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Why shouldn't you use YAML to store eye tracking data? /s (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It's used to export tracking data to analyze later on. Something like SQLite seems like a much better choice to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If it's an export that will be consumed by a separate, unrelated program later, I think a CSV is most appropriate. Databases are persistence tools, not transport.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's only intended to be used by the program itself. It's purely storage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Ah so it's not really an export, it's just the backing store used by some other (locally-running) program that you're trying to reverse engineer?

In that case yeah an sqlite database is probably most appropriate, though I can see a CSV still being desirable to remove a potential sqlite dependency.