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How long ago was this? I tried their "local ai autocomplete" thing a few years ago for a little while and it was hot garbage. It guessed the right/acceptable completion about 30% o…

I would happily write stored procs using the current language support for a decade without pay, before I'd subject myself to putting javascript in a fucking database engine. > And …

> such as vector indexes and JS stored procedures So, the stuff that basically appeals to people chasing the AI dragon, and has zero practical use for 99.999% of developers making …

To me the biggest "unknown" with Percona is that MariaDB (the company) bought out Codership (the creators of Galera Cluster, which XtraDB Cluster is based on) and it doesn't seem t…

The comparison with MySQL/MariaDB is unfortunate, given that since the "split" MariaDB has shown itself to be every bit the corporate owned "FOSS" project while its supporters stil…

We are clearly talking about different things. Access to source control is required on a developer workstation. It is not required inside an application environment on that worksta…

> Most of the recent supply chain attacks specifically target stealing secrets from development environments. If your secrets in a dev environment can actually do any damage if lea…

> If you already had left pad cached then you were not affected by its disappearance. The evidence of course is that when you say "left pad" no one knows what you're referring to b…

I mean even if you blindly copy in the dependency (I'm not saying you should) you've already solved two supply chain issues with install-on-prod: - dependencies "disappearing" (aka…

I'm glad other people are starting to realise this. Just a word of warning from someone who's always advocated for this approach: Prepare to be inundated with ridiculous, nonsensic…

If I show a person on the street a Fuji apple and a Honeycrisp and ask if they're approximately the same, they're going to say yes even if they're labeled. Php has had a strict equ…

I'm pretty sure it is actually.

South Australia. Possibly other Australian states too, I haven't checked (I live overseas currently)

> Yes, we punish the individual driver that did it, but we still allow humans to drive cars. Yes because bad drivers aren't representative of all drivers. You also missed the part …

If a child is "folded in half" by someone looking at their phone, no one accepts that as "good enough", and there is a direct action: the driver responsible will lose their licence…

... the only sarcasm I posted was about screaming at the universe in response to his suggestion that the only alternative to people loading up a text editor with a million shonky p…

Your comment implies that you've somehow misunderstood my comments and thus think that I am using Microsoft's hot garbage text editor with a million plugins. I can assure you I am …

Good point. Any editor is a needless dependency. True developers just scream at the universe and it responds with cosmic radiation that flips the correct bits to form the binary co…

So what you're saying is, you don't really know what spicy autocomplete is generating because you aren't reading it. Great stuff champ. Really dispelling the idea that vibe coders …

Which other community imports a third party package rather than writing `% 2 === 0` (or it's equivalent) code to test if a number is even or not?

If you've all been reduced to vibe coding and hoping for the best I'd suggest that you aren't really participating in the software industry either mate.

> I do it because I didn't write the codebase - the drug dealer did. .... are you saying that you can't just open up a file "written" by spicy autocomplete and add/change parts of …

Part of the problem is that people are adding a metric fuck ton of extensions onto a text editor trying to make it into an IDE. If you start with an IDE first you likely need far f…

Who would have guessed they'd find something more objectionable than AMP, to fuck over site owners.

> It's only natural to use the stuff that is out there Sure, if your entire "community" lives and dies by a nonsensical "don't reinvent the wheel, there is a package for that " cha…