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by asguy 3y ago
I’n more worried about America’s obesity levels and opioid epidemic.
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by asguy 3y ago
The first link also calls out how to deal with said bloat. It’s part of administering a Postgres DB yourself (which may or may not be something a team should be doing). > I wouldn't want an average development team to pursue that a
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by asguy 3y ago
I think you're projecting an implementation of a queue in Postgres, which isn't how most people implement these things. [0] We're not doing table level locks, or creating contention with multiple queue producers or consumers
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by asguy 3y ago
Maybe, but at “mid” production scale I’ve used Postgres plenty as the substrate for queues and managing requests for FSMs and their state changes, and didn’t run into these problems. Like everything, it depends on the application.
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by asguy 3y ago
Most people on modern engineering teams haven't built systems services themselves. I've seen this cause a lot of insecurity on making choices, because they don't have the experience in how to actually assess what will work o
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by asguy 3y ago
If you let her break it, and go without it, she’ll probably get it real quick.
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by asguy 3y ago
... where have I seen this before ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander_II%3A_The_Quickenin...
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by asguy 3y ago
Linux makes intentional exceptions in the application of the GPLv2 to accomplish this e.g. vDSOs. There’s a reason Linux refused to move to GPLv3. Now apply these exceptions to user space, and you’ve basically reinvented the LGPL.
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by asguy 3y ago
I had fun with a similar concept: just access the database from the browser using nginx/TLS/lua: https://github.com/alexanderguy/pgress If you're good with your authenticated users directly talking to th
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by asguy 4y ago
> In the 60s you couldn’t see the mountains from Mountain View. Do you think sub-zero windshield wiper fluid banning did that, or catalytic converters and efficient engine management? Hint: it was the latter.
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by asguy 4y ago
> Yeah, because those things are toxic and poisoning you, your children, and our environment. ... This is the exact same thing that happened with whale oil, leaded gas, leaded glass, sulfur diesel, ddt, on and on. You don't know wha
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by asguy 4y ago
You're missing the point: I don't live in the Sierras. I live on the coast, and I drive to the mountains. What do I do with the windshield wiper fluid that is in my car, before I go to a freezing area? Do I waste it all by overu
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by asguy 4y ago
The problem is, like any good government agency, they don’t stop when they’ve succeeded fixing their original problem. What started with catalytic converters and OBD-2 is now preventing me from buying sub-freezing temperature windshield w
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by asguy 4y ago
I've read a bunch of the official documentation, and then read a lot of the source code to Postgres itself. I'd say source is the #1 place I go if I have questions that are specific, and then if I want philosophy I look for previ
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by asguy 4y ago
Yah, I have had many projects where I could have used something else, but Postgres ended up being the perfect bag of tools to do what I needed. I've been very happy with it.
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by asguy 4y ago
I'd say I'm a Postgres Journeyman. I'm a software engineer primarily. Postgres is another tool I like to use to solve data problems. I've used it as the backbone of applications in production at terabyte scale. I&#x27
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by asguy 4y ago
I’d be careful of anyone who says they’re a “postgres expert”; I respond the way I respond to self-proclaimed C++ experts: “oh yeah? tell me more” Most are novices that have no idea how far the rabbit hole goes. I’ve been using postgres fo
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by asguy 4y ago
https://archive.is/LIBPA
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by asguy 4y ago
Rick Hartley cracks me up. He's like a PCB design cross between R. Lee Ermey and Tony Robbins.
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by asguy 4y ago
Yah.. you compound this with English/German hybrid electrical system design from 20 years ago, and it rapidly becomes something too expensive to pay a mechanic to fix.
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by asguy 4y ago
> An internal combustion engine (ICE) replacement cost is ~$7000. It is much more complex than an electric motor. In addition, ICE cars have very complex transmissions (replacement cost ~$5000). You also have exhaust and emission control
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by asguy 4y ago
> 1) Connery's character's attempt to out-chad Cage's character failed because the latter replied: "Carla was the prom queen." Your calibration is off: he wasn’t trying to put-Chad him.. he was telling him to “gi
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by asguy 4y ago
That excuse sounds like the guy in highschool who would have treated the girl so much better, but she was into assholes. If you are old enough to remember those days, then you remember COBOL, Algol, Fortran, Pascal, BASIC, Ada, Oberon, Lisp
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by asguy 4y ago
This is what C/C++ haters, anti x86/amd64 snobs, and Rust elitists always forget: what works, works. Sure, it could be a local maximum, hopefully there will be better, but who knows? To quote Sean Connery in The Rock: Losers alw
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by asguy 4y ago
That's true. Even then, every once in a while you end up with a blood covered one.
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by asguy 4y ago
The engines are fine with ethanol. The problem with ethanol is the issues related to it eating at materials in the fuel system (e.g. fuel lines) that aren't alcohol tolerant.
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by asguy 4y ago
> If you don't care about the limits of the tech you won't be able exceed what you think is possible. Did you propose/implement/release something better than printf? > I'm time and time again amused how anti i
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by asguy 4y ago
It always had printf: https://cplusplus.com/reference/cstdio/printf/ Edit: It's almost like the whole world got a lot of work done with the tools they already had.
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by asguy 4y ago
Or in the English countryside, where signs refer to towns and not to roads.
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by asguy 4y ago
Focus on your own failures, before you take responsibility for theirs.

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