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> This is not bad luck. It’s a structure.

Either AI wrote this, or the author thinks this is what humans sound like now.

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Pour one out for anyone who hoped to start a new brand.

jelder

vor 5 Tagendiscuss

Is laser printing more feasible? I've had the same Brother black & white laser for almost a decade and it's more than adequate for everything I do. If I ever need color, I send it off to a service that has much nicer printers than most people would ever want in their homes.

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Untrue since the introduction of zstd support in PostgreSQL 15.

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> If you encountered a cheetah in pre-industrial times (and survived the meeting), you might think it was impossible for anything to go faster.

Fun fact, there is no historical evidence of an adult human ever dying from a cheetah attack. They are naturally shy, and a lot smaller than you may realize.

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LSPs are already miles better than grep-like tools. This was true for humans as much as it is for LLMs. It's a shame that Claude still treats it as a second-class citizen (both in the app itself and in the training). A simple "remember to use LSP instead of grep" is usually enough to get it on the right track.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

There's a huge difference between a program which can be verified as correct by static analysis, and a program which can only be verified as correct by running it. Python is the latter (though maybe in between with gradual typing). The iteration loop just collapses when an agent is driving an LSP in a statically typed language.

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

Who goes out of their way to “star” a GitHub repo, and what does that even mean? Is it a “like” button, a tip jar, or a bookmark? Does this bare any relationship to the importance, quality, novelty, trustworthiness, or any other property of the repo other than number of stars?

What a dumb metric to focus on.

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

We did this with MotherDuck, and without introducing a new language. Every tenant has their own isolated storage and compute, so it’s trivial to grant internal users access to specific tenants as needed. DuckDB’s SQL dialect is mostly just Postgres’ with some nice ergonomic additions and a host of extra functionality.

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vor 5 Monatendiscuss

It would be a shame if somebody modified this to trigger Bluetooth and Wi-Fi deauthentication attacks.

jelder

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

DuckDB had the right idea: just allow some flexibility in the relative order of the `select` and `from` clauses, and make a few other concessions for ergonomics. This then becomes valid:

    from events      -- table is first, which enables autocomplete
    select
        count(),     -- * is implied, easier to type
        customer_id, -- trailing commas allowed everywhere
    group by all     -- automatically groups by all non-aggregate columns
    order by all     -- orders rows by all columns in selected order

https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/sql/dialect/friendly_sql

jelder

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

You can't trust a product that uses ads, because then you are the product.

jelder

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

If you were to rank all of the C compilers in the world and then rank all of the welfare systems in the world, this vibe-coded mess would be at approximately the same rank as the American welfare system. Especially if you extrapolate this narcissistic, hateful kleptocracy out a few more years.

jelder

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

Couldn't coding agents just run `tail -f *`?

jelder

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

Indie games don’t have a budget for playtesting, but they can probably swing a GA account.

jelder

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

I just today realized io_uring is meant to be read as "I.O.U. Ring" which perfectly describes how it works.

jelder

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

eTAXI is just one such solution

https://www.safran-group.com/videos/e-taxi-safran-unveils-it...

jelder

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

> You’re already flying this route with a 300-seat plane where 80+ people in business class generate most of your profit. Give those passengers a supersonic plane, cut the flight time in half, and charge the same price.

What does that end up doing to the cost of a seat in coach?

jelder

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

Haven’t seen a loading progress spinner on a landing page in a while. The Ruby website now loads almost as slowly as Ruby on Rails boots up.

jelder

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

“Most people” is not even remotely accurate.

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