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aadvark69··on Why PostgreSQL High Availability Matters and How to Achieve It
Spanner is great if you have unlimited money
aadvark69··on Inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid
American Leftists declared it wrongthink and Big Tech overlords banned anyone who wanted to discuss it.
aadvark69··on Join our CEO tomorrow to discuss the API
Neither of of those examples materially affected usability or accessibility. This does.
aadvark69··on Join our CEO tomorrow to discuss the API
There will absolutely be a material DAU change almost immediately.
aadvark69··on The VC Downturn in 6 Charts
"the people" use products from dozens VC-companies every day
aadvark69··on OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google
They can monetize with their plugin (aka apps) ecosystem. Take 10% of each transaction.
aadvark69··on March 20 ChatGPT outage: Here’s what happened
Better concurrency (10k vs ~200 max connections compared to postgres). ~20x faster than Postgres at Key-value read/write operations. (mostly) single threaded, so atomicity is achieved without the synchronicity overhead found in RDBMS.

Thus, it's much cheaper to run at massive scale like OpenAI's for certain workloads, including KV caching

also:

- robust, flexible data structures and atomic APIs to manipulate them are available out-of-the box

- large and supportive community + tooling

aadvark69··on Amazon pauses construction on second HQ in Virginia amid job cuts
Those are contingent on Amazon actually following thru with their investment
aadvark69··on Things I Learned from My 2 Year Old Baby Girl
What was the point of this comment?
aadvark69··on Skilled tech workers snapped up despite downturn
Twilio is NOT profitable
aadvark69··on Emoji Kitchen
and yet it's extremely commonplace to represent sex or drugs using existing emojies
aadvark69··on Obama argues unregulated social media is a threat to democracy
>alt-right

In today's day and age that just means "not far left"

aadvark69··on The bottom is dropping out of Netflix
It's exhausting to find good content on Netflix. I found myself dreading opening the app because it would take 10+ minutes to find something decent to watch. So I stopped using it.
aadvark69··on New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design
multi-billion* dollar site
aadvark69··on In defense of simple architectures
Simple architectures work well, until they don't. A good example is ye olde ruby on rails monolith. Dead simple to set up and iterate quickly, but once you reach a certain organization and/or codebase size, velocity starts to degrade exponentially
aadvark69··on You are not Google (2017)
Airship doesn't actually send the push? That's news to me
aadvark69··on GitHub Is Down
again?
aadvark69··on US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
>probably just a configuration update.

famous last words

aadvark69··on US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
Incoming mass patching of any and all Date/Time libraries