If we could just freely clone generational hit games and make millions off them, only idiots would make new games.

Copilot's main problem seems to be people don't know how to use it. They need to delete all their plugins except the vscode, CLI ones, and disable all models except anthropic ones.

The Claude Code reputation diff is greatly exaggerated beyond that.

Further, "insider trading" in prediction markets is probably fundamentally illegal under existing commodities fraud laws in the US (I am not a lawyer,) but there's probably nobody actively policing it, and probably no precedent in how to prosecute the cases.

The shares are valued by an accounting firm auditor of some type. This determines the basis value if you're paying taxes up-front. After that the tax situation should be the same as getting publicly traded options/shares, there's some choices in how you want to handle the taxes but generally you file a special tax form at the year of grant.

Don't get me wrong, the idea that he wants to just use a RDMBS because his needs aren't great enough, is a perfectly inoffensive conclusion. The path that led him there is very unpersuasive.

It's also dangerous. Ultimately the author is willing to do a bit more work rather than learn something new. This works because he's using a popular tool people like. But overall, he doesn't demonstrate he's even thought about any of the things I'd consider most important; he just sort of assumes running a Redis is going to be hard and he'd rather not mess with it.

To me, the real question is just cost vs. how much load the DB can even take. My most important Redis cluster basically exists to take load off the DB, which takes high load even by simple queries. Using the DB as a cache only works if your issue is expensive queries.

I think there's an appeal that this guy reaches the conclusion someone wants to hear, and it's not an unreasonable conclusion, but it creates the illusion the reasoning he used to get there was solid.

I mean, if you take the same logic, cross out the word Postgres, and write in "Elasticsearch," and now it's an article about a guy who wants to cache in Elasticsearch because it's good enough, and he uses the exact same arguments about how he'll just write some jobs to handle expiry--is this still sounding like solid, reasonable logic? No it's crazy.

The LLM is "lossily" containing things an encyclopedia would never contain. An encyclopedia, no matter how large, would never contain the entire text of every textbook it deems worth of inclusion. It would always contain a summary and/or discussion of the contents. The LLM does, though it "compresses" over it, so that it, too, only has the gist at whatever granularity it's big enough to contain.

So in that sense, an encyclopedia is also a lossy encyclopedia.

I've seen some SQL-derived things that let you switch it. They should all let you switch it.

Second guy says he's had a bad philosophy class, implying it's a bad, naive, amateur, or uninformed take on the philosophical subject at hand.

First guy says he's had many, implying he's actually studied philosophy extensively, perhaps majored in it in college or obtained a degree, refuting the idea that the original take was amateur or uninformed.

The real reason America has so many cars is people like cars better, and America developed in a time where people were rich enough to make it happen. People don't like public transport. I asked someone who grew up in another country, in a huge city with only public transport--and reputedly good, clean public transport at that--what they think of public transport, and they said it's gross and for poor people. (It wasn't a code for racism, their country was ethnically monotone.)

People like that don't visit threads like this though. You just get this echo chamber of young, childless, cosmopolitans who only care about a certain kind of efficiency in transport.