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by cpursley 2y ago
How is MongoDB still a thing when there's already several ways to handle json in Postgres including Microsofts new documentdb extension: https://gist.github.com/cpursley/c8fb81fe8a7e5df038158bdfe0f... What am I mi
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by cpursley 2y ago
Now run those numbers per-capita (UK has been arresting around 3k a year for mean tweets). Democratic Germany has been rounding people up as well but I can't find their specific stats.
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by cpursley 2y ago
Moral point? “Democratic” European countries lock up more people for “mean” tweets and silent protests than autocratic Russia (who doesn’t claim to be democratic btw). And if you’re gonna downvote, by all means - prove me that I’m wrong wit
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by cpursley 2y ago
Compare current Western European energy prices with the rest of the world (even adjusted for income parity) and get back to me. While you’re at it, take a look at the recent lists of shuttered industrial manufacturing and petroleum based ag
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by cpursley 2y ago
Well, have fun with all that (in the cold). Energy is everything.
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by cpursley 2y ago
He’s right, Europe is languishing and has committed energy suicide.
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by cpursley 2y ago
Can we stop American-moralizing everything? People are allowed to have their own opinions, even annoying ones that offend our sensibilities.
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by cpursley 2y ago
Nevermind, folks - I retract my comments. Elixir is terrible, don't learn it, the market is saturated ;)
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by cpursley 2y ago
I'm one of those fanboys. I've done the react, angular etc front end thing. LiveView just absolutely smokes SPAs and other JS rats-nests in terms of productivity, performance and deployment simplicity (for certain types of apps).
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by cpursley 2y ago
Neato. You might hear from me in the near future. I'm working on a self-hosted CRM/Email Marketing/Drip type of app with Phoenix LiveView - I'm assuming you handle Elixir as first class citizen based on your blog post. I
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by cpursley 2y ago
This is a pretty neat product. Seems like the purpose is to allow deploying and selling of self-hosted instances?
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by cpursley 2y ago
It's less about the language syntax and more about the capabilities of the underlying Erlang runtime. There's also Gleam on top of Erlang if you like stronger typing (gleam.run).
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by cpursley 2y ago
Why not use Elixir for agents as Electric is already heavily invested? It’s a much better fit than JS.
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by cpursley 2y ago
I agree, and it feels like JS is just the wrong runtime for agents. Really languages that can model state in sane ways and have a good concurrency story like Elixir make much more sense. And here’s a fun exercise: ask Claude via Cursor or P
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by cpursley 2y ago
Man people can’t stand that Elon turned Twitter into a free speech platform. Anyways, I'm more of a long-form article, book, podcast and travel guy when it comes to informing my opinion.
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by cpursley 2y ago
Maybe you could recommend some western news sources that haven't been infected by USAIDS?
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by cpursley 2y ago
Sure, sure. Pentagon money going to the western press, USAID (a literal terrorist organization) funding both sides of the narrative, what could go wrong? There was a time liberals screamed at the top of their lungs over this type of threat
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by cpursley 2y ago
Did you even read those articles? Full of BS excuses and justifications. None of them pass the sniff test by any honest person with above room temperature IQ. People are just angry at Musk for turning their safe space into a free speech pla
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by cpursley 2y ago
Is that totally true, though? Maybe they have pulled wool over my eyes, but it seems like we've seen more transparency in the last few weeks than the last 40 years. Just poke around a bit: https://doge.gov/savings And
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by cpursley 2y ago
It’s just wild to me that an attempt to tally up whats in the community grain store and where it’s allocated out to is even considered a bipartisan issue.
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by cpursley 2y ago
Yeah, exactly. It blows my mind that expecting accountability, transparency, and effectiveness out of public servants is even a partisan issue.
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by cpursley 2y ago
> How long before this starts getting deployed in safety critical applications or government decision making processes Hopefully sooner than later. I trust this more than the literal scammers and thieves who were previously running thing
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by cpursley 2y ago
As someone who’s tried the high end Chinese phones and really appreciate that they’re innovating and trying new things, I’ve come to the conclusion that Apple and iOS is simply a more stable and reliable platform and better ecosystem (bette
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by cpursley 2y ago
They don't suffer from recency bias when you dump the docs right into their context.
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by cpursley 2y ago
Who's it extracting from?
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by cpursley 2y ago
Have you considered just walking backwards uphill in the snow to your local library and checking out an (out of date) dead tree book, like - you know like us "real" programmers used to do it? The gatekeeping around using llms for
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by cpursley 2y ago
That's because you're using ChatGPT instead of Claude.
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by cpursley 2y ago
That's fair. Are there any particular libs for Elixir that you found missing?
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by cpursley 2y ago
Can anyone still make a case to start a new project in Rails in 2025 when there is Elixir LiveView? I enjoy Ruby but activerecord is a mess and the language is slow and lacks real time functionality.
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by cpursley 2y ago
Neat! Just added it to my "Postgres Is Enough" gist: https://gist.github.com/cpursley/c8fb81fe8a7e5df038158bdfe0f...

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