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Most British people don’t respond well to attempts to cow them. They refuse to be cowed! To allow oneself to be cowed would be cowardly. To do so would have one accused of cowardic…

There was: Heroku It was glorious.

I meant the social media platforms. If HN charged a fee for posting and commenting it doesn’t matter how cheap the AI models are, it’d be punishingly expensive to sling slop.

Invert the economics. Right now there is value in posting LLM generated content that is more than the cost of using the model. If platforms had a subscription model that you had to…

Tell it like it is, sis.

If we just put enough effort in and write the right spec/prompt/design then the programmers/llms/plug compatible coding units will produce the correct output first time! Closing fe…

Am I missing something or would this be solved by adding a 1 byte `msg` field to the payload?

Making charcoal releases CO2 though? How does that help with carbon capture?

The standard pattern to avoid select for update (which can cause poor performance under load) is to use optimistic concurrency control. Add a numeric version column to the table be…

But you’re not getting slower and slower for every car. Lets say 100 cars pull in front of you, and let’s be say each car adds 5 metres of space, so you have 500 metres of ‘lost’ s…

You might also enjoy Janet https://janet-lang.org/

Unfortunately for the vast majority of people, it absolutely is some kind of magic.

It’s always DNS! Except when it’s the firewall.

You do indeed use JOINS. The goal is to retrieve exactly the data you require in a single query. Then you get the DB to `EXPLAIN VERBOSE` or similar and ensure that full table scan…

I can’t believe they still make processors out of sand. Talk about outdated technology. Sarcasm aside, a great many projects started on MySQL and moved to postgres. As did projects…

If you look at the changes that have been made to Postgres, and continue to be made, the answer is yes. The Postgres team is working on replacing Postgres. With even better Postgre…

Unless you want to cross state lines to get an abortion

How about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)

You had me until the sweeping generalisation. I can picture things clearly but only deep inside my head. I never (awake) see anything in front of my eyes that isn’t physically ther…

Thread.sleep on a platform thread takes that thread out of action until the sleep ends. If an executor with 10 threads got 10 tasks that all called Thread.sleep(1000000) then it ca…

This reminds me of the episode of 'Person of Interest' where they discover that the crime-predicting AI that is reset every night has worked out that's what's happening and managed…

It takes a decade to bring a nuclear plant online, at astronomical cost. Instead, why not take that money and start building wind turbines, solar PV and grid-scale batteries? They …

Citation needed.

A truck can carry 10 or 20 times more cargo than a car. The truck toll is not 20x more. The movement to reduce car use is about replacing them with better alternatives such as effi…

Never ceases to amaze me how much passion calling a constructor can evoke. I have never, ever, been in a situation where calling constructors was simplified by adding a DI framewor…