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Sure, but it can still have hyperinflation.

On a related note: Visual Studio still has dialogs that cannot be resized, even after years of people begging Microsoft to make them resizable. Shouldn't this be a trivial fix for …

In OLTP, it's very difficult to guarantee correctness with triggers (very easy to have a race condition in concurrent environment). On a flip side, materialized views tend to lock …

You can have it in one place without using background sync. Our application uses classical "foreground update" paradigm, but each API call automatically shows an error to the user …

I think a lot of it is down to Windows, not Prism itself. For decades, Windows made it too easy for games and even some application to install drivers. Windows games use drivers fo…

Itanium was arguably not superior. The assumption behind it (that the compiler can bring order to the chaos) was wrong, making it slower, more expensive, and less efficient than x8…

No. Palantir, possibly the most overvalued company on the stock marker, has P/S 63 and P/E 144. Nvidia has P/S 21 and P/E 33.

Sounds like HPE GreenLake.

From https://kristoff.it/blog/contributor-poker-and-ai/ : "Unfortunately the reality of LLM-based contributions has been mostly negative for us, from an increase in background nois…

This is just a footnote in the article, but is incredibly important, IMO: ”There’s a risk that codebases begin to surpass human comprehension as a result of more AI in the developm…

The wording "outside of transaction" irks me. Everything in a relational database is done within a transaction, the only question is whether it's the transaction you think it is, o…

Dave Cutler and his team are a clear counter-example. They famously shipped Windows NT with zero known bugs, which clearly brought enormous shareholder value. The problem, of cours…

I think this is especially problematic (from Part 4 at https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporize... ): "The team had reached a point where it was too risky to ma…

If memory serves, Windows 2000 was the last version where search worked reliably. It was a simple linear search through files which could take a while on larger folders, but was re…

My guess would be bad hashing, resulting in too many collisions.

> often you have to inject data into new tables or columns No tool can help you with that, simply because this kind of data migration depends on your particular business logic that…

> Boolean is rarely enough for real production workloads. You need a 'processing' ... 'retrying'... 'failed' ... If you have more than 2 states, then just use integer instead or bo…

Why use string as status, instead of a boolean? That just wastes space for no discernable benefit, especially since the status is indexed. Also, consider turning event_type into an…

That's true for seeks into the clustered (primary) index because that index includes all fields, so you don't need to "jump" to the heap to get them. However, seeking into a second…

For inserts, you cannot escape writing into the base table and all indexes. However, my understanding is that for updates PostgreSQL has a write amplification problem due to the fa…

Yes, and the newest Panther Lake too! https://techtime.news/2025/10/10/intel-25/