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by mxey 11mo ago
how would that look with type inference? You can write var x = 5 how would that work if the type had to be first? Languages that added inference later tend to have “auto” as the type which looks terrible.
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by mxey 11mo ago
> don't know if they've ever told anybody why they went with the Pascal style I don’t know if this is the reason but Robert Griesemer, one of the three original guys, comes from a Pascal/Modula background.
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by mxey 11mo ago
Proper configuration of cryptography should not be abdicated to application developers or operators: https://go.dev/blog/tls-cipher-suites > The Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator is great, and it should not exist.
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by mxey 11mo ago
I just read the post and didn’t find it contrived at all. The point is to simulate a) network isolation and b) loss of recent writes.
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by mxey 11mo ago
> while manually corrupting the log file To be fair, since without fsync you don't have any ordering guarantees for your writes, a crash has a good chance of corrupting your data, not just losing recent writes. That's why in Po
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by mxey 11mo ago
The context was somebody doing this on their laptop.
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by mxey 11mo ago
Only replication is built-in, you need to add a cluster manager like Patroni to make it highly-available.
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by mxey 11mo ago
If I don’t actually want durable and consistent data, I could also turn off fsync in Postgres …
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by mxey 11mo ago
Doesn’t Kafka/Redpanda have to fsync for every message?
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by mxey 11mo ago
Linux is by far the OS with the highest amount of churn.
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by mxey 11mo ago
I cannot tell you about implementation difference but what I mean is that this only talks about Rosetta 2 for Mac apps. Rosetta for Linux is a feature of the Virtualization framework that’s documented in a completely different place. And th
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by mxey 11mo ago
How do you build multi-arch in CI? Do you cross-compile or do you have arm64 runners?
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by mxey 11mo ago
The OP says nothing about Rosetta for Linux.
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by mxey 11mo ago
> If Rosetta2 goes away, Parallels support for x64 VMs likely goes away too. Rosetta 2 never supported emulating a full VM, only individual applications.
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by mxey 11mo ago
Many container images are multi-arch, although probably not ones that are built in-house.
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by mxey 11mo ago
Apple Silicon is ARM64 which is supported by Linux and Docker.
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by mxey 11mo ago
Isn’t that part of Rosetta also used in their own Game Porting Toolkit?
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by mxey 11mo ago
It doesn’t say if that is going away. The message calls out another part as sticking around: > Beyond this timeframe, we will keep a subset of Rosetta functionality aimed at supporting older unmaintained gaming titles, that rely on Intel
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by mxey 1y ago
Yeah, this seems bad strategy for a company that wants to sell you on their PostgreSQL expertise.
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by mxey 1y ago
The article mentions the new async IO in PostgreSQL v18 in the section on write tuning but it’s only relevant for reads.
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by mxey 1y ago
You don’t even need driver support, you can use https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-do.html
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by mxey 1y ago
I have started to use batching with the Go pgx driver for simple transactions of multiple inserts. Since a batch is automatically a transaction, it’s actually fewer lines of code.
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by mxey 1y ago
The standard library html/template also has that in the form of blocks.
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by mxey 1y ago
> Apple purposely make it so after 3 new versions of the OS you cannot upgrade the OS on the hardware any further. A new major version of macOS comes out every year. The oldest Mac still supported by the upcoming macOS 26 is from 2019.
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by mxey 1y ago
It’s slow because it forces a write to disk. I don’t think the syscall itself matters much.
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by mxey 1y ago
You need write barriers for the ordering guarantees of a WAL. that’s why Apple uses barrier sync and not full sync. AFAIK other operating systems do not have this distinction.
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by mxey 1y ago
It is not even relying on JIT, because that’s not allowed unless you are a browser engine and in the EU.
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by mxey 1y ago
https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html
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by mxey 1y ago
What do you mean by atomic deployment? There are no transactions in the Kubernetes API. Helm has to make one request for each object it creates or modifies, like any other client.
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by mxey 1y ago
PostgreSQL does not have built-in clustering but Patroni does it automatically. MySQL Group Replication isn‘t automatic in all cases, like starting after all nodes failed, and it has some limitations, but it is built-in. Not saying that Mon

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