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Oops, I Wrote a Database

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4 points·by davidfstr·3 months ago·0 comments

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davidfstr
·3 months ago·discuss
Good on Anthropic for giving an update & token refund, given the recent rumors of an inexplicable drop in quality. I applaud the transparency.
davidfstr
·3 months ago·discuss
Wine for classic Mac OS? Amazing. Well done.
davidfstr
·6 months ago·discuss
You should not be using Python types without a type checker in use to enforce them.

With a type checker on, types are fantastic for catching missed cases early.
davidfstr
·7 months ago·discuss
I intentionally avoid using us-east-1 for anything, since I’ve seen so many outages.
davidfstr
·7 months ago·discuss
> If you didn't know, you can embed JavaScript into an SVG file.

Oh yikes. I did not know.
davidfstr
·7 months ago·discuss
I’ve been meaning to write this article for a long time @flexdinesh . Thanks for taking the time to share this technique for managing stacked diffs using vanilla git rebase!
davidfstr
·last year·discuss
mypy is compiled using mypyc. It does not run as Python code.
davidfstr
·3 years ago·discuss
WhatsApp is owned by Meta/Facebook
davidfstr
·5 years ago·discuss
For languages that don't give you a choice of signed vs. unsigned - giving you signed and sometimes arbitrary-precision integers - this debate is irrelevant.

I'll put it in my same mental bucket of "things that I no longer worry about", along with buffer overflows, wild pointers, etc that are eliminated by memory-safe languages.