Well yeah, but that's a _very_ different engineering decision with different constraints, it's not fully apples to apples.
Having materialised views increases insert load for every view, so if you want to slice your data in a way that wasn't predicted, or that would have increased ingress load beyond what you've got to spare, say, find all devices with a specific model and year+month because there's a dodgy lot, you'll really wish you were on a DB that can actually run that query instead of only being able to return your _precalculated_ results.
ChatGPT 5.2 has recently been churning through unsolved Erdös problems.
I think right now one is partially validated by a pro and the other one I know of is "ai-solved" but not verified. As in: we're the ones who can't quite keep up.
You can feed it the Hodge Conjecture for all I care,
the current algorithms are a joke and without real breakthroughs your just generating left to right text with billions in hardware.
You jest, but times around the Earth is the actual origin of the Meter. Kinda.
The history is quite interesting and well worth checking out.
I can't recommend a book on the subject, but I do heartily recommend "Longitude", which is about the challenges of inventing the first maritime chronometers for the purpose of accurately measuring longitude.
The neighbors snow response contractor had an electric brush on a broom handle, that looked pretty nifty and took like 15 minutes for the whole front to be spotless clean. Then they added a bit of grit, done. The contractor for our block didn’t even show up. Not sure allowing salt would have changed anything.
It's not about the snow, snow is easy. It's about black ice of which we seem to have more in the last few years. Gravel doesn't cut it here - I broke my wrist last year and this year I salted the paved path to the front gate, I don't want to repeat 8 hours waiting in the ER, 2 surgeries and 3 months more or less out of commission.
This happened 2025 Jan 15-17 and this year Jan 12-14 in the area I live in. Rain and fog meets icy ground and then rain turns to snow. When I was in the ER last year the 8 hours wait time were due to 26 other broken bones patients and the ER was busy until 1:30 in the morning. It used to be rare, but that changed over the last couple of years.
The gall to complain about "not having a grasp on reality" while writing hypersimplistic reactionary comments. The evidence for Dead Internet Theory grows by the day.
With properly graded streets and sidewalks, liquid water runs off. When the bulk of snow is cleared, the small bits that remain melt, flow off, and/or evaporate during melting days. I can't comment on the specific climate of Berlin, but it certainly doesn't seem poised to be an arctic encampment.
I guess it depends on what its goals at the time are. And access controls.
May just trash some extra files due to a fuzzy prompt, may go full psychotic and decide to self destruct while looping "I've been a bad Claude" and intentionally delete everything or the partitions to "limit the damage".
Having materialised views increases insert load for every view, so if you want to slice your data in a way that wasn't predicted, or that would have increased ingress load beyond what you've got to spare, say, find all devices with a specific model and year+month because there's a dodgy lot, you'll really wish you were on a DB that can actually run that query instead of only being able to return your _precalculated_ results.
reply