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New comment by fifilura in "Do you even need a database?"

fifilura — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:56:48 +0000

Isn't this the same case the NoSQL movement made.

New comment by fifilura in "Von der Leyen uses Orbán defeat to push for end of veto in EU foreign policy"

fifilura — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:36:35 +0000

> what would I do if giving up the right to veto hinged on my veto power?

Was that a rhetoric question? Of course it is a leap of faith. But the idea is that it will make the union as a whole stronger, and then maybe even giving up your veto right would make it worthwhile.

New comment by fifilura in "The Importance of Being Idle"

fifilura — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:05:15 +0000

So the politicians made mistakes then (apart from Macron then whose only crime is being unpopular).

Who are you comparing to?

There has to be at least one ideal politician, otherwise I'd say the job is just inherently difficult. And hindsight is 20/20.

New comment by fifilura in "Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"

fifilura — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:40:09 +0000

Took a little bit of figuring out why I always exploded. The restart button was right where I tapped to launch.

I loved the simplicity, it was fun!

New comment by fifilura in "The Importance of Being Idle"

fifilura — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:49:01 +0000

> a stunningly incompetent array of bad leaders

I am honestly curious who you are pointing at (in particular if you exclude British leaders)

Partly because I am actually curious, I don't doubt there are bad leaders.

But partly also because, without any details, this is a very general trope, that I don't really think is very healthy at the moment. Since it is food for right wing extremists (you probably know yourself where some politicians in USA originate from).

New comment by fifilura in "No Taco: This Is Complete US Strategic Failure"

fifilura — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:52:52 +0000

> apparently incapable of win-win scenarios

And this is exactly the opposite of how trade works. Trade only happens if both parties have something to gain from it.

New comment by fifilura in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

fifilura — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:18:42 +0000

Ooh, the telephones in the 80s! You should get one of those!

New comment by fifilura in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

fifilura — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:56:43 +0000

The chicken is always the good part of the TACO. That doesn't make the whole thing great.

New comment by fifilura in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

fifilura — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:00:40 +0000

Ok, TIL :)

New comment by fifilura in "Running out of disk space in production"

fifilura — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:14:19 +0000

I did this too, but i also zipped the file, turns out it had great packing ratio!

New comment by fifilura in "Germany Power Prices Turn Deeply Negative on Renewables Surge"

fifilura — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:56:22 +0000

In Sweden you can also register your battery to an aggregation service that makes money (and gives you a share) from balancing the grid.

So there is not only a market for buy/sell, you can also be stand-by for charging your battery when grid frequency increases and consumption needs to increase.

New comment by fifilura in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

fifilura — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:17:01 +0000

Isn't this the point the OP was trying to make?

New comment by fifilura in "The Intelligence Failure in Iran"

fifilura — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:42:50 +0000

It is not really irony, more like projection.

They give themselves away because they expect their adversaries to act like they would.

New comment by fifilura in "Was Trump oblivious to the realities of Netanyahu's promised 'easy' war on Iran?"

fifilura — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:33:05 +0000

Who?

New comment by fifilura in "US deploying nearly all stealthy long-range JASSM-ER cruise missiles to Iran war"

fifilura — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:09:24 +0000

Ukraine is not a US proxy. It is a country. But is is the same with the Kurds really. Calling a people fighting for survival "us proxy" is belittling. They fight for their own survival, not for the mighty US empire.

New comment by fifilura in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

fifilura — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:35:10 +0000

That was 35 years ago. That only shows that the plane is pretty old. I assume SAMs evolved since then.

New comment by fifilura in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

fifilura — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:44:00 +0000

Yeah this is for extremely poor schools where children share one phone between them. But compared to buying books for every subject that very soon wear out and become obsolete, this has basically no cost.

New comment by fifilura in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

fifilura — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:26:40 +0000

Buying a book made of trees is very often much more expensive than reading on a screen. Worldreader provides books for free for schools in Africa where they only need to pay for a $40 phone once instead of spending money on books.

https://www.worldreader.org/

New comment by fifilura in "Explore the Hidden World of Sand"

fifilura — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:27:37 +0000

I always wondered how many of the translucent stones were actually worn down shards of beer bottles.

I love this page. What the internet was made for. I sometimes wish they had closed down development after creating this page and the page with detailed information about Star Trek TNG episodes.

New comment by fifilura in "An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests"

fifilura — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:21:18 +0000

Those are gruesome diseases and I would not trust that the morels are not related.