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by pphysch 1y ago
Consolidation is the inevitable outcome of free unregulated markets. In our highly interconnected world, decentralization paradoxically requires a central authority to enforce decentralization by restricting M&A, cartels, etc.
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by pphysch 1y ago
Depends on what circles you are in. If you spend time on HN you see a lot of SQLite and Postgres discussion and building. I can't remember the last time I saw an interesting article here about using MySQL/Oracle/MSSQL. You us
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by pphysch 1y ago
They are isolated, your devcontainer config can live in your source repo. And you're not gonna see significant latency from your loopback interface... If your test suite includes billions of queries you may want to reassess.
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by pphysch 1y ago
Or just use devcontainers and have an actual Postgres DB to test against? I've even done this on a Chromebook. This is a solved problem.
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by pphysch 1y ago
I use d2 in obsidian fwiw
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by pphysch 1y ago
I think "SQL" is fine, whatever, I'm used to working with multiple different query and programming languages and dialects. That includes the freedom to define abstractions over SQL that meet my personal needs. Standard SQL is
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by pphysch 1y ago
Is that global counter really the only dependency? No database connections or anything that would warrant some proper dependency injection?
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by pphysch 1y ago
AI can definitely help bootstrap from Terrible -> Okay. But provides little/negative guidance on going from Okay -> Exceptional.
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by pphysch 1y ago
Imagining an exec coming across this article in 2025 and talking about COBOL like they are currently talking about AI. "Hey X, can you check with the IT guys how much COBOL we are using and how that number can be increased? Thx"
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by pphysch 1y ago
If only it was that simple. The real goal seems to be laundering the reputation of (bad) troublemakers and warmongers.
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by pphysch 1y ago
Definitely. Machado fits the profile of a "smol bean opposition" and is involved in a situation that USA government has great interest in (and she has great relationships with those on Capitol Hill). While Trump personally wants t
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by pphysch 1y ago
Venezuela is already heavily sanctioned and on the cusp of military invasion by USA. Machado is a core part of this campaign. She won't be sanctioned, she will be installed.
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by pphysch 1y ago
Yeah, yeah, we've heard this all before, literally dozens of times. Sovereign states that have important natural resources or geopolitical position are always run by Bad Guys that we need to invade and kill. The media said so!
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by pphysch 1y ago
The same big baby that is allied with Machado in destroying Venezuela's sovereignty?
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by pphysch 1y ago
Not really, virtually all these patterns involve tradeoffs that require understanding the data access patterns. I don't want my compiler adding more padding than bare minimum to every struct. I don't want it transforming an AoS to
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by pphysch 1y ago
A build process totally makes sense -- for WASM apps.
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by pphysch 1y ago
[injected with guerilla ads] I don't see how this is a significant upgrade over the many existing hotel-finder tools. At best it slightly augments them as a first pass, but I would still rather look at an actual map of options than tru
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by pphysch 1y ago
"The economy" is a relative term that might as well be substituted for "my personal interests" in 99% of cases. Few people care about "the economy" writ large, they just care about their little corner of it. Th
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by pphysch 1y ago
Well, I have bad news about the people ruling Western society.
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by pphysch 1y ago
Tracking and restricting the freedom of criminals is critical to a healthy society.
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by pphysch 1y ago
I have been running Redis for years as a cache and have spent less than 5 cumulative minutes "operating" it. I'm a big "just use Postgres" fan but I think Redis is sufficiently simple and orthogonal to include in th
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by pphysch 1y ago
Google is the leader in vertical AI integration right now.
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by pphysch 1y ago
China was able to pull that one off, pretty much no one uses email there.
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by pphysch 1y ago
Yes, a family member approached me about investing in a scheme (on Robinhood) ran by an infamous dotcom boom huckster. They had already invested 5 figures and shared that another extended family member was 6 figures deep, fully exposed. The
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by pphysch 1y ago
Social graphs used to be constrained by individual human capacity, roughly parametrized by Dunbar's Number. Nowadays, a single commodity computer server can store information and relationships for every single living human. You can hav
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by pphysch 1y ago
Lecturing about "good faith" in the same comment that equates (extreme) economic mismanagement with intentional mass murder. Spare us the sanctimony. Are you consistent and therefore interpret the Great Depression as a mass murder
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by pphysch 1y ago
There is really some wild fan-fiction on HN. If you're being serious, how do you know any of this? Based on what evidence?
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by pphysch 1y ago
That's preposterous. Hitler intentionally created extermination camps, which targeted "Bolsheviks" above all. He then forced his armies on a bloody rampage into Russia, where he overextended and was defeated, after violently
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by pphysch 1y ago
This is quite the canard. How many actual spoken languages does PRC have on its currency vs USA?
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by pphysch 1y ago
> which is why countries with oppressed labor can do it far cheaper than USA > which again why companies in USA didn't want to do it for little to no profit Genuinely asking, do you really think American megacorps care about thei

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