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The cup holder situation, on the other hand… (992.1 owner)

> What if an executive makes a wrong business decision I jokingly tell students, "We all know executives are gonna make bad decisions no matter what the data says. Might as well gi…

> This is basically the same as saying “databases weren’t designed for interns to run live inline migrations in prod”. Yeah of course they aren’t. And the same as saying "databases…

> Back in the 1970's we'd pull a spark plug and screw in a hose to use the compression phase to inflate tyres. You'd inflate your tires with a gasoline and air mix?

And why? Sometimes it's just amazing to look at how much dedication someone put into a list like this, and wonder what they do with this information. It's inspiring (to me at least…

There are rumors that there were 2 pilots aboard, and that one of them accidentally triggered autoland, and they couldn't figure out how to turn it off: https://vansairforce.net/th…

> I have also seen this used in other formats quite successfully - Fandom/Wikia (used to?) use a MySQL database for each sub-site. Stack Overflow used it as well, with a database p…

> If you are on AWS and AWS goes down, that's covered in the news as a bunch of billion dollar companies were also down. Customer probably gives you a pass. Exactly - I've had clie…

Because I'm sure other people will ask - no, it does not support SQL.

That isn't a new phenomenon.

> what stops me is the sudden drop in corporate sponsorship of them. That's true in two ways: not only are less companies paying to send their attendees to training, but less compa…

> I'd be curious to hear how often newbies showed up to these SQL events pre-COVID. Large SQLSaturday events used to regularly get 300-400 attendees, and a good 10-20% of them were…

You're right - Twitter used to generate FOMO amongst those not attending, plus make it easier for attendees to coordinate after-hours events. Both of those factors are diminished.

> The range only needs to cover the period between mandated brakes. I was confused there for a second until I realized you meant "breaks."

I have a hard time getting excited about this when they have such an atrocious record of handling pull requests in VS Code already: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pulls

Author here - whoa, didn’t expect this to hit HN. Here for any questions, but I think the post speaks for itself.

Summary of the video: 24 hours before the fatal helicopter-American CRJ midair crash, a similar event was prevented by TCAS (traffic collision avoidance system) because the plane w…

Yep, nothing's changed there around transactions.

It sounds like you're not training it with your existing code base, and that you're running it with relatively small contexts. Have you done any custom LLM training on your code ba…

> SQL Server is one of the few commercial DB's that does real nested transactions Not sure where this myth keeps coming from, but no, it does not: https://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/p…

Because it's more about trends than current rankings.

> Anyone knows which movie was that? Strange Days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Days_(film)

Can’t you send PDFs to a Kindle? Been a decade since I used one, but I vaguely remember that being a thing.

> no trouble uploading all of that data in less than a week When you're doing e-discovery, deadlines are often measured in days - not just for the upload time, but for the analysis…

Physical honeypots.