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> The rise in popularity of Laravel making it the de-facto choice of framework within PHP.

In the US.

> What edge does PHP still have compared to other languages?

Horizontal scaling due to the nothing shared architecture: need more perfs? Add a server. Which is an exact match with Kubernetes (replace server with replica). But usually your performance problem is not the executing code but the database.

> PHP needs to get rid of having Nginx/FastCGI as a requirement. Let PHP-FPM speak HTTP directly. If you want to terminate TLS via Nginx, it becomes a choice, not a requirement.

FrankenPHP is this.

Seems like your beef is not with php itself (aside from the compiling part) but the Laravel ecosystem. You may want to check Symfony and its ecosystem and what is being cooked outside Laravel.

> if you have thousands of microservices

You just replaced ns memory accesses by ms API calls. Just the moment people were starting to maybe start thinking about performances again this train-wreck of power wastefulness had to appear.

One of the advantages of an autocracy: you don't need people's approval every 5 years so you can plan for decades. When you're right it is awesome. When you're wrong, well that's what the army is for.

There is also some indirect bonus: if people's healthcare is not tied to their employer then it's easier to look for a new one. Also if the system is done well, then many companies would lose the incentives they currently have for not giving full-time employment.

Called visual snow. Many people who suffer from it also have tinnitus.

And they're not "floaters" but look like old school TV statics. Easier to see over plain color (blue sky, night time etc.).

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

> the internet was being built around non-fiction

I guess you don't tread the same internet waters.

https://www.royalroad.com/home https://archiveofourown.org/ and the good old link rings like https://topwebfiction.com/

> Don't reinvent a type system

I'd like to add: stay away from using arrays and user defined types. They feel like a good idea at first, but will become a problem when using fetched data in your code.

And another miss, if you're managing your servers: pgtune. The default postgres configuration is very conservative regarding resources so you can get good performance gains just by adjusting them to your server specifications.

> “you can’t do crimes on our servers”, “you can’t host malware on our servers”

So most of the cryptocurrency projects.

> I'll spin up a "quality pass" agent that will make sure all tests/lint etc. pass

Why would you need an agent more than one time to create a script then use one command to launch it? What's the added value of the agent there?

I'd like to add: pgbench? Why not HammerDB?

> The next one is likely to be a doozy

The US, EU, China are teetering on the edge of a crisis. Russia is well on its way.

I feel like 2008 was just a warmup to what may be coming.

Personally: forums are mostly about one subject, have a community and you have to invest some time learning the lay of the land to get the most out of it, get some reputation. Reddit? It's just drive-by commenting. I get points? Cool. I get banned? Next account. No avatar, pseudonyms almost hidden it is not a social media, it's unsocial.

> The CCP is darkside material.

And which country has "Black Sites" peppered around the world to detain and interrogate people they don't like?

> What else can you do?

Educate the parents maybe?

> we expected people we hire to know what they are doing

I feel this is a generational thing. Many baby-boomer parents never took the time to teach their children any skill. They thought they learnt it by osmosis I guess. Their generation outsourced everything they could.

It's fucking laughable to see people complain about what they did and still do. Using illicitly extracted data? That's all main LLM playbook. Onslaught of bots? Ask where the bots almost DOSing most internet sites for the last couple years come from.

As some people would say: Cheh

In 2001 France had Copains d'avant https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copains_d%27avant for school based networking. So not a new idea

> Then what would you use for seasonal storage?

Like Germany: coal and the energy provided by the rest of the EU. So Nordic countries hydro and nuclear, and some French nuclear.

While lobbying to make all those interconnections increase domestic prices for the providers.

> I don't understand the online obsession with nuclear power in spite of all the evidence that it's simply not economical.

Independence from China and the US. Once you have your reactor engineering set and can churn them like China almost everything can be sourced either locally or you have multiple providers. Solar and wind? China. Batteries? China.

When you get in a spat with China you suddenly have to setup those industries from 0 at home. And that won't be just 15 years to ramp-up.

So the best is to start building nuclear reactors, silicon fabs, rare earth processing etc. now instead of having the exact same argument we had 20 years ago in 2045.

Just got my morning coffee and read "genai" like some elusive Japanese person's name.

So, can Genai san do his job?

> Phase three (2015 to now): the tech industry as grift-adjacent.

I'm gonna disagree on the timeline and maybe get some flak for it: phase 3 was 1995-2000ish. When the first advertisement script and web analytics were born and disseminated. That's where all the tech grifts originate.

That's because there is no Antimemetics Division.

Anecdotally: an endocrinologist diagnosed me a macroprolactinoma just by seeing me entering for a consult about another problem.

"You're here for a prolactinoma?" "Nope" "I'd like to get this blood work done tho"

One week later the blood work confirmed her hunch.

Experience can get some crazy results.

Originally pensions were created so people who could not work would not be destitute.

The fact it became an all-inclusive all-year-round vacation reward is an anomaly which is getting corrected. Too bad for us we're the generations holding the bag.

My theory is: when it started being a bad thing to have any cash reserve.

With some reserve on the side, a company can survive bad times and not fire people. This is the kind of behavior employee will appreciate and make some diehard loyal.

But this available money is money not making more. So that's a bad thing these days and so the only easy variable available to survive is to remove excess workforce. It took some time for people to understand loyalty has been one-way only but now employers are reaping what they've sown.

Mistral is entering the "let's extract has much money from EU taxpayers as we can" phase of European tech company which did not get bought by a US one.

They'll end like Dailymotion, just a zombie company.

What's crazy is the glee when saying that. It's like "fuck those uppity low class people who managed to move up socially thanks to an in-demand job requiring some skill". Now we're back to only who you know, skills are for the AI.

> What's the defense?

Prosecuting every one of those blackmailers. If this kind of crime starts going into the "you're gonna get caught and jailed 100%" category, less people will try it.

Reminds me how windows 98 allowed using a HTML page as background. Said HTML could include videos.

> Where are these hyper productive small companies running laps around bigger ones right now?

Getting bought by the bigger companies as it is currently the goal of most start-up since no one cares about monopolies and anti competitive behavior nowadays.