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The key thing is Postgres does handle enomem well and does a nice rollback rather than crashing the server and entering crash recovery. It’s one of the few programs that does. Exce…

I always like these randomized/semi-randomized network papers. Here's a little known one you might enjoy if you liked this one. https://repositorio.unican.es/xmlui/handle/10902/235…

I've been tying this for years. Good knot. I only have failures if I hit a snag (and no easy-release knot is going to be able to get around that)

I enjoyed my work with Scheme, having received my instruction in the early 2000s. I'm not a functional language or lisp language advocate in any way, and I don't even dislike Pytho…

Fun fact about silver, besides its heavy industrial footprint, which you mentioned: the supply is dominated by Mexico. There have been some, uh, erratic words about Mexico from the…

For those of you with this handy technology, the mobile phone, in the United States: you have an IPv6 address without NAT. Some of you even exist on a network using 464XLAT to tunn…

the main area I'd like to see some departure from beads is to use markdown files (or something) to be able to see the issue context/comments better in a diff generated by git. The …

that's one reason I am less worried about him than some, although, I don't want to say that only to have something bad happen to him, that is, a form of complacency. Just because (…

I use beads quite a bit, but not as steve intended. And definitely the opposite of "Gas Town," where I use the note-taking capability and integration with Git (that is, as somethin…

That's a lot of financial devices painted with a broad brush, and I think the charge that so may central banks are knuckled under with fiscal dominance is simply not sustainable. T…

You don't even need to trust CPI alone when looking in history, where things have evened out a bit: we have historical short-term bond yield data, even the yield curve: people bidd…

It's not very convincing, though: there's a huge runup in gold prices (as is often the case) between 2023 and the present, and a long do-nothing period before that (also often the …

Public Sans seems like a good candidate for a new "web safe" font. Perhaps one new web safe font per twenty five years is not too much. From there, it can percolate to the word pro…

The biggest run classified nuclear stockpile loads, at least in the US. They cost about half a billion apiece. And are 30 (carefully cooled and cabled) megawatts. https://en.wikipe…

that also popped out at me: binding that many parameters is cursed. You really gotta use COPY (in most cases). I'll give you a real cursed Postgres one: prepared statement names ar…

I think it's pretty funny because, for example, Katalin Karikó was thought to be working in some backwater, on this "mRNA" thing, that could barely get published before COVID...and…

One of the things I think about sometimes, a specific example rather than a rebuttal to Carmack. The Electron Application is somewhere between tolerated and reviled by consumers, o…

Seems like an exponential backoff rule would do the job: I'm sure crashes happen for all sorts of reasons, some of which are bugs in the bot, even on non-adversarial input.

GP is more or less correct. Building and owning an institution that finances, racks, services, networks, and disposes of servers, both takes time and increases the commitment level…

Ubicloud does not have an OpenStack dependency.

It varies by system. As the legendary (to some) Kelly Johnson of the Skunk Works had as one of his main rules: > The inspection system as currently used by the Skunk Works, which h…

There is such a prefix, though, but the problem is the end user devices themselves (or a few applications) are not always modern enough to have decent operation with a IPv6 stack. …