While generally a fair critique, the site does have "SQL" in its name.

There's some good stuff in here. I didn't know about the issues an aggregation in a CTE can cause and haven't used EXISTS much.

Regarding recursive CTEs, you might be interested in how DuckDb evolved them with USING KEY: https://duckdb.org/2025/05/23/using-key

That was also a great read, thanks!

That's a pretty good training plan.

There's been some research about sprint interval training (SIT), which seems to be popular these days, but low heart rate training (LHRT) is also popular.

Seems like your training was closer to LHRT, but after pushing yourself upfront, not as a sprint, but still initially unsustainably fast.

I'm a little over 40, male, out of shape, and I've been just running at 5mph. Much slower than your 7.5mph, but I can keep it up for 5k. (Side note: It's funny and annoying that treadmills in the US are almost entirely imperial even though most popular races are metric.) My plan was to slowly increase my speed, but now I'm considering your plan. It makes sense. It's easy to manage. It gets good results.

Thanks for the suggestion. I just fiddled around on that site a bit and it's good!

They're not walling off features or asking for money, so I'm not sure if it's owned by another company or a FOSS project or something else. I did a quick search but it didn't turn up anything about their business structure.

Yes, thanks for adding that. Also the titular distance of the competition: 5 Kilometers.

Are you not aware of foundations?

The issue is lack of money not lack of legal structure.

Consider ffmpeg. You can donate via https://www.ffmpeg.org/spi.html

How much money do they make from donations? I don't know but "In practice we frequently payed for travel and hardware."

Translation: nothing at all.

If such a fundamental project that is a revenue driver for so many companies, including midas-level rich companies like Google, can't even pay decent salaries for core devs from donations, then open source model doesn't work in terms of funding the work even at the smallest possible levels of "pay a reasonable market rate for devs".

You either get people who just work for free or businesses built around free work by providing something in addition to free software (which is hard to pull off, as we've seen with Bun and Astral and Deno and Node).

There's a wide gap between the arguments "the open source model doesn't work" and "the open source model failed to produce anything as good as uv after a couple decades of python tooling churn". The latter is why people are understandably unsure of where things go from here.

Seems like you're responding to the wrong person. The person I replied to said the open source model doesn't work. Nobody said the thing in your second quote.

I get the point you're making, but the way you introduced it isn't conducive to productive conversation.

I don't agree. If anything, I'd argue that the comments above were a lot less conducive to productive conversation than mine ("Would single maintainers of critical open source projects be a better situation?", "Are you not aware of foundations?", "But sure, the entire open source model doesn't work, lol").

The entire context of this subthread is whether or not the model that Astral was using was reasonable or not compared to an open source approach. From your initial comment, you've been touting alternatives, and the comment I responded to was giving specific examples of where you think the model worked. I don't think you've provided much evidence that there was a good alternative here, and when you're taking an opinionated stance, a productive conversation will sometimes involve people pointing out flaws they perceive in your arguments.

It works here because it isn't a pleasant song about Ohio.

The ACLU called it a SLAPP lawsuit. If true, they probably didn't care if they won or not.

That said, going on stand when your opponent has proven they can and will use your words and actions against you in the court of public opinion is a... bold strategy.

Honestly it was pretty ballsy of Afroman to release songs during the trial (which did come up, but I think they sort of ignored due to some law that changed in 2024?)

Very performance focused. Could more accurately be 5 rules of perf. Good list, though.

You're comparing a burger patty to a burger ingredient. Two different things. Not a reasonable comparison.

A burger can be made from that solitary ingredient though.

I think that's rather uncommon. The closest I've seen is someone smashing down some ground beef then putting salt and pepper on it before cooking.

soy?

Pure soy doesn't taste too good in my experience. I tend to prep the dehydrated stuff I get with (ironically) soy sauce, which is quite salty, plus whatever else the recipe I'm using the soy in calls for. In the case of soy burgers, that mince needs some binding agent.

It's odd, as I generally agree that "pure soya" doesn't taste that great, but I do prefer the taste of edamame beans which are just young soybeans. Products like tofu generally need more flavour adding to it - and I personally like tofu and eat it fairly regularly, so I'm not biased against it.

Also, I like the taste of Natto (soybeans fermented in straw) though that's generally thought of as an acquired taste.