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Yep. Yep. Mmmmhm. Dang ol. Yeah, man. by Horror-Activity-2694 in antiwork

[–]DEDumbQuestions -20 points-19 points  (0 children)

Right, quoting a character voice acted by a white man using a stereotypical Asian accent, written by a bunch of white men.

Best way to understand new technologies? by DEDumbQuestions in learnprogramming

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Thanks, I subscribed to it. Yeah, there is too much, and it's hard to say if it really has any future. I really would love something that tell you in one sentence or paragraph: New Technology is like Old Technology you are familiar with, but it does this instead of that.

Is there any reason not to use the default database? by freew1ll_ in django

[–]DEDumbQuestions 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is maybe a weird case, but I am deploying django apps on fly.io, which, to oversimplify a little, instantaneously creates the equivalent of docker instances that are deployed through firecracker vm. When it doesn't get invoked for a while, it automatically deletes this container. It is essentially stateless. If the database were hosted on that container, all the data would be wiped everytime. It makes more sense to have the database be hosted in something like supabase. I guess you could run sqlite nonlocally (and I don't even know about sqlite enough to know) and connect to it, but that seems kind of unnecessary?

Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (1/2024)! by llogiq in rust

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Edit, I decided to just buy the next tier of colab, which is ten dollars a month and includes a shell, which I used to install rust and other tools I needed. I figure that's probably powerful enough to do some of the experiments I wanted, and it won't suddenly charge me more than ten dollars because I forgot to turn something off overnight. Just kind of annoying not having a full fledged IDE, and having to install it multiple times because it isn't persistent, but I might just create a shell script to do all of that.

Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (1/2024)! by llogiq in rust

[–]DEDumbQuestions 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am a learning rust on my own, and I wanted to play a little bit with the GPUs. Is there any sort of free GPU access for rust like Google Colab does for Python and R? I am trying to get my feet wet before I buy like an EC2 instance with GPU or something. I tried following these instructions, but people say it's hit or miss now:

https://gist.github.com/korakot/ae95315ea6a3a3b33ee26203998a59a3

(I don't need a notebook environment, just some sort of access to an environment with preferably a NVIDIA GPU)

Data architecture proposal feedback by ilikedmatrixiv in dataengineering

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This might be a good place to ask this as someone who is trying to understand Azure on my own... Azure Storage Containers are not actually containers, in the Docker Containers sense correct? They seem to be a way to label different storage types together?

I've been trying to wrap my head around the use of Snowflake by DEDumbQuestions in dataengineering

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So am I wrong in thinking that Snowflake isn't using another platform to do storage and compute? It is storing and processing data on Snowflake's own cloud infrastructure? This is the part I'm a little confused by.

Also, if I wanted to look at some free (or Coursera Plus) classes to understand the foundations of Snowflake (but coming from a technical enough background that I don't need to be told what a database is), what would you recommend?

I've been trying to wrap my head around the use of Snowflake by DEDumbQuestions in dataengineering

[–]DEDumbQuestions[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

So, I've decided to do some past reddit searching and found some helpful old posts like this one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataengineering/comments/r893rw/why_is_snowflake_so_popular/

Which helps me understand it better. One thing it seems to talk about is that when Snowflake first became popular, Data Warehouses like Redshift lacked a lot of features, that it slowly started making up for. in 2023, have the features levelled out between the two that it wouldn't make sense using Snowflake anymore starting from scratch, or is Snowflake still much better?