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It’s possible. Tech companies do hire people to work full time on open source software. I’m not sure but I doubt there are many positions like that. There were several at a previous company I worked for.

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If you have enough ram, you don’t really need swap at all.

This isn’t really true. Swap is important for things other than acting as a memory reserve. Even if it was only used that way, it can still improve performance by paging out unused memory (such as from application startup that then isn’t used).

There are other benefits too. This link goes into details.

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For what it’s worth, I’ve used Nvidia cards for at least a decade without any major issues. Mostly on Arch, though I do vaguely recall needing to fiddle with it more on really old Ubuntu releases.

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I don’t think the point is that swap is critical. Whether that is true will depend on your workload and hardware. But the point is it makes memory management better and more efficient. Whether you notice a difference in performance or not is again dependent on your workload & hardware. I personally see no reason to not dedicate a couple gigs to swap even with lots of memory on a personal system.

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womp womp :)

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With that small of a dataset imo either option is fine. If it were me I would use an ORM + sqlite just to start, in case I ever needed to migrate to a “real” database.

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I think if you’re storing vocabulary etc, using the C interface for sqlite wouldn’t be too unwieldy and would be a good learning experience if you haven’t done much raw SQL query writing of your own. Even when you use an ORM there are often times you need to write your own queries for more complicated situations.

One other suggestion: once you have the CLI and bots working, you could abstract this even more. Have a service process that communicates in some way (IPCC, a network port, etc.) that does the actual text analysis. Your cli and bots can then just interface over that channel. This gives separation of duties so you can easily implement new clients/servers or rework them much more easily.

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My wife & kid go through about a large jar of Vegenaise a week. It’s gotten expensive so I tried making mayo using soy milk and it’s just as good and very easy with an immersion blender. Several similar recipes online but I always omit any garlic etc.

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When my wife gave birth, the delivery room had a sign saying any sexual comments, said jokingly or not, would result in you being immediately kicked out. I couldn’t believe they needed to put up a fucking sign for that at the time so that makes this post a bit less shocking to me.

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