My laptops runs postgres, but it is still pretty portable
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We are a matrix family, mind you.
Fun fact: in rust and python, they use "selfself" instead of "meme"
There are only two hard problems in computer science:
- naming things,
- cache invalidation,
- off-by-one errors.
I'm afraid you've fell victim to the problem 2.
Well, no. They are not certainly using int
, they might be using a more efficient data type.
This might be for legacy reasons or it might be intentional because it might actually matter a lot. If I make up an example, chat_participant_id
is definitely stored with each message and probably also in some index, so you can search the messages. Multiply this over all chats on WhatsApp, even the ones with only two people in, and the difference between u8
and u16
might matter a lot.
But I understand how a TypeScript or Java dev could think that the difference between 1 and 4 bytes is negligible.
Maybe checkout Pixelfed, which is (from what I gather) similar to what instagram was 10 years ago
I hate that the pleasant news about standardization of CSV come with the let-down that is using two bytes for new lines.
Or a pair of boots, a great backpack, hiking trousers, helmet, harness and a "via ferrata cable kit".
~10 manual mid-range tools and enough wood to make a nice looking jewellery box.
Dan Luu. From summary of summaries:
I suspect I might prefer Rust once it's more stable.
Just because we cannot prove something, doesn't mean that we can treat strong claims the same way as proven hypnosis. If we cannot prove that UBI is overall beneficial, we just cannot believe it with the same certainty that we would if we had a bunch of studys on our side.
Look, I'm not saying that we have nothing - I'm just saying that what we have are educated guesses, not proven facts. Maybe "open question" was too strong of a term.
There is also gruvbox. Not as much support, but I like it.