the use case for sql to er, is to study a database new to you

so the db already exist, but they have no er, and maybe even little docs

so it act more like an exploratory tool, ideally, it should allow you to create views and add notes, so you dont have to look at the full er at once, especially if the number of table is huge, and if many of those tables are missing foreign keys

its 43 CAD at amazon so no

a book like this should be 20-25 CAD max specially since its clearly a pop corn read .. "I won't pretend I have this all figured out" .. I don't think anyone should pay 43 CAD to read you thinking out loud (the lean startup is 25 CAD by the way, with a 10% discount)

if ever it goes on discount on amazon, maybe

You can always use the library

Strongly endorse this way of thinking. If your local library doesn't have enough copies, I'd be glad to donate one.

well, it also made by the same guy behind the boring go book which probably means that boring go is also most likely AI generated

nowadays before reading or buying any book, we need to extensively investigate the author, the author name is now more important than ever, i think whenever a book is shared, the author need to me highlighted

That guy’s entire post and submission history appears to be listicles and slop.

> nowadays before reading or buying any book, we need to extensively investigate the author

I mean not really. You read a paragraph or two and notice the quality of the text, start getting suspicious and continue two or three paragraphs more, notice some very basic inconsistencies/incoherence, realize it's AI-written and ctrl+w the tab (or put back the book in the shelf) and move on with your life.

If there is no samples of the book, I'd hesitate to even consider buying it, just so you can actually sample the text. Very easy in bookstores luckily, so not a huge problem in the end.

You can just read a paragraph or two of each email, and then decide whether or not to delete them. We don't additional tools to combat spam.

Kind of feels like a slightly different thing, I don't spend days/weeks reading through one email.

If someone wanted an AI generated Zig tutorial, why wouldn't they go to their favorite LLM supplier and simply prompt the AI for one? Why do we need someone to create this spam ahead of time? LLMs are improving all the time and Zig is a moving target. Seems like a win-win-win. The end-user gets a better (and potentially customized) tutorial for the latest Zig, and there is less overall spam pollution.

I don't have the answers to those questions, and I don't know why I'm being asked those either. I don't like AI-slop either, I don't think anyone except the ones who produce it themselves like it.

But ultimately it's a fools errand trying to stop/get people to do something, best you can do is adjust your own approach.

we don't pay for emails either

i think for consumer protection, AI products need to be flagged as AI products, clearly labelled as AI produced or assisted , of course for free goods the burden is on us, but for anything we pay for, I hope we get this protection

do you mean use none core libraries / 3rd party libs or using libraries from different languages like how some libs or frameworks from different languages create bindings to python libs

many C# libs are available via Nugets, which are not more or less complicated than other languages package managers

i personally think C# package management is more obscure, compared to other languages

I mean that in both cases, the core language platform provides the tools and libraries you need to develop complete applications; you don't have to introduce external dependencies or resort to writing low-level data structures and data types.

this is a who comes first, chicken or egg

Nim is one of those languages that tries to be everything for everyone, trying to fill the range from python to C++

If Nim had any strategic edge anywhere, someone smart would have picked it up to build something very successful and it would have had more sponsors

It sits in the sweet spot for projects like nitter--which is not the kind of work that's attracting investment right now, but that's due to markets being a clumsy tool for deciding what should be done and nothing to do with Nim's merits.

Being a generalist isn't easy.

the canadian OS :)

Yes free from American restrictions. Because America law prohibits from giving out cryptography to outside countries so according to OpenBSD we outsiders have no luck in getting a cryptographically secure operating system except for OpenBSD

That isn't a thing anymore iirc

If I remember, it's still illegal to export to "rogue states," Iran and North Korea being the major two, and terrorist organizations. But I don't think anybody has been charged for it and there's reason to suspect it wouldn't hold up given the pgp ruling.

We can't really export anything to those "rogue states" anyway. Also, as backwards as NK can act in some contexts, I dislike the classification of them as a rogue state. The kims are pretty good at geopolitics and wouldn't do anything stupid or dangerous without a good enough reason to make its actions no longer "rogue". If anything, the US is closer to a rogue state currently with its rubber stamp congress and willingness to do whatever the orangutan in charge says

>We can't really export anything to those "rogue states" anyway

Sure, but there are additional laws regarding cryptography, even in publicly available software.

"Rogue states" is a legal designation, we can both dislike it as much as we want but I doubt the US will change it's view

I think that pretty much ended in the 90s.

early 2000s so close enough. I know this because for a while, WEP was intentionally crippled in the US for a while because of the archaic encryption laws

Sidenote, does anyone remember a "click here to become an international arms dealer" esque site as a protest of our encryption laws or did I make that up. I swear I heard that somewhere

Developed at 4500ft elevation in the Texas of Canada, primarily.

Well it 40 below and I don't give a...

there is also The Architecture of Open Source Applications books

https://aosabook.org/en/

No https version of this site, I configured my browser to warn or block non https websites, since from my experience few of those tried to force download (what i can only assume to be viruses) to my computer

I understand that https can do that to, but its usually the none https that does, so its a decent configuration to have

Please consider making the site https

its almost impossible for me to tell if this better or worst than git i read few things about jj, and my conclusion

   1. its different
   2. very few user would really care about this difference 

i think git is good (not good enough, good just good, or really good) and unlike shells, i cant think of a reason to have mass migration to it

people use zsh because apple choose it, and pwsh because microsoft settled on it, on linux i am sure we can do better than bash, but it good enough and nothing justified replacing it (that being said, all 3 OSes should have settled non nushell)

in summary, if we couldnt replace bash on linux, i dont think anyone can replace git, git as an scm tool if far better than bash as a shell

> very few user would really care about this difference

Oh the user absolutely does if that user creates lots of branches and the branches are stacked on top of each other.

I get your feeling though; sometimes in my own private repositories I don’t bother creating branches at all. Then in this case jj doesn’t really make much of a difference.

I may be reading too deeply but it sounds like you haven't even tried it. You should! Its really hard to live without it, once you feel it in your fingers.

we may have not been able to replace bash yet, but the popularity of alternative shells that are not bash compatible is growing. besides nushell there are fish, elvish, murex, oils (also includes a bash compatible mode to help with the transition) and probably some others that i missed. i see more and more tooling support for some of these, which shows that usage of these shells is growing.

I just noticed this, they dont allow private repos (with few exceptions)

I wonder why they dont just offer unlimited private repos for (reasonably) paid accounts , I think maybe a 40 dollar per year (or 4 dollar monthly), is low and encouraging , and should be welcomed by many , I hope they consider it

Codeberg is a German nonprofit. To keep their tax-advantaged status, anything they do has to follow the purpose established in their bylaws. That purpose is "to promote the creation, collection, distribution and preservation of Free Content (Open Content, Free Cultural Works) and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and their documentation in selfless work to enable equal opportunities regarding the access to knowledge and education. Furthermore, this also intends to raise awareness for the social and philosophical questions interconnected with this."

I imagine they would argue that private repositories do not follow this purpose, as they are neither free content nor FOSS. I believe you could argue that charging a modest fee for private repositories to finance the hosting of FOSS repositories is in line with the purpose, but you get on thinner ice with that. It could quickly make them appear more like a company than like a nonprofit