There’s a good insight in there about preserving your process of arriving at a conclusion, but it’s better done in obsidian or notion or something like that.
yeah that's a weird take. if you want quick and dirty you use sqlite and if you need something more you go with postgres. some replication things are nicer in mysql apparently but postgres is the better option for most workflows
Are there easy offsite backup solutions for SQLite?
The easy deploy tools (digital ocean apps, doku, beanstalk, heroku, etc) destroy the instance (losing state). You need to configure an offsite backup tool for your db or you have to manually setup a server to live forever.
Having a separate db machine is so much easier to setup and plays better with the diy tools.
if you're working with ephemeral services like those then no you'd never use sqlite because they are temporary. in my mind quick and dirty being a backing store for something like a local script where you wouldn't want to spin up a full server for... or a small webserver that you are running locally. if you are going to do a proper website you'd ideally want to have something with more flexibility and data guarantees. sqlite is grand for a specific sort of read heavy or single access writes workflow.
Since 2006 we have been on the market in an unchanged form, that is, as ad financed/free file hosting. However, you have been visiting in less and less over the years, as the arguably very simple formula of the services we offer is slowly running out of steam
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Over the past year, electricity prices have gone up 2.5 times, which, with a large number of servers, gives a significant increase in costs that we have no way to balance. There are still a bunch of smaller reasons [for closing down], but we could write a book on this, and probably no one would want to read it.
Sounds like visits are down and costs are way, way up.
What is sad is that ad-blockers would have never become a necessity, had advertising remained fair (as in: static images, no code execution on browser, no tracking).
Your comment doesn’t make sense. What profit motive? It drove them to shutdown and people to use ad blockers. The feedback loop is positive: behave well -> profit. Your comment discusses the inverse: behave poorly -> go to jail.
The profit motive in question is the motive to fill your screen with shitty, laggy, possibly dangerous ads. Have you visited your local newspaper's website, or a fandom property, lately?
Once enough people do that, the users install adblockers, which also hurts advertisers who were not filling your screen with shitty, laggy, possibly dangerous ads.
The problem is, we don't have laws and courts for ads. That's why we are all forced to walk around heavily armed and shoot down whoever gets less than two metres apart from us!
The problem is the crypto community’s skepticism of proven financial safeguards. Large financial systems are centralized for a reason and they seem intent on finding out why by hitting every bump in the road at full speed.
Pretty much everyone in the crypto community would be fine and happy if exchanges were forced to prove they own the users funds. Crypto people generally don't want crypto regulation. But exchanges are not crypto. They are a third party holding your crypto.
The problem is that regulators "confuse" that (or pretend to) and any regulation that comes out hurts the users, and the DeFi space, instead of focusing on centralized business like FTX that are outright stealing users funds.
Also what FTX did is without a doubt already illegal, it's not like it's some kind of loophole or legal thing they did.
Agree. You don’t need extra special “crypto” regulation to know that customer’s assets should not be stolen.
Arguably, fractional reserve banks “steal” customer deposits to invest and pay interest in exchange. They have a very particular license from the government and are monitored (and insured) and rightly so - they are very dangerous.
What's amusing about your comment is that exchanges are the one centralized part of crypto due to the interfce with fiat and they also tend to be where all of the fraud occurs.
> due to the interfce with fiat and they also tend to be where all of the fraud occurs.
Yes, because that's where the actual value is at the end of the day. Regardless of how much people want to pump crypto, when push comes to shove, the recognized value of crypto for the vast majority of people is it's conversation rate to fiat currencies.
Banks interact with the legal system at every level.
So yes there maybe terrible human behaviour at times but very quickly it results in either (a) people being fined or going to jail or (b) laws improving to prevent it e.g. KYC/AML.
Also as someone who works at a bank there is a lot of code which governs what people can and can't do.
> But... they can also be programmed NOT to allow terrible human behavior.
Maybe, if you are a god tier programmer. On a long enough timescale the probability of your crypto project ending up on the rekt.news leaderboard is 1.
Banks actually do have terrible behavior if you think fractional reserve banking is a scam. If banks were not backed by the government printing press they would all collapse.
What's also interesting is that decision-making power is very rarely fully centralized in large financial companies. Boards of directors, fiduciary duties, third-party audits, attorneys, and so on, all structurally serve to decentralize decision making. There is, of course, individual variability, and such structures are not always successful.... E.g. I've read that the board of FTX wasn't an independent board in any meaningful sense.
> exchanges are the one centralized part of crypto
Crypto is immensely more centralised than the American banking system. That’s what makes it resilient. Every wallet’s state is always globally known. Compare that with the series of subpoenas one must serve to learn what’s in whose bank account.
To correct your comment a bit, fraud occurs much more on centralized human-run exchanges that do NOT handle fiat. Handling fiat => licenses => regulation => harder to do fraud and get away with it.
Atom was my first go to editor years ago when its git integration felt miles ahead. Then I saw gitglass(?) in VS Code and was moved to switch for shared workspace files at my job. I remember it as lightweight and fun.
I have never found a git integration that I liked more or found more simple and intuitive than Atom's. I found that even folks who were new to git would quickly become comfortable with managing git interactions via Atom.
VSCode's "Source Control" on the other hand is a such a big UX dumpster-fire that I cannot bring myself to even try using it any more....
How about the fact that Google (ideally) sends users to you rather than sharing your work unattributed?