arronax

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by arronax 4mo ago
What's notable is that the Rifters trilogy just progresses in intensity and in the overall gloom. Starfish is light reading compared to Behemoth, which is sitting for me on the last chapter, because I couldn't finish it.
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by arronax 2y ago
> Of course there are "bad queries" where you query for things you don't need, join on the wrong columns, etc. You can inject a hint into the query, forcing it to use a plan that would not otherwise be used, for example. A
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by arronax 2y ago
While pinning a single plan or disabling parallel operations is a valid quick fix, I'd recommend trying to actually understand why the optimizer is doing what it's doing. It's all "just" a simple math of execution n
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by arronax 2y ago
Oracle DB is, or was, very close to that with its query profiles, baselines, and query patches. It wasn't automatic back in 2014 when I last worked on it, but all the tools were there. Heck, it was possible to completely rewrite a bad
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by arronax 5y ago
I co-authored a (technical) book entirely in vim. The problem for me was that distraction was still one alt+tab away. Ultimately, what worked for me best was writing in very boring and rather inconvenient conditions. Waiting at a car wash,
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by arronax 5y ago
Our developers started using RR and had some good results. Not a silver bullet, but a nice addition to the toolbox. Some writeup here https://www.percona.com/blog/2021/04/12/replay-the-execution...
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by arronax 6y ago
One of co-authors here. Yes, I expected that to be a huge problem, but, at least for Ubuntu (or, I guess, deb packages), it seemingly wasn't. Which is a pretty big deal, as I doubt a lot of people compile their own PostgreSQL. Trying t
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by arronax 6y ago
I had experienced loss both of smell (completely, kitty litter smelled like nothing) and taste (not completely). You still sense if something's salty, for example, but it's very remote. As an anecdote, the aubergine paste, which i
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by arronax 6y ago
There are also MySQL operators from Oracle, Presslabs, and Percona. Vitess is much more than just MySQL in k8s, and not everyone will be able to switch to it easily (if at all).
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by arronax 6y ago
Not sure how closely it can simulate a siege at Helms Deep, but Stronghold back in 00s seemed to be quite good overall at depicting siege warfare.
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by arronax 6y ago
> bluetooth/pulseaudio not snappy and reliable Without patching of pulseaudio, microphone on a bluetooth headset doesn't work anyway. I'd take not snappy but working any day, really. Maybe in Pulseaudio 14 this will get re