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TehPers

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  • All you need is PostgreSQL

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  • The row-level locking and SKIP LOCKED seem like appropriate features for a SQL-based DBMS. I find it odd that it's not more common, actually. Even MSSQL doesn't make any promises about locking just a row and might decide to lock a whole page instead, from what I read anyway.

    NOTIFY/LISTEN might be scope creep though. I'm not really sure what led to it being implemented.

  • A user friendly TUI for SQL databases

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  • 22 Best Free C/C++ IDEs and Editors for Linux in 2026

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  • Is it good despite the LLM marketing on the front page? That turns me away whenever I look at it, but I'd be willing to try it if it doesn't shove LLMs down my throat.

  • 22 Best Free C/C++ IDEs and Editors for Linux in 2026

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  • Of course there's a command for that.

  • All you need is PostgreSQL

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  • I swear Postgres always has new features whenever I look at it again.

    I was building a system for long running durable job queues with multiple workers and of course Postgres has a solution for that. You can do row-level locking in a transaction to "reserve" jobs for the duration of that transaction, and you can use SKIP LOCKED to skip over reserved jobs so workers don't block each other. There's also LISTEN and NOTIFY if you want pub/sub to track when jobs complete, for example.

  • Is this just Linux propaganda, or how much of it is true?

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  • I got linked this somewhere else and made it about halfway. Skip the video, go to the bottom of the description, and open the sources list. You're better off just reading those directly.

  • Valve’s Steam Machine Gives Linux Gaming a New Living-Room Push

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  • The other problem with subsizing it is that Valve is currently in a price fixing lawsuit and selling a new product for a huge loss probably wouldn't look great for them.

  • "Disgusting" Linux sched_ext Source Code Restructured Following Complaint By Linus Torvalds

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  • And yet this is tame for him.

    It's best when reading his creative prose to extract the meat of it and do your best to ignore the rest. His choice of words is crude at best, but at least he's also suggesting improvements with them rather than just spewing expletives for the sake of it.

    It's by far his biggest flaw, but also one that he's acknowledged and worked on over time at least.

  • Where to get tips and advice for someone new to linux

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  • RFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method

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  • While I like the goal of this, why not errata the existing spec to allow GET requests to have bodies? Would that be too much of a breaking change?

  • You can fork a package, but can you own it?

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  • I also want to add that Nix gives you the ability to do this at the tooling level. While I'm not going to say everyone should go install Nix, do seriously consider that or devcontainers or some other kind of solution to ensure that you don't get hit by tools you rely on becoming compromised suddenly (PSA: if you use AUR, seriously read that thread). As long as you can pin a specific version of each tool you use, whether by creating a shared image, by pinning a nixpkgs commit, or whatever, you shouldn't have anything suddenly change on you.

  • You can fork a package, but can you own it?

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  • For me, it’s not about reaching zero dependencies. But having dependencies that we cautiously agreed upon.

    The following section about SBOMs covers what I'm about to say, but I want to add to it. Most (all?) major ecosystems include lockfiles that let you control exact dependency versions and look at them. Always be explicit when updating the lockfile.

  • Is Rust supposed to be that hard?

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  • What do you find hard about it?

    For me, what made it take so long to learn and really understand was that it's different from most modern programming languages. It's not C, C++, or based on my own experiences, C#, JS, Java, etc. Approaching the language as someone who's really into C# made it difficult to throw away that experience to learn something completely new, whether because I now had to wrap my head around lifetimes or because I can't have one type inherit the fields and methods of another.

    Eventually, if you keep sticking to it (and have interest to do so), you'll learn how the language was designed to be used, and why it was designed that way.

    Reading source code is your friend, by the way. If you want to learn the language, you should spend at least as much time reading code others have written as you also spend writing code. This can be as simple as "go to definition" on some imported function from a library you're using. Try to understand how that code works, and eventually you'll even begin to form opinions on what works well vs. what doesn't. Heck, you might find yourself opening PRs against something like Tauri in no time.

  • Your Career Isn't Eroding - You're Just Holding the Wrong Moat

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  • From the author's own website, they left AWS to join their current company as VP of Software (whatever that title means but seems obvious that it's software related). My immediate assumption would not be that this person is clueless about software development. Maybe they are, but assuming that from the start is just engaging in bad faith.

    Refusing to engage with someone is not gatekeeping.

    You show up to a party and talk to a group talking about using LLMs to make software to try to make friends. They look at you. You are a developer, but you don't specifically work in financial services so they just ignore you. In fact, they say out loud at the party "hey you don't know jack shit about anything because you don't work in financial services". The whole discussion they're having has nothing to do with financial services.

    You don't consider that gatekeeping?

  • Your Career Isn't Eroding - You're Just Holding the Wrong Moat

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  • Also, I think their point was not that AGI will never happen, it's more that it doesn't matter whether it happens or not, because AI/AGI will not solve our problems

    This exactly. AGI can never solve people problems because those problems are inherent to people. Social problems, for example, don't magically disappear because you have a magic box that does everything.

    I think we are further from AGI than people think. I doubt I will live to see it.

    I would go far enough as to say that most people alive, if not all, definitely won't see AGI in their lifetime. That's of course besides the point, but still...

  • Your Career Isn't Eroding - You're Just Holding the Wrong Moat

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  • Gatekeep (v.):

    to restrict access to (something of value, such as information, knowledge, or resources) in order to exert power or control over a person or group

    The person I was responding to was restricting the author's access to the conversation by publicly refusing to engage with them over a trivial, irrelevant matter. So if that's not gatekeeping, then clearly they're calling the author a clueless idiot, which is just plain rude.

  • Your Career Isn't Eroding - You're Just Holding the Wrong Moat

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  • This is literally the premise of the article.

    The person I responded to stopped reading because the author doesn't have specific domain knowledge of financial services.

  • Your Career Isn't Eroding - You're Just Holding the Wrong Moat

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  • So someone who isn't an expert in implementing financial services isn't allowed entry into a discussion about LLMs in software develoment? Weird gate to keep, but sure.

    I could see "well this doesn't apply to the financial space" as an argument, though I wouldn't really buy that in this case. But "fuck off you don't have the specific domain knowledge of this other dude" is a weird bar to set.

  • RayforceDB: SIMD-accelerated columnar database for analytics — pure C, zero dependencies

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  • I actually did. The GitHub mobile app conveniently leaves that out unless you open the commit directly: