SKIP LOCKED was added in 10.6 (~2021), years after MySQL had it (~2017). My company was using MariaDB around the time and was trailing a version or two and it made implementing a queue very painful.
I think the "just do it" mindset requires management who understands that follow up requests might need to clean things up and refactor. I think some engineers have been traumatized by repeated applications of "just do it" and try to avoid technical debt up front, which is really really hard unless you are a SME with years of experience on building that exact thing.
Or if we wrote these things in a language with real imports and modules?
I'm authoring equivalent in CUE, and assimilating "standard" provider ones into CUE on the fly so my agent can work with all the shenanigans out there.
I love sqlite, it's a great piece of software. The website is full of useful information, rather than the slick marketing we are used to, even on open source projects.
With that said, I find it strange how the official website seems to be making its way through the HN front page piecemeal.
This one is probably popping today because of the simonw post yesterday about using an LLM to basically one-shot port a lib across languages with the help of an extremely robust test suite
If you wait here long enough, it happens again, and again, and again, and again...to the point you start wanting to skewer it. :)
EDIT: Haskell was early 2010s Zig, and Zig is in the traditional ~quarter-long downcycle, after the last buzzkill review post re: all the basic stuff it's missing, ex. a working language server protocol implementation. I predict it'll be back in February. I need to make a list of this sort of link, just for fun.
> And I mean sure, everything is kinda janky on Jenkins, but everything falls into an expectable corridor of jank you get used to.
This is kinda where I am. No one really feels like they are selling a premium "just works" product. Its all jank. So why it the jank I chose at the price I chose?
At the moment I'm self hosting gitlab runners. Its jank. But it's free.
A while ago I set out to find a replacement for Jenkins. On prem with a comparable feature set. What I found out is that Jenkins is the worst apart from all the others.
> I am highly skeptical that Enterprise customers in times such as these will be willing to pay for something that they can get for free from Google or Microsoft.
They would have to build a better enterprise offering. Companies like Chrome because can use Google as their IDP, and when their employees log in with their company account the company can push certs and security politicies to their Chrome install.
Firefox doesn't have that level of integration with Google security services.
> Hank Green has used the term hedonic skepticism for the psychology of seeking to criticize for its entertainment value, which I think is a large part of what this is.
I'm fascinated by this concept. Us it expanded anywhere?
I agree, it's fascinating and I believe a necessary term. I just recall him using it on his tik tokk. And come to think of it it might have actually been John Green (oops).
But basically his idea was that hedonic skepticism. Was this kind of like reflexive unthinking doubt of the sincerity of any institutional effort to do any form of social good whatsoever. It seems to over correct towards skepticism and is motivated, not by factual veracity but by the kind of entertainment value of being skeptical and jaded about everything. And so the idea that the center for disease control might really sincerely want to stop the spread of measles, if you're a hedonic skeptic, you laugh at how ridiculous and naive. It is to believe that they might have your best interests at heart. Which I think overlooks the simple possibility that sometimes we stand up institutions in response to real societal needs, and that you can have an appropriate and healthy skepticism of politicians and policy makers acting in their own self-interest while also appreciating that there do exist purpose-driven organizations that roll out programs and policies based on a genuine interest in solving problems.
I think Firefox has a sizable minority of users that are aware of its importance and would donate for "a fucking browser".
Tbh I would also donate for a nagging team that publicly pressures various corporate sites into continuing to support firefox (like my cell phone provider, i can't download invoices with FF since 3 months).
What I wouldn't donate for is "me too" initiatives like "AI" and corporate bullshit. Or even charity initiatives if done by Mozilla. It's not Mozilla's job. Their job is to keep a working browser alternative up.
And as it's been stated in techie discussions time and time again, they don't need to be that large for just "a fucking browser". But that would diminish the CEO's status so we get what we have now instead.
> I think Firefox has a sizable minority of users that are aware of its importance
Agreed.
> and would donate for "a fucking browser".
Hard disagree. Especially when you consider that much of Firefox's use likely comes from countries that tend to opportunistically freeload whenever they can. Idk if your donation-only idea would even work for the US and Canada alone.
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