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default/v0 stellzstack (rust http server wrapped around postgres) maybe about to get wildly better? I love this. maybe we can even improve the rust-based postgres extension structure, though it's not bad now

I'm now working on a new, not yet published version of pgrust that incorporates a lot of techniques. Currently the new version:

  - Passes 100% of Postgres regression suite
  - Implements a thread per connection model instead of the process per connection model Postgres does
  - Is 50% faster than Postgres on transaction workloads
  - Is ~300x faster than Postgres on analytical workloads. Right now it's 2x slower than Clickhouse on clickbench and I think it's possible to get faster than Clickhouse

I am tired of Apple engineers telling me to “please file feedback.” So I built RelatoKit: a CLI for agents to prepare clean Feedback Assistant reports, categorize them, attach evidence, fill the native app in the background, and submit them! github.com/rryam/Relat...

GitHub - rryam/RelatoKit: Local-first Swift CLI for preparing and submitting Apple Feedback Assistant reports through the native macOS app.

Local-first Swift CLI for preparing and submitting Apple Feedback Assistant reports through the native macOS app. - rryam/RelatoKit

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[bowling alone voice] the real sign of how truly "bowling alone" our society has become is that we're getting these paeans to the most ephemeral and commercial of transactions, like "talking to a cashier" or "getting annoyed by a taxi driver" and not anything approaching actual community

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 3mo ago

As driverless cars threaten to slowly replace taxi drivers, Big Tech is yet again destroying human interaction and calling it “convenience,” Xochitl Gonzalez argues.

Donald Trump has lost nearly 10% of voters—almost 20% of his support—since his election last year. He’s done so largely because he’s pursued the policies he ran on, and most people hate them. Who is at fault for voters not understanding what he ran on? I’d say the press is largely culpable.

I guarantee that anyone who survived a Dem primary would have lost the general election, because in the end the problem was the utterly poisoned information space that, for example, convinced Trump voters that he would be *so good* for the economy despite promising to *crash it*, repeatedly.

Senior PowerPoint Engineer@ryxcommar.bsky.social · 2y ago

Inflation plus Biden not dropping out / Dems not forcing him out in time for a primary, basically.

I need to write the whole piece about this, but the thing to understand is that the NYT is now just Facebook. The platform dictates narrative to normies, is totally gamed by the right, and is still so ubiquitous as to be unavoidable even by those who see how broken it is. It's just Facebook.

You: What I really want is Star Trek: West Wing-- Me: Star Trek: Grand Designs, a show about people unadvisedly homesteading on colonies and derelict alien structures, their plans falling, occasionally putting themselves in peril, all while being chided by a skeptical English Starfleet architect.