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New comment by gdubya in "AI-assisted cognition endangers human development?"

gdubya — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:31:08 +0000

That is a sharp and slightly chilling analogy. If Steve Jobs saw the computer as a tool that amplified human effort (the bicycle), and AI represents a tool that automates that effort entirely (the car), then the "obesity epidemic" of the mind is likely Cognitive Atrophy.

- Gemini

New comment by gdubya in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

gdubya — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:12:41 +0000

Ah, a new "WTF": Worse Than False!

New comment by gdubya in "Kubernetes Is Your Private Cloud"

gdubya — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:42:18 +0000

Exactly. https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/u9b95u/kubernet...

New comment by gdubya in "Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors"

gdubya — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 07:50:07 +0000

Public sector? In my country working for the energy grid operator feels like a constructive and positive contribution.

Sorry about your dark place. Keep looking for the light!

New comment by gdubya in "UK Electricity Generation Map"

gdubya — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:55:41 +0000

Very interesting! Who made this?

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

gdubya — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:13:53 +0000

The technique can be applied by any engine, not just DataFusion. Each engine would have to know about the indexes in order to make use of them, but the fallback to parquet standard defaults means that the data is still readable by all.

New comment by gdubya in "Sailing the fjords like the Vikings yields unexpected insights"

gdubya — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 13:51:48 +0000

Watch out for fulings on the plains!

New comment by gdubya in "Weaponizing Dependabot: Pwn Request at its finest"

gdubya — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:18:58 +0000

Fixed link: https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/github-actions-exp...

New comment by gdubya in "Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed"

gdubya — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:37:44 +0000

That transcription reads very much like a NotebookLM "podcast" summarising the actual article at https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/outrage-fatigue-i...

New comment by gdubya in "Portrait of the Hilbert Curve (2010)"

gdubya — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 19:08:29 +0000

Hilbert curves are used in modern data lakehouse storage optimisation techniques, such as Databricks' "liquid clustering" [1]. This can replace the need for more traditional "hive-style" partitioning, in which the data files are partitioned based on a folder structure (e.g. `mydatafiles/YYYY/MM/DD/`).

1. https://docs.databricks.com/en/delta/clustering.html

New comment by gdubya in "Podman Desktop v1.5 with Compose onboarding and enhanced Kubernetes pod data"

gdubya — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 22:54:59 +0000

I wanted to build a Windows container image but I really did not want to install Docker Desktop. After some digging around I found my way to the Docker server / client binaries for Windows page that allowed me to do this: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/binaries/#install-ser...

New comment by gdubya in "LLM Powered NPCs: Enabling Dynamic Dialogue with LLM-Powered NPCs in Any Game"

gdubya — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 15:34:20 +0000

Interactive LLM Powered NPCs, is an open-source project that completely transforms your interaction with non-player characters (NPCs) in any game!

LLM Powered NPCs: Enabling Dynamic Dialogue with LLM-Powered NPCs in Any Game

gdubya — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 15:34:19 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/AkshitIreddy/Interactive-LLM-Powered-NPCs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36494361

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New comment by gdubya in "Fark redesign is now live (2007)"

gdubya — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 07:53:34 +0000

Like Mastodon to Twitter? I like the idea, but it's not really taking off, is it?

New comment by gdubya in "Databricks acquires serverless Postgres vendor bit.io"

gdubya — Wed, 31 May 2023 06:21:11 +0000

Fabric does not use Databricks, but both Databricks and Fabric rely heavily on Delta. Let's just hope that they remain compatible.

New comment by gdubya in "Databricks acquires serverless Postgres vendor bit.io"

gdubya — Tue, 30 May 2023 20:45:46 +0000

This is interesting... possibly a move by Databricks to try and build on their "data lakehouse" concept to counter the recent "Fabric platform" announcements at MS Build.

Databricks coined the "Delta lake" concept and are still (just about) leading the way, but Fabric has the potential from MS to take away that marketshare. Databricks need to improve their "serverless SQL" offering, and add a serious "data warehouse" component alongside the lake.

New comment by gdubya in "CLI tools for working with ChatGPT and other LLMs"

gdubya — Fri, 19 May 2023 07:08:24 +0000

Does it work with LocalAI [1] if you change the openai.api_base value to http://localhost:8080/ ?

1. https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI

New comment by gdubya in "Relational Operators in Apache Calcite (2021)"

gdubya — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 07:22:07 +0000

New comment by gdubya in "The Roll-Out of Windows 11 Is the Perfect Time to Decide to Switch to Linux"

gdubya — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 13:34:52 +0000

Windows 11 is the perfect time to switch to Linux (especially for first-timers), using WSL2. Then, once you're familiar with Linux, it's a shorter jump to replace Windows completely (and appreciate how fast Linux can be without WSL)

New comment by gdubya in "Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich"

gdubya — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 18:52:43 +0000

"it ain't great, but it could be a lot worse..."