> The fundamental problem of journalism is that the economics no longer works out.
Yes it does, from nytimes actual earning release for Q 2025:
1. The Company added approximately 450,000 net digital-only subscribers compared with the end of the third quarter of 2025, bringing the total number of subscribers to 12.78 million.
2. Total digital-only average revenue per user (“ARPU”) increased 0.7 percent year-over-year to $9.72
2025 subscription revenue was 1.950 billion dollars. Advertising was 565 million that includes 155 million dollars worth of print advertising.
Sure operating profit is only 550 million very close to the advertising revenue, but the bulk of their income is subscriptions, they could make it work if they had to. My suspicion is that if they dropped all the google ads they could have better subscription retention and conversion rates as well.
Yes this, I was a subscriber for about a decade even back then an adblocker was required for sane reading even with a subscription. I cant imagine what it looks like without an adblocker these days.
I have done minor experiments with disabling javascript, it works most publications are far more readable with javascript disabled, you miss carousels and some interactive elements but overall a much better experience.
10? I always prompt prepare a document with questions that will inform the technical brief for the task described above. The end result is between 30 and 70 questions most of the time. And 95% of the questions are valid, i.e. they really help describe what I had in mind, they are either questions I did not think about and would implicitly answer during implementation, or decisions I had already answered in my mind but clearly could be answered in a different way.
Its very useful even for just making your mental model concrete and documented.
And that is just the first round. After I am done we have another round about new concerns that emerged and then a third one typically.
> The more I study science, the more I come to see how often fundamental facts end up being changed so that a profitable industry can be created
> Frequently, when an industry harms many people, it will create a scapegoat to get out of trouble.
I don't know if he is right or wrong, but he should know statements like that ring alarm bells. This is the kind of thing people who believe in apple cider vinegar and crystal healing say. Regardless of the actual truth of the matter in this particular case, it is far more rhetorically prudent to assume a more neutral language that at the minimum does not assume malice and conspiracies.
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> Thus, since there are so many vested interests behind the vaccine paradigm ...
For inexplicable reasons I have found that some operations are only possible through the app. Ok they are not inexplicable, there is the illusion that the App is more secure and thus some high impact stuff is only possible through the app. At least in my bank.
Lol I never knew django orm is faster than SQLAlchemy. But having used both that makes sense.
> Why Rust? ... Rust handles the database plumbing. Queries are built as an IR in Python, serialized via MessagePack, sent to Rust which generates dialect-specific SQL, executes it, and streams results back. Speed is a side effect of this split, not the goal.
Nice.
So what does it take to deploy this, dependency wise?
> Lol I never knew django orm is faster than SQLAlchemy.
I don’t believe that for a second. Both are wonderful projects, but raw performance was never one of Django ORM’s selling points.
I think its real advantage is making it easy to model new projects and make efficient CRUD calls on those tables. Alchemy’s strong point is “here’s an existing database; let users who grok DB theory query it as efficiently and ergonomically as possible.”
I was surprised too when I saw the results. The benchmarks test standard ORM usage patterns, not the full power of any ORM. SQLAlchemy is more flexible, but that flexibility comes with some overhead.
That said, the ORM layer is rarely the bottleneck when working with a database. The benchmarks were more about making sure that all the Pydantic validation I added comes for free, not about winning a speed race.
Just pip install oxyde, that's it. The Rust core (oxyde-core) ships as pre-built wheels for Linux, macOS, and Windows, so no Rust toolchain needed. Python-side dependencies are just pydantic, msgpack, and typer for the CLI. Database drivers are bundled in the Rust core (uses sqlx under the hood), so you don't need to install asyncpg/aiosqlite/etc separately either.
Yes it does, from nytimes actual earning release for Q 2025:
1. The Company added approximately 450,000 net digital-only subscribers compared with the end of the third quarter of 2025, bringing the total number of subscribers to 12.78 million.
2. Total digital-only average revenue per user (“ARPU”) increased 0.7 percent year-over-year to $9.72
2025 subscription revenue was 1.950 billion dollars. Advertising was 565 million that includes 155 million dollars worth of print advertising.
Sure operating profit is only 550 million very close to the advertising revenue, but the bulk of their income is subscriptions, they could make it work if they had to. My suspicion is that if they dropped all the google ads they could have better subscription retention and conversion rates as well.
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