Not sure how ollama integration works in general, but these are two good libraries for RAG:

https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss

https://pypi.org/project/chromadb/

I’m pretty meh on the arguments there. It would be different, but we’d adapt. And we’d fix a lot bunch of problems.

The difference is that you’re not changing how time is kept. Countries can change their timezone offsets right now to screwy things like +12:45 and it changes how time is recorded and stored. If we switch to UTC, a country can just declare their official hours are shifting and nobody has to fundamentally change how clocks work.

IMO people would figure it out and life would go on. Yes, lots of people would have the calendar date advance in the middle of the day but that’s fine, we’d get used to it. People wouldn’t work 9-5 jobs, but we’d come up with different terminology.

I don’t really see the argument about people waking up at different times. Yeah, some people would wake up at 02:00 and some at 16:00, but when someone says they wake up at 02:00, there’s 0 confusion about when that is. You’d have to know when someone is awake to do an international call, but you have to do that anyways.

I'm too lazy to convert that by hand, but here's what chatgpt converted that to for SQL, for the sake of discussion:

SELECT 
    a.id,
    a.artist_name -- or whatever the name column is in the 'artists' table
FROM artists a
JOIN albums al ON a.id = al.artist_id
JOIN nominations n ON al.id = n.album_id -- assuming nominations are for albums
WHERE al.release_date BETWEEN '1990-01-01' AND '1999-12-31'
AND n.award = 'MTV' -- assuming there's a column that specifies the award name
AND n.won = FALSE
GROUP BY a.id, a.artist_name -- or whatever the name column is in the 'artists' table
ORDER BY COUNT(DISTINCT n.id) DESC, a.artist_name -- ordering by the number of nominations, then by artist name
LIMIT 10;

I like Django's ORM just fine, but that SQL isn't too bad (it's also slightly different than your version though, but works fine as an example). I also like PyPika sometimes for building queries when I'm not using Django or SQLAlchemy, and here's that version:

q = (
    Query
    .from_(artists)
    .join(albums).on(artists.id == albums.artist_id)
    .join(nominations).on(albums.id == nominations.album_id)
    .select(artists.id, artists.artist_name)  # assuming the column is named artist_name
    .where(albums.release_date.between('1990-01-01', '1999-12-31'))
    .where(nominations.award == 'MTV')
    .where(nominations.won == False)
    .groupby(artists.id, artists.artist_name)
    .orderby(fn.Count(nominations.id).desc(), artists.artist_name)
    .limit(10)
)

I think PyPika answers your concerns about

What if one method wants the result of that but only wants the artists’ names, but another one wanted additional or other fields?

It's just regular Python code, same as the Django ORM.

I'm pretty excited about PRQL. If anything has a shot at replacing SQL, it's something like this (taken from their FAQ):

PRQL is open. It’s not designed for a specific database. PRQL will always be fully open-source. There will never be a commercial product.

There's a long road ahead of it to get serious about replacing SQL. Many places won't touch it until there's an ANSI standard and all that. But something built with those goals in mind actually might just do it.

I don't think you really have a choice TBH. Trying to do something like that sounds like a world of pain, and a bunch of unidiomatic code. If you can't actually support 4 to 10 languages, maybe you should cut back on which ones you support?

One interesting thing you could try if you really don't want to cut back is to try having using an LLM to take your officially supported code and transliterate it to other languages. I haven't tried it at this scale yet, but LLMs are generally pretty good at tasks like that. I suspect that would work better than whatever templating approach you've used before.

If neither of those approaches works, everything speaks C FFI, and Rust is a modern language that would work well for presenting a C FFI that the other languages can use. You're probably not hot on the idea of rewriting your Go tests into another language, but I think that's your only real option then.

Have you used either of them before and have opinions on them vs HA?

For mobile with fastmail, I use fairemail. Works great with it, and provides a nice merged view with my non-fastmail work emails.

Damn, that’s a great list. Most of what I’d recommend is in there, here’s a few more:

• Anup Sastry - everything’s instrumental except the most recent album, which has vocals, with an instrumental version too
• Blotted Science - other Ron Jarzombek stuff tends to be instrumental as well, like Spastic Ink
• Master Boot Record - everything’s instrumental, he coerces old hardware into making cool music
• Pomegranate Tiger - all instrumental

This site is specific to AWS, but you might find it helpful:

http://ec2instances.info

Looks like it got bought out by someone, so might be enshittified, but it’s worked nicely for me in the past.

Security is a gradient that depends on your threat model, etc, but unless you’re being targeted by a nation-state or something that should be plenty secure

I unfortunately can’t really offer much advice here. I configured Wireguard on my phone by essentially copy/pasting the configuration from my laptop and changing the values as necessary like the public key and client IP address. Turned it on, it activated VPN mode in Android and everything started working.

I guess make sure you haven’t mixed up your public/private keys, your server knows about the new device (and is restarted), and your phone is using the right IP address as basic troubleshooting steps.

Yeah, you’ll also need to configure your server to whitelist your phone, and then everything should just work. And yeah, you should be able to just use the default deb package on bullseye.

Yeah, when you configure it, you essentially say “all traffic to 1.2.3.0/24 should go through this wireguard connection”. Then, your OS automagically knows “oh, this connection to 1.2.3.4 should go through Wireguard, and I’ll handle it like so”. You don’t have to configure any applications specifically, their network connections just get routed appropriately by your OS.

Wireguard might work well here. You’ll have to set it up on each device you want to have access your server, but I’m guessing that syncing only involves a handful of devices, which wouldn’t be bad.

Dhall

If you’re up for a bit of DIY, you can do it with a raspberry pi + something like Motion:

https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion

I’ve looked for cameras that are easier to use and I can trust, and didn’t really find anything. You’re getting spied on by creepy tech bros in a startup that sells your video to the cops, or a random Chinese company that does who knows what with it, take your pick. Also maybe the whole world if you end up on shodan because the S in “IoT” stands for security.

At work I use Contour, which uses Envoy under the hood. At home I just use nginx for everything.

Put some lava lamps in frame too and use it as a source of RNG:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/randomness-101-lavarand-in-production/