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parthdesai

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    Comment #49190950

    What has that to do with the comment you replied to, which was about Jeff & Sanjay achieving so much?

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    Comment #49188813

    How does this comment relate to the parent comment?

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    Comment #49123361

    Hosting the tournament has nothing to do with it. America is a lucrative market, and on top of that, FIFA can get away with charging insane ticket prices. I'm Canadian and soccer i…

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    Comment #49097189

    Using total population is a bad metric considering India itself has about 2 out of 7 billion people.

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    Comment #49071376

    Not entirely sure, but the person vibe coding this does know Postgres really well tbf

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    Comment #48794614

    If you're working at any decent scale, the journey is the opposite IMO.

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    Comment #48540448

    > (Most) CRUD/OLTP applications don't delete data by timestamp; they delete by primary key. For those workloads, DROP TABLE (or dropping a partition) isn't a palatable option. UUID…

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    Comment #48533499

    > But with formal methods, you can prove that "for any input x, foo(x) returns a string with no trailing whitespace". Isn't that essentially property testing?

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    Comment #48506917

    > but that looks pretty close to pricing for SMS. Which makes market sense (imho) because it's a substitute good People switched to whatsapp because: 1. It was free unlike SMS 2. I…

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    Comment #48506310

    I could be wrong, but with Citus, for most use cases, you can only have one co-ordinator node which fans out requests. So theoretically, you still can run into bottle necks at some…

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    Comment #48480552

    There's multiple solutions coming up in this space: 1. Neki as you mentioned 2. PgDog 3. Multigres, headed by original creator of Vitesse

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    Comment #48480526

    Patroni 1.0 was released in 2016, i.e ~10 years ago. https://github.com/patroni/patroni

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    Comment #48477902

    Semi related question - I have always wondered, how do you tackle OOM issues at the proxy layer, i.e. let's say a particular SQL query requires proxy to fan out the query to multip…

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    Comment #48429512

    Do you’ve proof for that? On the other hand, AIPAC is out there for anyone to see

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    Comment #48428376

    Given that US spies on other countries, including allies (countless examples), I wouldn't rule out them spying on Israel either.

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    Comment #48428285

    How many of those countries openly lobby politicians in USA though?

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    Comment #48428276

    They sure do, but looking at recent events, you can make an educated guess on which country has more influence over the other. Part of it can be attributed to spying and knowing da…

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    Comment #48389571

    There's also the "bible": https://www.manning.com/books/elixir-in-action-third-edition

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    Comment #48359280

    Is it actually refreshing? It's actually refreshing to see Stripe staying private for so long. That means, they have a sustainable business model, and can take on projects that mig…

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    Comment #48330445

    use oban and call it a day: https://oban.pro/

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    Comment #47947719

    Serious question, have you been part of an org that had to scale orders of magnitude very quickly? Anyone who has been part of that journey knows how painful it really is. A lot of…

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    Comment #47936455

    Majority of US voted for Trump. Maybe not aligned with your version of US, but this is what the majority wanted

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    Comment #47889595

    Quoting a guy who is (in)directly responsible for murder of about 4 million people. Nice

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    Comment #47889549

    > If China ever feels emboldened enough to go for Taiwan and the US descends into complete chaos, the rest of the world running on AI will be at the mercy of authoritarian regimes.…

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    Comment #47781129

    Sorry, should've AI will replace software engineers in 6-9 months. I'm hoping AI will be the one responding to this incident as well.