Israel operate on a revenge based policy. It really is not about the hostages.

Which it almost never is.

Any data as simple as that is unlikely to reach a number of rows likely to cause an issue with performance.

When navigating a tree structure.

Processing files and folders, expression parsing, that kind of thing.

I’ve no idea why the factorial example is so popular, because it’s one of the worst use cases for it. Still, I guess it can teach a new programmer what a stack overflow is.

Yeah, unless I own all my own data, the Fediverse doesn’t really solve anything. Sure, I could host a server just for me, but if everyone did that would it even work? Or would it collapse under the load of all the data whizzing about behind the scenes?