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New comment by JaggerFoo in "PostgreSQL for Everything"

JaggerFoo — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:46:59 +0000

Use case matters.

I use a SQL databases as needed. I've used Postgres, Sqlite, Duckdb, Json files with AWS Athena, Oracle enterprise for ERP systems (a multitude of schemas and objects with interoperability), and others.

I'm currently, deploying Duckdb with AWS S3 Tables (Iceberg) to see how it fits for a use case I have.

IT is great and always changing. Keep trying new things.

Cheers

New comment by JaggerFoo in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7"

JaggerFoo — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:48:43 +0000

FYI, using a 128GB M5 MacBook Pro, sourced from another article by the author.

New comment by JaggerFoo in "Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update"

JaggerFoo — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 05:30:48 +0000

You mean the one I just downloaded and updated my laptop with? It installed OK.

I usually use MacOS and Linux, it's just that some software is Windows only, and I run MacOS on Apple Silicon - the windows program I needed only uses x86-64 architecture, so I can't use parallels (AFAIK).

I'm kind of hoping I get an update that bricks my laptop so I can install Debian over this MS Windows hellscape and run windows on a VM when needed. I may do it anyways after I get fed up with nagging MS messages and workarounds.

Why ChatGPT Still Has a Winning Edge over Google's Smarter AI

JaggerFoo — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 07:52:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-11-30/chatgpt-and-openai-still-have-a-winning-edge-over-google-gemini

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46094718

Points: 4

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New comment by JaggerFoo in "Against SQL (2021)"

JaggerFoo — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 20:45:03 +0000

SQL is great. I've used it to implement knapsack optimization for Daily Fantasy Sports at scale. I use it in Big Data tools and RDBMS. It's pervasive in data tech.

Feel free to innovate and bring forth other RDBMS/Data query languages and tools, perhaps something may succeed and stick as long as SQL has.

Cheers

New comment by JaggerFoo in "Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025"

JaggerFoo — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 21:40:21 +0000

I don't see any code. Where are the examples of use on real code?

New comment by JaggerFoo in "A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size"

JaggerFoo — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 03:47:36 +0000

Interesting. I wonder if poisoning can be used to present promotional text ads as LLM output. Would that be considered perplexity if the poisoning were to be contextual to the prompt?

Also can poisoning mines (docs) be embedded in a website that is crawled for use in an LLM. Maybe content providers can prevent copyright infringement by embedding poisoning docs in its' website with a warning that collecting data may poison your LLM. Making poisoning the new junkyard dog.

Cheers

New comment by JaggerFoo in "Litestream v0.5.0"

JaggerFoo — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 17:32:54 +0000

Interesting information that they chose modernc.org/sqlite over mattn/go-sqlite3 as a Quality-of-Life improvement. Going forward I guess I'll do the same for new projects.

The NATS Jetstream use case is something I'm curious about.

Cheers and keep up the great work on Litestream.

New comment by JaggerFoo in "Frying Eggs and Air Quality Tests"

JaggerFoo — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 22:16:13 +0000

I wonder if there are any studies of professional chefs and their long-term health. I see video after video of chefs cooking in close proximity to oil cooked food, wood burning setups (BBQ), waiting for cooking oil to smoke, even smoking while cooking, etc.

If there should be a cohort that would be the canary in the coal mine, it would be professional chefs, who day-in and day-out cook for a living over several hours per day. Yet, I have not heard of any studies raising alarms for the profession.

Cheers

New comment by JaggerFoo in "AI is ushering in a 'tiny team' era"

JaggerFoo — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 20:24:42 +0000

Some excellent ideas presented in the article. It doesn't matter if they all pan out, just that they expand our thinking into the realm of AI and its role in the future of business startups and operations.

Revenue per employee, to me, is an aside that distracts from the ideas presented.

New comment by JaggerFoo in "Google Cloud Incident Report – 2025-06-13"

JaggerFoo — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 18:28:44 +0000

I would be interested in seeing the elapsed time to recovery for each location up to us-central-1.

Is this information available anywhere?

New comment by JaggerFoo in "Reinforcement Learning: An Overview"

JaggerFoo — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 19:58:04 +0000

Uses the acronym MDP several times before defining it. So perhaps not an introductory paper, but geared to those already immersed in the field.

New comment by JaggerFoo in "Oracle Cloud deleting active user accounts without possibility for data recovery"

JaggerFoo — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 21:31:28 +0000

This happened to me when Oracle first started in the cloud business. I actively avoid doing business with their cloud services.

New comment by JaggerFoo in "I got OpenAI o1 to play the boardgame Codenames and it's super good"

JaggerFoo — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 07:55:38 +0000

I did this with Claude over the holidays. Putting Claude in the role as a guesser and comparing the guess to another experience human player. It turns out they both matched each other.

New comment by JaggerFoo in "AI could create 78M more jobs than it eliminates by 2030"

JaggerFoo — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 23:03:23 +0000

Monkeys can be trained by AI to eliminate 100M jobs in 2035, world economy embraces bananas as the global reserve currency.

There, I can make predictions too and it did not require prompt engineering or a analytic budget or economists.

Cheers

New comment by JaggerFoo in "Google Year in Search 2024: The Breakout searches of the year"

JaggerFoo — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 22:56:09 +0000

Only a brief nod to Girmay's breakout performance at the Tour de France.

He must've barely beat out Hawk Tuah Girl.

Cheers

New comment by JaggerFoo in "I made a free Figma library packed with components for fast prototyping"

JaggerFoo — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 19:55:38 +0000

I like that Figma is not required. Can it dynamically model horizontal scrolling, such as album art and info?

New comment by JaggerFoo in "SQLiteStudio: Create, edit, browse SQLite databases"

JaggerFoo — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 18:01:14 +0000

I use it all the time on Sonoma OS with no problems. I have yet to upgrade to Sequoia due to the numerous reported problems on Reddit.

New comment by JaggerFoo in "SQLiteStudio: Create, edit, browse SQLite databases"

JaggerFoo — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 07:19:46 +0000

Excellent product that behaves as expected and adheres to Sqlite's unique requirements when updating schema objects.

New comment by JaggerFoo in "SQLite: Outlandish Recursive Query Examples"

JaggerFoo — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 02:53:11 +0000

Years ago I came across a Knapsack problem solution written in Oracle SQL, that I adapted to Daily Fantasy Golf.

Here's the source: https://aprogrammerwrites.eu/?p=878

Cheers