Solid advice. Too many people think build it and sell it. When if you did a few interviews and market research you’d realize it might be a flop.

memhole commented on Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they think verdikapuku.com/posts/bus... · Posted by u/frenchmajesty

throwawaymaths · 8 months ago

> But an engineer can't help but also factor in "i'm the one that has to build this, so how much extra work am i giving myself?

I wonder how many startups have failed because the tech has been too much of a pain in the ass to maintain and the technical staff burns out and leaves, with more and more expensive developers postponing leaving till as late as possible and doing as little as possible

memhole · 8 months ago

Start ups that choose things like Azure are a red flag for me. Churn is really problematic. Learning a code base by having to poke and grok takes a lot longer than being able to fire off a few questions.

memhole commented on A Love Letter to People Who Believe in People swiss-miss.com/2025/04/a-... · Posted by u/NaOH

MrJohz · 8 months ago

In fact, the best critics of something are often its biggest fans. Roger Ebert, for example, wrote some pretty critical pieces, but nobody can deny that he was driven primarily by a love of cinema. Or take politics: I've seen people complain that left-wing commentators were too critical of Biden when they should have been criticising Trump, but often it's easier — and more useful — to criticise the things you like in the hope that they will improve, rather than spending all your time criticising something you don't like that will never listen to you.

That said, it's still important to take the time to sing the praises of something you like. If Ebert had spent all his time talking down bad films, reading his columns would have been painful drudgery (see also: CinemaSins, Nostalgia Critic, and similar attempts at film-criticism-by-cynicism). A good critic wants their target to succeed, and celebrates when that happens.

memhole · 8 months ago

Very accurate description. I think this gets missed sometimes. Sometimes you’re criticizing because you know a subject well and want to see it improved.

memhole commented on Healthy soil is the hidden ingredient nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/gnabgib

ralusek · 8 months ago

I'm a gardening and landscaping enjoyer, but I am constantly confused about the bordering magical thinking surrounding dirt, among other aspects of growing things.

If you look at hydroponics/aeroponics, plants basically need water, light, and fertilizer (N (nitrogen) P (phosphorous) K (potassium), and a few trace minerals). It can be the most synthetic process you've ever seen, and the plants will grow amazingly well.

The other elements regarding soil health, etc, would be much better framed in another way, rather than as directly necessary for plant health. The benefits of maintaining a nice living soil is that it makes the environment self-sustaining. You could just dump synthetic fertilizer on the plant, with some soil additives to help retain the right amount of drainage/retention, and it would do completely fine. But without constant optimal inputs, the plants would die.

If you cultivate a nice soil, such that the plants own/surrounding detritus can be broken down effectively, such that the nutrients in the natural processes can be broken down and made available to the plant, and the otherwise nonoptimal soil texture characteristics could be brought to some positive characteristics by those same processes, then you can theoretically arrive at a point that requires very few additional inputs.

memhole · 8 months ago

Maybe it’s because I started with hydroponics. I don’t get the fascination with soil or animosity about hydroponics being unnatural. People do vastly underestimate what it takes to create a good soil mixture, though. In the end, you’re suspending nutrients in a substrate for the plants to uptake regardless of how you go about providing them.

memhole commented on Potatoes in the Mail facts.usps.com/mailing-po... · Posted by u/mooreds

mooreds · 8 months ago

What was the weirdest thing that got through?

memhole · 8 months ago

I want to say it was a buoy. I might be wrong on that. I distinctly remember one of those plastic flamingos. If you’re asking about my event idea. Unfortunately, we didn’t end up doing it.

memhole commented on Potatoes in the Mail facts.usps.com/mailing-po... · Posted by u/mooreds

memhole · 8 months ago

USPS will mail all sorts of things. WIRED would let you mail them tons of interesting things. Working remotely I thought it would be hilarious to have everyone try and mail each other weird stuff as a company event.