ma343

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[–] ma343@beehaw.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Graphql is a protocol for interacting with a remote system, parquet is about having a local file that you can index and retrieve data from in a more efficient way. It's especially useful when the data has a fairly well defined structure but may be large enough that you can't or don't want to bring it all into memory. They're similar concepts, but different applications

[–] ma343@beehaw.org 10 points 2 months ago

The point is to refute the people calling them liars for pointing out the obvious issues that happened in the past. If there wasn't a backlash, this post wouldn't make sense, but there was

[–] ma343@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago

Sure, let's just discuss sora as if they didn't basically fake their demo video... So groundbreaking to have to have a team of people spend tons of time sorting through bad output that has no relation to other shots to scrape together a shitty demo reel video. How about instead of breathlessly predicting disruption "coming soon" we hold these tools to the standard of the content they put out today, when they're marketers aren't faking demos and lying about what they can do

[–] ma343@beehaw.org 8 points 2 months ago

The point is to stop expanding oil exploitation and refinement, and gradually reduce our dependency on the existing refining capabilities. But sure, your strawman of stopping all refining at once sounds pretty bad, almost as bad as unchecked climate change...