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compton93

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About compton93

Modern era DBA

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    Comment #47847819

    That's crazy. But coming from someone who wrote a book on retail fraud and worked as a retail fraud analyst for several years... you could have just walked straight out with those …

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    Comment #44383040

    I don't want to review code the author doesn't understand This really bothers me. I've had people ask me to do some task except they get AI to provide instructions on how to do the…

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    Comment #44315640

    No they just read the memory. The whole point of an external cheat is to only read memory. They can still use Win32 to send inputs.

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    Comment #44315434

    Win32 API mouse input and trigger a mouse click in Windows when crosshair on enemy head (more likely when crosshair is within enemy head position).

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    Comment #44164264

    > literally name themselves as "Postgresql Data Warehouse" but correct me if I'm wrong That's not their primary product. Crunchy Postgres is their primary offering and they recentl…

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    Comment #44164131

    I consulted on a project that was using MongoDB even though it was obvious from the concept that an RDBMS would be better, however I went in with an open mind and gave MongoDB a re…

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    Comment #43991103

    They've had flags and work arounds for ages. Not sure what point you are trying to make? But like you said I've never used it, only heard of it lol.

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    Comment #43990925

    When you get a chance can you take a look my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43990502 When I first stepped into a DBA role with CockroachDB I was confused why inde…

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    Comment #43990828

    They've been saying that for 3 years. We actually had a discount for being an early adopter. But hey its obvious Ive never used it and only heard of it.

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    Comment #43990627

    What are your thoughts on Fujitsu's VCI? I typically work for ERP's but im always advocating to offload the right queries to columnar DB's (not for DB performance but for end user …

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    Comment #43990582

    It is. But wait... it doesn't join the data on the application level of your application. You have to deploy their proxy service which joins the data on the application level.

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    Comment #43990502

    I'm curious about Motion's experience with "Unused Indices". They suggest Cockroach's dashboard listed used indexes in the "Unused Indices" list. I think the indexes they suspect w…

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    Comment #43990447

    I worked for startup who did all of these things on CockroachDB. We could of used a single m5.xlarge PostgreSQL instance (1000 basic QPS on 150GB of data) if we optimized our queri…

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    Comment #43921315

    A guy on reddit was working on one named PrismWM but he went AWOL. There was a mac os 9 lookandfeel in JDK 1.1 that could be updated to a modern version of Java as well.

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    Comment #41456075

    I suspect thats the case, but EoE became a thing for me within months of that ordeal so I suspect there is a connection. My EoE symptoms are difficulty swallowing and esophageal sp…

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    Comment #41455997

    I used to get acid reflux, it was really noticeable while trying to sleep, but that changed after I drank some water (by accident) from inside a cave of a small island near Vanuatu…

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    Comment #41314909

    Or when a car behind you tries to double dip on the overtake so you are forced to commit with them barreling up behind you.

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    Comment #41273503

    Clock sync issues also sucked, we had a recurring issue which would cause the cluster to become unstable due to clock syncs and support would throw it in the to hard basket.

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    Comment #35145305

    Old search was better for global searches, I find the new search great for searching within an org.

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    Comment #35076440

    I picked up a 7900X3D last week, I wanted the X3D cache for Rust (the game). Since upgrading from a 5900 I have gone from 90ish FPS to 200FPS, no graphics card upgrade just CPU. I'…

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    Comment #34906939

    Worked for 5 years old a ColdFusion codebase that is still in use for a large SaaS. 1 Big monolith, no tests, all procedural code and changing any code would break something somewh…

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    Comment #34704001

    Modern bots use reflection on the client itself, including faking the MouseEvent to the canvas/applet. Some bots use typical autohotkey style automation of just moving the mouse ar…

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    Comment #34482922

    Haven’t been laid off but I see it coming in the next few months. I do DBA/performance tuning on MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server (and recently Cockroach). Being remote in Australia mak…

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    Comment #34410374

    Funnily enough, Cyberduck (the FTP, SSH, s3 mounting software for Mac/Windows) uses IKVM for their windows release.