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Am I the only one slightly disturbed by the use of "they" in that sentence? I know that the HN commentariat is broad-based, but I didn't realise we already had non-human members ;-)

HN wIlegh tlhInganpu', Human.

wait do you actually speak Klingon?

HISlaH, tlhIngan Hol jIjatlh.

(A little anyway. I'm still in the rookie lessons on Duolingo.)

It's perfectly reasonable to refer to "human civilizations" as a plural, since that phrase can very commonly be used to refer to different cultures.

I believe they are referring to being disturbed by using "they" vs "us", implying they are not a part of human civilization.

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I'd go the other way with the buildings -- there are lots of unmaintained or even semi-ruined buildings, even in central Lisbon, which would benefit from foreign investment. Some of them are probably that way due to inheritance disputes, but others, I think, just need an owner that values their age. Maybe allow foreign ownership of older buildings over some particular size, or only if they do significant repairs, or something like that?

That was always the idea. There was a cheaper golden visa just for repairing ruins …

I wonder how much good it did? You do see lots of places for sale in the countryside with XXX of land with a ruin of YYY, and it sounds like people have been using those to build summer houses, but the city centre feels like where it with be needed most. And there are still prominent ruins in central Lisbon, right by Marques de Pombal for example.

Also worth noting that the real estate option has excluded property in Lisbon and the surroundings, Porto and Algarve for some time, and those were the places where most people from abroad would have wanted to move to.

Agreed, if it's not your primary purpose for having the account then it should be fine. I did a bunch of FX through them not long after opening mine, and they sent me a polite email telling me that I shouldn't do that, which was fair enough. Much better than the "freeze account first, warn later" attitude that many other financial companies seem to have.

Now that I've been investing with them for a while, they don't seem to mind.

Really? I rather like the German industrial techno they play while you're in it.

Makes sense. A bring-your-own-model feature would be awesome, but would make it impossible to do that for rarely-used models without using valuable GPU RAM.

Thanks! TIL that nyancat is something like "meowcat"

I picked up the term "beg bounty" from somewhere a while back. It's a very useful phrase to describe the low-effort run-some-crappy-scan-and-spam-security-at-domain junk that comes through.

Great article, but I'm saddened by their view that C is too hard to work with, so the 2-year-old extension must be rewritten in Rust.

C certainly has its faults, and while I have no real experience with Rust, I'm willing to believe that it's significantly better as a language.

But pgvector, at least from a quick scan, looks like a well-written, easily comprehensible C codebase with decent tests. There are undoubtedly lots of hard problems that the developers have solved in implementing it. Putting time and effort into reimplementing all of that in another language because of an aversion to C feels like a waste of effort that could be put into enhancing the existing extension.

Maybe there's something I'm missing? Is the C implementation not as solid as it looks at first glance?

Rust makes concurrency really easy, at least in comparison to C or C++. It has great cross-platform frameworks available, like Tokio which pgvecto.rs uses, and makes using them safe and straightforward.

C also makes concurrency very easy. So easy the uncareful regularly shoot off both feet. Too easy.

It's hard to get concurrency right in C

I wonder if having that sort of "safe concurrency" causes developers to overuse concurrency and introduce coordination costs.

Do we know that tokio's concurrency strategy is optimal for database access?

Let’s assume that this is true. Then is the solution to go back to C where it is hard to get concurrency running correctly? Seems backwards thinking.

No, the solution is to keep the thing that's running quite well in c unless you can prove that it's better?

Starting with a claimed 20x speedup seems like proving it's better? https://modelz.ai/blog/pgvecto-rs

Reading this on a Fold 3, which I'm considering replacing with a OnePlus Open, if the reviews are good. The crease is not noticeable in use for me. Having more screen real estate in a device that still comfortably fits in my hip pocket is great. The only downside I've noticed in a year of use is the Samsung bloatware. There are a couple of small scratches on the screen but no more than I had on my previous smartphones after a year. That's after taking it to the beach multiple times and not taking any particular care to avoid getting stuff on the screen.