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Trump himself understands little of everything he does. He cannot be bothered to read simple texts, but he prefers images. His attention span is very short. So he is somewhat like a toddler. But in the end of course he does sign decisions and orders, even though he might have not read them fully. Someone else writes those documents he signs.

This is exactly why he is so destructive, he is too stupid to understand complex system but arrogant enough to still make changes.

Public administration in Europe has already started moving away from the american hyperscalers. This is of course happening at the usual speed which is characteristic of all public administration.

> Denmark is not just decayed, it is completely rotten

I don't know about the truthness of this claim, but you are definitely getting the upvote for the humour.


I couldn't help but notice that your post also contains bias against German people.


Of course, being a German is not relevant, nor does it preclude you from displaying anti-german bias.


It is tough for Belgium, but I don't expect them to protest too strongly and risk waking up with +10% tariffs on products they export to the USA.


no worries, then they'll just ship those products through one the other members of the EU

>The European Union allows goods to move freely between the 27 countries in the economic bloc, which would complicate any bid to impose trade restrictions on a single member state. Src: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8r1mzd8vygo


"we don't have to pay back any vulture capitalists"! a good one


It has been used successfully as the backend for OpenLDAP and Monero, at least.


it is just a link to documentation


that could easily be trojan-horsed with links to malware if you are viewing it in a poorly secured setting (like public wifi), because you can't verify the origin. so the best we can say about the author is that we are getting inconsistent signals on how seriously they understand and implement security concerns. so better review that code carefully before use, rather than assuming their expertise from release notes.


If you're downloading binaries from a plaintext documentation site, I think that's on you.


TLS certs are freeeeee


Judging from this very release, where he implemented support for page-level checksums and encryption for LMBD, I assume the author knows a thing or two about encryption. He probably then deemed it unnecessary for this specific website.


Cryptography engineers are not excluded from being lazy sysadmins.


What do you mean "lazy"? I thought you said TLS certs were free. Do you mean they cost something after all? Time, for example?

Anyway, of course in case you feel the website is a risk, you should refrain from using it. Safety comes first.


Indeed, there's no need to use the doc website. There's nothing there that isn't embedded in the LMDB source code. All of the docs are generated from doxygen comments in the source.



New features in LMDB 1.0 include:

- support for incremental backup

- support for page-level checksums and encryption

- support for DB on raw block devices

- support for 2-phase commit

- support for page sizes up to 64KB

plus other minor additions to the API.


Yeah, and I also added support for parallel read your own writes where you can write tons of entries and spawn multi children read-only transactions from your writes where transaction and read from them in parallel.

We use this in Meilisearch [1] to post-process cache for our most common prefixes i.e., "w" will match "work", "word"... and computing this requires doing large unions of the documents matching those words.

Being able to do it in parallel is necessary, especially when you have billions of entries to operate on.

[1]: https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch


But what would happen if no bailout came? I did not keep count of how many trillion USD they owe, but if we let OpenAI fail, what would be the consequences for ordinary people?


Before, Microsoft would have absorbed most of OAI, and other than a speed bump in our AI progress, I think we'd have mostly been fine.

With a taxpayer stake in the company the odds that a corrupt administration will throw good money after bad due to corruption or stupidity goes way up.


My Mom wouldn’t be able to make AI images of her dog Chico as a pirate anymore.


Nothing

If OAI blew up now a whole lotta of people who supplied money would be angry.

But those people are generally not the common person

But the pushback will be — ‘but china!’


The people who supplied money are not retail investors. They are rich people who have power and influence and connections to politicians, media etc


Sure because never ever in history losses of rich people and companies have been socialized and have been assumed by those "risk takers".


Isn't this mostly circular? Let pichai, nadella and friends hold the bag. We'll be fine.


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