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Ah, right. Good callout!

> And you won’t get to brag that you own a computer from Iowa. South Dakota. Gateway was HQ’d in North Sioux City, SD. There is also a South Sioux City, NE, though to my knowledge …

> You "fixed" the incident. You have no idea how. If you don’t know how it broke, and you don’t know how you fixed it, what exactly is it you think you understand about your applic…

Until someone gets the bright idea that you should be multi-region.

It is not my responsibility to teach critical thinking and a CS degree to Bob, nor is that in my job description. If Bob can successfully convince our boss and finance team that hi…

> I totally suck at meetings where the goal of the meeting is to make sure that everyone feels like their voice is being heard. Those are the worst. No, I don’t feel like I need to…

I will forever love reading or watching Casey dunking on people from so far above that they’re unaware of the delta.

Another fun use of colon: :(){ :|:& };:

So if you built something without the use of an LLM, you’re automatically disqualified now? What a world.

> Even with indexes, joins are costly, especially under load at scale with millions of simultaneous users. You can avoid a lot of this by simply having that sub-table information i…

I have no idea why you’ve been downvoted, as you accurately described EAV. I’m a DBRE who cares deeply about schema design, FWIW.

That’s usually because they’ve seen a lot of failure modes over the years, and what seems fine to you can have surprising outcomes later. My personal experience has been the opposi…

> I’ve found normal forms to sometimes be at odds with query efficiency and ease of use, which is critical when you’re moving fast—sometimes it’s just easier to dump data into a js…

> monetary budget I’ve never attempted to calculate it, but I’ve always felt that the money lost from major incidents must outweigh the additional engineering time spent doing thin…

> AIs today are far more knowledgable and much quicker than humans, but still missing a few bits that keep them from being broadly super human. Generally, yes, but it’s the non-det…

My personal belief is that the most effective leaders do in fact deeply understand the technical side of their business, yes. To be fair, I am biased, because I was previously a nu…

If my experience with RDBMS generalizes, I predict that this trend will result in companies hiring skilled developers to unfuck their codebases. Furthermore, I predict they will id…

As others have pointed out throughout the thread, the reason we defend the skills is that there’s a high likelihood that these tools will always be available on any machine; PowerS…

THANK YOU. I kept nodding along to all of the xargs comments, thinking “sure, but what about the even easier solution?”

This resonates with me. I’ve always found the term annoying, because it felt like it was distilling artistic expression down to its most abstract form: content. If all you’re produ…

10/10, no notes.

> That loss is real and it's worth naming. Annnnnd TFA is written by AI. I want to get off Mr. Bones' Wild Ride.

> Everything you create should be an artistic endeavour aiming for perfection. Amen. If you go to a bakery, you expect them to care. If you hire a photographer, you expect them to …

Wait until you read about its quirks [0]. My favorite: “NUL characters (ASCII code 0x00 and Unicode \u0000) may appear in the middle of strings in SQLite. This can lead to unexpect…

> The grandparent comment is just racist. I wouldn’t jump to that conclusion. The concept of low and high-trust societies is well-studied [0], though how a given country maps to it…