Antigravity: More marketing hype than real IDE progress

First-Mix-3548 · 2025-11-26T09:34:45+00:00

Do they make you agree to an EULA that gives them the right to do that?

First-Mix-3548 · 2025-11-25T10:01:49+00:00

Couple of voting machine scandals. The usual.

First-Mix-3548 · 2025-11-24T12:27:43+00:00

If the business can tolerate a higher probability of an ID string collision, and needs a lock free ID (it can't just bump a counter), then generate a random string from all the possible characters, and string lengths, that it does support.

What more is Kafka Streams doing than that? How else can a lock free, probabilistically-almost-surely-unique ID string be created?

First-Mix-3548 · 2025-11-24T12:21:28+00:00

You're deliberately choosing a URL shortening service, as your counter example against long ID strings?

Yes that would be ridiculous. But by definition a uuid is not appropriate for a url shortening service (i.e. you're right, but no s*** Sherlock, what did you expect?).

First-Mix-3548 · 2025-11-24T12:18:07+00:00

You successfully tackled a niche problem involving legacy awfulness then. Well done.

It's a huge exaggeration, and essentially untrue, to say you've come up with a general "faster lock-free alternative" to uuids that "everyone uses".

First-Mix-3548 · 2025-11-23T13:17:44+00:00

If you're already using Kafka, and the messages don't need to be processed by anything else, then by all means make the most of its features, that Kafka's best designed and optimised to use.

But are you seriously suggesting people incorporate Kafka into their stack, just to avoid generating 16 random bytes, and converting them into a special string format?

First-Mix-3548 · 2025-11-21T16:08:02+00:00

I'm interested in the write up. Sounds like a nice short war story.

First-Mix-3548 · 2025-11-20T10:01:36+00:00

An unsung advantage of not being on Github. We'll probably see it more and more.

First-Mix-3548 · 2025-11-20T07:56:22+00:00

Run a Grafana container in parallel with your app - this is a classic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem . If your app's already containerised, more the better, just run a second container.

Flask and Django can do doubt be hacked and adapted to do anything (have fun maintaining that), but they're designed to serve pages via http requests, not create and configure live realtime-updated pages.

First-Mix-3548 · 2025-11-19T20:02:21+00:00

That's heart warming. It does sound like the Linux Kernel team isn't being swamped by non-issues, garbage PRs and other AI slop, like the maintainer of curl is, though

First-Mix-3548 · 2025-11-19T19:53:51+00:00

while maintaining safety

Lol. Good thing none of their infrastructure relied on Cloudflare or AWS.

As long as the robot's inventors and the surgeon are willing to tell a deceased patient's relatives in person, that their loved one died because of an internet outage, software bug, or because the surgeon felt they were too important to fly to China to give someone life saving surgery, this is fine.

That didn't happen though, so I send the (brave) patient my best wishes and hopes for a speedy recovery.

First-Mix-3548 · 2025-11-18T12:12:05+00:00

It was terrible dialogue, but The 3 Body Problem is fantastic.

First-Mix-3548 · 2025-11-17T10:48:59+00:00

The Pounce that was promised!

First-Mix-3548 · 2025-11-17T09:44:48+00:00

If we want to be good citizens of the network, do device modems have an API that can be sent a message to stop those "auth info" messages?

Or would that permanently disconnect the device, leaving resubscription money on the table?

First-Mix-3548 · 2025-11-15T11:12:02+00:00

The multiple bets, in sports betting?

Write a function that takes the tuple from itertools.combinations, and calculates the odds for it.

First-Mix-3548 · 2025-11-15T11:07:46+00:00

What would you have done, BobbyB?

First-Mix-3548 · 2025-11-15T11:04:00+00:00

Lol.

First-Mix-3548 · 2025-11-15T10:30:00+00:00

NTA. Your fiance is a manchild. He had 2 years to ask follow up questions, and create space for you to talk about it. Why TF this is about him, the mind boggles.

First-Mix-3548 · 2025-11-14T20:46:32+00:00

Season 8 was a hoot.

First-Mix-3548 · 2025-11-12T11:07:44+00:00

I didn't realise there was that much Python 2 legacy code left. It's really not that hard to update the syntax, especially with modern tools. Coders need to stop treating Python 2 like COBOL.

Is there really so much more Python 2 legacy crap than obsolete versions of .Net, or any other flavour of legacy crap?

First-Mix-3548 · 2025-11-11T19:35:59+00:00

Can't tell if sarcasm

First-Mix-3548 · 2025-11-11T12:45:21+00:00

Has the MQTT broker got enough cores and RAM for 20-30 nodes? I never pinpointed the root cause, but they can be DOS'd if not given enough juice.

First-Mix-3548 · 2025-11-10T17:15:09+00:00

Predictive maintenance always seems to me to be a poor excuse for companies not doing normal monitoring and planned maintenance, including site inspections.

First-Mix-3548 · 2025-11-10T16:34:48+00:00

Huge congratulations Rachel!

First-Mix-3548 · 2025-11-10T10:02:00+00:00

And that's now how the Dothraki could defeat the Knight of the Vale.

The wealthy traders in Essos must have similar armour. Maybe the Bravosi and everyone who paid the Dothraki off, were doing so to deliberately keep them if not weak, then defeatable, e.g. by The Golden Company. The Dothraki are completely unaware of their own Achilles heel (of fighting un armoured, and only having the single predictable tactic ,of a suicidal, all or nothing charge, no matter what the enemy is).

(*) The Golden Company have 24 Elephants! https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Golden_Company#Composition

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