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by tombert 7mo ago
For a long time I absolutely hated SQLite because of how terribly it was implemented in Emby, which made it so you couldn't load balance an Emby server because they kept a global lock on the database for exactly one process, but at thi
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by tombert 7mo ago
It could be that Postgres was so popular that people didn't really discuss it. Hyperbolic example; literally every human reading this consumes oxygen nearly every moment of the day, and as such no one talks about how great breathing is
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by tombert 7mo ago
Yeah, the fact that the only way that these products can survive in the competition of how I spend my time is a testament to how shitty they are.
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by tombert 7mo ago
I'm shocked, shocked to find that a Microsoft product will actively do a bunch of horrible invasive stuff while simultaneously not caring about security of this private data.
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by tombert 7mo ago
True, I think it was more sort of a natural filter than explicitly revenue for the website. Still, I would be willing to pay a bit more for a website that I actually like if it's a one-time fee; I actually paid for the "Platinum&q
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by tombert 7mo ago
I don't think the syntax is hard to read in any kind of objective sense, it's just different than most mainstream languages. Greek would be hard for me to read too, but that's not because it's necessarily harder to read
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by tombert 7mo ago
Clojure is such a fun language to write; it has great concurrency tools from the get go, and since it has access to the entire Java ecosystem you're never hurting for libraries. I find myself missing Clojure-style multimethods in most
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by tombert 7mo ago
Like 95% of my investing money ends up going to fairly-low-risk ETFs like VOO or VTI, not too different than from an index fund. Still, that last five percent is more or less my gambling money. I put it into individual stocks with the hope
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by tombert 7mo ago
I don’t think it would necessarily have to be six bucks a month. Something Awful is a one time fee of ten bucks (a few bucks more to get rid of ads). I wouldn’t really mind a one-time fee for a lot of sites if it meant that they didn’t have
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by tombert 7mo ago
Only nominally.
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by tombert 7mo ago
Am I the bozo with this? I assure you I don’t think I am very smart.
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by tombert 7mo ago
I do not see any linked podcasts.
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by tombert 7mo ago
> AI is the best thing I've seen in 30 years working in software and expensive RAM for 2 years is a price I think is worth it. I think generative AI is pretty neat, but I'm not sure it's worth the RAM increases. I use Cla
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by tombert 7mo ago
I bought my wife an iPhone 11 Pro Max in 2020, and, knock on wood, outside of replacing the battery it has been going on like a champ. I've offered to buy her a replacement phone but at this point I think she's kind of curious as
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by tombert 7mo ago
Here's hoping that my stock for D-Wave ends up being worth something. Quantum computing seems super cool, but I've been a little skeptical of it actually ever yielding anything useful. I would love to be wrong, it seems neat, and
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by tombert 7mo ago
That's debatable. Musk bought his way into politics and shut down USAID very specifically because USAID was investigating him [1]. Oh, and he used his position in DOGE to assist in making sure that government contracts went to his co
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by tombert 7mo ago
It doesn't seem to work for even a week though. In fact I'm not sure it lasts even a day; I feel like I'll do "show fewer shorts" and still see a bunch of shorts recommendations a few hours later. I wish they would
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by tombert 7mo ago
I'm pretty sure that Britain actually had pretty specific goals of profitability from the get-go.
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by tombert 7mo ago
I never imagined this happening. I guess the limitation really was my mind.
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by tombert 7mo ago
Does anyone know if the "Show Fewer Shorts" thing on YouTube actually does anything? I choose that every time it gives me shorts and as far as I can tell the frequency isn't being decreased at all.
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by tombert 7mo ago
You are kind of proving my point. You are actively justifying doing literally nothing about what bothers you and acting indignant and self righteous about it.
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by tombert 7mo ago
Yes but Java has historically had pretty long startup times. If you want to write Java specifically then GraalVM is probably still the best option for AOT.
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by tombert 7mo ago
I mentioned 250k for total comp, like health insurance and bonuses and stock and PTO and the like. All three of those points, to me, would still indicate that the CEO and executives are very bad at their jobs.
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by tombert 7mo ago
Yeah, sorry; I'm a little on-edge because of all the low-effort LLM stuff I've seen in Show HN. FWIW, I actually did play with Forkrun now, and it seems pretty neat!
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by tombert 7mo ago
Ok, great. Let's say I agree that that's a good response. I would still likely need investor money, which I don't even know how to get but even if I did then I have a similar problem of having to make sure that I only have e
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by tombert 7mo ago
Then do something about it. Vote for better politicians. Donate money to causes that you think are important. If you think you can do it better, and this isn't meant to be facetious, run for political office. Being fatalistic can be
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by tombert 7mo ago
Ok, and when you apply for and get rejected from all those companies, what do you do then? Suppose you give me a list of literally every company you think is ok, and I were declined by all of them, then what? This isn't a theoretical q
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by tombert 7mo ago
Wait what's wrong with Cloudflare?
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by tombert 7mo ago
I'm not unemployed right now, but in the past have applied to literally every one of those companies and been declined from every one of those companies. It's hard to find jobs at companies that aren't run by monsters; even i
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by tombert 7mo ago
Easier said than done. Most of us end up working for monsters if you go high enough up on the ladder. I'm certainly not saying that you shouldn't have boundaries; there are certain companies that I will absolutely not work for n

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