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by petcat 5mo ago
What are the "footguns" with unlogged tables in Postgres?
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by petcat 5mo ago
Woof. That sounds very complicated. If you need that kind of write concurrency, use an unlogged table in postgres [0]. Then you don't have to invent a whole sharded thing yourself. [0] https://www.postgresql.org/do
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by petcat 5mo ago
sqlite is great for the contacts app on your phone, but that's it. Hipp even said that it is not a replacement for a real multi-user, concurrent RDMS. Its primary competitor is "fsync".
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by petcat 5mo ago
> Abanca is using agent orchestration to handle sensitive customer information at a huge scale (2 million customers in their app). Maybe my perspective is skewed on what "huge scale" means, but 2 million users? That's lik
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by petcat 5mo ago
I think civic workers are generally aware of how much waste exists in their departments, but what is the motivation to change it? Any attempt at "efficiency" could very well backfire and mean the end of their own job.
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by petcat 5mo ago
What if they have a backlog of inventory that they can't sell at "market rate"? Are the taxpayers just supposed to take a loss because of this brilliant tax assessment scheme?
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by petcat 5mo ago
Then why are they also investing $1 billion in the same company as the taxpayers?
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by petcat 5mo ago
What happens after the city buys it? Also, most municipalities do not have the funds on hand to buy up people's houses just to call their bluff on taxes.
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by petcat 5mo ago
For real. Does stuff like Zen desk even have any moat at all? It's an easy framework crud app with a million features that you don't need. Just get an AI bot to make one for you
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by petcat 5mo ago
> but the Indigenous probably are None of this matters in this context. The indiginous people literally do not matter. It's bad, but it's just how it is when white Europeans start fighting over land in North America. We hav
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by petcat 5mo ago
> there is no legal mechanism by which Canadian provinces can unilaterally secede Legal? Who's laws? Albertans can just declare that they don't respect Ottawa's authority, right? Guns and bullets are the only "legal&
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by petcat 5mo ago
Texas has entertained the idea of seceding for 150 years. And they would be a G7 country if they did. But they would have to fight a war to do it. USA already went through this once. The only thing really stopping Alberta from leaving is
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by petcat 5mo ago
> Any time someone DOES choose the US There are 1,000 of those everyday. They get caught by the spam filter because it would pollute the front page. The ones that don't choose USA are somewhat interesting, so they get through. W
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by petcat 5mo ago
Canada would only have to patrol its southern Alberta border /s No coincidence that Albertans are sparking up the seceding issue again. When 10% of the population produces nearly 20% of the country's GDP it's a breeding grou
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by petcat 5mo ago
Ah, okay. So the problem is not that bad. It's way overblown! Meanwhile, the US continues to siphon off every Waterloo and U Toronto STEM grad to the US and American companies.
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by petcat 5mo ago
> We left the U.S. over a decade ago I'm assuming you were educated in Canada, and then you worked in the US (but now you don't)?
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by petcat 5mo ago
You can look here [0] for "North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) professional workers (TN)" [0] https://ohss.dhs.gov/topics/immigration/yearbook/2023/table2...
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by petcat 5mo ago
Canada has many issues. First and foremost, their entire economy is basically 3 mineral extraction industries stacked on top of each other in a trench coat. They are also (unfortunate?) to share a border with USA and be party to NAFTA. Th
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by petcat 5mo ago
> heavily benefitted from United States DOE research Not just heavily benefitted . The entire wafer-making technology is the result of US government funding and research. There's a reason why Cymer continues to operate independen
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by petcat 5mo ago
What collateral is underlying the massive, state-sponsored, Spanish lottery ticket and scratch off racket?
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by petcat 5mo ago
> should be illegal globally Let's not pretend that Spain of all places is caring about horribly destructive psuedo-gambling. Banning "unregulated gambling" is just pressure to make sure that the Spanish gambling racket
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by petcat 5mo ago
Sure, but the point is that it's tit-for-tat. This US administration is petty.
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by petcat 5mo ago
Good for them, but I doubt this will be the last we hear about this especially with the current US government. ASML was only permitted to acquire US company Cymer (the actually valuable EUV light source technology) back in 2013 under a str
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by petcat 5mo ago
> I wanted to make a back button use browser APIs to go back if the coming from the inbox, just link to the inbox otherwise to preserve scrolling. I had to wire the actions from the html to call the function that goes back, then in my co
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by petcat 5mo ago
It looks like the major difference recently is that TN visa issuance has surged in recent years, up to over 1.2 million in 2023. The previous all time high was back in 2016 (~800,000). More highly educated Canadian and Mexican professional
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by petcat 5mo ago
> struggled with the quality of the decades-old printout. barely It sounds like this printout has deteriorated badly and was barely readable.
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by petcat 5mo ago
USA accepted more immigrants between 1900 and 1980 than every other western country combined.
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by petcat 5mo ago
Because the industrialization of America is over, and has been for decades. USA doesn't need low-wage, immigrant workers anymore. The railroads have already been built, the fields have been plowed, and now that's all done by big
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by petcat 5mo ago
USA has been far better for over 100 years. But that had to end at some point. So now we're seeing it end.
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by petcat 5mo ago
> It takes time. [...] It will almost certainly take a decade or more. > The Dutch tax office is also currently switching to Microsoft systems They're not even trying though. They're not even starting the clock. They are

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