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"Today, if you don’t want to build your own ledger, you do have a few options. For example, there are hosted services like Modern Treasury and ledger-specific databases like TigerBeetle. Both of these are impressive and probably a good fit for many. But by using a ledger outside of the main application database, you lose transactionality and atomicity. Namely, you have to worry about orchestrating two systems that can fail independently. What happens if you write your main data, but the ledger update fails? Or the ledger operation succeeds but your app hits an error and fails to write the surrounding data. Integrating with these often requires two-phase commits and other strategies to ensure they stay in sync. And when they fall out of sync, it can be very hard to debug." https://www.pgrs.net/2025/03/24/pgledger-ledger-implementation-in-postgresql

"Cada uno es hijo de sus obras." - Miguel de Cervantes, 'Don Quijote de La Mancha' (1605 and 1615), Chapter 4 "Each man is the son of his deeds."

" The good news isn’t good unless the "bad news" is bad. […] The world, the flesh, and the devil are working very hard to conceal or blunt the bad news. Sick? There’s a pill for that. Aging body? There’s a nip-and-tuck. Lonely or worried or restless or afraid or heartbroken? There’s shopping and sex and bourbon and YouTube. Anything, anything rather than facing the bad news that I will, that I must, sicken and die and decompose and be forgotten from the face of the earth because of my inheritance of Adam’s curse, and my complicity in that same curse by my sins. […] There is something deeply, cosmically wrong with the universe, and without the intervention of a deity, my final end is utter, total erasure and senility and death and rotting and oblivion. "Remember your last days." writes Sirach. "Remember death and decay." " - Kelly Scott Franklin, 'The Bad News', in The Lamp Magazine, Issue 31. https://thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-31/the-bad-news

- Great post. Very true. - Where I'm at mentally: Human activity can be so bad that it's preferable to believe in God in order to have a defense against demonic behavior. - To go one level deeper, and to turn the focus away from other people, I understand my own proclivity towards evil / sin, which is quite strong, and the church offers a remedy, which is significantly better than the only two real alternatives: buddhism & nilihism. (I don't consider Nietzche's Ubermensch a viable alternative.) - That said, i still think the faith should be held in balance / tension against instinct / thor / odin / zeus / darwin. Sanity / truth emerges from the tension of opposites. - Incidentally, this is a way to avoid the temptation to try to justify christianity in the terms of scientific proof. I watched a lot of people try to do this. It's pointless. Cedes frame. - The faith is the faith. It needs no further justification. - cf "I am who i am" / ipsum esse

New podcast episode (~ 4 mins) I'm taking a second crack at the podcast arena. Maximum stripped-down approach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diYjLykJHw8