There is also the coopling issue: when your code depend of another part of your own code, it may be broken by this inner dependecy.
If the code is not intégration tested enough, then rarely used features may be broken without you noticing, thus the roting expression.
Modern standards help protect against this with the test pyramid.
>Like is it a temporary rebound or a new trajectory?
It's in the article: "Sanjay Raja, chief U.K. economist at Deutsche Bank, said the growth uptick will likely be short-lived, especially during the second quarter when trade uncertainty will be at its peak."
1. due to Brexit but I think also other reasons they had face planted their economy so hard that its very normal to some some "fast growth" after fixing some of the problems
2. there had been a lot of interesting interactions between Russian Oligarch (and their Families) and the UK in the last decades. And this dynamics got affected a lot by the Russian invasion of Ukraine which probably did contribute to the economical crash, but also (indirectly) might have lead to some very wealthy Russians to decide to double down on living in the UK including wrt. spending and investment (note: I'm mainly thinking about successful business people not quite big enough to count as oligarchs and family of oligarchs, i.e. not oligarchs themself as in not people highly involved in Russian power dynamics). But I don't have enough insights about this point to be fully sure about it.
3. One option many countries have is to sacrifice the rights, health and/or future of their citizens for economic grows. E.g. by de-facto removing/reducing worker protections, consumer protections etc.. While this is rarely sustainably long term it tends to work short term and it seems to have at lest slightly happened in the UK, through to some degree in a roundabout way. It's kinda like subventions but instead of paying with money you pay with the future of the people you are supposed to protect. Through sometimes it temporary necessary to get a chance to rebuild a better future then if you hadn't done that. I'm not sure how much this directly benefits the UK but it tends to set a signal for a country to be "investor friendly" which can be beneficial.
My issue isn't with PHP as a language. It’s with frameworks that try to do everything for everyone, and end up adding layers of abstraction, indirection, and performance overhead by default — even before you write your first line of app logic.
Symfony, like Laravel, is very capable — but to me, it’s too prescriptive. You either embrace the full stack or fight against the grain. I wanted something where:
- Every module but the core is optional
- No need to use the CLI, just drag and drop and it handles it
The templating system, cache, and routing all talk directly
So I wrote Dataphyre — modular, dependency-free, fast as hell. It powers a 3.5M-line ecommerce platform (Shopiro) with a sharded replicated containerized CDN system able of 8k streaming, a fulltext search engine, the "usual" templating and async, all built in.
Relying on such heavy tested is a no brainier for me, especially because it offer well designed abstractions.
You seem to see them as dragging you down, I see them as opportunity to have hooks at the right place for free.
Symfony does offer flexibility with its micro-framework mode. But even in that mode, looking at the screenshot in the article you shared, it still adds around 6ms and 2MB just for the controller initialization (probably a tad better with JIT). On the other hand, Dataphyre initializes in ~490KB as of now and serves hello world pages in about ~2.5ms. My issue isn't with abstractions — it's about avoiding unnecessary overhead. Having started off in embedded programming, I’ve always been driven to chase every byte and clock cycle I can. Dataphyre gives you the freedom to choose what's needed, and that’s why it's able to run an entire 3.5M-line platform while staying lean and fast.
or some similar kind of device that turns the momentum of electrons into light. I'm a little surprised that they didn't try something like a FEL first instead of that terribly problematic device that uses highly inefficient lasers to blow up tin droplets, itself a high-loss process that produces contamination and resulted in years of delay developing materials for
They tried both in the initial design phase, there's upsides and downsides, but ultimately thought that the tin droplet laser was more liekly to actually get done more or less on the time schedule requested, and so that's where the bulk of the capital went.
Interestingly China has been continuing working on the synchotron based EUV litho idea (in addition to work to create domestically built tin laser EUV lithos machines).
My bet is on plasma Wakefield accelerators to feed the FEL. But yeah a synchrotron might do as an intermediate step. Free Electron Lasers can be tuned to different wavelengths all the way to x-rays.
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