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- richbellThe main use case, in my opinion, is for tests/CI. SQLite has traditionally been used to quickly run tests, however, if your actual infra uses PostgreSQL then the value is limited.
- That is what "end-to-end encryption" has come to mean in marketing. In the same way that every single product is "natural."
- One highly publicized incident was https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/13s7mv3/why_...
- Uber's business model is to be a loss leader to hamper competition, then jack up rider rates and lower drive rates. This is technically a 'working' business model, but hardly one that benefits the people.
- > Hang on a minute. How do you square your claim that it's as it should be that train drivers can be paid as much as airline pilots, with your claim that everyone else is underpaid, including, presumably, airline pilots
What is inconsistent about those two things?
You can simultaneously believe that train drivers and airline pilots deserve to be paid more.
- > He said that his team had hoped for it to become a prescription medicine dosed at 500 mcg, because anything higher gave paradoxical effects and actually made sleep worse.
Tangentially, I'm reminded of this interview around ~31m.
TL;DR they found something that promoted deeper sleep, but people didnt necessary feel "well rested", and so it was shelved for something that subjectively improved sleep but actually reduced the quality of sleep.
- There are a number of products and open source tools that do this. Look up "secret scanning".
- > in light of the DOGE findings regarding 150+ year olds collecting social security...
The claims made by DOGE were highly misleading (i.e., lack of death date does not mean a 150 year old is receiving money).
Moreover, it wasn't a novel discovery. It had already been identified and published in a 2023 audit: https://oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploads/a-06-21-51022.pdf
- The modern Internet is a privacy nightmare in large part due to advertisers. Having every aspect of your life surveiled, packaged, and sold is not a trivial issue.
- And will they ever support an easily-configured catch-all domain, like Namecheap?
- I believe foreign key constraint validations are also disables by default.
- "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
- > I'm amazed that this has reached the almost-top of HN.
The article is objectively bad; the subject is clearly something a lot of people think about, myself included.
- > But definitely not within database functions and procedures.
I generally find Hungarian notation silly, however, there's a compelling argument to have them in functions and procedures — perhaps more than for views. The type of the variable matters just as much as where/how it was declared, such as in/out params.
That's the 'steelman' argument for them, as I understand it.
- That's an easy swipe to make. What would you suggest instead?
- That is not what is being discussed and you know it.
Provide an example backing up your claim regarding pattern matching + union types:
> Like in the same way you might forget to write pattern matching code?
- > I have read this exact claim before, for what it is worth. Did you end up here simply because you repeated what you saw elsewhere without actually thinking about it?
I can't tell if you're being intentionally obtuse. It behooves you to research the topic being discussed, instead of writing long-winded snarky posts.
It is not worth continuing this discussion unless you can demonstrate, with explicit code examples, what you think we're talking about, and why you believe it is incorrect.
- > Like in the same way you might forget to write pattern matching code?
This is a lengthy response to seemingly ignore, or miss, the point being made.
It is literally impossible to "forget" if you have pattern matching + algebraic data types/enum/unions. Conversely, it is possible and easy with Go.
Nothing you have said acknowledges this.