thomasdziedzic
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Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
> it is not really a good fit due to concurrency.
I would split out read & write concurrency. With SQLite's WAL mode it supports many readers and one writer. Lobste.rs is a read heavy site so I think SQLite was a good call, especially since now that production is running on SQLite, the proof is in production. If the site was heavy on writes, I would agree with you.
As to why not postgresql or another database, SQLite was as simple as you could get on one box. It is simply a library call rather than a separate process that lives outside of your web application. https://lobste.rs/s/ko1ji1/lobste_rs_is_now_running_on_sqlit...
Comment · 3 months ago
> I'm confused why there's a udf for 'if' but it'd be trivial to build as C module, but I agree it's best to patch over this sort of thing separately from the migration, so perhaps limited benefit.
There's actually a built in if to sqlite: https://sqlite.org/lang_corefunc.html#iif
The only reason why I built it as a UDF was because I originally didn't find an if function. Though I'm not sure how I accomplished that thinking back :)
Comment · 3 months ago
Caddy does cache a portion of the traffic, and what it can't cache makes its way to rails.
Comment · 4 months ago
Reagan hasn't been president for close to 40 years and died more than 20 years ago. At what point do we accept responsibility for this instead of blaming dead presidents?
Comment · 4 months ago
Why would I use Linux on Windows when I can just use Linux?
I switched from Windows 10 to Debian a year ago (didn't even bother with windows 11 with how much anti-consumer features it had).
Everything works for me on Debian, with the additional bonus that my operating system is no longer spying on me.
Comment · 6 months ago
> I don't understand why
https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/artemis/
tldr: for science and a stepping stone towards a crewed mission to Mars
Comment · 6 months ago
> under trump feels like celebrating the olympics in the dawn of the german reich
Godwin's law...
> it cannot be taken for what it is. It does not matter what we feel, what we want to feel, we can enjoy it for a second and then swallow it down and not write an article like that.
As an American, I felt extremely proud seeing 4 astronauts (3 Americans, 1 Canadian) come back after 10 days in space and the amount of coordination it takes, regardless of politics.
Comment · 6 months ago
2026:
$ ping6 github.com
ping6: github.com: Address family for hostname not supportedComment · 6 months ago
IPv6 feels like we just can't admit to ourselves that it has been a failed transition. What would it take to come up with IPv7 which takes in the lessons of IPv6 and produces something better that we can all agree is worth transitioning to over IPv4.
Comment · 9 months ago
Since I didn't see the changes in the announcement, here is a copy pasted changelog from the NEWS file:
New in 2.14:
* libgcrypt 1.11.
* LVM LV integrity and cachevol support.
* EROFS support.
* GRUB environment block inside the Btrfs header support.
* NX support for EFI platforms.
* shim loader protocol support.
* BLS and UKI support.
* Argon2 KDF support.
* TPM2 key protector support.
* Appended Signature Secure Boot Support for PowerPC.
* New option to block command line interface.
* Support dates outside of 1901..2038 range.
* zstdio decompression support.
* EFI code improvements and fixes.
* TPM driver fixes.
* Filesystems fixes.
* CVE and Coverity fixes.
* Tests improvements.
* Documentation improvements.
* ... and tons of other fixes and cleanups...Comment · 9 months ago
you already posted this 11 minutes prior: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46554223
Comment · 9 months ago
> GLX is open source and still evolving
The only thing I see are some docs and a binary, no source.
Comment · 10 months ago
There's already an apex programming language from salesforce: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.apexcode.m...
Would you get on a plane knowing its systems weren't code reviewed by humans?