And Zoolander is a movie in which such a name would fit reasonably well

Yeah the hardest part is going around and updating your address with sites you use.

Every time I’ve done it, I’ve also put an auto forward on my old address, and a label or other alert for anything that comes through from the old so I can go update it or block that address from auto forwarding.

I think the person was saying it’s a good idea to have your own domain because with a gmail.com address, you’re stuck with Gmail. With your own, you can change providers any time by setting up your addresses at the new provider and updating the mail records to point to them. Boom! New email provider, same addresses.

I accidentally a word in the original comment, it was supposed to say they don’t use *centralized databases. Instead it said I’m a moron lmao.

Whoops, I flubbed that message hard and didn’t catch it at the time: Meant to say “don’t use centralized databases.” They definitely use databases lmao. No idea how I screwed that message up so hard. I blame ADHD for not proofreading.

Just so we’re on the same page, let me be more specific. I’m saying the individuals in the article were making terrible decisions. Lots of them.

I am also saying that UUIDs are good primary keys for very specific purposes: Large, distributed systems that handle large amounts of small data, powered by databases like Cassandra that are designed to handle millions of record insertions per hour across several hundred nodes, to the point where inserts are very likely to happen at the exact same time on two different replicas of the same schema.

Hope that makes more sense than my previous flub. lol

Oh for sure, the article folks are inept and absolutely not the people I was talking about. I’m just talking about stuff more like Discord or Steam that are huge distributed systems that don’t use centralized databases.

Edit: that don’t use centralized databases. I blame the ADHD.

Edit 2: I am agreeing with this person

They’re good for large, distributed applications for sure. Better than incrementing integers for those kinds of applications at the very least.

For the folks in the article though? lol they were making no good decisions

I switch between this and Shutter on a regular basis depending on what I feel like using that day.

I’m sorry, my goal wasn’t to be a bother. My initial comment was intended to be friendly and funny - I’m not trying to patronize or be antagonistic. I learned a couple of years ago that I have autism, so I should have learned my lesson by now and stopped trying to be funny; It never pans out the way I mean for it to.

Hope I wasn’t too much of a drag on your day, and I hope it gets better for you.

With that said, a genuine question with no jokes: Can you help me understand how 2016 counts as recent, given the context? It was almost a decade ago, and I’m having trouble comprehending how it counts at all as recent since in tech “recent” usually means “in the last 2-3 years” unless you’re comparing to something from a much longer time ago like the 90s.

It was a lighthearted jab at calling 8 years ago recent; Not a political statement about Apple or operating systems.

8 years is a ton of time in tech, CPUs from 2016 are ancient. Single-core CPU performance has doubled in Intel’s laptop chips since then, and modern laptop CPUs from Intel are often 12-core, versus the top end 2016 MacBook Pro having 4 cores.

Not trying to start any fights, was just poking fun at the choice to call 2016 recent

I can read, and a 2016 MacBook pro is not even a bit recent; It’s from 8 years ago :-)

Just a bit of light-hearted leg pulling, nothing to get worked up over

I hate to break it to you friendo, but 8 year old hardware isn’t recent. It may still be usable, but that doesn’t make it recent. It’s ok though grandpa, let’s get you back to bed

The dual GPU problem has actually for the most part also been solved; Optimus rarely poses a problem these days

I’m already autistic, what’s it gonna do, give me a software update?

Your mom’s lol

Most of the complaining I see is that they’re not going open source, they’re going “source available”

And all day and all night

And everything he sees is just 🥶

Like him, inside and outside

Java devs gotta be able to read the whole name of their WidgetFactoryBuilderRepositoryConstructorFactoryRepositoryBuilderFactoryRepositoryManagerBuilderFactoryRepositoryFactoryFactoryFactoryBuilderFactory

Sure, I recognize that there are folks who won’t be able to pull it off, but there are also loads who can - And don’t know about options like OpenVPN. Figured it was worth a mention.

My recommendation is to run your own instance of something like OpenVPN on a $5/month Digital Ocean droplet tbh