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Oracle is now doing quarterly DB releases. This is not just patches but including big features. Any SQL enthusiast would most likely find Assertions [1] or Deep Data Security [2] interesting.

So looks like they overcome their limitations.

[1] https://oracle-base.com/articles/26/assertions-26 [2] https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/security/deep-data-securi...

You can apply that argument to almost everything in capitalism. But in this case here: who gets hurt and maybe they enjoyed creating it.

Interesting. I have bad hopes for the data on children growing up with AI, which makes it easy to never apply critical thinking and finding own solutions.

> oxalpha.com is an independent site that gives you a free, no-login chat interface to the Ox Alpha model.

Why create a marketing page for someone else? Like it reads just like the typical >>we are the best<<, where you of course don't want to believe the hype. A blog doing a benchmark would be so much more valuable to readers. I am leaving this with more questions than answers.

We have a meltdown, maybe we can extract clean energy from here

Seems like this is old?

> AI is not intelligent, and hallucinations are a feature

How the times have changed... I would have agreed two years ago.

The German "Chaos Computer Club" (hacker club) has a disclosure service. They approach the affected party as the club, hiding the persons identity. Not sure if they do it internationally as the page is in German. But nice idea and not a government agency.

https://www.ccc.de/disclosure

Sorry, not my cup of tea. I think UI peaked with minimal/material/flat a few years ago, which also made me more calm.

Besides that, I think readability could be an issue.

Great news. My first thought was that I want to see how this looks. Unfortunately there is not a single screenshot in the announcement. Missed opportunity in my opinion.

Heavily disagree (for serious low-code platforms). AI produces code that only AI maintains. That's a big burden. Low-code vendors ship code patterns that are easy to compose. They have the burden of maintaining that code.

Let AI build apps using these building blocks instead of wasting tokens reinventing the wheel on how interactive tables should be, which chart library to use, and how speaking from the frontend to the backend works securely.

LLMs will make creating low-code apps as easy as normal apps. But it has one constraint: how is the extensibility of the low-code framework?

There are so many more options than being acquired and abandonware. Its hard but there are many independent and stable open source projects.

Maybe not by market capitalization but Cloudflare is used by around 25 % of the web. Internet giant in my books.

Why does Cloudflare need a web framework? Most obvious would be they think they can make money from hosting astro sites (like Vercel and NextJS). I hope Cloudflare's impact on Astro will be tiny. But another great thing being swallowed by big tech...

Definitely. But AI can also generate unit tests.

You have to be careful by exactly telling the LLM what to test for and manually check the whole suite of tests. But overall it makese feel way more confident over increasing amounts of generated code. This of course decreases the productivity gains but is necessary in my opinion.

And linters help.

I think you are true to a point. But great movies get almost universal praise with scores of 9/10 on IMDb or near 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The same goes for food; there are things that are quite controversial, but who says no to fantastic ice cream or bread?

But most importantly for movies, it is not the micro-genre that decides. People who are not into fantasy or astrology still love Lord of the Rings or Interstellar because they are particularly highly produced, where all crafts making up that movie are treated highly instead of strategizing and optimizing.

It is probably not just a Netflix issue. But it is also quite a philosophical question as to who is to blame. The consumers who watch and pay, or the ones who fund the mediocrity.

It is definitely sad to see Netflix turn from their early phase, where they valued quality over quantity, and since have reversed that.

I just want to see more great art that really sticks, has ambitions and something to tell, and values my time.

It's about all the other projects that would have had great quality but did not secure funding because Netflix prefers to fund mass-produced mediocrity. In Germany we have a saying "Even a blind hen sometimes finds a grain of corn".

I don't like this. Netflix rarely creates excellent content; instead, it frequently produces mediocre or worse content. Will the same happen for Warner? Are cinemas now second behind streaming?

Edit: I agree Netflix has good Originals. But most are from the early days when they favored quality over quantity. It is sad to see that they reversed that. They have much funding power and should give it to great art that really sticks, has ambitions and something to tell, and values my time instead of mediocrity.

My Hetzner servers have been running fine for years. Okay, there were times when I broke something, but at least I was able to fix it quickly and never felt dependent on others.

Wow, three times in a month is really crushing their trust.

Well some people like to code and logic puzzles. And especially as it is in its raw form where you can forget all the noise you encounter while coding professionally with many hoops and responsibilities.

This post is mostly an ad for their migration services?.

Author here. I am still happy leaving PowerPoint etc. behind. I am currently in Croatia for a conference and will do two talks with my HTML slides.

We are also working on a database linter. Currently focusing on Oracle but we will support Postgres soon too.

Rules can either run queries against the DB (e. g. foreign key without index) or use our parser to check code SQL, PL/SQL, and pgSQL soon (naming standards, security and performance issues, etc.). We currently have over 280 rules [1]. The tool runs as a lange server during development or as a CLI so you can use it in your automations. Its more enterprise focused, an admin can create configurations that get applied to all developmers.

[1]: https://dblinter-rules.united-codes.com/all-rules/

That's probably their strategy of handling 402 Payment Required[1]. They want to become the platform over which auctions for AI crawlers buying rights to use content take place.

Scary if it works out their way and Cloudflare becomes an even bigger giant.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/de/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Sta...

It's weird that the just keep the version number. Why not release it as 2.6 or something else. Now it is confusing, do my existing workflows automatically use the updated version and if yes do I need to monitor them for unwanted changed behavior etc.

Think of a large template with many attributes like classes and structure. When you want to render this multiple times you just have to update a few things for the unique instance instead of recreating the structure and classes over and over.

SQL is beautiful in its own way. Definitely not easy to master but beautiful in how much business logic you can implement in not many lines of code.

And with SQL macros becoming a thing it is now easily possible to store patterns as reausable functions with parameters.

Can we start distinguishing between basic stats and surveillance? It sounds like this author also disabled web server logs as any knowledge of traffic is deep surveillance. Is this really the way?

Maybe some people get motivated or improve content by knowing what gets actually clicked. There is a huge difference between reading web server logs and adding third party services to the websites that track everything.

It is not the nicest but you will quickly get used to it and productive. However maintaining huge websites with thousands of thousands of lines of custom CSS will never be easy. And especially if somebody else wrote it.