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To be fair, postgres still suffers from a poor choice of MVCC implementation (copy on write rather than an undo log). This one small choice has a huge number of negative knock on e…

I'm also curious about this, especially if anyone has operated postgres at any kind of scale. At low scale, all databases are fine (assuming you understand what the particular data…

I'd say that the 'poor man's closures' aspect of OOP - that is, being able to package some context along with behaviour is the most useful part for day to day code. Only occasional…

I agree, but this > Your program must be really small and scoped for this to make sense. to me suggests that it's not really global state if your program has to stay small and scop…

Indeed, we also have technology that can read the written language. Seems like that would be the way to go, and you get to keep backwards compatibility with eyeballs

I appreciate this survey for how thought-provoking it is. Ironically, I'd say that the survey is itself art. And not a piece of art that AI in it's current state could ever pull of…

To be fair, newer research is demonstrating that smaller more power efficient models with the same performance are possible, so the hope is that these giant LLMs are just a steppin…

This is sort of the role that L3 cache plays already. Your proposal would be effectively an upgradable L4 cache. No idea if the economics on that are worth it vs bigger DRAM so you…

I'd say there is a fourth category too - things that would be perfectly fine as a simple, local program purchased once that grow over-complicated cloud features to justify a subscr…

Having spent an unhealthy amount of time thinking about this, I think it's even worse than an abstraction _level_. I suspect that the fundamental problem with visual languages is t…

My understanding of these prefixed IDs is that translation happens at the API boundary - what you store in the database is the unprefixed ULID/UUID in an efficient binary column. T…

As a random thought, this seems to be about the same order of magnitude compute as Karpathy's recent GPT-2 work: https://github.com/karpathy/llm.c/discussions/677 You could take th…

The hope though is that by splitting indexing that puts search providers on an equal footing in terms of results quality (at least initially). Advertisers go to Google because user…

Honestly I think Google needs to be broken up. It's not a novel idea but the more I think about it the more I like it. So, Google becomes two orgs: Google indexing and Google searc…

Replication can be for HA, not just for scale. All depends on your business requirements. Also replication can be good for other operational reasons, such as zero downtime major ve…

Same, as it stands you the user are legally liable for the full bill unless netlify graciously forgive it. Even in op's case, they didn't (still charging 5k!). If there was an opti…

I'm also interested to know this. I have a couple of static sites running on the free tier for friends/family and now I'm planning on moving them all to a VPS as soon as I can. It …

Perhaps it is _anemoia_ - nostalgia for a time you've never known https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/105778238455... In this case, it's for the harmless charm of an im…

> Another thing that radically changed my mind about ocean plastics is that most all of it comes from a handful of rivers. The article you linked specifically states that this was …

The worst thing that I've found with teams is the latency in a video call is _just slightly_ too high (and noticeably higher than Google meet and zoom). I find this latency to be a…

Just letting you know it's not you - this is a well known long standing issue with keycloak. Typically users see a significant performance cliff at around 300-400 realms. While one…

Cnpg's docs articulate this better than I could: https://cloudnative-pg.io/documentation/1.16/controller/ Statefulsets have their place but are surprisingly inconvenient for databa…

A subtle advantage of cnpg is that it doesn't use statefulsets, instead the operator handles things like mapping storage volumes and stable identities. Regular kubernetes statefuls…