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Sure thing. I was primarily answering the question above - in terms of how the numbers in the TPC-C benchmark fit in. I updated my comment to reflect the cost. I think what's inter…

I think you can still drive some insights. I clicked on the TPC-C results you shared and read their executive summaries. The Oracle on SPARC cluster (at the top, 2010) performs 30.…

These features sound great. On the Data Migration Tool (DMS), I really wish they would fix important issues related to Postgres. Right now, if you have a JSONB column in your datab…

(Semi-related) I'm an L-1A spouse. It took my work application 10 months to get processed, when the USCIS' own regulation stated that the it should have been closed in 90 days. You…

The only World Cup qualifier that I could find (going back to 1990) are the play-off games between Turkey and Switzerland in '06. Switzerland wins the first game 2-0, and Turkey wi…

Is this data accurate? As a Turkish fan, I don't recall nor can find any records of Turkey losing to Switzerland by a 7-0 margin in 1998. Edit: Also sadly, Turkey didn't make it to…

The link seems to be broken?

My guess with NBA players would be that the proportional increase in their heights would be higher. Does anyone know changes to average weight/height for the population in the US?

As a quick side note, PostgreSQL had the HyperLogLog data type for a while: https://github.com/aggregateknowledge/postgresql-hll For people who need SQL and HyperLogLog, we found t…

If you don't have access to Internet, unfortunately, it does. I called my mom who lives in Eskisehir Saturday morning TST, and asked her about the protests. Her reaction was, "What…

His actual quote about news spreading through social media is near the middle of the article. "There is now a menace which is called Twitter," Erdogan said. "The best examples of l…

In most of the world, revolutions come bottom up. In Turkey, they came top down. It was the military that toppled the "sultan" and established the parliamentary system / Turkish Re…

Distributed load balancing is a tough problem with two pieces to it. One is the queueing theory part. The other is the systems side to it. If you have multiple customers and multip…