Look at all those em-dashes. Et tu, Slavoj?

> I like PHP because it allows access to core system calls on any platform.

Lots of people _love_ PHP precisely because of the size of its attack surface.

Do you have any examples of something you've built in PHP which benefitted from direct syscall access?

I keep hearing about this. I occasionally use PHP8 and so far I'm pretty happy with it. Is there any resource that teaches about security issues with modern PHP (version 8.x)?

When you work for a big corp and someone asks you to have a conversation like this where there is no upside for you, one of the best things you can do is copy the lawyers in and nope out of there as soon as you can.

> My working theory is that British management over large groups of British workers collapses into class warfare.

Interesting. Care to share a bit more about your reasoning here?

You mean a friend with a lobbying budget and a revolving door?

Low time burden, low emotional burden, unlikely to interfere or micromanage?

It's not cameras not good, it's face recognition not good. Because face recognition not good.

Face rec can be problematic if used with bad imagery and without proper oversight - agree.

Like all powerful tools it has to be used responsibly.

My point is merely that we are all tracked by other means that affect our life in much deeper and profound ways.

..like for example purchase history, cell phone location, internet use etc bought and sold by private corporations, with little to no oversight.

Ha! This looks really nice, and I'm right there with you on the context development UX being clunky to navigate.

A couple of weeks ago I built something very very similar, only for Obsidian, using the Obsidian Canvas and OpenRouter as my baseline components. Works really nicely - handles image uploads, autolayout with dagre.js, system prompts, context export to flat files, etc. Think you've inspired me to actually publish the repo :)

That's great to hear! Best of luck with it, let me know how it goes.

I definitely think that there is a lot of work to do with context management UX. For us, we use react flow for our graph, and we manage the context and its tree structure ourselves so it's completely model agnostic. The same goes for our RAG system, so we can plug and play with any model! Is that similar for you?

Would love to see that--haven't found a great LLM interface for obsidian yet.

That sounds super cool, let me add another voice of encouragement, please do publish it.

See it's the exact opposite for me, although my experience is mostly a) building giant cubes in giant enterprise orgs with hourly data volumes you couldn't fit in memory, and b) 10-15 years old (so the hardware sucked and we didn't have duckDB). But yeah, I don't think the O in OLAP standing for 'online' ever really made sense.

I'm curious to know how much of this article is OLAP specific vs just generic good practice for tuning batch insert chunk size. The whole "batch your writes, use 100k rows or 1s worth of data" thing applies equally to pretty much any database, they're just ignoring the availability of builtin bulkload methods so they can arguing that INSERTs are slow so they can fix it by adding Kafka, for reasons? Maybe I'm missing something.

Author here—this article was meant to highlight how you can optimize writes to CH with streams.

If you want to directly insert data into ClickHouse with MooseStack, we have a direct insert method that allows you to use ClickHouse's bulkload methods.

Here's the implementation: https://github.com/514-labs/moosestack/blob/43a2576de2e22743...

Documentation is here: https://docs.fiveonefour.com/moose/olap/insert-data#performa...

Would love to hear your thoughts on our direct insert implementation!

I want to hear this jazz folk fusion Bulgarian wedding music now. He could have at least included a link or two :/

I doubt RMS would use any platform he could link to online. He likely listens to public domain music, copyleft music, or perhaps he pirates it.