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New comment by geysersam in "Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol"

geysersam — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:10:06 +0000

I don't think that's correct. DuckDB already supports concurrent writes within one process. I don't see why this would suddenly serialize all writes.

New comment by geysersam in "Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol"

geysersam — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:38:02 +0000

Agreed, that does seem a bit underwhelming. Hopefully there are some performance gains to be made before the production release in september.

New comment by geysersam in "Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol"

geysersam — Tue, 12 May 2026 23:00:22 +0000

They mention in the benchmarks section that the network they're on is a "up to" 15 Gbps connection. So to max out 50GB/s is not realistic.

I agree they should have also listed the compressed size of the table instead of only mentioning the CSV size. But the compressed dataset is probably not smaller than 1/10 of the CSV size. If that's the case they're transferring ~8GB in 4.6 s on a 2GB/s (15Gbps) connection. Seems pretty close to max.

New comment by geysersam in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

geysersam — Sun, 10 May 2026 04:19:18 +0000

This is true in my experience as well. I'd even say it's the most common failure mode of current AI! It "fixes" some problem locally and declares victory, but it doesn't fully address the consequences of the change everywhere, and then the codebase is inconsistent.

New comment by geysersam in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

geysersam — Sun, 10 May 2026 04:07:41 +0000

I don't think there's much chance it gets merged.

Even if it passed the full test suite there are a ton of software qualities that are not captured by tests and I think it's unlikely the AI made the right trade-off in every such case.

* We haven't seen the benchmarks yet.

* It hasn't seen wide usage. Zig Bun has had tons of bugs ironed out, Rust Bun has a different set of bugs to iron out.

* The developers know the zig codebase well, they don't know the rust code base.

New comment by geysersam in "Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025)"

geysersam — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:22:31 +0000

I don't think that matches archeological findings. From what I understand the reason neanderthals are understood to have been less intelligent than sapiens is because neanderthal tools found are cruder than sapien tools from around the same periods and areas.

New comment by geysersam in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

geysersam — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:00:09 +0000

Afghanistan was a 20 year long war. It was more costly in terms of troops, material etc.

Why would ending the war mean handing the world to the Iranian regime? That seems exaggerated. The iranians will charge a small toll for oil passing Hormuz, why would the US care? They have oil.

New comment by geysersam in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

geysersam — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:57:27 +0000

Pakistan are the mediators, why would they lie about the explicit terms of the agreement? They would immediately loose all trust if they did.

New comment by geysersam in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

geysersam — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:49:37 +0000

They can. It would be a defeat, but at least it would be a less costly defeat than Afghanistan.

New comment by geysersam in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

geysersam — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:27:22 +0000

Open models are good but if you need a $10k GPU to run them then 99% of people are better of subscribing to OAI or CC.

Nowadays I also feel model performance matters less than the design of the tool harness, inference speed, and the other systems that surround a typical coding model.

New comment by geysersam in "Londoners are sick of viral videos telling lies about their city"

geysersam — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:00:50 +0000

There are many. It's an umbrella term for a range of circumstances that tend to be correlated with poverty and social issues.

Low trust in society, few opportunities to improve economic situation, higher prevalence of trauma and ptsd, higher probability of substance abuse, low opportunity cost for going to jail, fewer good role models, worse self esteem, worse education outcomes, worse physical health, higher likelihood of being involved in organized crime, higher likelihood of depending on parallel social structures for safety and protection, etc.

Each can be cause or effect in a self reinforcing network. Picking one single root cause isn't really possible.

New comment by geysersam in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

geysersam — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:38:41 +0000

People file tickets against closed source "black box" systems all the time. You could just as well say: Stop using MS SQL, just use a different tool, it's not that hard.

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

geysersam — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:18:16 +0000

I'm a bit torn on this. The world changes and education needs to evolve with it. There was a time when recitation was considered a critical part of education. I'm sure there's a ton of cognitive development to be had by learning the entire bible by heart, but we seem to do fine without it.

I do think that digital technology was introduced a bad way in most schools. In my own experience it was less "digital technology education" and more "navigate Microsoft windows UI education". The teachers didn't know much about computers, of course the result was mostly a waste of time. I think the first thing kids should be taught in computer class is touch typing.

New comment by geysersam in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

geysersam — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:54:19 +0000

> If the US 'flatteNed' Cuba (like Gaza) in response to a few drones - it would 100% make the US 'The Evil Empire' and turn the world 100% against America as a neo fascist entity.

It has already happened. Even in west Europe politicians are discussing how to protect their nations from US imperialism. Every remaining alliance the US has is strictly quid pro quo, there's no trust left anywhere (Israel being the singular exception). Meanwhile 50% of the planet is completely fed up and can't wait to have China take over as leader of the international order.

New comment by geysersam in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

geysersam — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:55:33 +0000

I use firefox daily and I don't encounter the problems you describe, might be worth looking if there's some other issue.

New comment by geysersam in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

geysersam — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:19:09 +0000

In this case it's the system that's at fault. No mid level bureaucracy decided to ask disabled people to prove their disability again and again, that's clearly a political directive.

New comment by geysersam in "War prediction markets are a national-security threat"

geysersam — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:50:45 +0000

It's a big difference. There's vastly less chance someone manages to expose state secrets through their bets on oil futures. The volume is higher, and the prediction is less specific.

New comment by geysersam in "LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first"

geysersam — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:20:00 +0000

There's also such a thing as being too ambitious. 99% of developers can not rewrite SQLite in rust even if they spent the rest or their lifetime doing it.

Expecting an AI do to a good job vibe-coding a Sqllite clone over a few weekends just isn't realistic. Despite that, it's useful technology.

New comment by geysersam in "We Will Not Be Divided"

geysersam — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 07:18:36 +0000

Things can change quickly. Give it a decade.

New comment by geysersam in "We Will Not Be Divided"

geysersam — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 07:08:32 +0000

So other parts of the government are allowed to work with companies that have been determined to be "supply chain risks"? That sounds unlikely.