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by lmm 4mo ago
> Are you suggesting that a newborn human has more positive economic impact than an immigrant? What factors are you considering? I'm suggesting they have a more positive lifetime impact yes. Obviously publicly-funded education, heal
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by lmm 4mo ago
Monday is probably the best day for an outage? Everyone's in the office, so you're not disturbing them, and hung over, so you're not hurting their productivity much.
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by lmm 4mo ago
> you’re very limited in the kind of logic you can express within a transaction safely On the contrary, you have Lua which is much more expressive than SQL (yes Turing completeness, but there's a huge difference in how easy it is to
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by lmm 4mo ago
No. If you're going to use serialisable you might as well just use something like Redis (which achieves serialisable behaviour by the much simpler approach of... actually executing your operations serially, and generally outperforms a
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by lmm 4mo ago
> Over and over again Acid RDBMS have proven that trying to "relax" the rules in pursuit of performance or worse, mystical holy grails that have never been right or correct for a primary datastore, is a mistake. And then people
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by lmm 4mo ago
> I don't think the average American sympathizes with random shitheads, bro. romanticizing thieves into some kind of noble morally grey antiheroes wronged by the society and struggling to feed their kids is a uniquely bohemian delus
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by lmm 4mo ago
> Why hasn’t the economist of the world figured out a solution to this problem. Because the only solutions that work are social. > There has to be a better way when both sides would be better off by just paying the theif double. Some
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by lmm 4mo ago
I mean you're not really making use of MVCC etc. at that point. Foreign keys are far less relevant because your transactions are all fully atomic, so it doesn't really matter if your data is in an inconsistent state in the middle
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by lmm 4mo ago
If you're going to use serialisable isolation level, why bother using a traditional RDBMS at all? At that point you're better off using a simpler datastore.
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by lmm 4mo ago
> it’s very possible to run a web app backend within ~10ms RTT of most users Only if your users are all located quite close to each other, or (sadly very common) you only care about making it fast for US users and screw everyone else. (O
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by lmm 4mo ago
> Immigrants are WAY more economically efficient than children. In Japan? Doubt. The social cost may be harder to measure, but it's huge. And even if they are more "economically efficient", why is that the goal?
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by lmm 4mo ago
> Should the government increase its already high tax rate from up-to-50% to up-to-90% and take money from the childless to give to parents? Yes > Should the government replace your salary if you quit your job to raise a kid (since af
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by lmm 4mo ago
For one generation, maybe. Once they've assimilated even a little (which is usually what you want, right?) they revert to the same birthrate as everyone else.
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by lmm 4mo ago
> They need _someone_ (or something, if they can manage) to sustain the way of life they hold so dear. They don't though? Pensions will be cut. Retirements will be pushed back. Grandparents with dementia will be kept mostly-alive in
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by lmm 4mo ago
> I can say with a lot of confidence that optics weren’t considered in any of this, possibly to a fault. How can you possibly know that? Do the people on that committee have a cast-iron tenure guarantee?
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by lmm 4mo ago
Depends on the season. "Everyday" was a poor choice of word, but 35+ wet bulb temperatures happen and are to some extent routine and expected.
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by lmm 4mo ago
> The really scary thing will be when the wet bulb temperature goes above 35 degrees, and humans can only survive with AC. That's already an everyday reality in Singapore.
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by lmm 4mo ago
> better and more stable NVIDIA drivers available to Windows Huh? It's the same driver. It works the same on every platform. There's no consistent difference in performance (at least not between FreeBSD and Windows, it's b
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by lmm 4mo ago
Sounds pretty normal if someone's working full-time on it? That's what, 50/ working day, or about a commit every 10 minutes? Nothing to worry about.
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by lmm 4mo ago
> Is the problem participation? Or is it that entire years are devoted to reading ancient books with bad English and unrelatable themes simply because of tradition? Shakespeare wrote some neat plays but they’re not helping the reading ep
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by lmm 4mo ago
> Sid Are you refusing to use the Nvidia binary drivers and/or a setup like DKMS that ensures kernel modules are rebuilt as necessary? While I respect the principle, it's a problem you're creating for yourself. > upgrad
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by lmm 4mo ago
> Who invests in an index fund for "moonshots"? > Everyone I know who invests in an index fund is doing so to mitigate the risks of things like "moonshots" which are typically much riskier investments. The whole po
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by lmm 4mo ago
> The investors who wanted to take more risk could do that. What? How? By moving out of Massachusetts? I could understand banning such a speculative stock for e.g. pension funds or whatever, but blocking private individuals from buying w
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by lmm 4mo ago
What trouble? If you want a GPU that works on Linux, let alone FreeBSD, you buy nVidia, install their drivers and get on with your life (and sure, maybe you can't use Wayland, but why would you want to?). I'm all for open-source i
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by lmm 4mo ago
> After a certain point , 100% market penetration is achieved and these products become mainstream and profitability follows. See Uber and Tesla for examples. Groupon got to pretty much 100% penetration, still crashed and burned right af
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by lmm 5mo ago
> Should he react to all messages as if they are threats, because no matter how small the risk is, more than zero is too much? No. But he should treat messages that are blatantly intended to provoke others as such. If someone on the flig
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by lmm 5mo ago
> One that is actively hostile to millions of Americans No it isn't. You can read that implication into it, but it's not "actively hostile" in the way that an "F... X" statement is, for any X, and it's
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by lmm 5mo ago
> Apple has been running the iTunes Store without "pulling the rug" for about as many years as Steam has existed. Maybe. It's not been a very prominent line of business for them, and even then I can recall a couple of sign
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by lmm 5mo ago
But you can run Steam on Linux. You don't have to worry about whether they're going to discontinue the cheap Steam Box you were relying on. And they have built up credibility from decades of not pulling the rug, in a way that Appl
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by lmm 5mo ago
Table-based layouts that loaded faster and rendered better than anything you see today, and even read better on actually existing screenreaders (who never got the memo that tables are supposed to be less accessible than CSS and changing &lt

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