NamlchakKhandro (u/NamlchakKhandro)

NamlchakKhandro commented on It's 2026, Just Use Postgres tigerdata.com/blog/its-20... · Posted by u/turtles3

vagab0nd · 3 days ago

I recently started digging into databases for the first time since college, and from a novice's perspective, postgres is absolutely magical. You can throw in 10M+ rows across twenty columns, spread over five tables, add some indices, and get sub-100ms queries for virtually anything you want. If something doesn't work, you just ask it for an analysis and immediately know what index to add or how to fix your query. It blows my mind. Modern databases are miracles.

NamlchakKhandro · 2 days ago

what are you comparing this to btw?

NamlchakKhandro commented on GPT-5.3-Codex openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

halfcat · 2 days ago

In this new world, why stop there? It would be even better if engineers were also medical doctors and held multiple doctorate degrees in mathematics and physics and also were rockstar sales people.

NamlchakKhandro · 2 days ago

sounds like the kinds of hyperbole someone whose just been forced to set a linter for the first time

NamlchakKhandro commented on You can just port things to Cloudflare Workers sigh.dev/posts/you-can-ju... · Posted by u/STRiDEX

kStadler01 · 13 days ago

I really like the offering that Cloudflare has with workers, but for me they just seem to be lacking some DX tooling/solutions. Debugging is hell, but for quick projects like this I'll definitely look into it again. These days Railway is my go-to for hosting "throw-away" projects.

Always wondering how its going for folks that are using Cloudflare Workers as their main infra?

NamlchakKhandro · 13 days ago

> Debugging is hell

Most people won't care because the extent of their debugging skills is console.log, echo, print. repeat 5000 times.

NamlchakKhandro commented on Skip is now free and open source skip.dev/blog/skip-is-fre... · Posted by u/dayanruben

ppeetteerr · 18 days ago

Engineers are happy to pay for tools (hello, Claude Code). Libraries are quite different and it's a little uncomfortable to build a business on a closed-source, proprietary library.

NamlchakKhandro · 17 days ago

No one pays for Claude Code, they pay a subscription to access the Claude Models.

lmao who even unironcally uses claude code when other harnesses exist that eclipse them ?

NamlchakKhandro commented on Skip is now free and open source skip.dev/blog/skip-is-fre... · Posted by u/dayanruben

OkayPhysicist · 18 days ago

The highest quality tools in the software development space tend to be FOSS, because unlike any other field, we are employed in the field that makes the tools our field uses, and distribution and manufacturing costs are zero.

People build tools that they want to use, then share it with others because it's free to. If the rest of the economy worked like this we would be in full-blown utopia.

Selling software to software developers is always going to have a pretty low ceiling, because you're always going to be competing with "I could build this myself" while dealing with a bunch of users who will have the nagging thought of "Why the heck does this bug exist/this feature not exist? I could fix this in an afternoon." Ironically, open source relieves this pressure for multiple orders of magnitude more people than actually contribute, because they're only grappling with their own laziness, rather than resenting you, the developer.

NamlchakKhandro · 18 days ago

> distribution and manufacturing costs are zero.

???? citation needed

NamlchakKhandro commented on 'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos cbc.ca/news/politics/carn... · Posted by u/martythemaniak

bonsai_spool · 18 days ago

> rejecting the existence of Trump supporters or invalidating their stance

I think the problem is that if you read what people say about why they voted for Trump, it becomes clear that an echo chamber is at least as salient to these voters as traditional Republican motivations.

I am unsurprised about the 2024 election and it's exactly what you'd imagine from a purely economic perspective.

The 2016 election, however, has been studied extensively, and it's clear that several aberrations (large contingent of Republican candidates, the first black president, Facebook, Comey) tipped things in a way that you wouldn't expect if voters are acting rationally.

So as someone who genuinely wishes to understand how people think about things, I don't know what's going on here. I can't tell what new lie will be pushed next week to distract us from the recently-disproven lie of last week. Were I outside all of this, I would have very little hope.

(edit: re sibling poster, Trump is not a representative of the median voter but instead a representative of the median electoral college elector. We can't have it both ways, rejecting the popular vote and then failing to acknowledge that our politics represent the electors and not the man on the street)

NamlchakKhandro · 18 days ago

> I think the problem is that if you read what people say about why they voted for Trump, it becomes clear that an echo chamber is at least as salient to these voters as traditional Republican motivations.

same can be said about people on the opposite side.

NamlchakKhandro commented on 'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos cbc.ca/news/politics/carn... · Posted by u/martythemaniak

CodingJeebus · 18 days ago

> First, it means naming reality. Stop invoking rules-based international order as though it still functions as advertised. Call it what it is: a system of intensifying great power rivalry where the most powerful pursue their interests using economic integration as coercion.

Nobody leading a western country would’ve dared be this direct about America a decade ago.

The great irony with the current political climate is that America has truly been first for many decades, leading the world order to tremendous financial, military and material success. But nothing lasts forever.

We won’t know for many years if this moment represents America’s true descent into a has-been empire, but the message from our closest allies is very clear: world leaders don’t speak that kind of truth to a power like America unless they mean it.

NamlchakKhandro · 18 days ago

This has happened 7 times before.

The last was Amsterdam.

NamlchakKhandro commented on Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher novalauncher.com/nova-is-... · Posted by u/KORraN

NamlchakKhandro · 18 days ago

Niagra Launcher is where it's at for stable out of your way intuitive.

NamlchakKhandro commented on Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher novalauncher.com/nova-is-... · Posted by u/KORraN

baggachipz · 19 days ago

> I've since moved to the apple ecosystem... Set and forget.

Careful, you'll get blasted for that in these parts. Until about 7 years ago, I had been an Android absolutist. Custom ROMs, launchers, you name it. I sneered at those Apple-loving simpletons. Then, after missing several important phone calls in a day due to the phone 'app' not working properly, I got fed up and got a Nexus 6, the official Google phone and the reference implementation for Android. The phone was big and ugly, but at least I was still using a "real" operating system.

Then, as I went through the app store looking for some needed apps, I realized that I couldn't find what I wanted. What I downloaded and installed turned out to be scams and hijacked the phone as ad-riddled malware. It slowly dawned on me: The Play Store is anarchistic, lawless hellscape.

I was too old for this shit. I went and got an iPhone and never looked back. I turn it on, it does things. I don't have to worry about it. Yes, the software quality isn't near perfect, and they seem to be gradually enshittifying their app store. But at least they make a token effort to keep things in a somewhat curated state.

It's night and day, far as I'm concerned. I've gotten to the point where I just want my things to work. I don't want to spend hours tweaking and troubleshooting. I realize I'm in a cult compound, but it's better than the Mad Max world outside.

NamlchakKhandro · 18 days ago

your pants are so on fire