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That's a tabbed interface on the site that just defaults to postgres. SQLite and duckdb are supported too.

I've recently come off a team that was racking up a huge Splunk bill with ~70 log events for each request on a high traffic service, and this is all very resonant (except the bit about sampling, I never gave that much thought - reducing our Splunk bill 70x was ambitious enough for me!).

Hadn't heard the "wide event" name, but I had settled on the same idea myself in that time (called them "top-level events" - i.e. we would gather information from the duration of the request and only log it at the "top" of the stack at the end), and evangelised them internally mostly on the basis it gave you fantastic correlation ability.

In theory if you've got a trace id in Splunk you can do correlated queries anyway, but we were working in Spring and forever having issues with losing our MDC after doing cross-thread dispatch and forgetting to copy the MDC thread global across. This wasn't obvious from the top-level, and usually only during an incident would you realise you weren't seeing all the loglines you expected for a given trace. So absent a better solution there, tracking debug info more explicitly was appealing.

Also used these top-level events to store sub-durations (e.g. for calling downstream services, invoking a model etc), and with Splunk if you record not just the length of a sub-process but its absolute start, you can reconstruct a hacky waterfall chart of where time was spent in your query.

What's the right way?

I've used it in anger on a project with an unreasonable start time in its test suite. Put an alert sound on VS when breakpoints were reached let me start a test with debugger attached, and then go do something else for the time it would take to start, but not forget what I had been originally doing.

I still haven't settled the nature of free will and determinism, aka who's actually controlling the trains, them or their drivers?

I know the article was about movies that persuaded viewers to _go_ to a certain country, but I am reminded of a former colleague who explained to me that it was actually a TV show ("The Mechanism", a drama about political corruption in Brazil) that finally convinced him he needed to take his young family and _leave_ Brazil for a better future.

Of course I had to give it a watch after a review like that. Good show.

> The Prime Minister of Canada just did a state visit to India, where he was not warmly received, and made to look foolish on the world stage.

Have you considered the possibility that the reason he got a cold reception was he brought the accusation he just made publicly? Would put the issue with the plane in a whole new light too...

The graphics weren't elaborate, I just remember things like the illustration of a storefront before you worked on an inventory spreadsheet, or the ascii picture of a telephone and modem before the "Communications" tool (i.e. telnet) section.

I have fond memories of the early DOS version (1.something). Its tutorial was a masterclass (included full screen ascii graphics illustrating the scenarios) and as a kid playing on my father's laptop I went through it several times. I particularly enjoyed the database tutorial where you worked on WHODUNIT.WDB to solve the mystery of a murder at a ski slope by narrowing down the customers against clues...

Thanks, was unaware of the movie!

I've been on the look-out for that too. Have lined up Mike Royko's "Boss" on Daley in the interim, though the bookshop owner wasn't as fond of Royko's writing style...

Somewhat (by a few decades) behind the times here, but I finally found a set of Robert Caro's Years of Lyndon Johnson books at a 2nd-hand shop earlier this year. What a ride. I know it's a famous series, but I'm outside the US and so only recently became aware of its existence, and also therefore went in mostly blind as to the subject (I knew very little of LBJ prior). Am partway through the 2nd book now, with the conclusion of the 1948 Texan Senate Democratic primary, and my mouth just sort of hung open for pages at a time during that.

Caro's a talented writer, but what really shows through is just the sheer years of hard work he clearly put into the books. I don't know how one can focus for so many years on just one writing project.

Before my brain caught up I was just about to ask you what brewery is it that can do a 99% Indian Pale Ale...