That’s if their API implementation itself is just bad and underlying DBs aren’t . If they or someone else with bad practices manages the DB you may be in worse situation than before. In general, to me, shared DB is bad because it is hard to not cut corners in such design and ensure that DB owner does not break contract for all consumers. This is basically why APIs created - to guarantee contracts and encapsulate change. But I digress. My point is that it will be your responsibility to ensure schema changes adopted to expected contract. If data is not normalized/structured, like say, it’s JSON then I would stay away.

Does API actually doing anything or it’s pass-through to data source? You could request data feed and build adequate API on your side

Hot-swappable maybe not the right word. I mean those which you can swap without hardware. Like this https://youtu.be/KKUvHL6Pyes

People forget we had hot-swappable li-ion batteries decades ago in phones and DSLRs. They absolutely could’ve done that with no to minimal form-factor changes.

My understanding it will strengthen euro making exports less competitive

Why it’s giving me “no escape” feelings?

• I don’t use AI code autocomplete. It was giving me nonsense and interrupts my thought process when I write code. Standard non-AI autocomplete is much better. I tried to use chat to generate medium size logic (up to 100 lines). Mostly it does not work or refining prompt takes more time than writing code myself so I stopped using it for medium sized tasks. I use it for small tasks up to 20 lines where I need an example of how to use specific API. What it does well is generating test cases (not tests themselves). I once tried to summarize set of made up requirements (can elaborate if anyone interested in), it instantly gave me idea of how far we are from AGI as it failed miserably.
• I do not consider for my usage since I use it maybe once-twice a week on average. But generally, I think it’s a huge waste of resources, not only natural but financial and human
• Claude 4 sonnet at work. Mistral for personal curiosity episodes
• I already covered work part. For personal, mostly “searching” random info I couldn’t find via DDG or offloading social rituals such as congratulations

Infrastructure is there to be used by apps/services. It doesn’t matter how it’s created if infrastructure across providers does not provide same API. You can’t use GCP storage SDK to call AWS s3. Even if API would be same, nothing guarantees consistent behavior. Just like JPA provides API but implementations and DBs behavior are inconsistent

Correction: two white and one orange

I have experience with paid code review AI. It’s mostly bad. It did catch few bugs throughout the course of the project but I wasted much more time on useless or sometimes straight up wrong suggestions. I also think static code analysis gives more value

Be careful with this one. In some countries it is illegal to fly flags upside down as it considered as dispersing national symbol

I recently started setting up home server on Raspberry Pi 5. Having issues with raid1. I have 2 nvme PCIe gen 4 SSDs. There was power outages while writing. Now second disk keeps randomly falling. Though, I’m not sure if that’s the reason because I don’t know what was raid status before outage, also disk passes checks. First time it degraded, it tried to recover and it failed. I removed that disk from raid, recreated partition run some test using nvme-cli. Disk looked healthy. I re-added disk, rebuild started and completed successfully. Then I’ve written around 500Gbs of data and it degraded again. At that point I took a break.

There are two things I’m yet to try:

1. Change configs to use gen 2 PCI, currently it’s set to gen 3, but AFAIK pi 5 does not support gen 3 officially.
2. Remove, format and write data to problematic disk directly. I hope this will give me an idea is this hardware issue or software issue

I’m frustrated and will appreciate any hints.

I’m trying to support blik and use it more but honestly, I find blik not easy to use. I’m sharing accounts with family members so I’m not sure how that will work for “save account” feature. But the fact I need to switch between apps is super annoying to me. With apple pay it’s duble tap to face id and that’s it.

NOT vars

It takes cheap labor. EU has tech. If I’m not mistaken Netherlands one of few who has capabilities to produce machines for photolithography. Question is how to make it competitive.

Idk which market you are in. In mine no one cares about your project. Most of companies don’t do innovation. Most of real life projects I saw just moves data around. When I interview people all I care about is knowledge of tech stack and what I call “analytical thinking”.

Omg this is so true, I had 3 engineers which supposed to work on component. It took me almost a day to explain context, requirements and how work is split. Two of them were busy with other work. One did their part. After reviewing I realized they still lack understanding and need to rework what was done.I made an experiment and implemented whole thing myself. Since coordination part was eliminated it took me 3 times less than initially estimated.

I was on vacation in Portugal and twisted my ankle badly. It was in remote area, so hospital was not the best. But experience was ok. It was in a town with around 25k people. 2 hours of waiting. x-ray and doctor visit costed me 55 euros.

In my home country I pay 20 euros per month for private health insurance. This includes basic dental insurance. I guess, most expensive procedure I had is MRI of brain, but it was also fully covered so I’m not sure what was the price. There is free healthcare but I only had to resort to it once

Wow, who could’ve thought China will choose their cheap labor over local. Hungarians got owned by their politicians, again.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d always choose html over js if I could. My problem with css, and web in general, that it’s too fragmented. It’s like those people who are designing css, html, js and browsers didn’t speak to each other whatsoever. So now there is entire industry of js frameworks to glue all shit together. Like, look at the WebComponents. Which supposed to be native, out of the box replacement. So much effort and they still cannot compete, in some cases they simply do not provide basic features needed to build complex UIs. Next time I can choose stack I’ll probably just go with htmx