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I wonder if public benchmarks are now allowed with the binaries.

Datomic's 'time travel' is an audit feature, not something for your application/business logic to depend on. Performance reasons make it impractical, unless you only have like 10 users and very little data.

ithrowon Datomic is Free

I don't how they do it, but the obvious answer is probably sharding. Their cloud costs must be no joke. Peers require tons of memory and I can only guess they must have thousands of transactors to support that workload and who knows how many peers. Add to this that they probably need something like Kafka for integrating/pipelining all this data.

ithrowon Datomic is Free

I guess this is why datomic.com front page now defaults to datomic pro and not cloud.

ithrowon Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster

How do you handle chromium in Debian stable? It always lags behind significantly behind chromium/chrome releases.

ithrowon 916 Days of Emacs

I have love/hate relationship with Emacs too, but for the stuff I do in Emacs I hate other software more. So Emacs it is.

ithrowon Why Janet?

I readily admit, though, that not all software development needs to be flexible and big-application focused. To that end there are many things Common Lisp is not so good at. Common Lisp is not good at being pretty out-of-the-box, it's not good at minimalism, and it's not good at prescriptive or dogmatic programming styles. I've personally not been convinced of the various approaches to using Common Lisp as a scripting language (especially because of standard multi-stage execution). Common Lisp also has an unusual learning curve: there's an initial hump of learning Lisp's oddities (DEFVAR/DEFPARAMETER, CAR/FIRST, no hash table syntax, lots of EQ[UA]L-ity functions, systems vs packages, LOOP/DO/DOTIMES/DOLIST, "Neo, there are no lists in Lisp", ...), followed by a longer path of soaking in the extensive facilities offered by the language. There's just... a lot of content. And in part because of its idiosyncratic nature, no singular approach to learning it works for everyone.

Common Lisp is pretty anemic when it comes to extreme use of functional programming. It's wholly capable and serviceable, but most library writers don't go whole-hog with FP, and Common Lisp by default makes FP a little stuffy (it requires functions bound to variables to be called with FUNCALL, and it requires defined functions to be referenced with #' syntax). There is very little support for functional data structures; the FSET library seems to be what most people suggest.

https://old.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/123edgv/im_considerin...

ithrowon Virtual Threads Arrive in JDK 21, Ushering a New Era of Concurrency

Most business applications today have a web UI, using nodejs/JS/TS simplifies things by having to deal only with one language and ecosystem. Most business apps today stick to only one database and maybe an additional nosql database. What you did is very unusual for most apps and is something only huge companies would do, like SAP or big banks.

ithrowon REBL

Only reads can be distributed, and because of datomic's performance you will reach for them way sooner than with something like postgres.

ithrowon Transactions Aren't Everything

yes?

ithrowon Comprehensive Keyboard Handling in Terminals

Does kitty lets you remap modifiers like iterm2? https://i.stack.imgur.com/hd5Yi.png

ithrowon Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes

Feels slow in old computers with 4GB and Chrome has a better built-in for freeing up memory from inactive tabs.

ithrowon Retool Database

Beautiful thank you.

ithrowon Retool Database

Can Retool Database be self-hosted stand-alone without Retool? I can see using this as a replacement for excel on some things.

ithrowon How to Read MySQL EXPLAINs

No PITR

ithrowon Rust Is a Scalable Language

By async I was referring to node's asynchronous event-driven runtime abstraction which the GP refers to as an ugly hack. I'm not sure if this abstraction is better than all of the available alternatives if you compare it to high-level features multi-threaded runtimes offer like thread-safe collections, atomic updates, concurrent hash maps, immutability, structured concurrency, etc... as in Java/Clojure. Most Java programmers don't work with the low-level thread primitives.

The author of esbuild gave up trying to code esbuild with nodejs/worker threads and switched to Go for a less limited/restricted concurrency environment.

ithrowon Rust Is a Scalable Language

Async in the nodejs ecosystem seems to be doing perfectly fine?

ithrowon Show HN: Apple Notes Liberator – Extract Notes.app Data and Save It as JSON

Anki doesn't belong there though.

ithrowon Framework announces AMD, new Intel gen, 16“ laptop and more

For $300 you can get an i5-13400 and a board though.

ithrowon How to start a React Project in 2023

What do you need for keeping CSS scoped to React components?

ithrowon Understanding the .NET ecosystem: The evolution of .NET into .NET 7

What is DB-First model ?

ithrowon How Async/Await Works in C#

What would choose for a generic coding interview?

ithrowon JEP 442: Foreign Function and Memory API (Third Preview)

Green threads usually refer to single-threaded runtimes such as Node.

This doesn't sound right. How is the single-threaded event-loop of node green threads?

ithrowon Master Emacs in one year

You can just use it for note taking and as an outliner (orgmode) and keep using vim for programming.

ithrowon A different approach to fuzzy finding

Looks like the author doesn't know about FZF's different search syntaxes https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#search-syntax

If they had left quoted the word makefile, GNUmakefile would have been the first result.

ithrowon JDK 20 G1/Parallel/Serial GC Changes

Do you mean because there's no Rails or Django for nodejs?

ithrowon JDK 20 G1/Parallel/Serial GC Changes

In the world of web development why would one pick Java(or Kotlin) over TS/node.js ?

ithrowon JDK 20 G1/Parallel/Serial GC Changes

What do you miss from Clojure?

BTW, is that your channel?

ithrowon “Healthy obesity” doesn’t exist. It is unequivocally bad for you

Does the bodybuilder has 30 BMI cause of muscle weight?

ithrowon Why I Use Old Hardware

Having only 4GB sucks (old macbook air)