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  • krogoth@lemmy.sdf.orgtoTechnology@lemmy.worldGoogle search is over
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    1 year ago

    Kagi’s “quick answer” gives me a better result:

    Quick Answer

    The countries in Africa that start with the letter K are: Kenya Kazakhstan [1]

    [1] List of countries in Africa in alphabetical order

    Though I don’t know if that’s because Kagi has fixed it in the last half hour, or some other factor. Still not a great answer. At least Kagi doesn’t show it by default, at least with my settings.


  • I’m not really sure that a K/V service is a more scalable option than Postgres for storing text posts and the like. If you’re not performing complex queries or requiring microsecond latencies then Postgres doesn’t require that much compute or memory.

    People can get unnecessary scared of relational databases if they’ve had bad experiences with databases that are used poorly, but attempting to force relational data into a K/V can lead to the application layer essentially just doing a less efficient job of the same types of queries that the database would normally handle. Maybe there’ll be some future need to offload post and comment bodies into object storage or something but that seems incredibly premature.

    Object storage for pictrs is definitely a fantastic addition, though.