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el1s7··on Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek
One aspect the article seems to overlook is Albanian. Since Albanian is a unique branch of Indo-European, descending from the Paleo-Balkan linguistic world and developed in the same broader region, it would be interesting to see whether the non-Greek substrate vocabulary found in Ancient Greek has been systematically compared with Proto-Albanian and other reconstructed Paleo-Balkan material.
el1s7··on Fuck it, make it anyway
It's kinda reassuring to see that a lot of devs feel this way.

A related discussion I saw before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340013

el1s7··on Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
Google Cloud and AWS are complex because they're meant for hosting complex apps and infrastructure, they're not really worth it for simple static websites.
el1s7··on A safe MySQL upgrade that wasn't so safe
I agree, couldn't have said it better.
el1s7··on A safe MySQL upgrade that wasn't so safe
Author here. The table did actually have a primary key, during the migration it was changed to unique, and then the new auto-incremental primary key was added.

I've updated the article to make that part clear.

I agree that having the binlog_format to ROW is the only option that make sense, which thankfully seems to be the default now.

el1s7··on A safe MySQL upgrade that wasn't so safe
Author here. I didn't make it clear in the article but the table in question did have a primary key, which was migrated to an unique key, and then the new auto-incremental primary key was added.

As I mentioned in the article, the old ID field was then used in the update statement for the other tables.

I'm updating the article now to make that part clear.

el1s7··on Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code
It's a bit unclear what this is about exactly. What releases are we talking about? How git tags come into play here?
el1s7··on uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
That's quite paranoid, they surely are annoying, but certain ads can be relevant.

Actually, from what I've noticed X/Twitter ads are way worse than the ones on Meta platforms.

And I completely hate seeing ads on YouTube or when browsing random websites in general.

el1s7··on We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled
Everything you said is incorrect. Redis does have transactions, as well as data persistence. All cloud providers provide managed redis instances with automatic backups as well.
el1s7··on Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak
You're also a rando, but the difference is that the rando who wrote article made it into the front page of HN
el1s7··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
I think billing is the only thing AWS doesn't really care about optimizing or putting enough tests to avoid anomalies lol.
el1s7··on Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
Or rather, Albanian.
el1s7··on Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)
Sure, by "other researchers" you mean other people who learned jargon terminology.

And why would someone need to have a scientific background to read about sleep regularity and how it affects mortality?

el1s7··on Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)
Interesting, though it seems quite annoying to read research papers with all that jargon without using an LLM
el1s7··on EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA
The choice already exist: don't use social media like Instagram and TikTok. Yet everyone keep choosing it despite being addictive.

So you can't really trust people, even less teenagers, to make a disciplined choice of not using an addictive algorithm.