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xssfox (crossy)xssfox@cloudisland.nz
Nov 1, 2026, 9:09 PM
@daedalus strong belief that any db claiming to be significantly faster than the major players is cheating or lying in ways that will hurt you at 2am
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PetraPetraOleum@cloudisland.nz
Nov 1, 2026, 9:12 PM
@xssfox @daedalus Somewhere I have a collection of archive.org links to scanned mid 90s magazines full of ads from oracle and sybase dissing each other; I think most of the low hanging fruit is picked there
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The Orange 4theorangetheme@en.osm.town
Nov 1, 2026, 9:45 PM
@xssfox @daedalus Shit, or even 2:00 PM, in this case.
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neoludditeneoluddite@aus.social
Nov 2, 2026, 12:23 AM
@xssfox @daedalus but why would I do <fancy, dumb shit> when I could just use Postgres?
(This is why I'm unemployed...)
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daveyk00daveyk00@aus.social
Nov 2, 2026, 1:45 AM
@xssfox @daedalus never once have I thought to myself that I should write my own database engine. May as well write my own crypto at that point too right?
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