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pgdump / pgrestore, using native binary format

Meta commentary: this is clearly a vibe-coded frontend to a low quality "dataset" with substantial omissions.

The real value and work would be someone actually compiling and creating a high-quality castle dataset, in which case anyone could vibe-code a similar frontend to it.

Potentially a agent (swarm) could do this, if properly integrated into OSM, wikis, libraries, photographs etc. But it wouldn't be quick and would still benefit from a human-in-the-loop verifying each entry.

Do you think the average vibe coder or AI-smitten suit cares about slim code? A lot of folks still think "LOC = good" in 2026. It will be a hard sell for the practical engineer.

Even if they understand "slim code = fewer tokens = less spend" they still have to grok that less code is not less functionality.

Any agent, any model, any scaffold: the bill is essentially O(reads)

Therefore token sellers have incentive to produce verbose, unreadable code

How are roving mobs of luddites going to burn down your datacenter in deepest Antarctica?

Well, at least the organizers that care. There's definitely a class of grifter organizers that view events as an opportunity to profit from high entry fees and low production quality / relying on volunteers.

Datacenters in Antarctica or deep ocean also fulfill that.

This is the kind of thing that is totally technically plausible, and useful to intelligence groups but not the general public, and therefore I would assume it is 100% in production in international intelligence agencies. But nothing we can "prove" without getting shot.

Similar to ultra-accurate multimedia geolocation models.

I'm not saying "only use Postgres", but you need to explain why core graph data needs your listed features.

They should rebrand it as "Praise the Sun" mode. We are sorry, GOES-19 is temporarily unavailable during a planned solar worship break of indefinite length.

Nice basic advice but ironic coming from him

This AGI silliness is predicated on a flawed "Platonic" view of epistemology. The notion that there is some well-defined "idea space" and therefore superintelligence can explore that space faster than any human. In fact, there is no such space. There is a "token space" that can be explored, but that has only fleeting overlaps with reality.

This is an interesting perspective on the concept of "atomization of the individual", which the interview interestingly does not refer to. Both atomization and the "uni-context" arise from the destruction of an individual's local contexts, like family and community, leaving them an individual in a global, maximally-large pool of individuals, the so-called uni-context.

Atomization has clear motivations: increasing the individual consumer base (no, you shouldn't share your car or lawnmower with your block, you need your own), suppressing democracy, and generally making a population more predictable and easy to manage.

Graph query languages like Cypher are great, but I am wholly unconvinced by the concept of a dedicated, general-purpose "graph database".

IMO, you're better off just using Postgres/etc, modeling your graph data there, and pulling in subsets of your graph for in-memory analysis. This is for the 99% of enterprises that aren't doing online streaming graph analysis on TB-scale graphs, and the other 1% should probably figure out something tailored* to their specific business model.

* Graph algorithms are more accessible than ever with GenAI code, and efficiently modeling a graph in memory is trivial (it's just structs with pointers to other edges/nodes, plus its nice to have full control over the memory layout).

Yeah and if this were taken seriously, you would have Mechanical Turk style services where poors are paid pennies to hand-write submitted/generated slop, defeating the purpose.

I feel like you're splitting hairs. Geohot is/was selling shovels during a gold rush, full stop.

Maybe he had a recent change of heart, but his public actions (including Elon stuff) clearly put him in the "monetize hype" camp rather than the "quietly build" camp.

Geohot is one of the (attempted) merchants, but maybe that is not going so well and he is changing his tune.

Despite this price hike (and the handheld's aged internals), both models of the Steam Deck sold out in North America shortly after the increase was announced back in May. The 1 TB model, which is going for £779 where I'm based in the UK, appears to be out of stock again at the time of writing. But I doubt this is a sustainable trend.

(Doesn't really explain why this is not a sustainable trend).

Memory prices raise the price on everything. We are still a ways out from gaming being broadly unaffordable, it's still a relatively inexpensive hobby for how much time is spent on it. Worst case scenario, there is 0 new gaming hardware produced and we are forced into a retro paradigm that focuses on performance and portability and repair, which honestly doesn't seem so bad with how dysfunctional the AAA industry has been.

the us in its current form will not tolerate an existential threat to israel

It seems to be tolerating Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir just fine!

Imagine the different place Israel would be if it pursued Oct 7 as a criminal act instead of a pretext to commit genocide. Enormous strategic blunder by the Netanyahu regime. Israel would not be a global pariah state and it's entirely possible that regime change in Iran would have succeeded. But you are never going to regime change a people who know with certainty that they will be butchered/raped/tortured by their supposed "saviors" the Israelis. There is literally nothing worse than surrendering to Israel.

It absolutely does, it can simply choose to not bomb Iran after Iran enforces regulations on its (shared with Oman) waterway.

Bombing Iran for a month because Iran fired on 4 ships that were violating its SoH rules is wildly disproportionate and optional.

Opportunity for what?

Cool. The pot is surprisingly small. Is the sauce in it highly concentrated or something?

The recent real war crimes of the US-Israeli entity are only comparable to the fake war crimes they conveniently accuse their opponents of while carrying out the real war crimes.

For example, it's okay to butcher 160 Iranian school girls because Iran just butchered 100,000 innocent protestors in a single day (trust me bro).

What do you think happened in Xinjiang?

The fact is GingerBill or someone else could have kept the article up with enough money spent on the right PR firm that knows how to turn the Wikipedia knobs.

A CTO friend uses the metaphor of clearing two paths up a mountain. The left-hand path is quick and dirty, cleared with a machete and brute force—you do not expect anyone to follow you, you just hack your way through—but you make progress quickly. The right-hand path is a wider, clearer, paved path, and more substantial, but takes time to build as you go along.

This is a good metaphor and is more effective than the neologisms and acronyms of the rest of the article. The author claims a "middle path" but doesn't even connect it to this real world metaphor.

It seems the author is really advocating for the "left path", but only if you are a experienced programmer and with a sprinkle of QC. In the real world metaphor, this would be like hacking through the jungle, but making a little effort to ensure your path is visible to someone else, not unnecessarily dangerous, and makes pragmatic compromises (we will go around this cliff instead of bringing climbing gear or other heavy dependencies).

If you polled 100 SWEs on the example of 'skipping the JSON library and implementing de/serialization for a few objects ' and asked whether they thought it was a "left path" or "right path" solution I'm certain you would have a strong leaning to the left, and not a 50-50 that suggests a secret middle path.

I wouldn't equate incel with manosphere. Manosphere is often hypersexual and about greed/consumption and being insecure and getting scammed, whereas inceldom is more hate-based.

The Associated Monopolies of America.

There are millions or billions of quadrupeds surviving on 3 legs every day. 4 legs is evolutionarily superior to 3 but 3 gets the job done, especially if you don't have to worry about agility or repair.

Manosphere content is toxic and harmful but the hyperviolence and desensitisation of the former should not be downplayed. That's where the mass shooters evidently come from.