Thetawaves

Oracle has put a TON of work into mysql over the last several years. Innodb group replication is a biggie, but not the only substantial improvement mysql has received over MariaDB.

This improves the impedance of high speed signal transmission - at high speeds the currents want to flow through the ground path as close to the signal path as is possible. Said another way - designers work to reduce the total area inside the electric circuit to support high switching speeds. The additional power pins in high pin count chips serve to reduce the distance between high speed signal paths and their return ground paths. This is actually true for both ground and vcc, but is easier to visualize when working with signals and their grounds.

This is not really true. Generally speaking, at the grossest level of averaging, regularly eating 2 meals instead of 3 or 1 meal instead of 2 results in a long term net reduction of calories.

Additionally your stomach shrinks under this regime - that one meal will definitely make you feel full and satiated.

All this goes into ease of adherence - I just don't have to think about it. I eat as much as I want for dinner each day and have dropped a steady 10lb/year for the last 5 years.

Yet more shit I do not want inflating the price of a service I can barely justify as it is.

I think I disagree on this premise - government subsidies for telecommunications over the last 20 years have largely served to connect new and under served markets. If you have broadband (by the pitiful FCC definition) you have not been a target of investment.

Government money is regularly used to build access to new / remote places.

Should I provide examples or would that be considered cherry picked evidence?

Sifting generally. At the end of the process the largest thing in the mill will be the balls.

Later research into thermionic devices did produce miniaturized versions, but nothing close to the scale of silicon transistors today.

If the same R&D might went into thermionics, we might just have devices of similar scales.

Aren't all millennials over 30 now?

You struck a nerve on this one ;)

Core inflation at 4% yoy is not gone.

MySQL - Better performance and tune-ability. Higher connection limits/lower connection costs. Better multi-master and clustered replication story. 2+ decades in extremely high data and availability environments (telecom).

Postgres - Better SQL semantics.

Having supported both in 'bet the business' scenarios, I would choose MySQL hands down. Operating state of the art HA postgres clusters today feels like running MySQL clusters in 2005.

Wat Florida has snowplows?

(is that the joke?)

I find this piece to be guilty of conflating big business publisher profits with those of individual authors.

> Incidentally, there are 149 people in the Toronto Public Library system alone earning six-figure salaries. I’m pretty sure there aren’t that many earning that much in all of Canadian book publishing.

Why don't you just come out and admit that publishers are reaping massive profits that do not flow to individual authors. Pardon me while I don't shed a tear for these profiteers. You did a disservice by framing this on the backs of authors.

It would be really nice to see the tree diagram that breaks the company structure down to ~100 person 'divisions'