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by dsr_ 1y ago
First, important point: every Postgres DB is in a cluster. Second, important point: yes, you should use Debian because Debian has consistently provided the upgrade-in-place experience that PG has lacked until.... just now, actually. Third p
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Run your cluster on Debian. Make a backup. Run pg_upgradecluster. In a week, throw away the backup. (You should be checking for regressions and behavior changes in your app, too, but you always need to do that. Have a QA database.)
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Version control! Testing! Deployment with a user-acceptance stage! A commitment to tracking bugs and solving them prior to new features! Talking to end-users after the first roll-out! Some or all of those will come as a surprise to the peop
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Everyone with a Mac had an ImageWriter printer; the scanner attachment was, by far, the cheapest way to add scanning capability. Many people bought them to add the capability, not because they needed them already. A little later, the Laser
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by dsr_ 1y ago
No, but in 100-300 generations your descendants will be.
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The output of a farm is food or commodities to be turned into food. The output of PwC -- whoops, here goes any chance of me working there -- is presentations and reports. “We’re entering a bold new chapter driven by sharper thinking, deeper
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Did anyone, including the people proclaiming it, believe that "Tylenol causes autism"?
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Sure, it's possible - as you say, we have an existence proof. We don't know how to do it any other way, though. None of the people who claim that they or somebody else is on the trail has produced any evidence that they are corre
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by dsr_ 1y ago
I don't want to work with people who think that's good marketing, or people who are convinced by it. FOMO is for fashions and fads, not getting things done.
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Or "ever"? (I'm not denying the possiblity. I'm proclaiming a lack of evidence.)
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by dsr_ 1y ago
All the executives first, please.
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by dsr_ 1y ago
117 comments so far, and the word economics does not appear. Any technology which produces more results for more inputs but does not get more efficient at larger scale runs into a money problem if it does not get hit by a physics problem fi
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Ah, but "sugarpimpdorsey" says that "echo chambers like lobsters and cesspools of the deranged like BlueSky" ban him. Is it your contention that lobsters and bluesky are run by the same or allied cliques? Perhaps it is m
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by dsr_ 1y ago
If everybody you meet is a jerk, maybe it's not them.
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by dsr_ 1y ago
It's worse than that, because: https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094 Participants 92 aircraft passengers aged 18 and over were screened for participation. 23 agreed to be enrolled and were randomized. Int
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by dsr_ 1y ago
This is absolute corruption of the FDA's mission to accurately label and appropriately market drugs. The evidence is from a study with N=40. Not 40,000. 40.
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by dsr_ 1y ago
I know it feels like everyone is in tech, but, in fact, there's no evidence for that here: After I graduated, I had a brief stint as a Nursing Home Administrator until David Jr. was born, then stayed home and hatched a couple more pups
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by dsr_ 1y ago
"Agents, however, come with the ability to reason." Citations needed. Calling recursive bullshit reason does not make it so.
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by dsr_ 1y ago
What evidence supports your conclusions? What evidence are you aware of that counters it?
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by dsr_ 1y ago
ELIZA is that way ->. Try asking "what evidence supports your conclusions?".
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by dsr_ 1y ago
The only useful point that they make is that predictions about unending growth are always wrong in detail. Every actual hockey stick turns into a sigmoid, then falls. Meanwhile, a new hockey stick comes along.
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by dsr_ 1y ago
My house lock doesn't have an online mode. It has to be programmed by visiting physically, unlocking it, and then you have to stand there and touch it for a while in order to remove or activate a code. In other words, it only supports
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by dsr_ 1y ago
It means this is a bubble, and Nvidia is hoping that their friends in a white house will keep them from being prosecuted, of at least from substantial penalties.
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by dsr_ 1y ago
If only there were some way to substantially reduce the incentive for theft of consumer goods. What could motivate people to theft? They must need something awfully badly. Perhaps fixing the underlying requirements could help.
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Suppose that Ghostty bans an account from contributing if it fails this test. That still gives the next slopper a chance to waste the same amount of time. People used to call this the "one bite of your apple" attack -- it's o
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Have you considered having one box with 4TB of RAM to do the computation, then sending it around to all the other nodes?
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Cucumbers: put your cutting board in a sheet pan. Now they roll away but stop at the rim. Also works for helping with fluid containment.
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No, that doesn't help. Product managers sometimes overhype their products. Independent. Reviews. People with knife skills. Some degree of communications ability would be nice, too.
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by dsr_ 1y ago
It certainly would be nice to have three or four independent reviews from people with knife skills.

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