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> The query planners have diverged between MySQL and MariaDB; which one are you talking about? Both have received improvements in recent years, so the specific version is relevant …

- Its query planner is ancient and broken - it comes up with very bad plans. Every time we rely on it, we regret it eventually - you have to use locks to prevent mangled write tran…

As a big user of MySQL - moving off of it does seem like a good idea, if you can. The longer you wait, the harder it will be to flee

Sibling post has author answering questions in comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925420

Very interesting piece! Does Vitess support xshard joins? How does it compare to things like TiDB?

Oh no, someone is profiting off of their work without proper attribution!?!?

> posts graphs without way to determine scale of y axis Now that’s the kind of excellence I expect from the GitHub engineering team

> Any government, organization, or individual can abuse any technology. But you haven't made the case why opposing technology itself would prevent that, versus holding those indivi…

> AI doesn't exist. It is a marketing term used by grifters to sell their snake oil. They've claimed the term, this is not a useful objection to make at this point. And everyone wa…

> why start with Sam Altman? Well Zuck has that big scary hedge, and I’m sure people have been going after him for ages. > I despise Mark Zuckerberg, but I don’t want to firebomb h…

Sibling comment already said it, but yes I was specifically alluding to Altman's decision to allow the US government to use their AI to choose bombing targets without a human in th…

Is it okay to profit off of a machine that kills innocent people? Would it be immoral to attack the builder of that machine, if it stopped the operation of the machine?

Since 1985, Hezbollah has killed approximately 600 Israelis (if you count IDF soldiers during the occupation of Beirut). Israel has killed 5x that number of civilians in the last t…

If Canada and Mexico started letting Iran launch bombing sorties against US cities from within their borders, would the US consider them neutral? 2 Million a ship seems like a pret…

I think what we should have learned from this is that it's extremely hard to "make a lesson out of" Iran if you depend on moving oil past their borders... the gulf states are much …

The whole world is hurting pretty bad right now when it comes to tech jobs - America seems to be hurting the least. I'm not saying the tech job situation in America isn't bad - but…

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> You're assuming things I didn't state. I don't particularly want mass AI surveillance at all That's fair, sorry for that. > considering how much more dangerous a government's mas…

Sibling comment summed it up pretty well; my country is considered an ally of yours, but even left leaning Americans seem to take it for granted that we deserve mass AI surveillanc…

It’s nice that Americans are being so open about how they feel about other countries these days.

Using AI to write your code doesn't mean you have to let your code suck, or not think about the problem domain. I review all the code Claude writes and I don't accept it unless I'm…

I wonder if we can trust Gemini to do its job well here? Whoever is being protected in those files obviously has the power to compel governments to do what they want - if Gemini st…

Eh, if I'm paying someone to host my git webui, and they are as shitty about it as github has been recently, I'd rather pay someone else to host it or go back to hosting it myself.…

All the same financial rails apply to crypto - enforcement is just lagging a bit. E.g., you could do what World of Warcraft does - Gold can be earned/exchanged in game, and can als…

i'm sure they can still scramble our brains pretty good by exploiting ranking, but if they aren't allowed to customize it per person (e.g., if the same searches have to return the …