I would say Sqlite is closer, you find it on every phone, browser, server. I bet Sqlite files will be still readable in 2100. And I love Postgres.
Relevant: https://sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html
Readit Newsrmwaite commented on There's no single best way to store information quantamagazine.org/why-th... · Posted by u/7777777phil
rmwaite commented on IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world theregister.com/2025/12/3... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
> Future proofing it by jumping straight to 128 bits instead of 64. 64 would have been fine. Even with a load factor of 1:1000 by assigning semantics to ranges of IP addresses, 64 bit addressing is still enough addresses for 10 million devices per person.
128 bit is like the least of adoption issues and basically meaningless difference vs 64.
But it shows weird priorities when they decided 128 then immediately wasted half of it on host part just to achieve "globally unique" host part that isn't really all that useful characteristic of the protocol.
IP addresses were always meant to be globally reachable. Of course, NAT has corrupted this - which is why NAT is a scourge.
rmwaite commented on I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla manualdousuario.net/en/mo... · Posted by u/rpgbr
Does anyone want AI in anything? I can see the value of navigating to an LLM and asking specific questions, but generally speaking I don't want that just running / waiting on my machine as I open a variety of applications. It's a huge waste of resources and for most normal people is an edge case.
I think AI can add a lot of functionality but on the margins. Making things “work better”. I think AI as a focal point—in that it is The feature is a mistake for most things. But making code completion work better or suggestions more accurate? Things that are largely invisible UI-wise.
rmwaite commented on The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1987) [pdf] gandalf.fee.urv.cat/profe... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
Larry Wall: 3 great virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Which is both a joke (turning virtue on its head) and kinda true, in that laziness makes you automate things, impatience spurs you to make things faster, and hubris spurs you to make sure that they work.
I’ve always seen the hubris as an essential component of doing things “you didn’t know you couldn’t do.” A lot of great ideas are discounted as impossible and it takes hubris to fly in the face of that perceived impossibility. I reckon most of the time it doesn’t work out and the pessimism was warranted—but those times it does work out make up for it.
This is exactly what I meant.
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Branching-Branches-in-a-N...
The book says that ‘ To really understand the way Git does branching, we need to take a step back and examine how Git stores its data’ then it starts talking about trees and blobs.
At that point you’ve lost almost everyone. If you have a strong interest in vcs implementation then fine, otherwise it’s typically the kind of details you don’t want to hear about. Most people won’t read an entire book just to use a vcs, when what they actually want to hear is ‘this is a commit graph with pointers’.
I agree with you : the information is there. However I don’t think you can in good faith tell most people to rtfm this, and that was my point.
To be honest, if you’re using a tool that stores things as trees and blobs and almost every part of its functionality is influenced by that fact, then you just need to understand trees and blobs. This is like trying to teach someone how to interact with the file system and they are like “whoa whoa whoa, directories? Files? I don’t have time to understand this, I just want to organize my documents.” Actually I take that back, it isn’t /like/ that, it is /exactly/ that.
rmwaite commented on Discussion of the Benefits and Drawbacks of the Git Pre-Commit Hook yeldirium.de/2025/10/09/p... · Posted by u/hambes
You can check inside the hook if you're in the middle of the rebase, and exit the hook early.
This is what we have in our hooks:
if [ -d "$(git rev-parse --git-path rebase-merge)" ] || \
[ -d "$(git rev-parse --git-path rebase-apply)" ] || \
[ -f "$(git rev-parse --git-path MERGE_HEAD)" ]; then
exit 0
fiThanks for this, I can’t believe this never occurred to me to try to do.
The burden of proof is on people stating that an AI has a theory of mind, not on the reverse. Until recently it was highly debated on if dogs have theory of mind, and it took decades of evidence to come to the conclusion that yes, they do.
If you read carefully you will see that they never said AI has a theory of mind.
rmwaite commented on Reasons to Not Use ChatGPT stallman.org/chatgpt.html... · Posted by u/sonderotis
actually it does. We do not predict words lol.
Then what do we do? lol.
There you go, attacking AI again, first for it producing content, and now for it not producing content. It is a palace of absurdity you have built. Maybe just try keeping AI out of your discussion.
Personally, I think you need to chill. He wasn’t “attacking” it, he was just commenting and includes his interpretation about it being from AI. Why don’t YOU just focus on the primary point of his comments instead of latching onto the AI part—or is it okay when you do it?
I have to disagree with the author's argument for why hallucinations won't get solved:
> If there were a way to eliminate the hallucinations, somebody already would have. An army of smart, experienced people people, backed by effectively infinite funds, have been hunting this white whale for years now without much success.
Research has been going on for what, like 10 years in earnest, and the author thinks they might as well throw in the towel? I feel like the interest in solving this problem will only grow! And there's a strong incentive to solve it for the important use cases where a non-zero hallucination rate isn't good enough.
Plus, scholars have worked on problems for _far far_ longer and eventually solved them, e.g. Fermat's Last Theorem took hundreds of years to solve.
Exactly. I mean, if you asked people how probable the current LLMs would be (warts and all) 20 years ago I think there would have been a similar cynicism.