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> 50 is the hardware limit this can't be true, If that hardware can run Django and Phoenix, it for sure can handle orders of magnitudes more concurrent clients than 50 even before …

Your "Concurrency" benchmark ends at 50 concurrent clients. Continue testing at C1K, C10K, C100K, C1M, C2M, etc. That's for a single node. Then try multiple nodes / cluster - C1M, …

It pretends to be serious with 5 tables / charts: Django LiveView vs Phoenix LiveView: a real benchmark https://en.andros.dev/blog/80134668/django-liveview-vs-phoen...

TL;DR: this is a toy example, so it doesn't require BEAM VM Hard to take this seriously without the loadtest with the the large number of concurrent users. For a number of users co…

It doesn't matter CRUD, REST, 2PC, or middleware in general. From my PoV they're all technical solutions used to avoid deep modeling of the domain and its workflows, and instead tr…

Natural idempotence requires deep understanding of the domain, which developers (and coding agents) do not always have. Also, it's still a limited solution, which doesn't solve the…

To protect their homes from floods and fires, the ancient Egyptians made sacrifices and offerings to deities like Hapi (god of the Nile)[1] and Bastet[2] But this naive actuarial m…

In ancient Egypt, there were various trade unions, usually organized by profession One of the most interesting was the thieves' union Suppose someone stole yr carpet at night, and …

The Soviet computer industry had only two secrets: 1. how far behind the West it was, and 2. that there were no other secrets

This Soviet project developed two Russian-language PLs: Robic[1] and Rapira[2]. Robic was similar to Logo, but unlike Logo, which had only one actor - a turtle, Robik had several: …

Even if you have an insurable interest, moral hazard may arise - acting recklessly or other abuse, while knowing you are insured/covered. Somewhat similar to friendly fraud in reta…

AI talk is turning into Silicon Valley pseudo-math slang. Priors, exponentials, latent space You get lines like “no priors” or “embracing exponentials” that sound smart but mostly …

> slow is smooth, smooth is fast

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It's better to first show truth tables, then K-maps, and only then logical formulas. But the main question is: does this FP2 have any real applications? Maybe it could be useful wh…

What about comparison operators?

The Five Levels: From spicy autocomplete to the dark factory https://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2026/01/the-five-levels-from... January 23, 2026 72 comments https://news.ycombinator.c…

FP2 spec: 00 -> 0.0 01 -> 1.0 10 -> Inf 11 -> NaN or 00 -> 0.0 01 -> 1.0 10 -> Inf 11 -> -Inf

The number of traditional public companies has been cut in half. The number of alternative public and semi-public companies went up exponentially (Reg CF/Reg A, crypto ICOs). After…

Windows (arm 64), but no official Linux (x86) support? There is only unofficial build: Claude Desktop for Debian-based Linux distributions https://github.com/aaddrick/claude-deskto…

statistics == lies

BTW: some early filesystems were more database-like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISAM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_Management_Services They were more like BerkeleyDB and …