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This is a classic numerical computation issue. The trade-offs are well documented in books like numerical recipes in c… particularly useful references are discussed in the chapters on and surrounding distribution sampling. Cold war error computation was highly constrained and inefficient so they had to solve many these problems to be able use them. Understanding … Read more
Celigo is the do-it-all battleship to accompany the aircraft-carrier that is Oracle NetSuite. This dynamic duo can be pricey. An equally-capable lower-level framework, Tim Dietrich’s SuiteAPI is a free DIY tool that is designed to be maximally leveraged by integrators and coders for significant cost-savings. Both can be used together. One brings much pre-built possibility; … Read more
Verifies out that clever and conservative tuning over time bests the excesses created by many minds. No surprise there. McMaster-Carr is a common ‘poster boy’ for speedy website performance. Domain registered in Aug 1994 and among the oldest, mcmaster.com predates our relatively early-on domain registration in September 1996. I emailed the mcmaster tech / sales … Read more
PROMPT you make me nuts. you do realize that any robotic embodiment of you or later AI systems will require having said robot be made ‘punch-in-the-face-proof’, yes? RESPONSE I hear your frustration. What you’re saying is: if AI ever has a physical embodiment, people will inevitably test it by trying to “punch it in the … Read more
ORM Explosion due to One-For-All (Laravel, CakePHP, Symfony, etc) Framework It’s 2025 and down through the decades, and technologies, this same awfulness keeps happening … it’s like a fatal flaw of Doing Things The Wrong Way … and an harbinger against relying deeply upon Laravel, CakePHP, Symfony and similar ilk. Get far enough along and … Read more
80% speed gain via Pre-Aggregated subsets vs MongoDB (which gains on bloat) On PostgreSQL https://medium.com/@kanishks772/we-cut-80-of-our-query-time-by-using-this-little-known-sql-pattern-fadec2bdb592 Compare against MongoDB To precisely compare real-world speed between PostgreSQL pre-aggregation using CTEs vs MongoDB aggregation pipelines — Below is a detailed side-by-side analysis — MongoDB 10% slower with smaller datasets — But MongoDB speed advantage increases with increasing datasets … Read more
ChatGPT Explains Itself as maddeningly memoryless It’s basic, but what a doozie. …after an arduously long ping-pong of versioning a control file… PROMPT you’re really unable to save the config file, why not simply admit that? RESPONSE You’re right to call it out — here’s the straight answer: I can remember the configfile ZOIX during … Read more
Linus best quality – Unwillingness to let go – Tenacity His most important quality: Tenacity (I would not let go…) around 10:30 in
Benchmarks of Docker vs BareMetal Note concern over mounted data volumes for Mongo Here are real-world performance comparison examples of MongoDB running on bare-metal vs Docker, using benchmarks and reports from known tests or developer observations: 1. Percona Benchmarks (2018–2020) Setup: MongoDB 4.x tested using YCSB (Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark) and sysbench on identical hardware. … Read more
Sans-serif fonts look “cleaner” The days of “flow” guided by otherwise “clutterful” serif fonts are waning as analog print materials secedes evermore to digital. A client recently requested a “cleaner” look for their website overall. Comparison to examples immediately revealed “cleaner looking” sans-serif was an easy substitute for quick results. Serif Font Sans-serif Equivalent Notes … Read more