Stories by tosh

Bun is much faster than Node.js 22 at decoding Base64 but both rely on same lib

My Career as a Series of Emails

Perf regressions in MySQL from 5.6.21 to 8.0.36 using sysbench

The limitations of LLMs, or why are we doing RAG?

US Government Sues Adobe for Hidden Termination Fees When Canceling Subscription

Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960) [pdf]

Programmers should stop celebrating incompetence

Project Kuiper

First look at the upcoming Starlink Mini

OpenAI and Microsoft Azure to deprecate GPT-4 32K

How The Economist’s presidential forecast works

How I Use Obsidian

Doom 3DO: Or How I Survived Hell (2022) [video]

The idea that the current state of the art LLMs would simply replace search

Hierarchical Navigable Small World

Using DuckDB for Embeddings and Vector Search

Marily Nika: AI Product Management, Building AI Products, & MetaAI [video]

Survival of the Mediocre Mediocre (2018)

Why the NYC TLC trip data is a nice training dataset for Data Engineers (2019)