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These sorts of tools make me think of Lotus Notes or Access applications. Didn’t couchbase do some self hosted UX as well?

Could we rewrite German in Rust to make it faster?

As is Amazon

Is Austin much cheaper than Washington these days? I have not looked in 4 years

If there is no peaceful transfer of power then you are incentivized to never give up power

Isn’t the point that Record classes will be able to be upgraded to value types easily once Valhalla is done? Or am I missing something

If you make changes to a large shared module, is it your responsibility to chase down each and every usage of it? For example if you are upgrading a dependency due to a somewhat breaking security issue such as Jackson 2.8->2.12

There is evidence that the Pfizer vaccine is still effective at least 6 months later https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/04/01/pfizer...

Seems like religiosity is a neurological need, but church is not. With organized religion decreasing in various countries, I wonder where people will get their outlets for social and metaphysical needs previously supplied by churches.

I remember I only understood C once I wrote a memory allocator in assembly in my Computer Architecture course

I feel like the more sane way to do this is to add disclaimers / explanations at the beginning ala Disney Plus or others

His point that conspiracy theories are acting as a substitute for religious community and purpose is interesting. I guess there are a number of different belief systems that can fill a void of purpose.

Not to mention the cost of X more servers for a year is probably less costly than the developer time of optimization and the opportunity cost.

The charts are comparing “accelerated” performance versus what appears to be a cpu only baseline. It is not clear which M1 hardware beyond the CPU is used

A way better write up than this fluff piece: https://www.wired.com/story/are-radioactive-diamond-batterie...

Depends on the part of Amazon but it is pretty prevalent in Retail. The fact that it is both binary and self describing makes it pretty good for data at rest. You can still parse and understand that archival transaction data from 8 years ago.

The support for S-Expressions is both a blessing and a curse. The ability to write logic with native data structures in it is fundamentally interesting, but it leads to lots of reinvention of somewhat crappy Lisp implementations.

The tooling ecosystem has been slowly improving outside of JVM, particularly the latest JS implementation.

In a vacuum, the support for type annotations, timestamps, decimals and binary serialization make it superior to JSON for use cases where self describing data is appropriate.

It really seems that the bigger risk is that they will sacrifice the simplicity of iOS to shoehorn the iPad into productivity use cases

Having a single wiki instance for your company is an awesome way to collect knowledge. You can write up operation run books, design documents, references all in an informal way.

Isn’t this basically part of CQRS?

You would have less leaks with Oracle because you would not be able to afford the database in the first place. Can’t leak anything if it’s not stored

Isn’t it easier to say “embedded” and “severless”

There is a great American Experience episode about the history

At work we joke about zip lines between buildings

At IBM we used Lotus Notes as our shadow IT. Lotus Notes databases are just really ambitious excel spreadsheets and most of ours were written by self empowered excel hackers. It was kind of beautiful but as you might expect, a pain in the ass to maintain.

I just skipped the Walmart section. The Amazon section is pretty solid and mostly unrelated. I feel like this would be better in 3 parts, the the discussion of Ads as a 3rd part.

It seems like VC funding is the real key to changing the calculus. If you get as much money as Elastic did, you damn well start digging that moat and get to monetizing.

I guess we will find out if you can defend your APIs using copyright in the Oracle vs Google case

What is the advantage of JVM if there is no Jar deployments. Other than language syntax, most reasons to use JVM is to get all of those libraries

Sounds like full on imposter syndrome. I feel like a little bit is healthy, but this is quite a lot.

For me it was the opposite. Once I learned computer architecture then I finally understood memory allocation and pointers in C