andyzweb

Joined 14 years ago

Karma

228

Submissions

191

Member since

Mar 3

contact is hn username at gmail

View on Hacker News

Recent submissions

Comment · 1 year ago

Correction: SIPS is the scriptable image processing system, SIP is system integrity protection.

Comment · 1 year ago

Those criteria seem pretty good. All those companies should be broken up and required to make certain divestitures until they no longer to-big-to-fail, oligarchical, anti-competitive etc.

Comment · 2 years ago

there have been a few attempts at adding TDE to postgresql. I think the cybertec patches are probably the most notable https://github.com/cybertec-postgresql/postgresql/tree/15tde...

Comment · 2 years ago

UMENU https://www.troubleshooters.com/umenu/index.htm

Comment · 2 years ago

it might work but keep in mind schema changes in cockroachdb very different under the hood. for one they are not transactional and run in the background https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/online-schema-chan...

Comment · 4 years ago

P-star https://www.p-star.org/

Comment · 4 years ago

can we chat over email? contact is hn username at gmail.com

Comment · 4 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA3SBgcZwtE. Good talk by a core developer

This is another presentation from a core developer: https://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/optimizer.pdf

Comment · 4 years ago

For me it was moving in with my fiance. I read out loud to her every night till she falls asleep.

Comment · 4 years ago

Can you clarify if you mean "tailored" or if you are making Taylorism into a verb "taylored"? Since it appears so close in your comment to "mass manufacturing" I'm having difficulty distinguishing the meaning.

Comment · 5 years ago

What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.

- Arthur Jensen (Network, 1976)

Comment · 5 years ago

citizen/soldier/farmer the Romanitas ideal. Also kind of rolls up into the whole Cincinnatus thing.

Comment · 5 years ago

I thought it might have been some kind of reference to the bless(8) command.

Comment · 5 years ago

Maybe not bought but we rented a house where the owner padlocked 2 bedrooms shut and said if we wanted to use them it was an extra $200 a month to use them as home offices.

Comment · 5 years ago

Was that the budget for the whole thing? If that’s what it cost to put that thing up there why aren’t we doing this once a month.