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Comment · 2 months ago
I saw this on X and assumed it was well done satire of the current state of the industry.
Comment · 9 months ago
From a business perspective, this means they will not be investing in innovation on the platform anymore. Instead, they will focus their efforts on maintaining the current operations and keeping the lights on.
Comment · 9 months ago
https://www.percona.com/blog/separating-fud-and-reality-has-...

This has been debunked, they've never used Github as their main development area

Comment · 1 year ago
So biological garbage collection pauses then? skip sleep, and the brain tries to run gc cycles during runtime. Causing attention and performance latency spikes. Evolution wrote the original JVM.
Comment · 1 year ago
In the situations you mentioned, it doesn't seem the end goal is to be 100% correct about things. Approaching these situations with a curious mindset is key. You may be able to provide a set of options that encompass your understanding of the thing being asked without pinning yourself down to a specific outcome. Once you've allowed folks to understand the potential options, you can tell them you can get back to them with specifics and understanding of implications.
Comment · 4 years ago
It also works fine with Aurora, as long as you have binary logging enabled.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
The watch deactivates most features and locks as soon as you take it off of your wrist. You'd need to re-enter your password to unlock it. so it is unlikely that throwing it would trigger the feature.

Also from their initial demo, the fall detection uses more input than just a fast falling motion. Apparently humans fall in a specific way that the watch detects

Comment · 7 years ago
exponentially delayed replication down the replica chain...
Comment · 7 years ago
I am not familiar with the ad space, but isn't there a provider/method/framework that would allow people embedding ads on their apps/websites/platforms to select the types or categories of ads they'd be comfortable with?
Comment · 7 years ago
This is a space that I am deeply interested in, but my team have not found a good pattern around this for MySQL. We currently use a combination of MySQL Slap and Jmeter, but we feel like there are better ways to do this.

Anyone have nice patterns for this around MySQL?

Comment · 7 years ago
What manner of failure would cause such globally deployed and distributed systems to go down like this? I'm very interested to read up on this when they release details of the failure.
Comment · 7 years ago
I'm sure Borski saw Africa and didn't even bother to look up the safety record.
Comment · 10 years ago
Are FBI and CIA not acronyms?
Comment · 10 years ago

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