Many traditional cultures have a communitarian approach to decision-making. What an individual wants is often a small part of the equation, especially for girls and women.

That doesn’t sit well for a western individualist mindset but… it happens there too. Parental pressure in particular is the conduit for broader social norms.

I'm here to make somebody feel old: The Graduate (1967) came out almost 60 years ago. I wonder how long the norms portrayed in that film persisted or have evolved since then.

They nailed the plastics thing.

Preparing to say “I told you so” is a fairly obvious incentive for someone to act like Chicken Little. And of course sometimes they are right, but not always.

Lots of great people in both devops and security. But when teams position themselves as the conscience of the org and the gatekeepers of production, the defensive victim mentality can get pretty strong.

Brains do not exhibit ACID properties…

It’s an RODB. Ship the preindexed data blob.

Client caches are a thing, so this is most relevant for cold-start customers. In that case PeakSlab’s download size is an advantage.

Fwiw LocalStorage is a SQLite db on most browsers, with a kv api. It’s be interesting to have the actual API available.

Even on warm start PeakSlab is twice as fast. It's not just download size, it's execution speed, zero copy, database decompression, etc.

That's why PeakSlab is written in c, because what's faster than casting the whole database to a struct? ;-P

I think web sqlite was originally an (experimental) thing

Keep your salt shaker handy because he produces opinions at a prodigious rate.

That personality type- highly verbal but able to produce talk to fit anything from a 5 second sound bite up to 2 hours, superficially bright but not actually thoughtful, full of spicy opinions, prone to predictions that sound interesting but don’t come true - is all over TV and now podcasts. Alex Jones is the same type.

I’m watching out for that in my own work. I’m a pragmatic person but I have sweated over details that Claude will just blast out a solution to, and the temptation to say “tests pass, move on” is strong.

It’s a little like riding a horse that knows the route.

Almost accurate It's not "the route" But "a route"

Who are these two groups of people? Sounds like a predator/prey situation.

At a high level, that. And of course that requires a certain ratio of predator vs prey. And there were way too many would be predators.

Both groups self-identify as wanting a "real" experience in a sandbox that lets them "do anything". However one means this allows them to slaughter people with impunity whereas the other means it enables them to explore the world, choose their own occupation, define their own goals, etc. It's not even a PVP vs PVE divide, as there are plenty of PVPers in the 2nd group. Instead it's closer to "Griefers" vs "Sandbox game enthusiasts", where the griefer crowed requires prey to feed their urges.

So what happens is the griefer oriented crowd chases away the other crowd, then has no one to grief and then they leave too. You'll see it in comments here as many posters were, shall we say, not super mature 25+ years ago :) they'll be pining for the days about how they could kill everyone, steal their stuff, loot their houses, and otherwise cause problems.

One of the issues with the game was that while those behaviors were intentionally allowed, the designers didn't account for the kind of player who *only* wanted to do that and generally were obnoxious about it to boot instead of trying to massage it into the lore/RP of the game. So the scale was all off.

I just tell them “I know this not your fault.”

I worked in a call center. You quickly develop an emotional rhino hide or you won’t make it.

Would you go to a cancer doctor if you knew they were betting on Polymarket as to whether you would do well in your cancer treatment?

Polymarket appears to have people who have both the ability to shape outcomes and anonymously profit on those outcomes.