Gazans are not being put onto railroad cars and shipped off to camps to be systematically exterminated in gas chambers.
They made their home a concentration camp, no need for railroad cars this time...
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This seems very good. Always wondering what are the usecases for this apart for observability/real-time analytics? Do people use this for incremental view maintenance in Postgres?
I'm thinking of using it to replace an analytics pipeline at my job, which now uses expensive batch jobs.
If the tech is solid, we would have instant and incremental updates, instead of recomputing everything every X hours.
This would simplify things a lot.
I think Materialize offers a similar product, but last I checked it was only available as a SaaS solution.
I hope to do a proof of concept soon, to compare both solutions
Does anyone have experience with RisingWave in production?
It seems like an interesting product but I can't find any experience reports.
synthc commented on Ask HN: What is your fallback job if AI takes away your career? · Posted by u/7402
synthc commented on Dutch institutes seek to attract sacked American academics dutchnews.nl/2025/03/dutc... · Posted by u/throaway-1931
Classic Dutch: “We need this talent… but financially, it is impossible to support them,”
You are being snarky but I'll take immutability over types and interoperability and access to a vast and stable ecosystem over the simple and extremely limited and underperforming alternatives. Thanks for the segway. I also cannot understate the reasoning ease that comes with basically everything being a static, top-level function. Testing never requires mocks because you can redef any function anywhere trivially when you otherwise would reach for a mock which tends to be painful, complicated, and requires comlex mocking libraries. Even with immutability by default, you get an extremely performant platform that usually stomps on nearly all the dynamic languages you might otherwise choose like Python or Ruby etc. And you get first-class functions and a concise and extremely stable language that is a joy to program in. Thanks Rich and Alex!
Immutability removes so much accidental complexity, it makes whole classes of mistakes dissapear. I'd also take immutability over types.
Clojure sort of guides you to simplicity, building everything out of functions and simple datastructures has big advantages when testing and reasoning about code.
I do find that in larger code bases, Clojure lack of types causes friction (spec is just a bandaid, not a fix).
There are languages with immutability and types (like Haskell), but these don't have the get-shit-done factor I seek.
synthc commented on How I use LLMs as a staff engineer seangoedecke.com/how-i-us... · Posted by u/gfysfm
Have you noticed any difference in picking up the language(s) yourself? As in, do you think you'd be more fluent in it by now without all the help? Or perhaps less? Genuine question.
For me it just speeds up learning the language, so I think i'd become fluent faster.
I do thoroughly review of the the LLM answers, and hardly every directly copy paste answer, so I feel this way I still learn the language.
synthc commented on How I use LLMs as a staff engineer seangoedecke.com/how-i-us... · Posted by u/gfysfm
And how much can you trust those replies?
about as much as I trust StackOverflow answers
synthc commented on We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly dagger.io/blog/replaced-r... · Posted by u/miranda_carter
Seems like a bunch of go programmers really wanted to use go, no matter how impractical.