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by ako 1y ago
Read the news, you’ll see what’s wrong. The people that lost their job to outsourcing will be unhappy, and very susceptible to easy “solutions” from populists like blaming foreigners. And from there you go to unlawful deportations, and a ve
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by ako 1y ago
I hope you're right, but considering human nature, it's not something i would bet my money on. It's not how humans are wired.
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by ako 1y ago
In live in europe, so understand some of it, part of my family comes from eastern europe, so have also seen that form of communism in the past. Living on welfare in the Netherlands is not a good life, and definitely not something we should
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by ako 1y ago
Misinformation, lies and populism, see for example discussions around vaccines where people no longer bother to understand the science, climate change, or religion where people randomly choose 1 out of 3000 available gods and then pretend l
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by ako 1y ago
Sounds great in theory, but doesn't seem very realistic. There will always be people that want power over other people, and having more than others will give them that power. And universally, if you have nothing, you lead a very poor l
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by ako 1y ago
The scare for most people is that AI isn't better tools, but outsourced work. In the past we would create our own products, now other countries do this. In the past we did our own thinking and creative activities, now LLMs will. If we
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by ako 1y ago
Agreed, it'll be a big problem if we don't keep our skills and rely on AI too much. Same with outsourcing manufacturing, at some point you loose the skill to produce products completely and are dependent on other countries. With t
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by ako 1y ago
What is a better alternative if you just need to transform JSON from one structure to another JSON structure?
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by ako 1y ago
There is JSLT: https://github.com/schibsted/jslt and it can be useful if you need to transform a json document into another json structure.
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by ako 1y ago
I built an actual shipping product that used this approach over 25 years ago. The server would have the state of every session, that would be serialized to xml, and then xslt templates would be used to render html. Idea was that this would
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by ako 1y ago
Changing working location could be a contract change, and (at least in the netherlands), employees cant be forced to accept contract changes or resign.
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by ako 1y ago
And compared to what we had before SQL, it is much easier to use, and a lot more people are able to use it.
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by ako 1y ago
Same here, usually no direct access to tables, read access only via views, write access only via stored procedures, to ensure data is always validated in the same way. The stored procedures are basically just database deployed APIs, don’t s
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by ako 1y ago
That pattern, databases being the main integration point in companies, is returning with data lakes like snowflake, databricks, and ducklake (poor man’s snowflake). Where better to get your integration data than in a unified, quality contro
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by ako 1y ago
If you’re going to process a lot of data, doing that in the database is usually faster, as you avoid moving all the data into a separate server process and then moving it back again. For many queries the round trip to the database server fr
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by ako 1y ago
One night in a garage with a car with a running engine and you’re dead. Is it really that hard to imagine what happens if you have millions and millions of humans, cars, factories and other poluting items for many years? The atmosphere is n
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by ako 1y ago
Pretty impressive numbers for google i must say, only 5.5x slower in a time with significant lower number of users, devices and online time.
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by ako 1y ago
Is Iceberg involved in every read/write? I thought it was mostly metadata?
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by ako 1y ago
ETL to bring all your data into Databricks/Snowflake is a lot of effort. Much better if your OLTP data already exists in Databricks and you directly access it from your OLAP layer.
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by ako 1y ago
Epson fx-80
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by ako 1y ago
Did fastload speed up the protocol, or did it compress the data? I remember using other software for speeding up reading and writing from cassettes, but if I remember correctly this was achieved using compression.
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by ako 1y ago
Mandelbrot fractals?
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by ako 1y ago
Don’t pay until you’ve seen a working product, otherwise you don’t know what you’ll get…
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by ako 1y ago
What is nice of the text/code based presentation tools is that you can easily have them be generated by an LLM: I’ve used it to generate a revealjs based presentation to explain a code base, including svg based (sequence) diagrams to i
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by ako 1y ago
Instead of relying only on reviews, rely on tests. You can have an LLM generate tests first (yes, needs reviewing) and then have the LLM generate code until all tests work. This will also help with non deterministic challenges, as it either
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by ako 1y ago
In datagrip you can select part of a query and execute it to see its result.
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by ako 1y ago
That already works in windsurf, I’ve created unit tests in go, where I just wrote a short comment in the unit test what data to query and windsurf would autocomplete with the full sql.
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by ako 1y ago
Warpstream already does Kafka with object storage.
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by ako 1y ago
In the end that’s just a business decision: how much revenue can you expect from emacs/vim users versus users that prefer it integrated in an easily installable ide? I would choose to ignore the vim users expecting more revenue from a
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by ako 1y ago
For me it felt the opposite: pricing works for software engineers that carefully validate every line of code, that will ask for test and documentation. It doesn’t work for vibe coding where the user will just trial and error code generation

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