Just mix tab and space indents and swap them randomly before each commit in git. Especially around Christmas time this will generate colorful diff for reviewers!
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Sorry for the burn, but you managed to contradict yourself mid writting (or maybe you used an AI that messed up your point?)
>Raw SQL is great for simple queries, but gets old quick when you are dealing with "higher order" parameterized queries (...)
>The sweet spot is an ORM that embraces dropping down into raw SQL where needed {...)
So basically you said that ORM are great only for the sweet spot of "mildy complex query". Because Raw SQL is great for simple query, and can be invoked when the ORM is not enough for highly complex query.
So I'd stick with my strategy of mastering raw SQL. I never felt the need of switching tool specifically for mildy difficult query. These are usually boring repetitive stuff than you can usually abstract away with a stored procedure (or in a external parametrized SQL script if your development guideline is to avoid storing any business logic in the database)
PS : But of course ORM is still very relevant if your application aim to be compatible with different database vendors and you are ok to never optimize query yourself directly beyond what your ORM vendor can provide.
I think the point they were trying to make is for using ORM for everything until you need a query complex enough or performant enough to drop back to a raw SQL layer.
That's the pattern I've seen the most with ORM setups these days. That or dropping performance heavy sql into stored procedures but in the end it's all a matrix of ease of use/maintainability in some scenarios vs full control and performance tuning and what makes sense for that use case.
Then please forgive I was triggered on their introductory expression "Raw SQL is great for simple queries, (...)"
I understand your point but I'm not sure it's efficiency to use an ORM that abstract the easy stuff away from the programmer but rely on expert level knowledge to solve what remain. Because at this point the developer that build everything with an ORM will either:
- Face complexs SQL query that he'll have to build from the ground up by summoning expert SQL skills they probably haven't use for a while
- Seek external help from an SQL expert than doesn't know how the system was build in the first place*
If you know you'll need database specific SQL optimizations on complex query in the end, I guess using SQL everywhere could also make sense. Same language and code logic from simple to complex query and a complexity gradient in between.
*I guess same point could be made about vibe coding actually.
Not OP but as I understand it they say RAW sql works great for the very basic stuff. But when it becomes a bit more complicated it is easier to mess up and an ORM is preferred. Then you have the very complex queries where ORM just become more difficult or creates bad performance. Then you have to use raw sql.
So basically raw sql or orm does not matter for very simple queries. For more standard queries with lots of joins and where clauses ORM is better to not deal with complex sql. Then you reach a point where you must use raw sql because the alternative is worse.
In most apps most queries is probably in that middle chunk.
Not a good look to accuse others of AI spam because you can't immediately grasp their point. Others clarified it well.
ORM has substantial utility beyond just abstracting across different backends (I personally think that is one of the worst reasons to use an ORM, migrating or joining across entire production database systems is not something you ever take lightly).
> So I'd stick with my strategy of mastering raw SQL. I never felt the need of switching tool specifically for mildy difficult query.
FWIW this attitude reminds me of devs who insist Haskell or Emacs whatever is the one true technology that can do everything. Hard to work with. They build ivory towers, complicated systems that only the author can enter.
SQL is great but has its limits. Same for ORMs. Sweet spot is in the gray zone.
But this also mean you are not consulted on some critical configuration choice and that you are left alone wondering what to do next.
Earliest Macintoshs in the 1990 launched a tutorial on first boot until you explicitly finished or skipped it.
This was a wonderful experience as a kid and still warm my heart today thinking back of it.
Today's Mac only display "tips", "what's new" after first boot or major update because people are generally more computer literate. But (unless Liquid Glass changed that too) they never gave on this mantra that the OS should guide newcomers.
So yeah I think Linux distro have room to do better.
Although it appear stupid, maybe an OS level endorsement of user age is actually a more reasonable middle ground than delegating mandatory age verification to data brokers...
It still parents that usually buy the computers and set up the différents user accounts. So the responsibilities would be put back in their hands as machine owners to correctly tag kid's accounts. OS vendors would then only be responsible to accurately transmit this declarative information to requesting App/services.
Of course some smart kids are gonna find a way to bypass that (as any other mesure you can imagine, because kids are smart). But nonetheless we could have a good enough OS level declarative age for 95% uses cases and send to the trashbin all the age verification creep that is the current trend.
The key mistake you make is to believe that "first world" is sustainable by it's own. A lot of people are hired today because they are good at a physical tasks, globalized capitalism just decided that it's cheaper to manufacture it overseas (with all the environmental and societal downsides that hit us back in the face).
So don't worry if we lure ourlselves that it's ok to stop caring for "intelligence job" globalization will provide for every aspect where AI is lacking. And that's not just a figure of speech they are already plenty of "fake it until you make it" stories about AI actually run by overseas cheap laborers.
The system you describe is already implemented at least on this French independent media "Arrêt sur Images". Subscribers can vote to gift articles to the public.
Unless I misunderstood your workflow Forgejo Agit approach mentioned in OP might already cover that.
You can push any ref not necessarily HEAD. So as long as you send commit in order from a rebase on main it should be ok unless I got something wrong from the doc?
No it's a core misunderstanding of the commenters (and AI ads placement). The quote is biased because it miss the next part of Asimov's essay.
> Orwell was unable to conceive of computers or robots, or he would have
placed everyone under non-human surveillance. Our own computers to some
extent do this in the IRS, in credit files, and so on, but that does not
take us towards 1984, except in fevered imaginations. Computers and tyranny
do not necessarily go hand in hand. Tyrannies have worked very well without
computers (consider the Nazis) and the most computerised nations in today's
world are also the least tyrannical.
Ok for that last sentence guess we'll have to check if what was true in 1980 still is in 2020's.
Guess it's true unless you have a company issued phone that is managed. But then maybe it's less shocking as long as you are allowed to totally turn it off outside work hours.
On the other side being I needed to make some compromises with my life partner and we ended up buying a pair HomePod mini (because stereo was a hard line for me).
They do sound pretty much ok for very discreet objects compared to tower speaker. I only occasionally rant when sound skip a beat because of WiFi or other smart-assery. (Nb: of course I never ever activated the smart assistant, I use them purely as speakers).
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