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"MySQL was also potentially faster as it did not implement all features of the SQL standard. "

This is a not great start. I assume it refers to MyISAM which has not been relevant for over a decade at this point. InnoDB made different design than PG decisions and was (and perhaps still is) faster at point lookups.

Does this not speaks to the rapid growth of Central Europe economies rather than a decline of Japan? I have read similar comparisons for both the U.K. and Germany vs Poland.

Also, a quick googling suggests both Poland and Japan both have fertility rates around 1.2. Working age of Poland is 65% of the population vs 60% for Japan. So a bit worse.

Oddly enough I am visiting Japan right now. There are lots of foreign workers in service jobs. They speak zone language and don’t jay walk.

Prices feel like a middle income country, but that is just the Yen sucking. Otherwise it feels very first world.

They are however incredibly loud. Being close to someone shooting 556 with a brake is a really annoying experience and I would not be shocked if there were follow on effects.

I am an overweight person that drank more than I should. Ozempic helped me drop 15 lb and I don’t feel the draw of drink nearly as much as I had.

I was diagnosis ADHD as a kid. Since being on Ozempic I have noticed no difference in ability to hold attention.

“Introduced in 2013, HBase was Pinterest’s first NoSQL datastore.”

I don’t think this is correct. When I started in late 2013 Redis was being used as a persistent data store. And what pain it was. I convinced leadership in late 2014 this was a bad and they had me keep it alive until it was replaced by MySQL in mid 2015.

HBase was nothing but pain at Facebook where it was supposed to replace MySQL and then Pinterest where… I think there was hope it would replace MySQL. Once I automated MySQL at Pinterest I think it wasn’t so bad, particularly given the absurdly limited staff they gave the problem.

I enjoy that “ma” has ambiguous meaning above. Does it mean mandarin question mark word or does possibly mean mother?

Before I joined in late 2013, they had not known how to run schema change without downtime. Once we fixed the kernel the db’s were nearly completely untaxed in terms of performance. They did however need large instances due to disk usage.

I am getting a Sub-zero in a few weeks which is damn near the most expensive fridge. It does not have nice pull out shelves or the veggie compartments.

I expect the sealing and ethylene scrubbing will keep veggies fresh linger.

We recently moved to Frederick, MD. Walking distance to the very lively downtown, inexpensive housing, close to an airport, yada, yada...

OT: How is the tech scene in Taiwan?

My wife is from Taiwan. Every time we visit I am very sad to leave. We have thought about moving to Taipei.

And Taiwan.

FB had plenty of schema changes. I know, I wrote software to push them out. The important concepts for pushing schema at scale became part of Skeema.

Taiwan.