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New comment by gazpacho in "ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL"

gazpacho — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:23:46 +0000

Another +1 for ADBC

New comment by gazpacho in "Iran war energy crisis is a renewable energy wake-up call"

gazpacho — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 05:42:57 +0000

Destroy oil supply and there is a crisis in 12h. Destroy solar supply and there's a crisis in... 20 years? It'd actually be much sooner but the point is that it's much less urgent that oil.

New comment by gazpacho in "Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy"

gazpacho — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 20:10:47 +0000

I’m mostly talking from personal experience. I imagine an actual well powered study on this sort of thing would be hard to do, for similar reasons a lot of fitness / nutrition studies are not great. I agree that a good diverse full body routine would help mitigate injury risk vs a less diverse routine. Obviously diminishing returns but expanding outside of the weight room is IMO also helpful for injury prevention if not quality of life. Pertinent video: https://youtu.be/rb2DPHi39FU

New comment by gazpacho in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"

gazpacho — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:14:25 +0000

Love this take!

Modern society is too narrow minded about what wealth means. To most people it means fancy watches, cars, homes, etc. To me wealth is about time and freedom. I can pick up the tab at dinner for a group of 12. I can afford to keep my 1972 Schwinn bicycle in tip top shape or my grandfather's jacket mended when it breaks. I can afford to rent forever if I want. I'll never work a job I don't like, I can just quit. I feel more wealthy this way than if I owned 3 lambos and had to work to make ends meet.

New comment by gazpacho in "Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy"

gazpacho — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 15:42:54 +0000

Having only read the abstract... the conclusion makes sense to me. I've operated under the assumption that volume is the most important factor for muscle growth as long as you're lifting something like 1/3 or more of your 1RM. So 12 reps with higher load or 25 reps with lower load are going to be similar volumes (or at least similar enough given the other factors that the two protocols give the same outcome).

New comment by gazpacho in "Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy"

gazpacho — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 15:36:49 +0000

This is what I've found after 15 years of working out and athletics. Think of it this way: doing the same thing over and over again is what is proven to lead to workplace injuries. Doing the same thing over and over again in the gym is no different.

I like to do a weight training as the consistent foundation, with a mix of heavy lifts, calisthenics, volume (bodybuilding) training and mobility training. Add in some yoga, rock climbing, biking, soccer. I feel this sort of mix balances movements out which helps with injury prevention and also makes sure you always have something active to do that you enjoy, which is definitely #1.

New comment by gazpacho in "My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)"

gazpacho — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:24:53 +0000

I use sheets of junk paper (e.g. stuff I got in the mail that is only printed on one side). I keep an "active" one that I cross stuff out from, etc. When I start a new one (about once a week) I go through the old one and port over any remaining items; most of the time I discard the whole thing since it's no longer relevant. If there are important items that are just too big to handle I'll transcribe it to my Calendar, Linear, Reminders app, etc.

To me this is a good balance of: - Writing things down is the major benefit for me, writing down on physical paper is even more helpful. - Forces me to garbage collect irrelevant stuff. - I don't need an app or even to buy paper really.

New comment by gazpacho in "UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in north Wales"

gazpacho — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 12:41:12 +0000

What’s your problem with nuclear waste? And what’s your solution to the waste produced by solar/wind?

New comment by gazpacho in "Database Linting and Analysis for PostgreSQL"

gazpacho — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 06:20:39 +0000

Came here to say just this. I want this so bad! But I can’t run it on a cloud hosted Postgres…

New comment by gazpacho in "The murky economics of the data-centre investment boom"

gazpacho — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 06:36:38 +0000

Do they diversify? Is Nvidia buying VXUS?

New comment by gazpacho in "Nest 1st gen and 2nd gen thermostats no longer supported from Oct 25"

gazpacho — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 03:05:26 +0000

I think the reality is that the engineers are competent but this was just not a priority they were given and they were not going to spend nights making this happen instead of hanging out with their kids.

New comment by gazpacho in "What Are Traces and Spans in OpenTelemetry?"

gazpacho — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 13:52:14 +0000

I work for Pydantic. We make Logfire, a commercial OTEL backend. But we’ve made wrappers around the OTEL SDKs in various languages that simplify configuration and usage. They can be used with any OTEL compatible backend (although we’d love if you try our SaaS offering): - JavaScript / Typescript: https://github.com/pydantic/logfire-js - Rust: https://github.com/pydantic/logfire-rust - Python: https://github.com/pydantic/logfire

New comment by gazpacho in "Building your own CLI coding agent with Pydantic-AI"

gazpacho — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 02:20:52 +0000

I work at Pydantic and while the future is obviously unpredictable I can vow for all of us in that we do not intend to ever start charging for any of our open source things. We’ve made a very clear delineation between what is free (pydantic, pydantic-ai, the logfire SDK, etc) and what is a paid product (the Logfire SaaS platform). Everything open source is liberally licensed such that no matter the fate of the company it can be forked. Even the logfire SDK, the thing most integrated to our commercial offering, speaks OTLP and hence you can point it at any other provider, basically no lock in.

New comment by gazpacho in "AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics"

gazpacho — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 20:30:13 +0000

I just wish we forced every new data center to be built with renewables or something. The marginal cost over a conventional data center can’t be that big compared to the total cost, and these companies can afford it. Maybe it can help advance the next generation of small modular nuclear reactors or something.

New comment by gazpacho in "Embedding user-defined indexes in Apache Parquet"

gazpacho — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 02:11:49 +0000

There is no spec. Personally I hope that the existing indexes (bloom filters, zone maps) get re-designed to fit into a paradigm where parquet itself has more first class support for multiple levels of indexes embedded in the file and conventions for how those common types. That is, start with Wild West and define specs as needed

New comment by gazpacho in "Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers"

gazpacho — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 14:10:24 +0000

From an open source projects perspective we’d want to disable this on our docs sites. We actually want those to be very discoverable by LLMs, during training or online usage.

New comment by gazpacho in "Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust"

gazpacho — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 04:48:36 +0000

I like the idea! I wish I could use git / PRs to do rounds of edits on legal documents instead of whatever Word’s track changes is.

Speaking of, could we start using version control for keeping track of laws and updating old laws? It seems to me like a much better system than randomly burying in a new law that it strikes out some text from an old law.

New comment by gazpacho in "Jemalloc Postmortem"

gazpacho — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 04:37:33 +0000

I would love to see these changes - or even some sort of blog post or extended documentation explaining rational. As is the docs are somewhat barren. I feel that there’s a lot of knowledge that folks like you have right now from all of the work that was done internally at Meta that would be best shared now before it is lost.

New comment by gazpacho in "US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]"

gazpacho — Sat, 10 May 2025 23:19:05 +0000

I agree. At risk of being totally off base because I have not been keeping up with the details of the legal matter it seems to me that the solution isn't to kill Google's core business but rather to force it to sell off some of these branches, with thought and strategy. E.g. one of the comments below pointed out that Google Flights competes with other sites / businesses. Seems like a good candidate to spin off: it could probably be a profitable business in it's own right. Android? Chrome? Idk about those: who / how are they going to be funded? Each piece needs to be analyzed and a deal needs to be struck that's not based on principles as much as it is on what is pragmatically the right balance that benefits people (the American people in particular) the most in the medium to long term.

New comment by gazpacho in "AI as Normal Technology"

gazpacho — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 06:10:34 +0000

I liked this article. My hot take lately has been that AI is like Excel / Word but deployed quicker. That can still cause some level of societal collapse if it displaces a large fraction of the workforce before it can retool and adapt , no AGI super intelligence required.