Comedy and satire is a long-established method of political critique, and is often the only or last available way. It's not making fun of the situation, rather pointing out the pain & sufferring in the face of absurdity.

I don’t see it as making fun of the situation per se, rather the people responsible for it.

I don't really agree with rooting against the USA just because you don't like the president. An Islamist Iran with nukes is a scary proposition. I'm glad someone is finally doing something about it rather than sending palettes of cash on an jet to radical Muslims.

The way you describe the alternative option seems not very good faith.

Obama actually did this in 2016.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/us-sends-plane-iran-...

> Washington CNN — The Obama administration secretly arranged a plane delivery of $400 million in cash on the same day Iran released four American prisoners and formally implemented the nuclear deal, US officials confirmed Wednesday.

Secretly-ish - it was announced publicly 7 months prior (Jan 2016) and it was the first instalment of a legal settlement, not just some random or ransom payment.

Obviously Republicans decried it with bad faith bullshit because reality and sanity don't matter to them.

"reality and sanity"? The reality is the US gave them cash to improve their living standards and enrich their country, not their uranium.

With that money they chose to massacre their own people and fund terrorism across the region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres

Again, it was legally owed money, a decades-old arbitration claim from some arms deal.

Now we're spending a multiple of that literally every day for this war. And screwing the global economy in the process. Is this a better deal?

> With that money[...]

Delivered in August 2016.

> ...they chose to massacre their own people...

In 2025-26 according to your link.

I dunno, that's a big chronological gap to bridge for implying a causal relationship to work.

Account created 52 days ago and working over time ever since to defend trump and the regime. No submissions. Color me skeptical.

Skeptical of what, exactly?

While the optics of this may look bad, the same thing happens after armed conflict too; the US has spent boatloads of money in Afghanistan on top of all the military costs, and we're basically in the same situation as before.

Hmmm… $400M and we got a nuclear deal?

We're looking at 5x that this time around (so far) and no deal in sight. Not sure this admin is doing the smart thing.

And the bad faith keeps on rolling. We get it, you're a MAGA true believer, it's not like you're being subtle. But besides trying to troll the good people at HN, what is your point?

Yeah war in the middle east is great policy, very popular and definitely what he campaigned on.

The corruption and incompetence are both unprecedented, but you keep doing your dance!

> palettes of cash on an jet to radical Muslims.

You mean the US bipartisan strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Is there any plan to do this differently to those expensive failures?

> is there any plan to do this differently to those expensive failures?

Why are you asking me? You can listen to the secretary of war (a veteran of those wars) and the president describe their strategy themselves. They are extremely transparent.

I don’t think I mentioned USA nor took a side.

Interesting stuff!

The two separate failure channels turn me off. Is this practical or does it introduce unwanted complexity in most cases?

Also wondering what are the Signals that are mentioned.

Author here. Good questions.

About the two error channels: what I tried to do is to make it really easy to not use typed errors when you don't need them. In that case your promise is typed as `LazyPromise<Value, never>`.

Signals is a reactive primitive that has been initially introduced in SolidJS framework and have then made their way to other frameworks like Angular.

Requires Medium account to read. Sorry, not going for it.

It’s indeed a reasonably usable tool. Gets very slow with large canvases though, so don’t put everything into a single canvas.

I can recommend this architecture. So much easier to maintain and understand than using an extra service. The implementation here I didn’t go into much detail, but you can surely roll your own if this doesn’t cut it for you, or use a library like pgboss.

This is really disgusting. Chickens are feeling animals as well.

To better control environmental variables, you'll probably want to kill the chicken before you start whacking it with baseball bats.

How hard do you have to hit a human, to cook it, the chicken asks?

This is IMO best done running pg in a container using docker-compose or similar

No it’s not ”pg functionality”. It’s close to SQL standard compliance but not close to what Postgres has to offer. Also, single transaction writing at a time, in-process etc.

TLDR: a dude ponders if postgres could be used instead of sqlite. Close to zero useful information, no learnings from serious production use.

I upvoted this, because while it was critical it didn't feel meanspirited and it was factually correct.

After fully reading the article I came to understand it really was not referring to anything sqllite specific, was really 'what if you ran postgres as an application on a server', there really is nothing more to be gained from reading the article beyond this, and this is kind of the most basic deployment model for postgres for like the last 40 years.

Sure, you are correct! But I've already learned about pglite and sqlite-vector from the comments here alone. So if one reads the article AND the comments, I hope it's a net-positive for you, too, even if the article alone didn't give you anything.

And if not, I hope you didn't spend too long reading. :-)

Indeed pondering! The dude here. I think writing a little piece like that often sparks some interesting discussions here and elsewhere. :-)

I agree. Having read my comment I must apologize as it came out too dismissive. Keep pondering, dude :)

No worries. :-) Thank you for your follow-up, kind stranger on the internet.

Lovely article! Just visited the Vasa museum last weekend. It is a marvel and an obvious must-see for anyone visiting Stockholm Sweden.