Why's the word illegal not in the headline?

This is the pattern I've seen implemented at scale. You can build a view to link the tables together for easy reads and then point update positions that change in a single table. This also lets you add properties to the items in the table. It's just a bit more work to keep the structure in mind.

Yeah my suggestion is on the latent thread. Key on user Id and table id, store position and either store the value directly (if free text) or link to a table_values linking table. It seems like overkill but you save tons of writes, and you can easily shard on user and table.

This only works if you have one user or a table per user, no?

Personally I'd probably have a linking table of user ids, table ids, items or item ids, and position. Key off user and table. Save to the db either when the user saves or initiates an action that auto saves.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to develop architecture and software that doesn't fall to pieces when it scales? Getting ChatGPT to write a script for you is a fine way to quickly get a wireframe or mvp but a company that wants to grow without imploding needs so much more than that.

This just describes most L2 support teams

... ancient companies do hasn't fundamentally changed since they started. I think it's possible that there could be an analogy in tech given that fundamentals change rapidly and what makes a firm good at delivering service/product A might not translate to delivering service/product B.

Maybe I misunderstood "decline" - it sounded terminal (I.e: iPod). I was thinking of businesses like Onsen Keiunkan (est 705). There are a number of hospitality and construction bizs that have been running for almost a millennium. Obviously methods change but the core of what many of these...

"We respected our elders or we got the tar beat out of us, and we liked it! Not like my ungrateful brats"

This feels like where Meta is at right now - they need to produce growth and they're doing it by monetizing their audience more aggressively, which is making the UX awful.

I wonder about the decline phase. I think a lot about smaller non-tech businesses & markets. Decline does not feel inevitable provided the service or product is consistently valuable and the population does not decline. In tech, rent seeking when the market is saturated creates space for disrupters.

lol beat me to it

Man I didn't think I was going to want to work at a tech company again but so much of this resonated. I love what you're doing. I might be an ideal person to work on those support problems. Is there a way to get in touch? I couldn't find contact info anywhere & submitting a ticket didn't feel right.

Pardon the maybe basic question from a layman trying to catch up: E190D is a specific mutation present in this outbreak and in the 1918/1957 pandemics?

It was a backyard flock, I believe.

Feel this. I also live in a house where every. single. thing. was done wrong. Like I stopped being mad after a while and started being impressed. At least you know what to expect going forward, when you go in expecting the worst sometimes you get pleasantly surprised.

Looking clean, nice work