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Cake day: July 14th, 2024

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  • To be honest, I’ve seen a lot of code in my line of work, and my experience says that if the speed of a language is your concern, you’re either in high-frequency trading or working on some real-time use case, or you’re wrong.

    Most time you perceive as lag as a user comes from either atrocious programming, or network lag, or a combination of the two. A decently, not even well, but decently written Python vs Assembly subroutine will have differences in execution time measured in nanoseconds. Network calls usually measure in milliseconds, and something like a badly written DB query that reads a ton of data from a disk will do seconds or worse.

    My point is, I’ll take a not-badly written Python program over someone claiming to have chosen C/C++ for the blazing fast speed in a user facing application, when half of CVEs ever have been submitted over memory safety problems in C/C++.












  • Under the new system, the retirement component can never be touched or spent until you retire.

    Withdrawals are not allowed until retirement age. This is intended to ensure that individuals will have sufficient funds to support themselves in retirement and, in turn, will give the South African economy a more stable and growing pool of savings to fund economic growth, and employment.

    So basically they are holding the money in the retirement system hostage and are planning to give tax cuts to the wealthy - wonder what else is “funding economic growth and employment” is, because it always turns out that way.

    Cue the govt 20 years later when they “have to raise the retirement age since the system is unsustainable”.

    Hope I’m not right.