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Why would you need this over just using the jdbc driver?

Pretty sure that is entirely an unfair comparison. You don't need a connection per thread either. It is common to have web servers handles thousands of requests per second with a c…

The /wordpress/ part of url suggests otherwise

The problem only arises when you have to worry about persistent state. As soon as you have to worry about that, you have to think about backups, replicas, disaster recovery drills …

Sorry my brain somehow missed the literal first three words of the oc.

Less installed things means smaller security surface area, fewer things to patch when CVEs get discovered etc. Thanks to `kubectl debug`, you don't need to install debugging utilit…

Isn't that the whole point of TCP? Creating a pair of two streams you can read out of and write to out of less reliable network primitives? I am not sure why this is a revelation. …

Who uses JWT like this anyway? Typical production architecture would look like - frontend only ever sees an opaque session cookie - bff stores the access token against session and …

> If I’m understanding this correctly You're not. > it starts by raising this question, then argues that it’s kind of a cheap and meaningless punch-down. The cheap and meaningless …

Do they really? Do you genuinely that most people asking the "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?" question are those who don't understand that "Level 2 and 3 activities" were the …

That probably explains why I needed an LLM to make sense of it at all.

It doesn't help that the article is actually quite poorly written.

This is the first time in my life I have ever felt the need of an LLM to understand an article. Even after understanding the overall gist of the article (thanks ChatGPT!), I still …

Which is where the "emacsification" analogy breaks for me. The reason people who like emacs write their one-off program in emacs is that it is an extraordinarily introspectable and…

That is because the terminology (and the keybindings) come from the Emacs tradition, not vim. Most shells come with “vim mode” as well, but at least in my experience, the dual mode…

> US has privacy laws in place that will protect you They don't protect us at all. Thanks to Snowden, we all know that the US government has extremely sophisticated and wide-rangin…

The original comment was neither false dichotomy nor whataboutism. It was a simple point that the rest of the world is already used to their data being snooped by the US government…

Getting snooped on by the US government being so normalized is obviously not propaganda though? Right?

You overestimate how much the rest of the world cares about data being sent to “chinese servers”, when all this while our data was being sent to “American servers” anyways.

> No print publication on the planet does this At least in India, most popular newspapers actually do this nowadays. Several full page ads including on the front page have become t…

It’s worth nothing, to the point it makes people wonder why you even volunteer that information.

I know Jenkins is not fashionable these days, but the warnings-ng plugin is perfect for solving this in a tool-independent way. :chefskiss: The way it works is - the underlying lin…

If that is the case, why did the trial absolve him of all crimes and why did get consecrated as a bishop by the king of Spain?

It is also worth noting that he was absolved of all crimes and eventually consecrated as a bishop.