> HTTP also allows the DuckDB-Wasm distribution to speak Quack natively! So DuckDB running in a browser can e.g., directly connect to a DuckDB instance running in an EC2 server using Quack.
Both the original Markdown spec [1] as well as CommonMark [2] clearly specify support for inline HTML. With that you can kind of get the best of both words depending on your use case.
For the most parts you just write the regular Markdown headers and paragraphs, embed images, insert tables etc without the need for any HTML tags, making it readable in source form. And if you want to embed an SVG file for example, which the author of the article mentions as one use case, you just embed the SVG directly, and people can render the Markdown in their favorite viewer.
Let's say you're viewing a raw Markdown file in VS Code. You come onto an HTML tag, so you hit Cmd+Shift+V to open the preview and that's it.
Of course for full-fledged web pages with interactive buttons and fully customized styling and all of that, which the author shows in some examples, this is not feasible. But you can get very far when you have mostly text/images/tables and just want to add some extras here and there.
On max it uses more than twice as many tokens as on high when running the ArtificialAnalysis benchmark suite, and then it's indeed the model with the highest token usage (among the current top tier models). See the "Intelligence vs. Token Use" chart here:
Wow, the difference is quite considerable and the gain in intelligence is not that much. I might try to use high and just iterate more often. I am working with hobby stuff so I don't have to worry whether it breaks things or not.
When you say "Gemini", which exact model do you mean? You know there are several and they vary a lot in how capable they are? Pro 3.1 Preview, 2.5 Pro (their latest non-preview pro model), Flash 3 Preview, ...
Same with GPT-5: Latest 5.5, prior 5.4, or actually the original 5 (.0)?
You can't talk about model performance without specifying the exact model.
My apologies, I thought it would be implicit that I am using the top-tier model of the time given the challenge of the tasks. GPT-5.5 was too new in this top comment (although I did test it a bit in a comment below), so I was using GPT-5.4. Gemini is Pro 3.1 Preview.
What do you mean with this? Maybe you are thinking of the old ".NET Framework" runtime, which only runs on Windows? Nowadays there is ".NET Core" which runs on macOS and Linux as well.
Even om Windows .NET does not work properly with mySQL and Postgres it only really works properly with Microsoft MySQL-Clone or I don't know the official name.
> it is possible with some software to have everything massively cached, with the cloud doing that, with the origin server in my basement, only accessible from the allowed cache arrangement
Whoa. I admire the time and dedication to both models. However, I can't help but LOVE the minecraft model since it will live on. Now we just need to 3D print the minecraft model :D
Thank you. Seems to be down, though; web dev tools indicate unable to open websocket to wss://progressbackend.minefact.de/socket.io/?EIO=4&transport=websocket&sid=...
The article tries to sell it to people who can't run Docker locally (e.g. locked down permissions in enterprise environments, slow old laptop), but hasn't it already been possible to use remote Docker engines?
So the news is that they're offering to host those remotes now, right?
Nah. It's just 15 years later they finally try to find a niche would also bring them monies. There are a lot of business who would just offload (yes, I did it too) the burden of compliance to a 3rd party - and this is the reason it's mentioned quite prominently there.
Good for them but they should had done this ten years ago.
> HTTP also allows the DuckDB-Wasm distribution to speak Quack natively! So DuckDB running in a browser can e.g., directly connect to a DuckDB instance running in an EC2 server using Quack.