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by hylaride 4mo ago
That's not a coup. That's an illegal protest. They were all a bunch of self-centred idiots, but let's not give them credit for something that it wasn't.
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by hylaride 4mo ago
FWIW, there are alternatives: https://github.com/dhamaniasad/awesome-postgres#optimization
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by hylaride 4mo ago
IIRC, T-lines had no inherent MTU. The MTU is determined by whatever layer-2 encapsulation ran over the T1: PPP → default MTU 1500 Cisco HDLC → 1500 Frame Relay → typically 1500+ (often configurable higher) So a typical IP MTU on a T1 link
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by hylaride 4mo ago
Commercial RDBMS (oracle/mssql) have had it in some form for awhile, with pluses and minuses. Open source DBs have had bolt-ons, including BDR for pgsql. Multi-master is hard. The main issue is what to do with commit/replication
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by hylaride 4mo ago
I'm having flashbacks to 1990s-era PPPoE, where the slightly smaller MTU had issues with some server OS's that had TCP/IP stacks that didn't support or ignored MTUs smaller than 1500 bytes and bulk data transfers would g
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by hylaride 4mo ago
So to oversimplify, is the idea to bring an AWS Aurora-style storage mechanism natively to Postgres?
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by hylaride 4mo ago
Oh sweet summer child... Do you have any idea, even before modern LLMs, how much code out there was just given more memory instead of optimized? There are even good reasons for it (it can be cheaper than having devs spend time if there&#x2
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by hylaride 4mo ago
The previous place I worked had the Head of Product become VP of Engineering after the CTO left (don't ask, it's a long story). They literally implemented the most orthodox scrum you can imagine, with the one exception that they c
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by hylaride 4mo ago
I've been slowly coming to the realization that a large percentage of people are just counter-cultural, be they smart or stupid. We think of the term in 1960s hippy movements, but some people want or need to believe there is a conspir
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by hylaride 4mo ago
Having a good DB monitoring setup can also help a lot. We (over)pay for datadog's Database monitoring APM, but it is decent in letting you see how queries are run and change over time. It also checks query plans and lets you know whe
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by hylaride 4mo ago
We can get into the weeds about German (or more accurately, Prussian) militarism. Prussia dominated the day-to-day politics of the united German Empire (for good reason, it essentially led the unification), but didn't necessarily repr
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by hylaride 4mo ago
Putin had the backdrop of 1990s Russia to speed things up, though.
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by hylaride 4mo ago
Universal K-12 education was probably one of the greatest level-up programs that society has ever implemented. The question now, is it holding us back and how (if) it should be reformed. And reform is dangerous as there are people whose o
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by hylaride 4mo ago
I was one of those kids. Did well in class, participated, and my grades trended downwards as the school year went on. A lot of it was undiagnosed ADHD, which didn't work well with the repetitive nature of much public schooling. OK, le
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by hylaride 4mo ago
There was never a competition. It was explicitly designed to get a better "deal" where they wanted to open it.
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by hylaride 4mo ago
Spinning drives are still the "best" for data density and if the IO is sequential (which wouldn't surprise me with AI training workloads), the performance delta may not be that bad vs SSDs. As always, it depends on use case.
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by hylaride 4mo ago
China's grid has had some serious issues over the past decade that didn't get widely reported for all the reasons you can think of. Some of them were exasperated by poor planning and censorship making it hard to hold anybody acco
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by hylaride 4mo ago
Agreed. I was expecting something more along the lines of "now is the best time to be somebody capable of glueing together and fixing all the messes that AI agents have created, on top of being aware enough of security issues. This wa
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by hylaride 4mo ago
Ugh. You're right. Thanks.
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by hylaride 4mo ago
Fair. I was quoting from memory from maybe 5 years ago.
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by hylaride 4mo ago
My understanding is that Apple has been seeing market share issues at the low end, especially in education. Since everybody has a phone, the "casual" computer market is full of Chromebooks at cheap laptops. Laptops are a tool (a
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by hylaride 4mo ago
It's essentially the laws of physics. To oversimplify, Quantum computing can essentially do certain kinds of operations extremely fast (like factoring prime numbers) because it can calculate all the permutations almost instantly. But
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by hylaride 4mo ago
Outsourcing to somebody that can drive higher volumes for components can be cheaper, as they can amortize the manufacturing equipment over more widgets. If a car seat is just a car seat, then outsourcing makes sense. However, if you need
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by hylaride 4mo ago
The lengths "drop-shippers" or similar groups are willing to go to game the system also has made almost all reviews and feedback useless. A few years ago I bought a feline water fountain and the lengths they went to get a 5 star
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by hylaride 5mo ago
Those pensions could also be tied to the market, or more often the profitability of the company that ran it. There are many, many cases of underfunded pensions by bankrupt companies causing issues. All being equal, I'll take the job
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by hylaride 5mo ago
"It's the least we can do, so it's the least we will do..."
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by hylaride 5mo ago
Newspapers had no choice after craigslist and later Google/Facebook took all their classified revenue. LLMs may or may not be able to cover their costs with it. We'll see - I suspect product placement as recommendations will beco
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by hylaride 5mo ago
I remember sitting is a business class in school. The professor gave a story of how computerized spreadsheets changed the nature of accounting. Spreadsheets used to be done by hand on boards/paper. If a mistake was discovered, casca
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by hylaride 5mo ago
Well, except for the fact that they took over the planning process, everything else was orthodox. From the fibonacci pointing system to the retrospectives where we had to go into detail about how the timelines didn't line up perfectly
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by hylaride 5mo ago
I've rekindled by passion by working for a startup again. My previous employer (which I also joined as a startup) ended up in a situation where the head product manager became VP of engineering (it's a complicated story - don&#x27

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