the translation step from binary (program) -> text (SQL) -> binary (server)

Your concern about this is misguided. Inter-process communication always has to cross a barrier, by definition.

I take it http also feels wrong to you?

Binary protocols do exist, e.g. gRPC, but they incur costs of their own.

Shame I had to scroll this far to find PRQL

My friend, you haven’t heard about Oracle.

Microsoft at least gave the world Powershell, to balance out their sins. I can also name other good things they have done. Oracle is pure and deliberate evil.

I believe that the human race will end in one of three ways:

• asteroid strike
• disease
• Oracle

I think you were merely being pedantic, but there are some interesting points in there.

Is it a crime to generate fake “csam”?

Should it be a crime?

How can prosecutors get convictions against a defense of “no, your honour, that video is AI-generated”?

What we have now is still miles off general AI, but it’s going to take years for society to catch up. Interesting times.

You want to have a superficial little rant about how much you hate microsoft. It’s uninformed and boring, and you’re not going to learn anything in that mindset.

C# is an excellent language for many circumstances. If you knock off the attitude, I’d be willing to explain to you why it’s so widely used.

Oh, the FDA turned a blind eye, did they?

Yeah and it’s cheap, also Quake 1 remastered is on sale rn!

When you’re dying of cancer, we won’t experiment on you with chemo either. Fair?

Or, better yet, an alu plate and some soldered switches and knobs

Try visiting Belsen or Dachau, you fucking child.

“It’s bad to be transphobic, bigoted or a nazi”

“you call anyone who disagrees with you ‘transphobic’ or ‘bigot’ or ‘nazi’”

Allow, if you’re still alive

Six to eight years to arrive in low solar orbit

And if you follow, there may be a tomorrow

But if the offer’s shunned, you might as well be installing solar panels on the sun

Peasant. I use slackware.

Or will, when I figure out this compiler error.

Ugh, a Magic String (I call it that whatever the type)

FACILITY_MAX_PRESSURES = {
    "Durham": 1000,
    "Ipswich": 500,
    "Calne": 750,
}

max_pressure = list(sorted(
    FACILITY_MAX_PRESSURES.values()
))[-1]

if water_pressure > max_pressure:
    blah

Obviously it should really pull from facility management, but that’s a bunch of moving parts where a constant is how you’d prefer the code to work

Tbh it starts to look better to just define a constant and comment it.

It turns out that setting up an Internet social arena is really hard. They have existed for decades, and the core mechanics and content policy make a big difference in the vibe of the communities that arise on it. What may work initially then becomes toxic. It’s very hard to predict where you’ll end up once the Eternal September kicks in.

It’s not a solved problem at all!

Poof! That’s the sound of 20 million fundamentalists vanishing because you pointed out the existence of Brazzers