TristanBall

14 ms·

91.
by TristanBall 4y ago
If the system can run without indexes while still being performant in other areas ( multiuser oltp for example ) then that's awesome, absolutely. Pretty much every other trick for faster multi-record queries sacrifices oltp performance
92.
by TristanBall 4y ago
I suspect the data science folks are more likely to be interested in what you've done than dba's, at the stage you're at. They're more likely to be working with desktop tools, with their own copies of unstructured or sem
93.
by TristanBall 4y ago
Yeah, tbh, it sounded harsher than i intended, and you could actually plot a pretty successful path by life simply by doing the opposite of everything I say. But there's lots of new shiny. Yes, some of it turns out to be the new big
94.
by TristanBall 4y ago
Not interested in video, text or it didn't happen. I run transactional systems, concurrent oltp performance or it didn't happen. We have hugely diverse sets of interrelated applications and systems build either against the primary
95.
by TristanBall 5y ago
Dad is/was a Saab guy, and for a long period my folks had matching terracotta Saab 900's. Not sure mum ever fully forgave him for that, she wasn't consulted!! I learned to drive in one, before buying my very own 1986 Mitsubis
96.
by TristanBall 5y ago
Also, finance departments exist primarily to complain about the time it takes to reconcile your credit card charges, and to push as much as possible for said purchases to go through the B2B "on account" purchase process, and in 99
97.
by TristanBall 5y ago
I've been doing senior sysadmin or adjacent work, mostly for SME corporations with turnover in the $250-750m for 20 years, which has consisted primarily of saying "oh f, no price list, they're going to want to charge enterpri
98.
by TristanBall 5y ago
So happy to see someone paying attention to this.. my shakes come and go, better with meds, but laptop trackpads without separate buttons have been nearly unusable for me for years. Tap to click and drag to scroll are terrible ideas if you
99.
by TristanBall 5y ago
I'm 43, I got taught fractions in primary.. wait let me do some math, about 32 years ago. 1 I seem to recall fractions being presented as the necessary "old way" before they taught us decimals, but maybe that was just me. I
100.
by TristanBall 5y ago
For uncached query, I just got a 10x speed improvement on this on an Informix 12.10 instance. Will I might hesitate to deploy it in an app, because the index scan is still relatively heavy weight, I can certainly see myself using this for a
101.
by TristanBall 5y ago
It's still a fringe treatment, but Baclofen turned off my alcohol cravings like a light switch. It did nothing for the underlying causes of my wanting to be inebriated of course, but the "I can't think about anything else unt
102.
by TristanBall 5y ago
When you say "switched away from bash".. what did you switch to?
103.
by TristanBall 5y ago
Right? The OP is literally saying he slacks off then bullshits his way through meetings and that he regularly doesn't understand what's going on. Everyone else appears to be talking about time spent directly thinking about a probl
104.
by TristanBall 5y ago
Honestly, this is the most important point. Rampant speculation, amount other things, is already destroying housing affordability ( Hi from Melbourne Australia, where I'll probably need $150k for a deposit on nothing special at all, in
105.
by TristanBall 5y ago
I do, a lot.. no one since has managed to integrate sms and email quite so smoothly either. I really don't miss the RSI and cramps I used to get from it though. I realise that's a partly my own fault, but still.
106.
by TristanBall 5y ago
It is, or should be, totally OK. I've worked with many people like that, but particularly those over 35, who due to their life stage were perfectly happy with their current roles, and often more importantly, level of responsibility&#x2
107.
by TristanBall 5y ago
People with social anxiety often come accross as introverted, because they are anxious about interacting - however that doesn't mean they don't want to interact, the desire might be extremely strong, exacerbated be the perceived d
108.
by TristanBall 5y ago
Everything I've seen say using the no-op scheduler for very low latency devices is the way to go - particularly for nvme and optane devices.. interesting that it doesn't seem to be mentioned here, or in the linked paper?
109.
by TristanBall 5y ago
So, I guess video and network cards are the two most common remaining components that could be called "peripheral processors"? My interpretation of the ( frustratingly sparse ) documentation for the AWS Nitro hardware support seem
110.
by TristanBall 5y ago
Informix has its "push data" feature - except it appears to be limited to a single table, not complex queries - I suspect you're right, it's hard to do safely and efficiently. https://www.ibm.com/docs&#x2
111.
by TristanBall 6y ago
This, plus the advertising thing, plus their weak firewall & wan feature set means they've lost me as both a customer and an advocate.
112.
by TristanBall 6y ago
I'd been wondering about this.. Ubiquiti's wan and firwalling is super weak, especially for multi-site, when compared to some of the sd-wan products out there. What's wrong with the ap's? Have you used the switches? How
113.
by TristanBall 6y ago
Surely its a response to market manipulation? Which, almost by definition is going to require some level of intervention. My understanding is the forum members were colluding to drive up the price of particular securities? How is that not m
114.
by TristanBall 6y ago
Couldn't agree more. I'm a sysadmin living in a powershell world right now, and the ability to abstract away "things that mostly behave like filesystems, but aren't” behind some classes with standard interfaces is extrem
115.
by TristanBall 6y ago
Many of the nas's get pretty close too this... but there's really no such thing as a mail server for non-technical people. "Whats a domain? Can just put whatever like?" Etc etc.. even if you baby people through all of th
116.
by TristanBall 6y ago
I can't find the link now, but at least in Australia this doesnt appear to true. We have a reverse mortgage system here, and the take up is extremely low ( I think it was <10,000 for the whole country). Particularly with house price
117.
by TristanBall 6y ago
So.. I guess this really is nostalgia for a time when you could go out and spend $10-100k, and buy a workstation that had capabilities simply not available on a consumer pc. Thats kind of a hard thing to do these days.. and there doesn&#x27
118.
by TristanBall 6y ago
Do this with Teamviewer, without formally terminating the account, and they'll chase you for it, including passing your case on to a legal firm ( at least, here in Australia they did ) I sent a fairly polite letter back explaining id l
119.
by TristanBall 6y ago
Not that I've noticed here in Australia. Personally, my current car is an auto, and trying to engine break just isn't very effective without switching to manual in my car. Engine breaking can also be noisier, as may have to shift
120.
by TristanBall 6y ago
Ha.. or they'll send multiple invoices from no-reply, then pass you off to debt collection and/or lawyers. I'd draw a distinction between this kind of email - where a company is at least trying to require you to do something,

More ›