Readit Newskvdveer commented on Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres topicpartition.io/blog/po... · Posted by u/enether
> Should You Use Postgres? Most of the time - yes. You should always default to Postgres until the constraints prove you wrong.
Kafka, GraphQL... These are the two technology's where my first question is always this: Does the person who championed/lead this project still work here?
The answer is almost always "no, they got a new job after we launched".
Resume Architecture is a real thing. Meanwhile the people left behind have to deal with a monster...
To be fair, this is true for all technologically interesting solutions, even when they use postgres. People championing novel solutions typically leave after the window for creativity has closed.
kvdveer commented on First convex polyhedron found that can't pass through itself quantamagazine.org/first-... · Posted by u/fleahunter
Sorry for the silly question, but why spend time on this? Is it just for fun or is all mathematical exploration eventually useful? This feels closer to art than engineering.
The problem itself might not be very applicable, but the techniques used to solve it might be.
That said, researching something solely for the sake of curiosity can be a valid endeavour. Many profound scientific discoveries have been made by researching topics with no obvious application.
kvdveer commented on What If OpenDocument Used SQLite? sqlite.org/affcase1.html... · Posted by u/whatisabcdefgh
SQLite can't be reliably used in networked file systems because it heavily relies on locking to be correctly implemented. I recently had to add a check for such file systems in my application [1] because I noticed a related corruption firsthand. Simpler file formats do not demand such requirements. SQLite is certainly good, but not for this use.
[1] https://github.com/lifthrasiir/angel/commit/50a15e703ef2c1af...
In the context of this article, that's largely irrelevant: ZIP cannot be used in a multi-user scenario at all, so even if sqlite isn't perfect, it's still miles better than the ZIP format it replaces in this thought experiment.
Github Copilot in vscode can do that and also has the Claude models available
The claude models are just a part of Claude code. I've worked with both copilot with the Claude models and Claude code itself. Claude code is way more capable, and has a greater likelihood of successfully completing a task.
kvdveer commented on Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers? blog.mozilla.org/netpolic... · Posted by u/Vinnl
... how would it be enforced?
The same way laws against online piracy are enforced: attack the infrastructure. AdBlock Plus is being attacked right now. If distributing this software is made illegal, all blockers will vanish from the addon stores, and only very tech savvy users will have palatable Internet.
Now… any chances we could get a thing that takes in a React app and spits out a normal website with minimal or no JS?
How would you know it works if you can't add an imperial megaton of tracking scripts?
/s
So they want to kill capitalism and feudalism?
Or they want to kill everyone else?
Because people won't just lay down and wait for death to embrace them...
So far, the average US workforce seems to be ok with working conditions that most Europeans would consider reasons to riot. So far I've not observed substantial riots in the news.
Apparently the threshold for low pay and poor treatment among non-knowledge-workers is quite low. I'm assuming the same is going to be true for knowledge workers once they can be replaced an mass.
So there is no compression?
No compression. In the olden days, storage was scarce. While you could compres the bitset, the worst case compression of that bitset would be larger than the uncompressed size. You likely have no way to guarantee the worst case is impossible, so you'd have to reserve extra space. In the end you'd store more data, in a slower to use format.
These days storage bandwidth is the main limiter, so now compression makes sense. When storage size is the main limiter, compression is ironically not very helpful.
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