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New comment by poidos in "Prefer strict tables in SQLite"

poidos — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:55:21 +0000

Sure it is. If you encounter something that’s not an int, that could be a signal you have a bug in your writers. Or in the source of the data. That’s useful information compared to “oh, I have some ints and some strings, that’s ANY, everything is ok.”

New comment by poidos in "Prefer strict tables in SQLite"

poidos — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:43:19 +0000

Sure, but you lose the representation of the developer’s intention that way. I would be pretty pissed off if I inherited a project and the schema was all ANYs.

New comment by poidos in "Prefer strict tables in SQLite"

poidos — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:43:17 +0000

It’s a stated [0] goal of the project:

> SQLite strives to be flexible regarding the datatype of the content that it stores.

[0]: https://sqlite.org/stricttables.html

New comment by poidos in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

poidos — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:12:41 +0000

It only puts 90% of developers out of a job if the demand for software stays flat.

New comment by poidos in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

poidos — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:53:27 +0000

Love sourcehut and want to see them succeed, but their build service (despite having some very cool ideas like allowing you to SSH into your build container) is pretty barebones / lacking compared to GH/GitHub actions. You either get no task parallelism (all your tasks are in one manifest) or you get up to N=4 parallelism (you have four manifests). As far as I can tell, you can’t specify job dependencies beyond just “when this job finishes, trigger this next job by deploying a manifest”. No build caching, and artifact sharing felt like a kludge.

New comment by poidos in "A case for Go as the best language for AI agents"

poidos — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:17:45 +0000

Doesn't the high quantity of boilerplate pollute the context, thereby making agents less useful over time? i.e. go is not "token efficient"

Archiving URLs

poidos — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:23:26 +0000

Article URL: https://gwern.net/archiving

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47132841

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by poidos in "Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]"

poidos — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:23:10 +0000

Gwern hosts a lot of PDFs -- see https://gwern.net/archiving

New comment by poidos in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

poidos — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:58:00 +0000

Been meaning to cancel nitro and move off to Matrix or something, thanks for the push Discord!

New comment by poidos in "Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf]"

poidos — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 20:50:01 +0000

Publishing ffmpeg and QEMU in a five year span that also included winning IOCCC (twice!) is absolutely bonkers.

New comment by poidos in "Advent of Code 2025 will have 12 problems and no global leaderboard"

poidos — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:31:54 +0000

Two excellent changes after ten wonderful years. Thanks for everything Eric! Cheers to many more

New comment by poidos in "Attention is a luxury good"

poidos — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 17:08:23 +0000

It's worse. Attention is all we have.

New comment by poidos in "Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps"

poidos — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 22:59:29 +0000

It's because their main business (ads, tracking) makes infinite money so it doesn't matter what all the other parts of the business do, are, or if they work or not.

New comment by poidos in "I still love PHP and JavaScript (2022)"

poidos — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:41:34 +0000

Where would one get started with PHP without picking up Laravel or Drupal?

New comment by poidos in "Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management"

poidos — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:33:06 +0000

Are you rotating flash drives and such? I would worry about something happening to me, then she goes to use the flash drive, and the data is corrupt or the drive is fried.

New comment by poidos in "Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management"

poidos — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:31:43 +0000

Just iCloud for now.

New comment by poidos in "Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management"

poidos — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:31:27 +0000

It's not about backing up. It's about non-technical family members being able to reliably recover the data.

New comment by poidos in "Pico CSS – Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML"

poidos — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 14:30:00 +0000

Thanks for the great tool! Appreciate it. :)

New comment by poidos in "Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management"

poidos — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 14:29:22 +0000

I would love to self-host this stuff (using Immich, or Ente) but my family's bus factor is 1 and the risk of losing all the pictures really prevents me from taking this step. Sure, maybe my wife could reach out to my techie friends but why create the problem in the first place?

New comment by poidos in "Pico CSS – Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML"

poidos — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 20:51:33 +0000

Love pico. It’s my default starting point for nearly every side project. Sometimes I will reach for Neat [0] which is a great deal smaller.

[0]: https://neat.joeldare.com/