> Because you're probably come from a high trust culture where you've been taught reciprocal trust...
That is just a long sentence for "us" vs "those people".
Having said that I don't entirely deny the effect of society on people's behavior. But at the same time, I have seen people from so called high-trust society being all polished and nice on the surface while being assholes and people from so called low-trust society being genuinely decent people despite not having the right name or the surface polish.
Also, assholes tend to attract assholes and people of the same tribe/clan/race tend to form groups.
I did the side by side between Claude code (effort medium) and Cursor (auto). Asked Claude to prepare a plan and asked Cursor to review it and it found tons of gaps in the plan. Cost-wise, it came out better too. I have been using Cursor daily (along with Claude) and the former has been 20-30% cheaper despite me spending more time on it.
This is like repeatedly trying to train a dog with amnesia to not poop in the bedroom. Despite the dog repeatedly doing so and moreover being particularly easy to be fooled into doing so.
It can't reliably learn so stop trying to teach it. Lock the bedroom instead.
Maybe I am being naive but doesn't that seem like a basic and effective approach that others should have been able to implement too? Why doesn't Xbox or Microsoft do it? Optimistically download updates so that if the user wants, it is ready to go. If low on space, sacrifice those cached updates because they can be downloaded again.
> The biggest casualty of that is probably stored procedures.
Not much can beat stored procs when it is dealing with multi-step heave volume stuff. But I don't miss not having to do hacks for logging and debugging compared to the flexibility offered by non-db side.
For pretty much everything else, the poor ability to log and debug makes them a headache to manage. I
That was one of the needs we had during my initial days - dynamic DDLs/DMLs. It was basically a bash + SQL stack which is fairly low level. I remember discovering Perl was installed on the Sun Solaris boxes, learned it and soon everyone jumped on it and boy what a massive step-up from bash that was!
I asked this question and was told that even if it is counter intuitive, medium will be more cost efficient due to caching. Changed to medium, blew my budget and went back to low.
> When I was in college, people who got caught cheating found themselves in a world of trouble. Repeat offenders faced severe consequences like failing courses, which could delay their graduation date
We had a very real threat of rustication. People still cheated. I think culture does play a big role. Of course, there need to be consequences too.
Seems that the fine was calculated and hung like Democles' sword over the whistleblower's head to keep her silent instead of actually attempting to collect it. Basically an arm-twisting tactic. What better can you expect from a shit company like that.