LLMs are going to make senior devs indespensable. So far from what I’ve seen, it’s not great at solving unusual cases, and it most shines in boilerplate and generic problems.

So juniors are never going to learn to code, and then companies will have to pay for experienced people.

Juniors never think hard about unionizing, and the seniors will have job security and therefore not strong motivation.

I hope devs will unionize in any case, LLMs or not, like any other specialization.

Fuck, this actually hurts

Many things, too many to even remember.

Very bad SQL implementation is a good start, still bad replication support (compared to Postgres), various bugs present for too long…

https://www.sql-workbench.eu/dbms_comparison.html this comparison is a bit out of date, but explains a lot

Postgres is far superior in every way.

We used MySQL (and Percona XtraDB) servers at work, and it is so bad. So I made several presentations showing generic and specific reasons why Postgres is better. I had to cut a lot of content because MySQL is just that bad.

Some things may not seem relevant now, but as you keep the DB around long enough, you will appreciate the whole package of Postgres.

Things that will help a lot, but are extensions:

• pg_partman - for automatic partition management
• patroni - management of replicas, automatic failover - it does everything for you with simple commands

There is a DB comparison matrix, but hasn’t been updated in over a year, which is a shame, but still gives you the idea of how different databases support SQL features: link.

Spoiler: postgres has the most support, with a huge lead

Edit: MySQL is dead last, btw

Why would they call it fsync ffs

You know, all this talk about these benefits… when PHP has had this for ages, no BS needed.

I’ll see myself out.

This is me, but SteamOS instead of the mac.

Why keep focusing on a single group?

No, there are DRM games on GOG (or have been anyway).

And Steam also has DRM-free games.

The number one reason not to switch is “I don’t want to”. And I dislike that Windows users keep repeating decades old solved issues as excuses instead of being honest.

‘But muh games’ only very few don’t work OOB or at all.

‘I need this software’ most works flawlessly under Wine.

‘It crashes’ exactly as often as Windows with faulty hardware or bug in a driver.

‘Hardware isn’t plug&play’ more hardware works with Linux without installing drivers.

Jusy say “I dont want to give it a shot” or “I’m in the minority that can’t switch”, but don’t bullshit people about Linux requiring cmd to work. And those people then suggest editing registry to remove ads… It’s dishonest and in bad faith.

FOSS is the only way forward to stop complete enshittification of the digital space, like it or not.

Also I hate Microsoft and Apple with all my soul.

I get that most don’t care, but that doesn’t mean supporting those companies is good.

So theres BSD, truth.

Yeah, I had the chicken.

Unfortunatelly, the rest of the kitched was not very good. Just go to Villa Toledo in Costa Teguise.

Go climate catastrophy!

Just in case - I did not mean you, just the people who spew such shit.

Like my mother. Jesus, I had to explain a lot to her for her to stop saying that stuff near me.

If you want to be all natural, get off the internet.

Stop eating modern vegetables and fruits.

Return to monke.

And no one ever tried to restore it.

Happened to me as well, after a year I learned incremental DB backups were wrongly offset by GMT diff, so we were losing hours every time. Fun.

Luckily we never needed them.

And now we have Postgres with WAL archiving and I sleep so much better.

Remember Spectre? When they recommended disabling hyperthreading?

Hey, I also have 5700xt. What card is this? And how much of an upgrade is it?

No, but it already supports multiple versions of software.

Though I would argue that many systems have dependency cache that should be replicable, specially when you build everything locally, you can pinpoint specific commits, not just versions that may be removed from repos.

But my comment was meant as a reference to building everything locally, as in I know what that’s like.

Sweating hard in Gentoo