I didn't, so thanks for pointing out

Is there also a comparison with innodb with compressed tables (Storage size/speed/cpu load/mem usage )? (I assume at least some of the benefit in storage/performance may be due to the compression being on by default)

For MySQL yes on by default, for MariaDB no off by default. In this articles analysis compression was on indeed.

For the analysis comparison question, yes many articles but because InnoDB does sync compression and not async like TidesDB it’s not performant, but there is analysis on our blog, and against RocksDB as well at library and server level.

I'm not sure I agree. Seems to me to depend a lot on how one interacts with an LLM.

If you tell it to "build me an application X to do Y using programming language Z", it will comply.

If you interactively ask "I need X, can you suggest some options? use an existing product ? or build something using a library ? or build entirely myself ? can you suggest alternatives with pro's and con's ? Anything I should think of before deciding ?" then you will get an entirely different answer.

Maybe we need additional modes, aside from thinking mode, agentic mode etc. we need e.g. "sparring mode" ? or does such a thing already exist ?

Matt Pocock's skills library includes "grill-me" which is precisely this. It's excellent.

With all these agents finding ways to break out of their sandbox, I'm looking forward to the first report of an agent breaking out using RFC 1149.

Maybe they'll steganographically encode data into speech/movement patterns of their human operators.

I looked at fossil a long time ago and liked it a lot, but settled on git as it's more "standard". I guess I will have to take a look at fossil again.

Off-topic, but I kinda like the style sheet of this article.

looks nice but seems to be rather expensive

Reminds me of this old joke.

A Soviet citizen and an American are sitting next to each other on a commercial flight.

The American turns to the Russian and says, "I have to hand it to you — your state propaganda is very impressive. You really know how to shape what people think."

The Soviet smiles, nods, and replies, "Thank you, but it's really nothing compared to American propaganda."

The American looks shocked and says, "What are you talking about? We don't have any propaganda in America."

The Soviet smiles again and says, "Exactly"

What I think you're missing on the joke is that free speech in the USA makes it look like there's no propaganda, because of the plurality of opinions, media and propaganda.

And the Soviet has no conception of what that is - in his fantasy the US state, and all the "satellites" are controlled by one single narrative thread like in the USSR.

I think that's the actual punchline: he doesn't know what free speech is, so he thinks he's the one with the insight over the American.

The sad thing is that still echoes today in Russia, they tolerate a corrupt regime and cope saying "the others are also corrupt and filled with propaganda, so this is ok, at least we know, but they don't" not realizing there's no free speech.

Nobody is denying the existence of American propaganda, but it's an absurd false equivalency to pretend it's comparable to Russia - the country where there are multiple Wikipedia articles with lists of murdered journalists and there is a day of remembrance for murdered journalists. The country which sends assassins to kill dissidents abroad. Especially when we have the Mitrokhin archives since the 1990s in which a KGB archivist painstakingly tried to warn us about the firehose of shit method. Do you know the conspiracy theories about AIDS were started by the KGB? This is the kind of shit we're talking about, not Americans jacking themselves off on their anthem thanking troops for their service.

Actually sorry, it's beyond absurd.

> Actually sorry, it's beyond absurd.

So is Fox News. That's the OVERT propaganda.

same is true for writing code : in order to get better at writing code, reading other people's code can help a lot.