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It’s another step in the right direction. These things take time.

Connection pooling has its own severe downsides in Postgres. Considering how limited we are by connection counts.

That was the whole concept behind KCP iirc. It was designed to provide tenancy atop 1 or more clusters.

Types don’t explain intent or gotchas. They’re also useful, but you need both.

While i think Latex is fantastic, i think there is plenty of low hanging fruit to improve upon it... the ergonomics of the language and its macros aren't great. If nothing else there should be a better investment in tooling and ecosystem.

Having a reproducible dev environment is great when everyone’s laptop is different and may be running different OSes, libraries, runtimes, etc.

Also docker has the network effect. If there was a good light weight tool that was better enough people would absolutely use it.

But it doesn’t exist.

In an ideal world it wouldn’t exist, but we don’t live there.

There are extraordinarily highly paying semi firms in the US, but neither Intel nor AMD fit that mould unfortunately.

I’ve never understood why that’s the case; they are also high leverage jobs where a few can do extraordinary work and be rewarded thus. Look at Nvidia. Their employees are well compensated and they stay and the company does fantastically.

I appreciate everything they’ve done but the group which maintains Pip and the package index is categorically incapable of shipping anything at a good velocity.

It’s entirely volunteer based so I don’t blame them, but the reality is that it’s holding back the ecosystem.

I suspect it’s also a misalignment of interests. No one there really invests in improving UX.

The employee isn’t allowed to pay for it. It has to be paid for by the employer (except premium processing and visa stamping fees (2-3k)).

That’s for people who already have H1Bs, this is the company trying to keep them long term by getting them a green card. The whole EB green card system is a bit of a mess.

Since H1B has a 6 year hard time limit.

I think apple calls them NPUs and Broadcom calls them XPUs. Given they’re basically the number 2 and 3 accelerator manufacturers one of those probably works.

I’d say where it’s more Important is when you need to manage database performance. This lets you design an api that’s pleasant for users, well normalised internally, while also performing well.

Usually normalisation and performance lead to a poor api that’s hard for users to use and hard hard to evolve since you’re so tightly coupled to your external representation.

I mean docker is orthogonal to package manager. It makes it easier to deploy but none of the other thing also have managers do are relevant.

I mean in the Bay Area where SFH have massively ballooned in price condos have remained steady for a long time. It works. Maybe not everyone gets the SFH but that’s fine and not the point. Everyone can own a home.

Can you just shell out to homebrew for unsupported cases? I don’t imagine the overhead of ruby will be that high compared to compiling the code.

If it doesn’t have those features then why would I even use it at all? Remote build and caching are the entire reason I’d even think about it.

Usually the VENV and import lines are enough

I don't think this is exhaustive and things have expanded since this was published, but this[1] somewhat covers this

> CDC webpages currently note that the "CDC's website is being modified to comply with President Trump's Executive Orders." Specifically, the CDC has been purging its website of topics related to diversity, gender identity, and LGBTQ issues. In addition, CDC researchers have been ordered to retract papers submitted to journals that use words or phrases like non-binary, transgender, LGBT, pregnant people, and more.

Ive heard HIV and contraception related information was also removed [2].

> Among the many pages that remain down are Health Disparities Among LQBTQ Youth, Interim Clinical Considerations for Use of Vaccine for Mpox Prevention, and Fast Facts: HIV and Transgender People.

Other government sites [3] had similar purges for different topics:

> The Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York alleges the agency illegally scrapped essential webpages without public notice last month, after USDA Director of Digital Communications Peter Rhee ordered staff to archive or publish “any landing pages focused on climate change.”

[1] https://www.medpagetoday.com/obgyn/generalobgyn/114078

[2] https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-health/removal-pages-cdc-w...

[3] https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/climate...

We have something similar in Postgres but IMO disconnectedness also plays a really big part in this whole calculation. We actually ended up just changing the transitive closure for fast operations (and simpler code).

I think fundamentally if all you do is glue together popular OSS libraries in well understood way, then yes. You may be replaced. But really you probably could be replaced by a Wordpress plugin at that point.

The moment you have some weird library that 4 people in the world know (which happens more than you’d expect) or hell even something without a lot of OSS code what exactly is an LLM going to do? How is it supposed to predict code that’s not derived from its training set?

My experience thus far is that it starts hallucinating and it’s not really gotten any better at it.

I’ll continue using it to generate sed and awk commands, but I’ve yet to find a way to make my life easier with the “hard bits” I want help with.

Yep. Not all code that looks alike is alike.

Similarity can be fleeting.

I think for certain types of data manipulation and querying it’s notable more succinct, sql with CTEs is a little better but still far more verbose than data piping.

You really need to look at how the employer funds it but often those are cheaper no matter what.

I think they’ve made a good effort on the laws in CA, 5150 and 5160 ensure each patient has a social worker advocate to look out for them and it needs recurring sign offs from a judge.

They helped more than 1 friend of mine when they when they needed the help.

The real issue is the 100k+ bill they got at the end, but politics so I digress.

River is my go to in Golang, it’s really handy to have transactional queuing with a nice little ui.

The line I like to pull out is: things that look alike may not be alike.

If nothing else the ban on foreign ownership of Chinese companies alone feels like it justifies some reciprocal action. No US (or otherwise) company can operate in China, but the reverse is not true.

I think this is inevitable when you look at the original team at oculus, there were a lot of gaming folks (John Carmack was their CTO!) and I have no doubt that lives on in the culture today, for better or worse.

I doubt a UI toolkit or standard OS primitives were even on their radar.

I’ve used and quite like it. We switched because it has better documentation and is designed in a more extensible way, common patterns weren’t supported in FastAPI are here, unfortunately it’s been a few years so I can’t remember details beyond things like lifecycle events being missing, etc.

This seems awfully dismissive of people who choose to use a system. Just because you don’t agree with people’s choices doesn’t mean we don’t understand “how computers actually work”.