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Anything ending in "maxxing" will be seen as a joke, treated with contempt or both. The poor guy is livestreaming his acute body dysmorphic disorder. Social media is making money off him and we're all either laughing or astonished.

> Anything ending in "maxxing" will be seen as a joke, treated with contempt or both.

Always was.

> Social media is making money off him

Yes, and he's been making a TON of money as well.

> and we're all either laughing or astonished

So social media, got it. Social media LOVES controversial assholes, they just keep making money hand over fist (look at the Paul brothers for example).


"one lightweight SELECT per millisecond"

This reminds me of the teenager who told her dad that she was just a tiny little bit pregnant.


One cannot be a little bit pregnant. But a DB can be only a little bit in the RAM, and specifically in the page cache. SQLite can act exactly like that, and it's damn fast as long as it does not need to durably write a transaction. Polling once a millisecond could spend a few microseconds.

I wonder if using a tiny Redis instance, or even something like LevelDB would be even more efficient.


With the file-watch APIs is that you don't need to poll at all - free is better than cheap.

Thing of the battery!

(read that in the way of "think of the children!")


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Hold on -- if it really is "one lightweight SELECT per millisecond", and you're saying a select is "a couple hundred microseconds", say generously 200us?, then you're spending 200us out of every 1000us just selecting. That's a lot of polling!

I mean only in the same sense that you spend 1 second per second doing something. Time is probably not the best way to evaluate the resources this consumes and I doubt it takes much of anything else either.

It does seem weird though even for sqlite. I wonder how oban does it. I also wonder if OP knows oban can run on sqlite.


Yeah, again, to be clear: I get how SQLite works and I'm not dunking on the design, I'm just saying the comparison set up on this page snags. It's a classic LLM negated triptych, but "one of these things is not like the other": cache pressure: bad, writer contention: bad, kernel file watcher: ... good, actually? Intuitively seems better than this design?

Yes, but I think it'll back up within a year. It's crazy.

Can it glide in case of a prop/motor failure? Or something resembling a helicopter's autorotate? Or is the passenger just SOOL if that happens?

I believe the entire aircraft has a parachute that can deploy in the event of engine failure.

Edit: I'm wrong. https://www.ainonline.com/news-article/2022-04-08/developers...

> Joby also insisted that the high levels of redundancy built into its four-passenger eVTOL design obviate the need for a parachute. The company, which recently lost one of its two prototype aircraft during a flight test accident, said that the vehicle can safely operate after failures to the motors, batteries, or electric propulsion units and also has the option to land vertically or glide to the ground on its wing.


"The air taxi can continue flying with up to two motors out" says the article.

Probably safer than a V-22 Osprey.


This is a powered lift aircraft. There is no ability to autorotate or glide. It has redundant rotors and power systems so should be pretty reliable, but if there's a catastrophic failure then it will immediately go into a spin and crash.

> pretty reliable

Got it. If anything in this high tech state-of-the-art machine causes more than 2 motors to stop motoring then I'll most likely die in a crash. But it's not very likely that'll happen.


> How is any of that legal?

He didn't mention legality. The world is rigged, as you can see by head of state participating in both in running and cover up of history's largest CSE. Watch what people are doing in addition to what they are saying.

I for one am tremendously thankful for TFNA's efforts, since I get access to knowledge that I wouldn't have been able to before.


Saturday afternoon and you want a steak? $300.

The thing is that even if you do that, you still haven't made your own stethoscope, which this post is all about.

I use hz to measure my adult fun time. In addition the metric sub unit prefixes, I can make it sound very high to the untrained eye.

There is no need for a different unit, it's just people trying to be clever and people copying them.

It tastes disgusting to me.

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