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My understanding is that this an essential component of their "Chronicles" database system. I'd be curious to hear more recent perspectives.

Thanks for your comments, @chaboud! I definitely agree that LLMs _can_ be an amazing tool for learning, but as you note, one must be intentional about using them that way. I feel like the messages bei…

> The work that’s left is more interesting and more valuable than the work that’s leaving. I'm not sure I agree with that. Many (or most) of the software engineers I know find the heavy relian…

Oh, thank you, @clmcleod! We've been following all your work closely in my team! I'm very bullish on the long-term prospects of Rust in computational biology—as well as research computing mo…

This is interesting; thanks for sharing! I have been curious about the adoption of Rust in computational biology. I know that the folks at Saint Jude's [1] are also using Rust for their 'omi…

I'm very curious to hear folks' thoughts on this. My intuition is that there are at least two key factors that make tasks difficult for AI tools. (1.) The overall level of complexity. For ex…

This might not be exactly what you mean by a CLI app called "whatisthis", but I have been using cheat.sh and the pattern below for a few years. It works really well! curl cheat.sh/grep …

I'm sorry if you've had a bad experience working with cloud technologies, but this comparison strikes me as pretty unfair. Public clouds have enabled thousands of companies to put their prod…

If you haven't written off Python completely, I would suggest giving it a second chance using uv [1] for managing environments and Python versions. In my opinion, uv is the best thing to happen t…

I agree with this, and I'd go even a bit further and describe them as predatory. They seem to have absolute contempt for their customers, and look for every possible opportunity to bleed them dry…

I had the same reaction. Haven't they been selling DGX boxes for almost 10 years now? And they've been selling the rack-scale NVL72 beast for probably a few years.[1] What is changing? [1] …

It's interesting that you mention disaster; there is at least one annual conference dedicated to "spreadsheet risk management".[1] [1] https://eusprig.org/ …

Yep, and don't forget about Mojo, which has the potential to make such a transition less painful.

I wish this was better understood more broadly. Grants aren't no-strings-attached gifts—far from it; they are contracts. When a researcher at a university gets a grant, that's the federal go…

Yeah, I am very curious to see the responses from other institutions. The University of Texas (Austin) said they were "honored" to have received the compact.[1] That is obviously very concer…

I feel like "other than the ecosystem" is doing quite a bit of work here.

This has been exactly my experience! I've found SQLx to be a joy to work with in Rust!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2308s

Your understanding is correct, dbeaver is a stand-alone application.

If the conclusion is "be transparent", I'm strongly supportive. And moreover, I would be even more supportive if we found a way to change the incentives for tenure and promotion such th…