cpursley

PostgreSQL is Enough

• Simplify: move code into database functions
• Just Use Postgres for Everything
• PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database
• Postgres is eating the database world
• Hacker News discussion

Background and Cron Jobs

veekaybee

Anti-hype LLM reading list

Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts of models in prod eagerly sought.

Foundational Concepts

Pre-Transformer Models

Quasimondo

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2004/x86_64/cuda-ubuntu2004.pin
sudo mv cuda-ubuntu2004.pin /etc/apt/preferences.d/cuda-repository-pin-600
wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/11.1.0/local_installers/cuda-repo-ubuntu2004-11-1-local_11.1.0-455.23.05-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu2004-11-1-local_11.1.0-455.23.05-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt-key add /var/cuda-repo-ubuntu2004-11-1-local/7fa2af80.pub
sudo apt-get update

wlib

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2021 Daniel Ethridge

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

veggiedefender

idelem

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    if (window.clipboardData && window.clipboardData.setData) {
        /*IE specific code path to prevent textarea being shown while dialog is visible.*/
        return clipboardData.setData("Text", text); 

    } else if (document.queryCommandSupported && document.queryCommandSupported("copy")) {
        var textarea = document.createElement("textarea");
        textarea.textContent = text;

vedam

You'll find the talks here

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Morgan Williams @mrgnw

The Zen of Svelte

Approaching frontend as a backend developer, Svelte feels surprisingly pythonic. Let's take a quick look at what's familiar, what's foreign, and how to explore the gap.

senderle

So you want to modify the text of a PDF by hand...

If you, like me, resent every dollar spent on commercial PDF tools, you might want to know how to change the text content of a PDF without having to pay for Adobe Acrobat or another PDF tool. I didn't see an obvious open-source tool that lets you dig into PDF internals, but I did discover a few useful facts about how PDFs are structured that I think may prove useful to others (or myself) in the future. They are recorded here. They are surely not universally applicable --
the PDF standard is truly Byzantine -- but they worked for my case.

crittermike

Step 1: Prepare by Walking Through the Three Conversations

1. Sort out What Happened.

• Where does your story come from (information, past experiences, rules)? Theirs?
• What impact has this situation had on you? What might their intentions have been?
• What have you each contributed to the problem?

2. Understand Emotions.

miraculixx

# (c) miraculixx, licensed as by the terms of WTFPL, http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/copying/
# License: DO WHATEVER YOU WANT TO with this code. 
#
# THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
# IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
# WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
#
from io import StringIO

from contextlib import contextmanager