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This absolutely does not pass any smell test, by your own admission you included the test files "by accident", could only barely pass the minimum of SQL for the benchmarks, included environment variables for "internal benchmarking" and a preview version you cannot immediately release because it might contain sensitive data? What kind of sensitive data are you putting in a Postgres slop fork in such a way that you cannot immediately release it, besides obvious admissions of cheating? This all just reeks.

Hope the ClickHouse maintainers stand their ground and do not let pgrust back in until it and the maintainer has matured more.

The fact that this was reported three months ago and the "workaround" is to stop using private repos and assume they are all pwnd is quite something. How do you not notice that cross-node traffic is not encrypted when building something like this?

I still have my invitation email to What.CD and cherish the stuff I found and downloaded on it. After it went away I didn't do the reasonable thing and migrate to RED/OPS immediately, though I've joined OPS in recent years. It does not feel the same, but that's probably more me being older and less optimistic than during the What.CD days. I have fond memories of reading the forum threads about jazz when I was getting into it, or looking at all the weird collections people made (I vividly remember laughing at the "albums with feet on the cover"-collection) or finding really obscure, local artists you couldn't find anywhere else or going to the public library to rent CD's to rip and upload for credits. Fun times.

> Cloud makes sense when elasticity matters; bare metal wins when baseload dominates.

This really is the crux of the matter in my opinion, at least for applications (databases and so on is in my opinion more nuanced). I've only worked at one place where using cloud functions made sense (keeping it somewhat vague here): data ingestion from stations that could be EXTREMELY bursty. Usually we got data from the stations at roughly midnight every day, nothing a regular server couldn't handle, but occasionally a station would come back online after weeks or new stations got connected etc which produced incredible load for a very short amount of time when we fetched, parsed and handled each packet. Instead of queuing things for ages we could instead just horizontally scale it out to handle the pressure.

So much negativity... I for one really like the look of this, I've been yearning for something that's not the current crop of frontend frameworks to see where we go. The author definitely has the past experience to build something like this based on being a core member of both Svelte and React. It'll be cool to see where this goes, though I wish we had more Elm-like frameworks (that don't lock down the compiler).

Norway has incredibly high tolls and tariffs on importing food (a bit ironic nowadays), primarily to protect the local farmers etc. We're a big country, but the amount of arable land is small and the climate does us no favors. We're at about 39% self sufficient for food, and import a majority of our vegetables, grains and fruits (Norway is one of the biggest importers of food in the world). Fact of the matter is that the only thing that props up local farmers is the subsidies and high import fees, if we join the EU that will have to go and local farms will not be able to compete on the open market. There's obviously much more nuance and details here, but that's the gist of why a lot of people don't want to join the EU. The last vote was essentially decided by the agricultural industry in Norway.

I think an EU membership will only happen in Norway when the old generations die out, the yes/no divide is a big generational thing. Even though the latest poll only shows a six percent difference between yes/no, it's only as high as it is now because of the current political situation with trade wars and actual wars. Any vote now for a membership will only happen when a party knows the yes side will win, doing otherwise will postpone the vote another thirty years again. Personally I think we should join the EU, we're already heavily tangled with EU laws and regulations, but I understand the concerns for our agriculture and fishing industries.