The biggest risk is companies - if they are saying "I dont need a team to do X" whether development, marketing, whatever. Then the barrier to entry has collapsed in industries so we can see other companies enter the market

it saves a lot of reinventing the wheel

And at the same time, gives you a dozen of footguns. This is just a list for the gotchas in the "@Transactional" annotation - https://dev.to/closeup1202/8-spring-transactional-pitfalls-t...

Now read up on all the dozen of annotations. But yeah, we did not want to "re-invent the wheel".

Im comparing against node equivalent ORMs and find spring consistently better. Yeah ive got to read up on annotations - but when it comes to transactions its always worth revisiting them to check for changes

Meh...

    await using cn = await pool.connect();
    const records = await cn.query<MyType>`
      SELECT ...
      FROM ...
      WHERE ...
    `;
    for await (const record of records) {
      ...
    }

Oh, spring is so much better...

Spring version:

  var records = jdbcClient
     .sql("select * from posts")
     .query(Post.class)
     .toList();
     
  records.forEach(p -> ...);

Half of those are not really an issue with the annotation and seem a bit contrived.

Thankfully the company that wrote the article has a linter/warning product to help avoid those pitfalls.

It depends what your doing? Some finance systems ive worked on prioritise stability over release cycles so do things like not release fridays or last week of month unless impact can be guaranteed

They need to build a few smaller plants rather than one huge plant

Will this set back AI as chip costs increase?

I think the power is knowing who is moving what and where

Our money laundering supports freedom, while theirs supports tyranny etc.

I love the whole “unexplained wealth” concept the UK developed, curiously enough after Abramovich had been running around buying Chelsea etc. If you are friend to MI6 this week you are allowed to do anything, but if you get on their wrong side you will be Berezhovskied.

Most AML courses Ive done have emphisized that the people behind high level money laundering can be too dangerous to take down

You even see this with suspicious deaths of lawyers and accountants in this area?

> Most AML courses Ive done have emphisized that the people behind high level money laundering can be too dangerous to take down

This is how they deliberately miss the point. They are not taken down not because they are dangerous but because they align with us, and will buy tat from our buddies in Mayfair and Knightsbridge at inflated prices with some of the proceeds.

British high society is completely rotten by this stuff. They are still amazed that Al Fayed was’t nearly as grimy as many had assumed.

There's a British TV series called "The Night Manager" that seems to show how MI6 really works and what its priorities are.

Yeah id be more impressed if he found a submarine using strava

Here you go: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/videos/article/2025/01/13/stravale...

How about secret bases?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracki...

Especially considering the limited jogging/biking space on a sub.

Im waiting for things to start breaking

I grew up watching action films in the 80s and 90s. I always like Chuck Norris ones as they had a humour and ridiclousness about them

Films like Missing in Action ,or delta force where the motorbike fires a rocket were just great at the time

I get he had some funny views later in life - but the films were a laugh at the time

The aristocracys were already interwed before the conquest. I mean williams wife was related by marriage to haralds wife, and this cementing of families continued. One impact you see is the saxon families ended up kore interwed to the scottish nobility, st margaret being an example

Kore?

Probably “more”