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The good news is that the global north is losing its relevance by the day now.

I see the US as basically PRC’s the Wario here. :)

I mean the US was the model for EuroFascim

State capitalism with American characteristics.

and China happens to be a giant, and rapidly growing, semiconductor market https://www.statista.com/outlook/tmo/semiconductors/china

For sure, having mature and battle tested libraries is really hard to beat.

Clojure has a lot better story in that regard living on the JVM, but the overhead of using the JVM is a downside of its own. It’s a good platform, but definitely not what you’d call lightweight.

I briefly worked with Hasura which does this sort of magic to produce GraphQL API on top of Postgres. Incidentally, also written in Rust. I do like Leptos approach, it sounds similar to HTMX approach where you just treat the DOM as a dumb terminal.

Being a Lisper, the idea of waiting for the compiler is very jarring. :)

It’s great to hear things mostly worked out. Stuff like scaling bottlenecks is definitely tricky to catch until you have serious loads on the system, but sounds like the fixes very mostly trivial validating overall design. It also looks like you managed to get a way with a fairly simple stack by leveraging Postgres and Rust. I’ve had really good experience with using pg myself, and really don’t see a point in using anything else now. You can use it both as a relation db and a document store, so it’s extremely flexible on top of being highly performant. Keeping the stack simple tends to be underappreciated, and projects often just keep adding moving pieces which end up adding a lot of overhead and complexity in the end.

What have been the biggest challenges with the project over the years, both in terms of technical and non technical aspects. I’d be interesting to hear a bit of retrospective on how has the stack’s been working out, and what surprises you might’ve run into in terms of scaling and federation. What recommendations you’d make based on that and what you would’ve done differently knowing what you know now.

oops got the title wrong, the NYT article about it was from 1965, but at the time it did not mention CIA involvement

Amazing work as always!

I started using it as well last week, and so far it just feels like a drop in replacement. If you were using Firefox Sync, you can just enable it and your whole profile will get transferred over.

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Indeed, there is very little difference between the two. It became especially clear when a bunch of republicans moved over to the dem party in the recent years and dems are now celebrating people like Bush and Cheney.

Kennan is a neocon, but that’s what makes this even more impactful in my opinion. It shows that even the most rabid warmongers in the US establishment understood that there were red lines that shouldn’t be crossed.

Chernobyl shows that worst case scenario is that we get large wildlife preserves.