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Well, you still need to track down the <filename> part and knowing what you want to search, so you need to examine the schema anyway.

However, if your all application state can be represented in a single json file of less than a dozen MB, yes, a database can be overkill.

Dealing with even sqlite is a pain in the ass when you just need to tweak or read something, especially if you're not the dev.

How? With SQL is super easy to search, compare, and update data. That's what it’s built for.

I feel like today an engineer with a modern framework and AI con produce in an afternoon a product that deliver real value, something that 25 years ago would have required a full hour by a high schooler with MS Access.

Actually, I sense a mounting "AI fatigue". Angry comments under AI contents. Social media accounts that proclaim to be "AI Free". I was thinking today that the killer app for AI could be a filter that automatically exclude all AI content.

You get certainty in an uncertain world. You get a community that will defend you. You get a simple heuristic for navigating complex issues.

This is what faith used to provide. I say this as a not religious person: Maybe societies really need something like religion to channel irrationality?

This is the real point. Just measuring the amount of water involved makes no sense. Taking 100 liters of water from a river to cool a plant and dumping them back in a river a few degrees warmer is different from taking 100 liters from a fossil acquifer to evaporatively cool the same plant.

I can relate. May ask you how your relation with AI tools is? I tend to find myself translating my mental model into natural language, to have a machine convert it into code, then reading that code back to mental model. It's unnerving. It feels much more natural writing my mental model directly into code.

Synthetic gasoline 11 months ago

When all processes for deriving synthetic gasoline require more input energy than available energy from the output, you're not describing processes that "potentially offering a more sustainable alternative to fossil fuels."

Sorry, what? Even charging a battery "require more input energy than available energy from the output". Obviously it's not a source of energy, it's a way to store energy.

As long as it supports Android auto/car play and has physical control for important stuff, I (and most people I know) don't care about software. It will be obsolete in a few years anyway.

The problem with training wheels is that they train how to ride a quad, not a bike. On a quad, when you turn the handlebar to the left, you go to the left. On a bike, you fall to the right.

It can but it's up to its good will.

To be clear: It usually makes no sense to develop an internal solution when there is an estabilished offering on the market. If there isn't, embracing an rough and incomplete Saas solution from a startup may work, but:

- You have no control on how the solution will evolve

- You don't own the solution (an internal solution can became a product on itself)

- You don't have any competitive advange (the money you pay are used to develop a product that benefit your competitors as well as you).