George Boot

@elonmusk Why not rust?

SpaceX has almost finished writing V1.0 of an in-house AI training stack in C that exact-maps to 220k GB300s with 800G NICs, making heavy use of pipeline parallelism and getting as close to bare metal as possible. The potential speed improvement vs JAX for large training runs is over an order of magnitude.

@aarondfrancis are you open to a bit of Postgres consulting regarding index design for our query patterns? If not, do you have any recommendations?

@JackEllis You removed the usleep(500) you added a while ago for testing?

The Fathom dashboard is now way, way, way faster. I'll give $100 to the first person who correctly guesses what change we made to cause this. And no, it's probably not your first guess 😉

@neondatabase West Europe (Azure) next?!

Oi oi, you little rascals! Neon can now be deployed in London. Lovely jubbly!

@calebporzio B. Assuming ranges can also have an open start or end. A ‘fake date’ doesn’t communicate all time as it strictly is just a broad range. In most implementations, all time means not filtering, option B feels like it communicates the best.

Struggling with "All time" Assume range values like this: { start: '2025-01-01, end: '2025-01-31' } What would "All time" return? A) null B) { start: null, end: null } C) { start: '0001-01-01', end: '9999-12-31' } Hit me

@DJSnM Seems like it disintegrated and pieces came down much closer to home

@DJSnM South Africa I’d say

They lost the stage, but it's not disappeared, it's coming down somewhere right now.

@PatrickLipsinic @DJSnM Yeah spotted that as well now. Wasn’t instant boom judging by telemetry though

@georgeboot @DJSnM There was a fire at one of the aft flaps

Doesn't look too good for the ship though, loss of telemetry with one vacuum engine showing lit, I wonder where the ship is coming down at that speed.

@JackEllis Lol didn’t even know this existed now. Years ago we rolled our own version but it was hacky AF but did the job. Do you use uuid as PK or as a regular column? When using as PK it’s going to benefit your index sizes hugely, which was our main argument.

Why isn't this the default implementation for UUIDs in Laravel? Or perhaps I should ask, why hasn't the package maintainer PR'd this to the core? 🙊

@nlavender05 @SpaceX Weather

@SpaceX Does anyone know why it was scrubbed this time

Watch Starship's seventh flight test → spacex.com/launches/missi… x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@alex_ Yeah we also had something similar. Probably chunk it up in smaller sub jobs, store their output as temp files and combine at the end into a single large files. (Disk IO is much much faster than database). Job batches and chains are your friend with these issues.

@georgeboot The job I'm working on is a large JSON export (single file), so a little annoying to split it into smaller jobs. I hadn't considered the deployment issue yet either. Currently, the graceful shutdown timeout is 60 seconds, which will also be a problem 🫠

Any tips for handling large #Laravel Horizon jobs more effectively? Getting [job] attempted too many times usually points to OOM/timeouts, but debugging is tough - especially with 30min+ execution times and retries. What's your approach?

@JackEllis Linear.

This positioning is outstanding. I have been thinking about big corporations lots lately and this writing definitely moved me. I don’t just want to be a number on your balance sheet to make your soulless investors happy. So that you can sell me to a bigger company in a few years.

@512x512 It feels like grok is using the web more and more as of recently, but the sites it cites are often garbage. When I ask it how does x work, it comes up with a definition based on tv reality show clickbait articles, not some sound and true definition.

Have you used ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity today? How can we improve Grok to make you switch?

@JackEllis Haha jup, but the pro does it all, just manual. I once almost bought a second hand oracle touch (they hardly wear, so why not) but someone else snagged the deal from me :-(

@georgeboot Oracle touch is like $4k here I think :L

I’m in the market for a new espresso machine. I drink latte and my wife drinks Americano. We’ve had a Delonghi Magnifica Evo for years and it’s really not good. What machine should I get that delivers amazing shots?

@levelsio Are you sure? Judging by its initial speed the flaps were extended then, so they did initially work. Gears can also come down with gravity, and there are also the electric actuators for flaps (for when both A, B and standby hydraulics failed.

Also every 737-800 has a BIG ASS checklist staring you in the face on your yoke So with all the alert sounds and checklist kinda hard to forget your landing gear is up when you land So seems more likely it's just a full hydraulics failure because flaps and speed break also didn't work!

@productive_will @adamwathan Some have, but in my experience it’s only booking time to issues. Meetings and other admin don’t usually fall in that, but are still linked to a project.

@georgeboot @adamwathan All project management tools should definitely have that built in

What tool that your company spends at least $1000/yr on do you hate the most?