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> [..] so isolation isn't a WHERE clause somebody has to remember, [..] Two things the post doesn't cover and I'm happy to get into. What closing the cross-regi
by typesanitizer 25d ago
> [..] so isolation isn't a WHERE clause somebody has to remember, [..] Two things the post doesn't cover and I'm happy to get into. What closing the cross-region lost update actually took: [..]
Set of my Claude alarm bell, and lo-and-behold, Pangram judges this comment to be 100% AI-generated, albeit with limited confidence.
- 8by3 25d agoreal people don't write "compare-and-swap" ... or "lo-and-behold" for that matter. edit. Clearly the joke about "lo-and-behold" didn't land well with the bots...
- ninjaoxygen 25d agoPeople who grew up with assembly language or locking primitives are fairly likely to use compare-and-swap because it's literally the commonly understood term for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compare-and-swap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compare-and-swap
- 8by3 25d agoTIL, thanks for the context. What I was getting at still stands, LLM's seem to love a lot of words-with-hyphens which might be grammatically correct, but I've never seen a human actually type.
- BenoitP 25d agoCompare-and-swap is a hardware instruction, and beyond that a desirable pattern for dealing with concurrent writes. CMPXCHG https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/cmpxchg https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/cmpxchg https://lwn.net/Articles/847973/ https://lwn.net/Articles/847973/
- lelanthran 25d agoI do. For compare-and-swap I have even got a lock less queue that I implemented with it.
- BenoitP 25d agoThere's even a load-bearing in there as well
- themgt 25d agoAnd the read amplification, which we have a plan for but waiting on a clear signal for when it’s needed. This is Claude between the lines admitting none of it was needed. Postgres on a VM would be doing just fine right now.