Executable Is a SQLite Database

(fzakaria.com)

72 points | by setheron 5 hours ago

5 comments

  • kjuulh 4 minutes ago
    Great read. I always find these turn a feature of a computer into a database an interesting read/idea. It certainly has upside, and downsides. For example having an entire filesystem as a sqlite database etc, or in this case an executable. It would be nice to have a structured way of talking to our utilities, rather than interpreting various commands as json through a few layers of tools to then get the output in a common format. That said I'd probably rather have a split up tool-set, than everything having to be in a single database for it to interoperate.
  • skavi 43 minutes ago
    This was super fun. Dude’s been on an absolute tear recently.
  • JSR_FDED 32 minutes ago
    I appreciate the inventiveness of this idea. But I don’t find myself thinking I must have this.
  • simonw 47 minutes ago
    The word "Your" was dropped from the start of the title for some reason.
    • notpushkin 18 minutes ago
      Well, for the usual reason :-)

      I’m wondering if the anti-clickbait filter could benefit from some lightweight LLM integration. E.g. when the submission hits the front page, if the title was “de-clickbaited” and wasn’t changed manually yet, run it through a cheap model and see if that was the right call.

      • aniviacat 10 minutes ago
        Maybe "your" at the beginning of a title should be replaced by "my" instead of getting stripped.

        That would preserve the non-clickbait meaning of all such titles I can spontaneously think of.

  • colinhb 1 hour ago
    The handling of dynamic libraries and closing over them into single dbs made this a fun read.