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aeonsky··on Securing Your PostgreSQL DB with Roles and Privileges
Yes, my team had a direct issue with this on Aurora Postgres, at least. This is PG9 but then kept happening all the way into PG12 until we got rid of all but like 5 roles. Above like 4000 roles we experienced a significant lag on every query, sometimes on the order of seconds. At scaled somewhat linearly. I even wrote to Tom Lane and he said that area of Postgres is poorly optimized.
aeonsky··on Why is desalination so difficult?
Pick up some oysters, for eating? If these oysters serve as a pre-filter for the plant, would you not want to eat them as these oysters would contain all sorts of pollution?
aeonsky··on American drivers have a blinding headlight problem
It was baffling to me when I was in Florida and rented a car. I was driving on the highways and no matter where I was, every highway was littered with abandoned cars. I had things fly off from a car into mine (splash shield). And then I realized its most likely because Florida has no safety inspections.

As a car enthusiast myself, I'm glad Mass has safety regulations and I don't have to jeopardize my safety or breathe pollution from cars rolling coal. Safety and car hobbies can go hand in hand.

aeonsky··on Pelé has died
Not even going to point out that the OP isn’t even trying to overlook all the good things he did.

It’s a stretch to argue that a lifetime of neglect is a singular mistake. This was an ongoing issue that he kept choosing over and over again.

aeonsky··on Tesla can detect aftermarket hacks designed to defeat EV performance paywalls
Blaming aftermarket parts for non related failures is very common for luxury brands especially German ones: Audi & Mercedes are biggest culprits.

Some Audi dealers would void almost your entire power train warranty for simple things like an aftermarket cold air intake.

aeonsky··on GitHub abandons 'master' and 'slave' terms to avoid row
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2674#issuecomm...
aeonsky··on GitHub abandons 'master' and 'slave' terms to avoid row
Once again, the usage here has nothing to do with master-slave idea. Obviously there is precedent for breaking changes. The benefits must outweigh the costs, the cost here is monumental, and the benefit here is non-existent.
aeonsky··on GitHub abandons 'master' and 'slave' terms to avoid row
Git's use of master has nothing to do with the master/slave idea. The word master been a word longer than it has been associated with slavery. Not every use of master is offensive/rooted in slavery/racism.
aeonsky··on GitHub abandons 'master' and 'slave' terms to avoid row
There is talk on the originating GitHub issue to make a list of repos/authors that still have master as a branch name as a way to shame them into compliance.
aeonsky··on GitHub abandons 'master' and 'slave' terms to avoid row
It will break a lot of code and a lot of tools. For what? To virtue signal about something that has nothing to do with the current civil rights movement?

Should we change the word master data? Git is also an offensive term. This is absurd.

aeonsky··on Jepsen Disputes MongoDB's Data Consistency Claims
No it doesn’t. But what do I know running several clusters in production for a $100 million business? Please read up on the subject before arguing.
aeonsky··on Jepsen Disputes MongoDB's Data Consistency Claims
I’m not sure if I can even understand what you are talking about or why you said that.

If you have pid,{name:’val’, others...}. And an index of name with a million John and one Jane. Good luck getting fast results.

aeonsky··on Jepsen Disputes MongoDB's Data Consistency Claims
Postgres has terrible indexing with json. It doesn’t keep statistics so simple queries sometimes take much longer than expected due to query planner not knowing much about the data.
aeonsky··on Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?
The second I'm presented with a pop-up as the first thing on a website, I close out.
aeonsky··on New Abbott SARS-CoV-2 antibody test has 99.90% specificity and 100% sensitivity
I'm sure you are aware of story behind Theranos - doing complex tests on a drop of blood is currently impossible.
aeonsky··on Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)
I guess its just anecdotes at this point, not data. But all my peers and friends from different schools, were solving quadratic equations in 4th grade in USSR/Russia. This was early 90's. I then studied in Canadian and US high schools and it took me until 9th grade to start learning any new math again at school.
aeonsky··on How Gov.uk Notify reliably sends text messages to users
You understand that OP is requesting a solution for a practically unfixable issue. Unless you a have relationship with the carrier itself. A provider sends you a success, but it was actually a failure. Imagine a DB sending Commit-OK, but data was never written. You probably wouldn’t buy very much from a company that uses that kind of DB as well, since it loses your orders.

Once again, if you are receiving texts that must mean you opted into them. User is expecting them and it’s different from a user receiving two texts never having signed up for them.

I do believe this technique uses some out of the box thinking and mostly DOES solve OPs problem.

aeonsky··on How Gov.uk Notify reliably sends text messages to users
If its something requested, the user can always re-request it. If it not something requested like news, use two different providers to send 2 messages. One the actual content, and then a minute later, a different smaller message saying "This message brought to you buy MyCompany. Please text back STOP to stop messages or AGAIN to get the latest alert again." Some end users might get better delivery results with a specific texting service, so it might be useful to set service affinities on a user specific basis.
aeonsky··on Plane Tests Must Use Average Pilots, NTSB Says After 737 Max Crashes
Yes, when 400 people die for a company to save money, you must assign blame and put people in jail.
aeonsky··on The new Dropbox
This looks way too much like Jira.
aeonsky··on Firefox Monitor
I bought extended car warranty from a company and they subsequently exposed my VIN, name and email on a publicly shared DB by accident, and its still up. I don't want to report this to them directly. Anyone know if I can report this to Firefox Monitor somehow?
aeonsky··on Firefox 67.0 Released
I think its obvious he's talking about the fact that Firefox is unusable on MacOS (on scaled resolutions). And it seems Mozilla has no ability to fix this for a large portion of their potential clientele.
aeonsky··on H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against Free and Simple Tax Filing (2017)
I don’t believe the 1040EZ exists anymore.
aeonsky··on Firefox 64 Released
Do you require a scientific study for any fact? If you bothered to do any googling, or whatever Mozilla equivalent of google is - this is in the top 3 results. https://9to5mac.com/2016/12/02/15-inch-macbook-pro-screen-re... Scaled resolution is defaulted on a huge amount of Macs.
aeonsky··on Firefox 64 Released
Scaled resolution option is so widely used that it might as well be broken entirely.
aeonsky··on Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar
I think this is one of the standard options: https://docs.pact.io
aeonsky··on Java autoboxing/unboxing madness (2007)
JLS: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-15.htm...

Otherwise, if the second and third operands have types that are convertible (§5.1.8) to numeric types, then there are several cases:

... binary numeric promotion (§5.6.2) is applied to the operand types, and the type of the conditional expression is the promoted type of the second and third operands.

... If either operand is of type double, the other is converted to double.

aeonsky··on C# 7 Work List of Features
If the entire C++ codebase I worked with was mostly C, my job would be so much easier. I think the 2000+ page C++ manual proves my point.
aeonsky··on C# 7 Work List of Features
Are you willing to say the same for C++?
aeonsky··on Why people leave companies
I believe it is because cancer patients are a protected class under ADA, I may be wrong.
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