Adding my voice to the chorus here: they've established a pattern of introducing new features and never really getting them past the 80% point. No qualms with the CDN; it's a sweet spot among providers. But their other offerings have been frustrating me for years now.
Readit Newsbadlibrarian commented on Bunny Database bunny.net/blog/meet-bunny... · Posted by u/dabinat
Flaggers—on the occasion that the Internet Archive project collapses, badlibrarian’s name (indicating attitude, not acumen) in addition to their comments history checks out as a “told you so”.
I wish them the best (and support them in ways they're not even aware of). But they really need to get their act together. The public statements and basic stats do not match reality. An actual board and annual reports would be a nice start.
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."
"Don't be snarky."
No, really: access to the server racks is solely protected by a battery-operated camera nestled into the fake dirt of a plastic floor plant.
> In the unlikely, for San Francisco, event that the day is too hot, less-urgent tasks can be delayed, or some of the racks can have their clock rate reduced, disks put into sleep mode, or even be powered down. Redundancy means that the data will be available elsewhere.
So it sounds like they have data in other locations as well, hopefully.
During the recent power outages in San Francisco, the site repeatedly went down. When a troubled individual set the power pole on fire outside their building, the site went down. Happy to give them the benefit of the doubt on data redundancy, but they publicly celebrate that Brewster himself has to bike down and flip switches to get the site back online. They don't even have employee redundancy.
No climate control. No backup power. And it's secured by a wireless camera sitting in a potted plant. Bless them, but wow.
badlibrarian commented on Pragmatic bitmap filters in Microsoft SQL Server vldb.org/cidrdb/2026/i-ca... · Posted by u/tanelpoder
Unpopular opinion: SQL Server is Microsoft's best product. Cost aside, it's a smart choice for a relational database and reliably meets most needs better than the open source alternatives.
For genuinely useful workloads, it's available for $5/month (per database, not per server) on Azure. There's a free version if you hunt around.
I'm paying $10/month since 2012 and happy. Cannot find even a hint of these DTU packages on the Azure site to link to. (Good lord, Microsoft.)
badlibrarian commented on Claude's new constitution anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
> Claude won't render fanfic of Porky Pig sodomizing Elmer Fudd either.
Bet?
This thread has it all: child pornography, copyright violation, and gambling. All we need is someone to vibecode a site that sells 3D printed graven images to complete the set.
badlibrarian commented on Claude's new constitution anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
I find it incredibly ironic that all of Anthropic's "hard constraints", the only things that Claude is not allowed to do under any circumstances, are basically "thou shalt not destroy the world", except the last one, "do not generate child sexual abuse material."
To put it into perspective, according to this constitution, killing children is more morally acceptable[1] than generating a Harry Potter fanfiction involving intercourse between two 16-year-old students, something which you can (legally) consume and publish in most western nations, and which can easily be found on the internet.
[1] There are plenty of other clauses of the constitution that forbid causing harms to humans (including children). However, in a hypothetical "trolley problem", Claude could save 100 children by killing one, but not by generating that piece of fanfiction.
Copyright detection would kick in and prevent the Harry Potter example before the CSAM filters kicked in. Claude won't render fanfic of Porky Pig sodomizing Elmer Fudd either.
badlibrarian commented on Vector graphics on GPU gasiulis.name/vector-grap... · Posted by u/gsf_emergency_6
> There's also the issue of just how many billions of line segments you really need to draw every 1/120th of a second at 8K resolution
IMO, one of biggest benefit of a high performance renderer would be power savings (very important for laptops and phones). If I can run the same work but use half the power, then by all means I'd be happy to deal with the complications that the GPU brings. AFAIK though, no one really cares about that and even efforts like Vello are just targeting fps gains, which do correlate with reduced power consumption but only indirectly.
It's an argument you can make in any performance effort. But I think the "let's save power using GPUs" ship sailed even before Microsoft started buying nuclear reactors to power them.
badlibrarian commented on Vector graphics on GPU gasiulis.name/vector-grap... · Posted by u/gsf_emergency_6
I believe Skia's new Graphite architecture is much more similar to Vello
Right. The question is does Skia grows its broad and useful toolkit with an eye toward further GPU optimization? Or does Vello (broadened and perhaps burdened by Rust and the shader-obsessive crowd) grow a broad and useful API?
There's also the issue of just how many billions of line segments you really need to draw every 1/120th of a second at 8K resolution, but I'll leave those discussions to dark-gray Discord forums rendered by Skia in a browser.