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binidxaba

134 karma · joined September 1, 2023

Software engineer. Interested in database systems and learning from others.
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binidxaba··on Did the future already happen? [video]
This reminded me of St Augustine’s reflections on Time: “What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks me, I do not know. Yet I say with confidence that I know that if nothing passed away, there would be no past time; and if nothing were still coming, there would be no future time; and if there were nothing at all, there would be no present time.”
binidxaba··on Benchmarking Postgres Vector Search Approaches: Pgvector vs. Lantern
Lantern argues that being able to create indexes quickly is useful for tuning the hnsw paramters.
binidxaba··on Benchmarking Postgres Vector Search Approaches: Pgvector vs. Lantern
It does not! Would be interesting to try that!
binidxaba··on Roombas at the end of the world
Bye-bye, Roomba Ernie.

You were taken from us too early.

Bye-bye, Roomba Ernie.

You’re 5,000 candles in the wind.

binidxaba··on Advice to a novice programmer
> "I think CS curricula should have a class that focuses specifically on these issues, on the matter of how do you actually write software?"

I agree. And for that reason, I liked these playlists: https://www.youtube.com/@MissingSemester/playlists

binidxaba··on Pgrx – Build Postgres Extensions with Rust
Here's an example of pgrx being used: https://tembo.io/blog/postgres-extension-in-rust-pgmq