1. mikeklaas Aug 14, 2022 parent

   > Most weekends rather than recharging for the rest of the week, I end up more tired than I started.

   As a parent, it's hard to remember that ending a weekend "recharged" is a common experience.

2. mikeklaas Jun 27, 2022 parent

   There are projects that use LSMTs as the storage engine for RDBMS' (like RocksDB); I'm not sure it's accurate to say "they can't be use as an RDMBS".
3. mikeklaas May 18, 2022 parent

   Development apps are exempt from the requirement. (They are also limited to 100 accounts)
4. mikeklaas Feb 9, 2022 parent

   Multiple databases in postgres fundamentally share the same underlying infrastructure (i.e., WAL), and so do not offer much in terms of scalability or blast-radius protection compared to putting all tables in the same database.
5. mikeklaas Nov 27, 2021 parent

   I'm surprised to see the Portal listed. We have one for letting the grandparents talk to the kids, and it is the most unreliable piece of technology I've owned. Constant connection issues and laggy UI.
6. mikeklaas Nov 6, 2021 parent

   whoa, do you have a link?
7. mikeklaas Nov 2, 2021 parent

   That's probably the worst book in the series.
8. mikeklaas Nov 1, 2021 parent

   > And it can't be adjusted on the fly, per query.

   Sure it can:

      SET LOCAL work_mem = '256MB';
      SELECT * FROM …

9. mikeklaas Oct 31, 2021 parent

   I find it pretty odd to speculate that they are experiencing a very specific failure mode of a particular database. Do you even know whether they use Postgres?
10. mikeklaas Oct 8, 2021 parent

    Do you have a source for that?
11. mikeklaas Sep 23, 2021 parent

    The "good reason" is that considering 12am the "middle of the day" only makes sense if the typical sleeping window was 8pm to 4am (making midnight the "middle of the night").
12. mikeklaas Jun 16, 2021 parent

    Adding a NULL constraint isn't zero downtime since PG scans the whole table ensuring that the constraint is not violated.
13. mikeklaas Jun 14, 2021 parent

    Perhaps I misinterpreted this part?

    > I struggle to consider using it as a data store these days as well with other options on the table.

    It sounds like you wouldn't use it for any purposes.

14. mikeklaas Jun 12, 2021 parent

    What would you use redis for, if anything?
15. mikeklaas Jun 6, 2021 parent

    You can do something like:

       CREATE TABLE xx AS SELECT * FROM EXTERNAL_QUERY('postgres.db', 'SELECT * FROM my_table'));

16. mikeklaas May 17, 2021 parent

    You can catch and recover from panic()'s in go, too.
17. mikeklaas Apr 26, 2021 parent

    It's sensible in San Francisco because having an active renter makes a property worth significantly less.

    Why? You basically cannot kick evict a renter or raise their rent.

18. mikeklaas Apr 13, 2021 parent

    This is partially due to liability: if someone slips on a wet spill and hurts themselves, Whole Foods is liable if they haven't been taking reasonable measures to clean up such spills in a timely fashion (1/hour). Scanning is a way to later prove that such cleaning was happening.
19. mikeklaas Feb 1, 2021 parent

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20. mikeklaas Jan 4, 2021 parent

    Is it not the same thing as ubiquitous foam board insulation? https://www.homedepot.com/b/Building-Materials-Insulation-Fo...
21. mikeklaas Nov 21, 2020 parent

    Good thought, but that might incentivize not replacing worn tires
22. mikeklaas Nov 10, 2020 parent

    I replaced the battery in my 2013 about 11 months ago, FWIW.
23. mikeklaas Sep 7, 2020 parent

    It's the key beside "1", namely "`"
24. mikeklaas Aug 13, 2020 parent

    Charging at night isn't great for using solar power without storage. Ideally, we'd incentivize people to use their car's battery to store excess solar power during the day and smooth out the duck curve (perhaps slowly recharging again at night)
25. mikeklaas Aug 9, 2020 parent

    Unless the friend is only buying Amazon-branded products, the merchant is being screwed
26. mikeklaas Jul 12, 2020 parent

    For a much grimmer and soul-wrenching take on this, read Meditations on Moloch by Scott Alexander:

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TxcRbCYHaeL59aY7E/meditation...

27. mikeklaas Apr 23, 2020 parent

    You have the terminology backwards. Coronavirus is not (epidemiologically) airborne, but it can be aerosolized and transmit through the air.
28. mikeklaas Mar 23, 2020 parent

    Remote is a possibility, depending on timezone.
29. mikeklaas Mar 23, 2020 parent

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30. mikeklaas Mar 16, 2020 parent

    It's too late for that. If you exposed yourself now, you'd be direly sick just as the first unhandleable wave is going to hit the health care system.

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