Gas Town wasn't satire?

I'm not going to stop using it because it's not "true open source." I'm going to stop using it because there's better databases out there.

QNX is owned by Blackberry?! Blackberry still exists?

$100M+ last quarter, split between QNX and endpoint device software, https://www.panabee.com/news/blackberry-earnings-q3-2025

275M cars with QNX, https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2025/12/19/blackberry-...

AI/robotics, https://qnx.software/en/industries/robotics

Exactly. And there’s a huge community of the old Blackberry qnx device owners as well still trying to survive.

I have such fond memories of Graphite's simplicity. Simply hit the server with a metric and value and BOOM it's on the chart, no dependencies, no fuss.

Don't be bamboozled! This is an amazing time to be alive!

Just expose a way to explore hierarchies and measures, give me an ability to generate "alternate hierarchies" then let me run MDX and leave me alone! ORM and OLAP don't belong in the same sentence together.

Literally saw Obama's BlackBerries a week ago at the Crypto Museum! Great museum, worth going to if you're in the DC area and have access to a car.

No new Zelda, no new Mario. I don't know what Nintendo is doing but I am not a hyped up for the Switch 2 as I thought I'd be.

Same. Also the prices are quite steep. 470 euros for the console and games cost 90 euros now? That feels quite unreasonable.

Why would there be a new Zelda? There were two new games in the past two years.

Yeah, it has been 8 years since the last new 3D Mario game.

There is a new Zelda. It's just another Hyrule warriors game instead of a core Zelda adventure title.

I do wonder how the upgrades for BOTW/TOTK will be though. I'm a bit disappointed that they didn't seem to add anything (especially a DLC expansion for TOTK).

"only 3-5x faster... rarely makes sense to use Redis" This is an illogical conclusion. 3-5x faster is substantial!

I agree, although it also depends on the context. If a page needs to fetch lots of data and takes 3 full seconds to load, the middle case (4x improvement) makes it go from an amount of time where you glance at your messages to on par with the average javascript-laden website we're used to anyway (except in this case it's legitimate loading time). If, however, we're talking about most pages, that are mostly static and just fetch some article contents and author name from the DB in 2 milliseconds... yeah, it can be 10x faster and nobody cares

Short sweet and to the point. Why isn't this a button in the bios, naturally hidden behind a few levels of menus? "Defrag your NVRAM" Other than power failures what would other failure modes be? I guess if the NVRAM has bad cells? Guess it's easier to just reset the whole BIOS whenever there's a problem?

So refreshing to read. Most people these days would make a 10+ minute video to promote this.

If something crashes in between the "wipe" and "restore" steps, or something goes wrong with the restore, your computer is now a brick.

Only if there's no way (like a microswitch on the motherboard) to wipe and start from scratch.