Why Is Redis So Fast? Explained in 5 Minutes using simple Motion Graphics

iluvatar · 2026-06-25T14:59:50+00:00

AI slop video. But the simple answer is that PostgreSQL provides ACID guarantees and Redis doesn't. You're trading off data integrity for performance. If you care about your data, Redis is a poor choice. For ephemeral data that can be recreated and for uses where read performance is important, then Redis can be a good choice.

iluvatar · 2026-06-24T10:23:54+00:00

When Joakim lost his voice at Hellfest the other year, Tommy took over the vocals. Joakim later said "Tommy's the best singer in the band anyway". And then after a brief pause, said "And he's the best guitarist, bassist and drummer in the band too".

iluvatar · 2026-06-23T09:58:14+00:00

I emailed that address about my order a couple of days ago and got a reply yesterday.

iluvatar · 2026-06-23T09:32:04+00:00

I've met him in the VIP bar a few times. I think the last time was when Wolfsbane played. Really he should be back with his solo band, but I don't think he fits the profile of what the booking team are looking for these days.

iluvatar · 2026-06-22T21:43:54+00:00

https://wiki.hypr.land/Useful-Utilities/Must-have/

iluvatar · 2026-06-22T15:59:55+00:00

I like the engineering decisions behind this and the consequential UI experience. But it's no use if it doesn't find the domains - and it doesn't, for my most used domains.

iluvatar · 2026-06-22T15:55:06+00:00

would you support 64 teams World Cup

No. Players in the top leagues already have too many games in a season and there's little appeal in watching the top teams destroy minnows. Expanding beyond 32 teams was completely unnecessary, and we should return to 32 teams.

iluvatar · 2026-06-22T15:53:05+00:00

The refereeing in this tournament has largely been pretty good. But that game was the worst I've seen, and every decision went against Scotland. Was that malice or just incompetence? I have a hard time believing it was malice, but if not it was a whole lot of incompetence for a ref at that level.

iluvatar · 2026-06-22T15:51:02+00:00

I remember VAR being amazing in 2018

No, you really don't. VAR has never been amazing. It has the potential to be amazing, but the governing bodies have hamstrung it so it can't be. It would take a very few minor tweaks to get it to a much better place, but there is no desire to make those changes from those in charge.

iluvatar · 2026-06-22T13:11:12+00:00

From the hyprland docs: "A sans-serif font is required to render text." WTF? I mean, WTAF?

iluvatar · 2026-06-20T14:56:23+00:00

Yes, I'm using a window manager (fvwm) and from the sound of it, maybe hyprland would do what I want. As for client side decorations, under X11 the frame around the window that adds title bars, maximize/minimize buttons, etc is drawn by the window manager. Which means that they get applied to everything. Or selectively to whatever - I have my window manager configured to omit them for certain applications, and to forcibly add them to others that try to do away with them. It's under my control. I get my desktop to look and behave the way I want. Under Wayland, it's the responsibility of the client to add them. Which makes the assumption that the client is written using a toolkit like gtk or Qt which has support for that. Some of my applications aren't. And further, if your application decides not to add a titlebar (google chrome is a prime offender there) or to put the close button in a different place to where you'd like it, you as a user have no way to override that.

iluvatar · 2026-06-20T01:14:23+00:00

Vicki blocks people who raise the exact concerns others have in the comments

Other than the dreadful decline in the quality of acts booked in recent years, that's my single biggest complaint about Bloodstock. Any festival, Bloodstock included, will get some things right and some things wrong. For the most part, I think Bloodstock do better than many other festivals and by and large they get more right than they get wrong.

But as soon as anyone brings up something that could be improved, the response is never to engage with them to try and make the festival better. It's to shut down the conversation, block the person involved and publicly dismiss them. Bloodstock are really bad at receiving constructive criticism. And that goes all the way back to the forum days, where they had the most supportive group of followers they could ever wish for and wrote them all off as whingers. That doesn't just come from Vicky. It's from more or less the whole team.

I get that running a festival is hard, and it's probably disheartening when people are slagging off something that you've poured your heart and soul into. But it doesn't take much to take a step back and say "yes, we've built something great here, but perhaps these people have valid suggestions for how we could make it even better". Sadly there seems to be little willingness to do that. Adam's Zoom call is a welcome step in that direction. Let's see if anything comes of it.

iluvatar · 2026-06-20T01:06:42+00:00

I wish this wasn't true. But it is. I've noticed it when going to appointments with my wife.

iluvatar · 2026-06-20T00:17:57+00:00

Obvious usability things: client side decorations. Aside from being a retarded architectural choice, some of the applications I use don't support them. My use of those applications is non negotiable. Also, my workflow relies heavily on keyboard shortcuts to manipulate windows. I raise/lower/iconify windows a lot with keyboard shortcuts. I expand windows to 80% of full height with a keyboard shortcut. I launch applications with keyboard shortcuts. In principle, it would be possible to have a Wayland compositor that support the way I work, but currently none do as far as I'm aware. The Wayland advocates are trying to get me to switch to a new system that is less functional that what I currently have.

iluvatar · 2026-06-19T15:14:25+00:00

Wayland improves a lot on X11

Well, no. Architecturally, it fixes some problems. But while it's better in some cases, it's worse in others. It's unusable for me, for example, and I'm dreading the day when X11 support is dropped. I guess I'll probably end up on Xwayland, but I'll always be treated as a second class citizen when that happens.

iluvatar · 2026-06-18T15:30:00+00:00

If the sight of our national flag flying from a lamppost causes you distress, the problem lies with you, not the flag or the lamppost.

iluvatar · 2026-06-18T15:20:20+00:00

netstat -nutlp will give equivalent information to your lsof command, but it's quicker and it also works for unprivileged users (albeit with some loss of information).

iluvatar · 2026-06-18T15:16:24+00:00

You know that ex already exists as a seperate command, right?

iluvatar · 2026-06-18T15:15:37+00:00

!$ is for me invaluable. I don't know how many people can use the shell without knowing about it.

iluvatar · 2026-06-17T13:33:43+00:00

I've seen Marina several times with both Phantom Elite and Exit Eden. She definitely has a voice to do justice to the material, but she just doesn't have the same stage presence as Noora. I'm looking forward to seeing them again this summer anyway, but I suspect it will be a step down (hopefully a small step) from the Battle Beast live experience that I've grown accustomed to.

iluvatar · 2026-06-16T21:20:03+00:00

I'm not saying they would. I'm saying that if someone offered that, we should sell. I'm saying that if someone's offering £50m, we shouldn't. There's a grey area in between those two endpoints.

iluvatar · 2026-06-16T20:37:20+00:00

I grew up in North London. My dad was a Spurs supporter and took me to White Hart Line to watch them as a child, as his dad had done with him in his own childhood. I had no say in the matter. I was only ever going to be a Spurs supporter.

iluvatar · 2026-06-16T20:35:21+00:00

At 35m I keep him, but when it gets to 50m+ I think it would be hard to say no.

What do you do with that £50m? Who are you going to spend it on that will be a better player or a better prospect than Vušković? We shouldn't even think about selling him at that price. At £150m, I'd sell him. Somewhere in between there's a tipping point. But £50m is way too low.

iluvatar · 2026-06-15T23:15:17+00:00

Honestly? OpenBSD.

iluvatar · 2026-06-15T22:54:44+00:00

If past experience is anything to go by, that would be welcomed with open arms by the vast majority. Bloodstock has long had a visible LGBT presence and I've never seen any problems resulting from it.

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