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hot_gril commented on Choosing a Database Schema for Polymorphic Data (2024) dolthub.com/blog/2024-06-... · Posted by u/gm678

hot_gril · 7 months ago

Definitely don't want to store types as columns in a DB, especially because of the inevitable thing that qualifies as two different types. In this situation, I'd usually take the first one (nullable cols) without much consideration. The DB doesn't need an xor constraint, but it can if you really want. New cols can be added without much impact on existing data.

And if the info is non-scalar, it's either option 2 (nullable FK) or 5 (JSON), depending on whether or not other things join with fields inside it.

hot_gril commented on Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin simonwillison.net/2025/Ju... · Posted by u/mustache_kimono

kragen · 7 months ago

Right. Isn't that insane? If I hadn't found it by means of having modules removed that my code depended on, I would have thought it was satire.

That policy, and the heinous character assassination the PSF carried out against Tim Peters, mean I can no longer recommend in good conscience that anyone adopt Python.

hot_gril · 7 months ago

Idk about the internal affairs, I just really don't like Python for web backend kind of things. It's taking them way too long to sort out parallelism and packaging, while NodeJS got both right from the start and gracefully upgraded (no 2->3 mess).

Also I used Python way before JS, and I still like JS's syntax better. Especially not using whitespace for scope, which makes even less sense in a scripting language since it's hard to type that into a REPL.

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hot_gril commented on Nvidia won, we all lost blog.sebin-nyshkim.net/po... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

bigyabai · 7 months ago

A revelation on-par with Mac users waking up to learn their computer was made by a phone company.

hot_gril · 7 months ago

Aside from iTunes getting gimped, I don't feel like the Mac is neglected at all. Was annoyed about the 2016-2019 MBPs though.

hot_gril commented on Nvidia won, we all lost blog.sebin-nyshkim.net/po... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

philistine · 7 months ago

Your disillusionment is warranted, but I'll say that on the Mac side the grass has never been greener. The M chips are screamers year after year, the GPUs are getting ok, the ML cores are incredible and actually useful.

hot_gril · 7 months ago

Yeah, going from Intel to M1 was a huge improvement, but not in every way. So now they're closing all the other gaps, and it's getting even better.

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hot_gril commented on Nvidia won, we all lost blog.sebin-nyshkim.net/po... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

monster_truck · 7 months ago

Remember when nvidia got caught dropping 2 bits of color information to beat ati in benchmarks? I still can't believe anyone has trusted them since! That is an insane thing to do considering the purpose of the product.

For as long as they have competition, I will support those companies instead. If they all fail, I guess I will start one. My spite for them knows no limits

hot_gril · 7 months ago

Mostly, I trust the card that supports my software with the least issues.

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hot_gril commented on Nvidia won, we all lost blog.sebin-nyshkim.net/po... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

xg15 · 7 months ago

> I have also realized that there is a lot out there in the world besides video games, and getting all in a huff about it isn’t worth my time or energy.

I'm with you - in principle. Capital-G "Gamers" who turned gaming into an identity and see themselves as the real discriminated group have fully earned the ridicule.

But I think where the criticism is valid is how NVIDIA's behavior is part of the wider enshittification trend in tech. Lock-in and overpricing in entertainment software might be annoying but acceptable, but it gets problematic when we have the exact same trends in actually critical tech like phones and cars.

hot_gril · 7 months ago

There's nothing annoying about Nvidia cards though, unless of course you're using Linux.

hot_gril commented on Nvidia won, we all lost blog.sebin-nyshkim.net/po... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

dgellow · 7 months ago

Off-topic: micro transactions are just digital transactions. There is nothing micro about them. I really wish that term would just die

hot_gril · 7 months ago

Probably called that because it's smaller than the transaction of buying the game

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