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Completely agree. Seems like a weird decision by Stripe. Opt-out or automatically pay more is not good.

> The version of Radar you've been using is closest to Standard, and you've been receiving it for free. Starting today, you'll receive a free trial of Radar Standard, which now inc…

The postmaster is effectively your supervisor. It could see the child segfault and abort the whole DB, but that would be deferring supervision to your init system. Not ideal.

You are correct! TIL, and thank you. Connection processes get a SIGQUIT, shared buffers cleared, and WAL replayed, but postmaster stays alive. It's effectively an online restart.

A million users? Hell, I'd bet 99.999% of live postgres databases in existence serve less than 5 users on average. Even among products that actually make a profit, I bet 99.9% of t…

A thread per connection is a almost always the correct decision for performance, but by choosing a process per connection, postgres is able to let you load whatever sketchy extensi…

I've seen companies put a percentage of the team on a PIP as a "this is not a layoff but we do need to cut costs" situation. Hopefully Elastic is just being honest about it?

I'm surprised they didn't do this the first time around. Like, a user says they forgot their password and you tell them they don't actually have an account, that's an information d…

Acquisitions change priorities and layoffs put the squeeze on people. AI is for sure in the mix there, but open source decay is a result of no room in budgets for anything but maxi…

To be honest, I think it's just a more honest score of what Opus 4.6 actually was. Once contexts get sufficiently large, Opus develops pretty bad short term memory loss.

I hope it comes down to the NTSB recommending more controllers (or better conditions for controllers) to avoid task saturation, not just more process. It's incredible what a single…

Camera cuts to a tech bro at his desk with 3 jobs and 5 instances of Claude Code running: > I had [the Register] explain to me three times what [Kim] got arrested for because it so…

Maybe. When it comes to actual payments, fee structures don't allow for this outside of the laboratory.

Maybe so. OLED comes with a risk, but I've run mine at 70-75% brightness with no issues. I probably drive mine ~2,500 hours per year, so if we make it 4 years that is a huge win in…

I bought an LG 32" 4k OLED for $999 and it's hands down the best display I've ever used. No burn in even with lots of static browser/terminal windows for days and days. The fact th…

Just 10 minutes ago I was working with a very large semi-malformed excel file generated by a mainframe. DuckDB was able to load it with all_varchar (just keep everything a string) …

I made the switch on a new project and I don't regret it but it's still early days software despite the marketing. Concurrency control is fantastic, but it doesn't always work. I'v…

I spend a lot of time out of reception and starlink has been fantastic. So much so that I leave it on anytime I'm driving where I have cellular reception because it's just consiste…

Same here. I was told it would take a at least year on the waitlist. A month later I had 2 friends offer me their spot. They weren't impressed with the truck after a few reviews ca…

Is open router still sending all OCR jobs to Mistral? I wonder if they're trying to keep that spot. Seems like Mistral and Google are the best at OCR right now, with Google leading…

Installed _on_ an engine that operates at 200ºC!

This is why I migrated my apps that need an LLM to Gemini. No model degradation so far all through the v2.5 model generation. What is Anthropic doing? Swapping for a quantized vers…