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Re:Datomic Is Now Free on Thursday April 27, 2023 @05:10PM (#35734655)
I wonder if public benchmarks are now allowed with the binaries.
Re:Datomic Is Now Free on Thursday April 27, 2023 @05:01PM (#35734528)
Datomic's 'time travel' is an audit feature, not something for your application/business logic to depend on. Performance reasons make it impractical, unless you only have like 10 users and very little data.
Re:Datomic Is Now Free on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:47PM (#35734323)
I don't how they do it, but the obvious answer is probably sharding. Their cloud costs must be no joke. Peers require tons of memory and I can only guess they must have thousands of transactors to support that workload and who knows how many peers. Add to this that they probably need something like Kafka for integrating/pipelining all this data.
Re:Datomic Is Now Free on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:37PM (#35734185)
I guess this is why datomic.com front pagenow defaults to datomic pro and not cloud.
Re:Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster on Thursday April 20, 2023 @05:36PM (#35646692)
How do you handle chromium in Debian stable? It always lags behind significantly behind chromium/chrome releases.
Re:916 Days of Emacs on Thursday April 13, 2023 @04:02PM (#35561333)
I have love/hate relationship with Emacs too, but for the stuff I do in Emacs I hate other software more. So Emacs it is.
Re:Why Janet? on Thursday April 13, 2023 @12:21AM (#35550916)
no

I readily admit, though, that not all software development needs to be flexible and big-application focused. To that end there are many things Common Lisp is not so good at. Common Lisp is not good at being pretty out-of-the-box, it's not good at minimalism, and it's not good at prescriptive or dogmatic programming styles. I've personally not been convinced of the various approaches to using Common Lisp as a scripting language (especially because of standard multi-stage execution). Common Lisp also has an unusual learning curve: there's an initial hump of learning Lisp's oddities (DEFVAR/DEFPARAMETER, CAR/FIRST, no hash table syntax, lots of EQ[UA]L-ity functions, systems vs packages, LOOP/DO/DOTIMES/DOLIST, "Neo, there are no lists in Lisp", ...), followed by a longer path of soaking in the extensive facilities offered by the language. There's just... a lot of content. And in part because of its idiosyncratic nature, no singular approach to learning it works for everyone.

Common Lisp is pretty anemic when it comes to extreme use of functional programming. It's wholly capable and serviceable, but most library writers don't go whole-hog with FP, and Common Lisp by default makes FP a little stuffy (it requires functions bound to variables to be called with FUNCALL, and it requires defined functions to be referenced with #' syntax). There is very little support for functional data structures; the FSET library seems to be what most people suggest.

https://old.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/123edgv/im_considerin...

Most business applications today have a web UI, using nodejs/JS/TS simplifies things by having to deal only with one language and ecosystem. Most business apps today stick to only one database and maybe an additional nosql database. What you did is very unusual for most apps and is something only huge companies would do, like SAP or big banks.
Re:REBL on Monday April 10, 2023 @12:24PM (#35514088)
Only reads can be distributed, and because of datomic's performance you will reach for them way sooner than with something like postgres.
Re:Transactions Aren't Everything on Thursday April 06, 2023 @06:17PM (#35475284)
yes?
Re:Comprehensive Keyboard Handling in Terminals on Sunday April 02, 2023 @01:12PM (#35412755)
Does kitty lets you remap modifiers like iterm2? https://i.stack.imgur.com/hd5Yi.png
Re:Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes on Saturday April 01, 2023 @04:16PM (#35403672)
Feels slow in old computers with 4GB and Chrome has a better built-in for freeing up memory from inactive tabs.
Re:Retool Database on Friday March 31, 2023 @12:38AM (#35382637)
Beautiful, thank you.
Re:Retool Database on Thursday March 30, 2023 @04:19PM (#35378323)
Can Retool Database be self-hosted stand-alone without Retool? I can see using this as a replacement for excel on some things.
Re:How to Read MySQL EXPLAINs on Thursday March 30, 2023 @02:35PM (#35377123)
No PITR
Re:The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 as a Linux Laptop on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @12:04PM (#35359191)
Is the 'update from bios and use an external USB' not available anymore in modern laptops/computers?
Re:Rust Is a Scalable Language on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @11:25PM (#35351960)
By async I was referring to node's asynchronous event-driven runtime abstraction which the GP refers to as an ugly hack. I'm not sure if this abstraction is better than all of the available alternatives if you compare it to high-level features multi-threaded runtimes offer like thread-safe collections, atomic updates, concurrent hash maps, immutability, structured concurrency, etc... as in Java/Clojure. Most Java programmers don't work with the low-level thread primitives.

The author of esbuild gave up trying to code esbuild with nodejs/worker threads and switched to Go for a less limited/restricted concurrency environment.

Re:Rust Is a Scalable Language on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:40PM (#35350947)
Async in the nodejs ecosystem seems to be doing perfectly fine?
Anki doesn't belong there though.
For $300 you can get an i5-13400 and a board though.
Re:How to start a React Project in 2023 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @07:20PM (#35282900)
What do you need for keeping CSS scoped to React components?
What is DB-First model ?
Re:How Async/Await Works in C# on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @03:43PM (#35251474)
What would choose for a generic coding interview?
Green threads usually refer to single-threaded runtimes such as Node.

This doesn't sound right. How is the single-threaded event-loop of node green threads?

Re:Master Emacs in One Year on Sunday March 19, 2023 @03:54AM (#35216941)
You can just use it for note taking and as an outliner (orgmode) and keep using vim for programming.
Re:A different approach to fuzzy finding on Saturday March 18, 2023 @11:47PM (#35215847)
Looks like the author doesn't know about FZF's different search syntaxes https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#search-syntax

If they had left quoted the word makefile, GNUmakefile would have been the first result.

Re:JDK 20 G1/Parallel/Serial GC Changes on Saturday March 18, 2023 @01:10AM (#35206300)
Do you mean because there's no Rails or Django for nodejs?
Re:JDK 20 G1/Parallel/Serial GC Changes on Friday March 17, 2023 @02:24PM (#35200897)
In the world of web development why would one pick Java over TS/node.js ?
Re:JDK 20 G1/Parallel/Serial GC Changes on Friday March 17, 2023 @01:45PM (#35200329)
What do you miss from Clojure?

BTW, is that your channel?

Does the bodybuilder has 30 BMI cause of muscle weight?

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