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Maybe they’re not selling this well. Maybe they’re so close to the AI research that this seems like an obviously good idea. But there’s not one word of why this is good for LLMs, o…

It’s actually great to see a living example of how sensitive users* are to what to a lay person would look like a small amount of downtime. The fact that we’re all talking about it…

SEEKING WORK | Berlin, CET | Remote: Yes | Full-time freelance or 20h+/week Experienced Go architect (15 years; Zalando, StreamElements). I untangle fragile microservice architectu…

As an industry we really need a better way to tell what’s going g where than: - someone finally reading the T&Cs - legal drafting the T&Cs as broadly as possible - the actual syste…

Ok, so far it sounds impressive. But I’ve seen a lot of similar claims - just open LinkedIn for a second - and I always come back to the same questions: - What value has been deliv…

"My calendar is a true nightmare." Check "calendar systems suck. All of them." Double check "I’m trying to break off of big tech as much as I can" I wish I could check this more ..…

I've seen polylith over the years and it's always piqued my interest. I'm curious as to what has been built (by yourselves or others) in the 4 (?) years since its release. Have the…

Congrats on the launch and hitting HN's front page. Do you mind if I ask how your example site (multiplayer.dev) scaled? I'm super curious about realtime multiplayer solutions (and…

I'm budgeting for a new project and it struck me that I've no idea how much faith I should really put into a cloud pricing calculator. (e.g. AWS' https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.co…

Interesting. Perhaps I misunderstood it. So is this roughly a kind of managed Keycloak/CAS setup? With it's own API/well managed client libraries?

I love the idea, and can definitely see the need. But I always come to the same question with services that provide auth and user management: You pay a lot of money for someone _el…

I think decision making is one of the most important things we do as software engineers (not to mention other disciplines). How you manage decisions in your teams? Do you have heav…

You have a system broken into components. Some custom built, some off-the-shelf. Any of them might need to send a message to a customer. How do you manage: * Tracking (and auditing…

I want to write events to a calendar, keep them up to date and perhaps cancel them on reasonably short notice. While supporting any calendar app (not just Google Calendar). How hav…

Don't knock it - if it works and only costs 3MB that's a win. The longer you can scale the product without having to scale the application, the better!

What kind of workflow and synchronization scripts? These sound like the kind of hidden costs that could turn sqlite's simplicity quite complicated if you don't see them coming.

I'd be interested to know what kind of corruption you were facing.

I only very briefly looked into rqlite. It's very interesting, but if I understand it correctly it's also not geared toward a write heavy workflow. (all writes are routed to the sa…

That's a good counter-case to keep in mind, thank you. I guess the take away here is that this underscores that sqlite isn't for the 'large number of writers' scenario. p.s. > I di…

Impressive numbers, thanks for sharing. Out of interest, were you running on bare metal/cloud? And what kind of CPU was behind those 24M face compares per second?

Very interesting, what's your workflow? And how big is the DB? I've never (deliberately) considered committing a DB to git. Although there was that one time when I was straight out…

Any chance I could convince you to share some of those 'rare exceptions'? I love a good exception ;) Also they're where the real insights are.

Ouch, that sounds like a nasty bug. But if I understand correctly it's more the driver/ORM's problem than sqlite's? One to look out/test for early if I go in this direction though.…

I'm coming from a similar direction. Postgres is my go-to, and I love it's reliability when you get your schema right. Glad to hear its type enforcement situation is improving.

> The irritant-free web This is a very respectable goal. I wish you great success! Good full text search without pulling in another dependency would be quite a win. I'll add fts5 t…