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We could change the fs layer to memcached but so far it's working great.

This so much. (Ab)Using a db table as a k/v store + the FS can do so much before even considering paying the price of setting up a dedicated caching store. I’ve fought countless foes in the engineering world when proposing solutions like yours just because (incompetent) people feel like caching should live in its dedicated store.

My2c. Fintech tech lead who has only a far memory of hand coding games ages ago. Community makes tech awesome. Love2D discord changed my life. Never met a more awesome and welcoming community in my whole life.

Why are we still trying to get C++ to become a viable choice instead of calling it a day and moving on?

I guess it's my old theory that organisations turn into living beings and start living off of mere survival instinct even past the point of serving any purpose to society.

GCP Outage 1 year ago

At this point I don’t know if I must assume people are trolling or the entire internet is down.

GCP Outage 1 year ago

No major incidents

… Proceeds to show worldwide degraded service level alerts.

Most universities nowadays have turned into degree mills anyway.

I always stand very far from conspiracy theories and just think that, like living organisms, organisations tend to turn into sentient organisms that just strive to stay alive driven by survival instinct.

That’s the only way I can explain how a handful of people I know get paid to publish papers of no value, who are not going to be read by anybody outside of their tight circle, and they don’t even care about (I hear a lot of “that’s the bullsh#t we gotta do to get paid”s). Most unis where I live behave just like parasite organisms living on top of a host that they try to get the most out of, economically speaking.

The fact that the threshold of decency drops below any reasonable level is just a byproduct of the hosts requiring unis to adapt to their requests (political hires, needlessly overinclusive politics, bar-lowering acceptance criteria), and at this point I don’t expects universities to stand on any ground whatsoever in the name of protecting culture and education.