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Chuck Darwin

Only a few days ago, Vance was on a podcast defending Trump’s proposed Palantir-powered #database on every citizen,
which was described by MSNBC as
“an unprecedented spy machine that could track Americans”.

Vance waved away any such concerns:
“I don’t believe that Palantir is collecting any information.”

Thank heavens for everyone’s freedoms, Palantir is run by self-confessed “classic liberal” Alex Karp.

In a recent earnings call, the idiosyncratic CEO said his company was busy
“building really great things”, in order “to power the west to its obvious innate superiority”.

Karp throbs with what he calls “productive narcissism”
– at Palantir, he insists:
“We’re proud of our moral stance”.

His philosophy, as he sums it up, is this:
“If you’ve done something big and important, you’re probably a good person.”

Palantir is successful, ipso facto, it’s doing good.

As the Economist put it:
🔥“Fast approaching is a might-is-right world.”

It’s a kind of Gordon Gekko morality
that would be heartily approved of by Wall Street legend
and Bilderberg faithful Henry Kravis of KKR,
on whom Gekko was actually based.

Of course, not all the tech luminaries at this year’s Bilderberg are thinking in terms of world #domination.

Demis Hassabis,
the co-founder of DeepMind, turned up in Stockholm with the 2024 Nobel prize for Chemistry in his back pocket
and some rather more optimistic rhetoric about #AI,
which he thinks will usher in an era of
“radical abundance”.

He thinks of AI as “the cavalry”
arriving to save us from ourselves.

He says:
“I’d be very worried about society today if I didn’t know that something as transformative as AI was coming down the line.”

And Jack Clark,
the co-founder of Anthropic,
likes to think AI replacing us in every last occupation will help us find new ways of living fulfilling lives.

His vision is of a world in which, freed up from our jobs, we’ll engage in
“creative, fun exercises in getting AIs to build things,
or make things,
or carry out competitions and games
where people can play them with one another”.

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Jacket

This is a question for any software devs that could answer. Someone said in a course that #cloud providers like AWS remove the need to manage a #database and that was really helping. But is it so hard do manage a db? I never managed any big databases that wasn't in the cloud so maybe I didn't experience the same thing. But when I use one for a project, it's an easy installation. I have to setup a table and that's pretty much it. After that it's software level. So they like to skip the installation? Is it the updates that gives troubles? I just don't know what to think about it...

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aaron ~# :blinkingcursor:

My homelab got it's final touches. I finally removed #Nextcloud and switched completely to #Stalwart, i added automatic #database backups using #cronjobs for all my #databases, i've set up most of my publicly exposed services to run behind the #cloudflare #proxy, improved the directory structure for my #docker #containers, and finally set up pihole as the #dns server on my router. This feels so good.

#homelab#homeserver#selfhosting
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K Belisario (she/her)

Looking for any examples of using a ShinyApp to allow researchers to select the data they would need for their specific research question. This will be for a large, multi-site project and I was hoping there would be a way to have the the dataset processed based on selection and then sent all securely in the format they need (e.g. long vs wide format). For this to be done securely, I’m thinking the app sends a request which is downloaded regularly to a local machine which can then automatically send out the data as needed using secured methods… But there’s probably a more eloquent way to do this! #R #AskFedi #Data #Database

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Annales HSS

Le troisième dossier de ce numéro, « Compter les dieux », revient sur les effets méthodologiques de la création d'une base de données, à l'occasion d'un projet financé, sur les mentions épigraphiques des dieux grecs. L'article est à la fois présentation de la base et réflexion sur les effets d'une telle approche quantitativiste en histoire ancienne.

▶️ Corinne Bonnet, Julie Bernini, Thomas Galoppin, Sylvain Lebreton, Giuseppina Marano, Enrique Nieto Izquierdo et Alaya Palamidis
Des dieux qui comptent. Approches quantitatives des hiérarchies divines

👉 doi.org/10.1017/ahss.2025.5
👉 shs.cairn.info/revue-annales-2

#histodons @histodons #histoireancienne #greceancienne #antiquity #database #digitalhumanities

Cambridge CoreDes dieux qui comptent | Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales | Cambridge CoreDes dieux qui comptent - Volume 79 Issue 4
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Veronica Olsen 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇴🌻

Any database wizards out there?

I have a table with an ID column. The ID column is unique together with a valid date, so the ID itself is not unique.

However, I also need a name column that is unique under the condition that any given name can only correspond to one specific ID (but not necessarily the other way around).

The database is PostgreSQL. Is it possible to formulate, for instance, a UNIQUE INDEX to achieve this?

Edit: Solved 🥳

#Programming#Development#Help
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Evan Dower
Hi, I'm Evan (he/any).

TLDR: I'm a privileged white hetero-cis-male politically #left #TriratnaBuddhist #SoftwareEngineer (#IHelpPeopleGetJobs) currently in #Seattle but planning to move to #AotearoaNZ or #Australia as so as we can manage it with my wife & 3 kids

I'm politically #left (at least in United States terms). I'm a #voting nerd in that I have a favorite voting-related textbook (Collective Decisions and Voting by Nicolaus Tideman).

I think we could mostly solve #gerrymandering by making larger districts with ~5 representatives instead of just 1 and then using #SingleTransferableVote. That would strike a nice balance between local & proportional representation. For single-person positions, like presidents/governors/mayors, STV becomes #RankedChoiceVoting (aka #InstantRunoffVoting aka #AlternativeVote) which eliminates the spoiler effect and leads to more civil campaigns.

Plus, #RankedChoiceVoting eliminates the need for primaries and runoffs, which can lead to significant cost reductions.

I'm training for ordination with the #TriratnaBuddhist Order (#dhamma, #dharma, #Buddhism) and have been for many years. It's a long process, especially with other things going on. I've done some kind of #meditation (mostly #anapanasati) every day for over 3 years and more sporadically since 2006.

That said, I do take issue with some of the things the founder (Sangharakshita) did, and I'm concerned with a recent rise in sort of guru worship around. I can have gratitude for his explanation of the dharma, try to sort out the idiosyncratic bits, and still view him as a deeply flawed human being.

I write #software for http://indeed.com (job search site) (previously employed by Amazon). I've written a lot of #database-backed #webservices in #Java, but in the last few years, I've been working on #microfrontend platforms in #JavaScript & #TypeScript, primarily supporting #React. I have more knowledge about #Webpack #ModuleFederation than anyone should be cursed with. I'd love to try #SolidJS, #RustLang seems really cool, and I'm excited about the future of #WebAssembly.

My wife & I have fantasized about moving to #AotearoaNZ or #Australia since well before the pandemic, and now we're actively trying make it happen. Since we're both in high-demand professions (she's a nurse), I think it should go reasonably smoothly 🤞. Feel free to get in touch with job opportunities that offer visa sponsorship, suggestions for #kiwiana or Australian culture that will help us adapt, reasons that your city is the best, etc. I always blow on the pie when I wear my jandals to the dairy. If we ship things over, I can only hope that the front doesn't fall off the boat. I hear that only rarely happens.

My daughter Juniper was born at the beginning of 2020, so her experience of life and my experience of parenthood are both tightly linked to the pandemic. On the upside, I get to work remotely, which means I get more time with her. She's a lot of fun (and of course a lot of work).

Then, we had our twins Heath & Magnolia (Noli) in September 2023, and our lives got even more hectic and full of love.

Juniper goes to a Waldorf school, and I wish I could go, too, but I think the adult version of Waldorf school might just be therapy.
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screwlisp

#programming #database #cringe #sql #blog
Sharpsign not-very-deep. I just made some shallow notes about database server useage with slight reference to #lisp, and shared a database horror story from a (non-lisp!) company I worked at ten years ago.

screwlisp.small-web.org/progra

with some apologies to @saxnot (I will write a more serious post about lisp and databases much later, this one is not it. If you would like to be redacted from the post, let me know).

Thoughts, other horror stories welcome.

screwlisp.small-web.orgNot very deep notes and a cringy anecdote about database servers and SQL
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