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

giva — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:25:52 +0000

Well, you still need to track down the part and knowing what you want to search, so you need to examine the schema anyway.

However, if your all application state can be represented in a single json file of less than a dozen MB, yes, a database can be overkill.

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

giva — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:00:48 +0000

> Dealing with even sqlite is a pain in the ass when you just need to tweak or read something, especially if you're not the dev.

How? With SQL is super easy to search, compare, and update data. That's what it’s built for.

New comment by giva in "Nobody is coming to save your career"

giva — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:09:20 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

New comment by giva in "Brute-forcing my algorithmic ignorance with an LLM in 7 days"

giva — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:45:04 +0000

> I forget how to type braces or back ticks.

US layout and compose key on AltGr. You'll never look back.

New comment by giva in "Agents that run while I sleep"

giva — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:16:59 +0000

I feel like today an engineer with a modern framework and AI con produce in an afternoon a product that deliver real value, something that 25 years ago would have required a full hour by a high schooler with MS Access.

New comment by giva in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

giva — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:28:25 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reprisals_against_commentators...

New comment by giva in "Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”"

giva — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 11:55:46 +0000

Meet the "Hague Invasion Act":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr...

New comment by giva in "OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030"

giva — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:01:54 +0000

Actually, I sense a mounting "AI fatigue". Angry comments under AI contents. Social media accounts that proclaim to be "AI Free". I was thinking today that the killer app for AI could be a filter that automatically exclude all AI content.

New comment by giva in "MIT study finds AI can replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce"

giva — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:47:04 +0000

Much like "the Cloud" solved a lot of problems in IT, and replaced them with more, different, harder problems.

New comment by giva in "How to stay sane in a world that rewards insanity"

giva — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 22:19:31 +0000

But the point is, that's the same happening right now without religion. At least, with organized religion, you have someone accountable.

Again, this come from someone without a religious affiliation.

New comment by giva in "How to stay sane in a world that rewards insanity"

giva — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:01:25 +0000

> You get certainty in an uncertain world. You get a community that will defend you. You get a simple heuristic for navigating complex issues.

This is what faith used to provide. I say this as a not religious person: Maybe societies really need something like religion to channel irrationality?

New comment by giva in "AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering"

giva — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:51:44 +0000

This is the real point. Just measuring the amount of water involved makes no sense. Taking 100 liters of water from a river to cool a plant and dumping them back in a river a few degrees warmer is different from taking 100 liters from a fossil acquifer to evaporatively cool the same plant.

New comment by giva in "US startup Substrate announces chipmaking tool that it says will rival ASML"

giva — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:43:19 +0000

"X-ray light" sound a bit like beer soda.

New comment by giva in "When is it better to think without words?"

giva — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:02:22 +0000

I can relate. May ask you how your relation with AI tools is? I tend to find myself translating my mental model into natural language, to have a machine convert it into code, then reading that code back to mental model. It's unnerving. It feels much more natural writing my mental model directly into code.

New comment by giva in "Synthetic gasoline"

giva — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 13:24:48 +0000

> When all processes for deriving synthetic gasoline require more input energy than available energy from the output, you're not describing processes that "potentially offering a more sustainable alternative to fossil fuels."

Sorry, what? Even charging a battery "require more input energy than available energy from the output". Obviously it's not a source of energy, it's a way to store energy.

New comment by giva in "The UI future is colourful and dimensional"

giva — Tue, 27 May 2025 12:49:11 +0000

Sane people don't want to invest time learning a new UI just because it's prettier.

New comment by giva in "Rolling Highway"

giva — Fri, 16 May 2025 09:58:07 +0000

It's quite common for tunnels. Like the Eurotunnel or the Simplon tunnel.

New comment by giva in "The US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide"

giva — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 11:44:58 +0000

It's all written here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

New comment by giva in "The Demoralization is just Beginning"

giva — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 10:39:22 +0000

There is a little issue: If 9 countries want peace and one wants war, you will have a war.

New comment by giva in "TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S."

giva — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:59:29 +0000

The point, I guess, is that we had and still have mass organized protests against what happened in Iraq and Gaza. Some leaders paid a political price for that.