Instantly crushed that there doesn’t appear to be a phone app for this.
Readit Newsnateroling commented on Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18 boringsql.com/posts/insta... · Posted by u/radimm
aws supports this as well: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...
This is on the cluster level, while the article is talking about the database level, I believe.
nateroling commented on HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023) info.arxiv.org/about/acce... · Posted by u/el3ctron
Can you elaborate? Are you never reading papers directly but only using Gemini to reformat or combine/summarize?
I mean that when a computer can visually understand a document and reformat and reinterpret it in any imaginable way, who cares how it’s stored? When a png or a pdf or a markdown doc can all be be read and reinterpreted into an infographic or a database or an audiobook or an interactive infographic the original format won’t matter.
nateroling commented on HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023) info.arxiv.org/about/acce... · Posted by u/el3ctron
Seeing the Gemini 3 capabilities, I can imagine a near future where file formats are effectively irrelevant.
nateroling commented on Event Sourcing, CQRS and Micro Services: Real FinTech Example lukasniessen.medium.com/t... · Posted by u/fmfamaral
This made me do a double-take. Surely you would never do this, right? It seems to be directly counter to the idea of being able to audit changes:
“Event replay: if we want to adjust a past event, for example because it was incorrect, we can just do that and rebuild the app state.”
Can you write a prompt to optimize prompts?
Seems like an LLM should be able to judge a prompt, and collaboratively work with the user to improve it if necessary.
nateroling commented on The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know deanebarker.net/tech/blog... · Posted by u/deanebarker
This, but for many things.
Paint is ready at the hardware store Table is ready at the restaurant Construction is done on a bridge
All kinds of things that we need a one-time notification for.
nateroling commented on iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras candid9.com/phone-camera/... · Posted by u/sergiotapia
The points really boil down to:
1. Difference in focal length/ position.
2. Difference in color processing
But…the article is fairly weak on both points?
1. It’s unclear why the author is comparing different focal lengths without clarifying what they used. If I use the 24mm equivalent on either my full frame or my iPhone, the perspective will be largely the same modulo some lens correction. Same if I use the 70mm or whatever the focal length is.
2. Color processing is both highly subjective but also completely something you can disable on the phone and the other camera. It’s again, no different between the two.
It’s a poor article because it doesn’t focus on the actual material differences.
The phone will have a smaller sensor. It will have more noise and need to do more to combat it. It won’t have as shallow a depth of field.
The phone will also of course have different ergonomics.
But the things the post focuses on are kind of poor understandings of the differences in what they’re shooting and how their cameras work.
Looking at the trees in the background of the first photo, it’s clear he’s using a longer focal length on the non-iPhone.
He has some good points, maybe, but in general it’s a pretty naive comparison.
I haven’t used dark mode anything for years. I set my monitor so it’s roughly as bright, or slightly brighter than, a piece of white paper.
No more flash-bangs when some website doesn’t support dark mode.