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> Rails has started to show its age amid with the current wave of AI-powered applications. It struggles with LLM text streaming, parallel processing in Ruby Not at all my experienc…

Armchair aerospaceing here, but it feels like he's a whole class of positioning sensors in this analysis. It seems to be you only need GPS and related absolute positioning systems …

> Sqlalchemy stands out as a library having probably one of the most complete and pragmatic APIs for database access across all languages. I can't disagree more. Identity map based…

I'm not sure what the current state of things are since I haven't use MySQL recently but this used to be a perfectly valid thing to do. The issue was that MySQL doesn't use a full …

"If addition doesn't work, I have no way of reasoning about anything in a program." Hardware addition is filled with edge cases that cause it to not work as expected; I don't see i…

We used InfluxDB back in the 0.8/0.9 days and it worked really well, scaled nicely with the large number of metrics we were storing. The switch to a tag based architecture in 1.0 c…

I've tried using OpenAPI a few times, it's been...lackluster... I probably won't use it again. Here are my gripes: 1) For me one of the biggest selling points is client code gen ( …

The biggest issue with current attempts at typing in Ruby is the choice of a nominal type system. If there ever was a language that called for structural typing, it's Ruby.

> Our test harness didn't catch it (weird combination of reasons, too long ago for me to remember the details) & it rolled out. This is why I'm pretty dogmatic about variable compa…

(500mi / 6.5mpg) * $5.313 = $408.69 6.5mpg - I just Googled average MPG for a fully loaded Semi, could be wrong. $5.313 - Most recent highway diesel price ( https://www.eia.gov/pet…

Client side validation, regardless of the technology used, is a performance and UX optimization. The backend must always validate and it's this validation that matters for any sort…

> In React 17, React automatically modifies the console methods like console.log() to silence the logs in the second call to lifecycle functions. However, it may cause undesired be…

"Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands." - Someone

Not with PG. A couple weeks ago I was working on a project that used truncation cleaning, the test suite took 3m40s. I switched it to cleaning with transactions and the the test su…

Truncating the DB between every test is indeed horrifically slow. However it's much faster to wrap the test in a transaction and roll it back at the end. Transaction based cleaning…

I would say that pulse-density modulation is more of an abstract concept and sigma-delta is a particular implementation. Or in other words, sigma-delta is a one technique used to p…

Tablespaces allow you to store tables in defined directories on the file system. What I was talking about is controlling the ordering of the rows within a table on disk. If you are…

Notion seems like an interesting data storage problem. The vast majority of the data is in the `block` entity, which are organized into a sort of nested set, written/updated indivi…

That quote is a bit of a cherry pick resulting a wide interpretation that isn't supported. The actual ruling is something more like "Epic failed to prove that Apple is a monopoly i…

Is there is a solution for using `docker-compose` on mac with podman? I know that podman supports it natively now, and there is `podman-compose`, but I couldn’t find much on gettin…

Regarding Devise + Rails cookie session store: 1. Logging out deletes the cookie, you are really logged out. If your session cookie got stolen, you have other issues but I don't th…

That was true of older systems, most newer adaptive cruise control systems I've used have no issue with stop and go traffic.

What I use for https: $ ruby -r webrick/https -e "WEBrick::HTTPServer.new(Port: 9001, DocumentRoot: '.', SSLEnable: true, SSLCertName: [%w[CN localhost]]).start"

> I just think that this person just spent hours upon hours of their life working around a quirk in our current society. I think this is a truism. Much human activity could fall un…