Notices by Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social), page 4

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@dalias you're describing freedoms that are very nice to have but which in my lifetime I have never enjoyed. The housing crisis has forced me to rent: I have never had a door which someone else's key could not open, for example.

I'm not saying these freedoms are bad, or undesirable, or frivolous, or are ones that people pushing to diminish cultural reliance on cars shouldn't consider, only pointing out that they are not universals that everyone is being asked to give up.

@evan not primarily, but definitely tangentially.

Tonight's very special episode of #monsterdon features The Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954), one of the Universal Classic monsters and one of¹ the most recognizable non-kaiju rubber suit monsters of all time. The film runs 1h19m so if you start now, a 90 minute timed mute of the hashtag will protect you from the torrent that is about to befall the federated timeline.

Those few minutes before we kick off at 9pm ET also give you enough time to grab a copy of the movie yourself to join in!!

Of course Bay Street Video also stocks this #monsterdon special! (Well, stocked. But no longer. Someone uhhhh bought it.)

(Have we ever watched Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman? We should! I haven't.)

Per usual, my local video store had me covered if I was going to rent The Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954)... except no rental was necessary because this one, I own.

#monsterdon

MONSTER FLIPPER

...just kind of sunning itself there on the bank of the river, apparently. Or perhaps reaching out in remembrance of its silt-entombed brethren?

#monsterdon

...IN INFINITE VARIETY LIVING THINGS APPEAR...

mostly beetles though, just saying

#monsterdon

IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
AND THE EARTH WAS WITHOUT FORM AND VOID

*gasoline explosions*

THIS IS THE PLANET EARTH - NEWLY BORN AND COOLING RAPIDLY

so extremely cool

#monsterdon

¹: I said "one of". Please extinguish your torches, stow your pitchforks, leave your feathers in your pillows, and take the vat of tar off the heating element

#monsterdon

MONSTER FLIPPER ONCE AGAIN

Exactly the same shot as before, in fact. A callback, or a second emergence..?

MONSTER FLIPPER HAS ENTERED THE CHAT er TENT

*monster flipper palms the entire face of one of the hapless research assistance, roars horribly as the tent shakes*

#monsterdon

"Look, over here, this lungfish..."

*lungfish notices it is on camera, swims head-first into the side of the aquarium to try to avoid being perceived*

#monsterdon

@eniko oh hello and welcome to the sqlite3 fan club

edit: OK, no, sorry, I can be helpful instead of flippant. Beg your pardon there.

Sqlite3 does offer ACID compliance, but its key value proposition is that it does so with minimal additional complexity. The use case it tries to fill is making it easier to be ACID-compliant than to not be: https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html#:~:text=Sqlite%20does%20not,fopen%28%29

And by golly it has succeeded wildly, cf.:

https://danluu.com/file-consistency/

https://danluu.com/deconstruct-files/#:~:text=except%20for%20sqlite,at%20least%20one%20bug

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@eniko those articles by @danluu lay out how difficult it is for filesystems to get robustness guarantees correct while maintaining performance, and as kind of a footnote they also mention how sqlite3 works so hard so maintain robustness that it can sometimes eclipse the guarantees of the underlying filesystem - that is, its coping strategies can be more effective than the FS implementation. (Which feels counterintuitive at first, but makes sense after some pondering.)

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@dalias @eniko that's good advice, and also something else you get for free when choosing sqlite3: https://www.sqlite.org/backup.html

All right, #monsterdon, let's get ready to roll tonight.

"How do I get to Burry?"

_puffs on a pipe_ Practice, kid. _blows soap bubbles_

#monsterdon

"...strange astrological phenomena..."

(inside my brain)
Phenomenon (doo doo, doo-doo-doo)
Phenomenon (doo doo, doo doo)
Phenomenon (doo doo, doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo...)

#monsterdon

Our hero protagonist tonight is a reporter!

*yelling at the screen* STATE YOUR POSITION ON THE OXFORD COMMA

#monsterdon