Really cool. It'll be interesting to see how Multigres (by Supabase) shapes up compared to this. I think it's great to have more/better competitive hosted Postgres offerings.
This is especially interesting because Multigres is being led by Sugu Sougoumarane, one of the Vitess co-creators and Planetscale co-founders - so the two projects are growing from the same soil, so to speak.
I believe Mixture-of-Experts is a way for a neural network to group certain knowledge into smaller subsets. AFAIK there isn't a specific grouping goal, the network just figures out what goes where on it's own and then when an inference request is made it determines what "expert" would have that knowledge and routes it there. This makes the inference process much more efficient.
Dev of the mentioned extension here, I've been getting emails from bad actors offering to "buy" the extension for years. It really has made me far less trusting of browser extensions.
If I can be bothered replying, I tell them it's open source, they can just use the code for free. Eventually if I push them on it, they tell me they just want to acquire the users, and don't care about the extension. I wonder just how many extensions are compromised this way, it's a mess.
Yeah, I believe the firmware on all compatible devices was auto-updated to the new architecture and apparently they can't go back to the old firmware for some reason. What a mess.
At ORIS I wrote a Laravel wrapper for PTOSC and really miss it now that I'm back on PostgreSQL. Now I mostly use updatable views in front of modified tables then drop-swap things later once any transitional backfilling is done.
Apple Watches have been great for us. Both of my kids (ages 10 & 13) use a cellular Apple Watch which gives them a way to call/text with us and their friends but it doesn't give them access to social media. I know they'll want a phone soon (my youngest is already asking) but it's an easy "no" for us. I think waiting until around age 14 (or later) sounds about right. I'd like to delay even longer if possible. We'll see how hard they push.
ToothFairy for macOS is what I've been using to handle this. It has an advanced setting for headphones that "Improve sound quality by disabling audio input from device". It's always good to have multiple tools out there to solve problems like this.
