> Polynomials are for people who think AGI is "decades away."

Je suis un polynôme

And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mottainai I guess

There is also a way to import a table from the STDIN (see also https://duckdb.org/docs/data/json/overview)

cat my.json | duckdb -c "CREATE TABLE mytbl AS SELECT * FROM read_json_auto('/dev/stdin'); SELECT ... FROM mytbl"

There's been a writeup on this topic by the Fly team -- https://fly.io/blog/docker-without-docker/

English translation starting from page 7.