It may seem like this, but up to now, you haven't been able to divorce a story from its creator because every story has an author, whether it's a novel like Harry Potter or a movie that has a writer and director. When you're experiencing the story, in the back of your mind, you always know that there is someone who created the story to tell you some kind of message. And so you can't experience something like a movie without trying to figure out what the actual message behind the movie was. It is always the implicit message behind the story that makes it valuable versus just the elements of the story.

The story has more weight because it is the distillation of somebody else's life and most likely, if it's a successful story or book, it is the most important lesson from that person's life and that's what makes it more valuable compared to the random generation of words from a computer.

The food analogy is that a cookie baked and given to you by a friend is going to taste far better than anything you buy in a store.

Cash cannot be invalidated like this. It would ruin the value of all cash since you could no longer trust cash from anyone. Only damaged notes are taken out and replaced by the government.

I guess there there are language features like co-routines/co-operative multi-tasking that make certain algorithms possible, but nothing about Java prevents implementing sound concurrency algorithms in general.

From Henry George:

> Now, to produce wealth, two things are required: labor and land. Therefore, the effect of labor-saving improvements will be to extend the demand for land. So the primary effect of labor-saving improvements is to increase the power of labor. But the secondary effect is to extend the margin of production. And the end result is to increase rent.

> This shows that effects attributed to population are really due to technological progress. It also explains the otherwise perplexing fact that laborsaving machinery fails to benefit workers

Blocking a road is a fire hazard and should never have been tolerated by local police for that reason alone. You cannot impede transit in a city.

I’ve seen this argument, but if you look at real golang code and examples, it’s just a bunch of “if err <> nill” copy pasta on every line. It’s true that handling errors is painstaking, but nothing about golang makes that problem easier. It ends up being a manual, poor-man’s stack-trace with no real advantage over an automatically generated one like in Python.

Frankly, ChatGPT could have written this better with a simple “improve the style of this text” directive.

Example from the start:

> MySQL v8.0 offered a compelling proposition with its promise of substantial performance enhancements.

That could have just been “MySQL v8.0 promised substantial performance improvements.”

It's not as fast as a multi-column index, but the savings of not having to worry about all the combinations of columns that can be queried together could well be worth it.

- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/8.1.0/

- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/indexes-bitmap-scans...

Actually, regarding sophisticated projects, there’s quite some complicated projects that succeed without C++ power, like Postgres and Python.

[0]: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/fraction-module-python/

Also, the DB is generally a lot smarter than doing quadratic operations. The usual worst case is a Merge Join which involves sorting both tables first, to do an efficient join in nlogn time. It’s just not feasible to compete with the DB for efficiency without reimplementing a DB, which is pretty yikes.

See https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/join-strategies-and-p...

Created a “lock” table with a single string key column, so you can “select key for update” on an arbitrary string key (similar UX to redis lock). I looked at advisory locks, but they don’t work when the lock key needs to be dynamically generated.