- There are rumors that there were 2 pilots aboard, and that one of them accidentally triggered autoland, and they couldn't figure out how to turn it off:
https://vansairforce.net/threads/garmin-emergency-autoland-i...
- > I have also seen this used in other formats quite successfully - Fandom/Wikia (used to?) use a MySQL database for each sub-site.
Stack Overflow used it as well, with a database per site (DBA.StackExchange.com, ServerFault, SuperUser, Ask Ubuntu, etc.)
I have a bunch of clients using it. Another drawback with this design is high availability and disaster recovery can become more complex if you have to account for an ever-growing number of databases.
- > If you are on AWS and AWS goes down, that's covered in the news as a bunch of billion dollar companies were also down. Customer probably gives you a pass.
Exactly - I've had clients say, "We'll pay for hot standbys in the same region, but not in another region. If an entire AWS region goes down, it'll be in the news, and our customers will understand, because we won't be their only service provider that goes down, and our clients might even be down themselves."
- Because I'm sure other people will ask - no, it does not support SQL.
- That isn't a new phenomenon.
- > what stops me is the sudden drop in corporate sponsorship of them.
That's true in two ways: not only are less companies paying to send their attendees to training, but less companies are paying to sponsor these events as well.
- > I'd be curious to hear how often newbies showed up to these SQL events pre-COVID.
Large SQLSaturday events used to regularly get 300-400 attendees, and a good 10-20% of them were new to the field. I would regularly do a show-of-hands in my session asking how many of them were attending a SQL Saturday for the first time, and it wasn't unusual to see half the hands go up.
People learn SQL every day, believe it or not.
- You're right - Twitter used to generate FOMO amongst those not attending, plus make it easier for attendees to coordinate after-hours events. Both of those factors are diminished.
- > The range only needs to cover the period between mandated brakes.
I was confused there for a second until I realized you meant "breaks."
- I have a hard time getting excited about this when they have such an atrocious record of handling pull requests in VS Code already: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pulls
- Author here - whoa, didn’t expect this to hit HN. Here for any questions, but I think the post speaks for itself.
- Summary of the video: 24 hours before the fatal helicopter-American CRJ midair crash, a similar event was prevented by TCAS (traffic collision avoidance system) because the plane was above 1000 feet altitude. It shuts off below that.
- Yep, nothing's changed there around transactions.
- It sounds like you're not training it with your existing code base, and that you're running it with relatively small contexts. Have you done any custom LLM training on your code base, and what model are you using?
- > SQL Server is one of the few commercial DB's that does real nested transactions
Not sure where this myth keeps coming from, but no, it does not:
https://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/a-sql-server-dba-myth-a...
- Because it's more about trends than current rankings.
- > Anyone knows which movie was that?
Strange Days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Days_(film)
- Can’t you send PDFs to a Kindle? Been a decade since I used one, but I vaguely remember that being a thing.
- > no trouble uploading all of that data in less than a week
When you're doing e-discovery, deadlines are often measured in days - not just for the upload time, but for the analysis and finding the needle in the haystack.
Sometimes it's just amazing to look at how much dedication someone put into a list like this, and wonder what they do with this information. It's inspiring (to me at least.)
In a park near my hotel, there's an elderly gentleman who uses a giant brush to paint calligraphy on concrete walkways every morning. He paints it with water - so it gradually evaporates over the course of the next hour or so. I admire his work in the same way I admire this web page.