Tanjreeve

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by Tanjreeve 1y ago
The first two statements would upset a lot of people but I think you'd find theyre arguably true. Most software products are various flavours of configuration. Unless you're genuinely leveraging some novel algorithm/hardware
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by Tanjreeve 1y ago
It's the only logical next step after multi billion dollar corporations need to be provided with other peoples stuff for free to make their business models viable in the name of the free market.
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by Tanjreeve 1y ago
The only actual hard data cited in this article is the opposite conclusion to the headline. >Still, language-learning app Duolingo and fintech app Klarna have recently walked back aggressive stances on replacing humans with AI. >Some
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
Probably never. The complexity is borne by Amazon. Even before any of the development begins if you want a RAID setup with some sort of decent availability you've already multiplied your server costs by the number of replicas you'
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
Probably same reason as anything you work on might have undocumented stuff. Combo of lack of time and/or not wanting to imply support for unstable/experimental features. If you're only screwing over the team on the next desk
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
If you're scared of SQL/have a massive operations team to throw infrastructure problems over the fence then that would be a positive to push all complexity into the application code as you aren't the one paying that cost.
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
Reputation matters. If someone comes to market with a shoddy product or missing features/slideware then it's a self created problem that people don't check the product release logs every week for the next few years waiting fo
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
You can't claim to support total free speech and also accept that there is content that is bad for society that needs to be controlled. The moment you accept the latter premise you then need to build enforcement mechanisms and have deb
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
Either one would agree that if the "MSM" were publishing bad things then there's a need to control it. At which point the question is why is a social media website different. Or you'd say that child porn and other bad th
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
You'd agree that there are limits to free speech then?
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
If your "tech innovation" isn't capable of restricting child pornography and calls for terrorism and genocide maybe it's not 100% a loss for everyone else?
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
That's great they got some out two weeks ago. This has been a couple of years getting here.
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
It's kind of annoying the article burns up all the space talking about various discounts and benefits you get from Apps. Aka far less of a problem as they're optional quid pro quo and doesn't talk about the creeping enshittif
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
Personally my argument would be the problems at the low level are just hard problems and doing them in rust you'll change one set of problems of memory safety to another set of problems probably of unexpected behaviour with memory layo
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
SurrealDB is still really coy on its performance/what it's good at/not good at to adopt for a major data project. There's lots of features but no real indication as to if I could scale them for a dataset of billions of r
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
So back to waiting for "the sufficiently advanced compiler"
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
Does it really matter what the judge calls it when the ruling is about its end effects and outcomes?
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
Legal arbitrage isn't a technical advancement. The technical advancement was all the stuff that goes into LLMs not the part where we feed ever more copyright into models for AICorp to make money.
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
Is it looked down? It seems like a pretty relentless drumbeat from our media that everyone should be plumbers/electricians etc and not be going to university (except for the children of politicians and journalists who should continue g
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
Is there a name for a fallacy like "appeal to stupidity" or something where the argument against using a tool that's fit for the job boils down to "All developers are too dumb to use this/you need to read a manual&#
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
What features? Only updates I ever hear is various security features getting disabled/going dead and various tech demos getting checked out/failing.
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
It's weird that everyone and their mum "could" clone twitter easily. And yet the only products of note that's more than dismissive hackernews comments/slideware with something in production at similar scale was meta
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
I think that phrase of "relational first" explains it best. Anything that supports joins can support a graph. Whether it'll perform satisfactorily is going to depend on the compiler and use case/size.
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
Umbra and cedar are both still relational databases. Afaik the jury is now out on if graph databases are better than modern relational databases for most graph queries especially ones with good query planners/compilers. The only time g
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
I think their point was that Rust has a batteries included package manager (cargo). Another advantage of which being that all rust projects are pretty standard in that particular aspect.
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
No idea about internal workings but as a "DB optimisation" startup you're competing with - most people don't need it - People who do need it having DBAs/Operations people - or consultancies - Database vendors that h
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
Developers know it's limits. Or you have developers with vague "scaling issues" or "buggy caching" who don't understand why they have them or suddenly start suffering from them at inconvenient moments.
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
He is also focused on MVPs/POCs for small companies. Aka the bottom of the barrel work you'd use the cheap est offshore workers for anyway and not worry about anything working long term.
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
I don't know how one read an article that talks specifically about how great TCP is as an abstraction and come away with the conclusion that it's arguing that all abstractions are bad.
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by Tanjreeve 2y ago
They definitely did or they probably did? Is there any source for that just so I can point It out to people?

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