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The idea here is that many programmers would call it rateLimit, if they use CamelCase naming. If they don't, at least they can just switch to camelcase once they realize the issue,…

Breaks causal consistency and a bunch of other assumptions: https://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-4.2.6

However, the skills library that it writes with live feedback from runtime errors and that it retrieves with a vector DB is really interesting. In that sense it looks like a very i…

Just checked by talking to the free version of ChatGPT, and yes, the MineFlayer api docs are indeed in its training set. It can give me detailed instructions on how to build a mine…

Julia's JIT is a just ahead of time method jit just like SBCL, and the language is designed around making idiomatic code as fast as possible with that approach. So every function i…

Datalog isn't especially difficult to learn though, and is intuitive enough that you can fully learn it in 20 minutes. The relational model with unions of conjunctive queries at it…

Right, compilation time went down a lot with 1.6 by avoiding method invalidations during compilation. The other thing they did is ensure that the package manager properly compiles …

The thing is that SQL was originally built to be an easy accessible DSL for simple database queries, and was not intended to be used to build highly complex stuff. Datalog-like que…

Right. Julia is looking fairly promising as a "real" programming language that is still an excellent Matlab replacement, and possibly to a lesser extent an R replacement, and it do…