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> Then other products will emerge and overtake some of PostreSQL's marketshare in the long run. It's already happening in fact. Just like more efficient and easier to configure webservers like nginx and caddy are gaining marketshare over Apache httpd.

Maybe, we'll see.

It however assumes the other (thread-based) architecture is somewhat universally better, and I doubt that's how it works. It might help the workloads actually requiring many connections to some extent, but it's also likely to hurt other workloads for which the current architecture works just fine.

But let's assume we decide to do that - such change would be a massive shift in programming paradigm (both internally and for extensions developed by 3rd parties) and would probably require multiple years. That's a huge investment of time/effort, with a lot of complexity, risks and very limited benefits until it's done. I'd bet there'll always be a feature with better cost/benefit ratio.

So reworking the other architecture might actually gain us some users but loose others, and drain insane amount of development resources.

> Perhaps a cheaper solution was to incorporate pgBouncer inside PostgreSQL so it would naturally sit in front of PostreSQL in the default installation without extra configuration.

Yes, I already mentioned that's quite likely to happen. There has already been a patch / project to do exactly that, but it didn't make it into PG14.
Very very few people were using cars at that time.

If you apply that same low threshold of usefulness to blockchain then it became useful just as fast, if not faster.
The magnitude of the magnetic field is small and mostly conducts through the ferrite for maximum efficiency; it's the frequency which allows so much power to be conducted.

Also almost nothing in your computer is affected much by moderate magnetic fields. Go ahead, stick magnets all over the motherboard!
Waiting when those dictators with nuclear weapons will lose their mind completely can cost even more lives.
If they want? I’m not sure why you think you have a right to dictate private policy on a private platform.
The hype is that there's lots of money to be made. I've put a significant amount in, banking on finding a greater fool. I have absolutely no faith in the long-term viability of any of the cryptocurrencies, but that won't matter once I sell my coins. Or who knows, maybe I will end up the greatest fool here and just have a worthless number on my screen. It's all a gamble.
Please see some of these sites I shared earlier:

https://curve.fi/ - for exchanging different tokenized stable coins (such as USDC > EURO). Already has over $300M in daily volume exchange.

https://yearn.finance/ - a platform where anyone can code and deploy an investment strategy, provided it is voted on by people who hold the platform's governance tokens. Already has over $3B in assets locked in. Good idea to look at their governance platform as well: https://snapshot.org/#/yearn

https://aave.com/ - a platform to borrow or lend your tokenized assets. Already has over $9B in assets invested

Please see this with an open mind. And please see this from the perspective of someone not from privilege, from a third world country, or from someone facing an oppressive regime.

Money is freedom. And making that freely accessible to anyone from anywhere is important.
This calculus makes sense, unless what you're moving away from has no functional delivery assurances and regularly has server errors and downtime.

And customer service that denies their own problems.
> I wouldn't trust my mechanic to tell me that my car's engine was designed badly

Um, I would. Easiness of repair is a part of a car lifecycle.

When buying a new car, my first stop is my mechanic. They know all the failure modes of the new cars. They also know which cars don't have common failure modes.

There are engines where you have to drop the whole thing to do basic things like change spark plugs. There are engines where if you lose the timing belt the engine will eat itself. etc.

Those are badly designed engines.
Lua is also used for:

- AwesomeWM configuration

- Wireshark dissectors

- Nmap scripting
>> In the serious crypto world, there is a maxim: Code is Law.

Yeah, what's this thing of code is law. I was discussing with a friend today on how governments might have to come in to regulated some financial transactions with crypto based assets. And he vehemently kept repeating that no government can regulate crypto because "code is law". We went down to the physics level to see why it's not impossible to do. Only for me to come here again and start seeing code is law. High time someone explained it better.
Coinbase Owns $223B in Cryptocurrencies
This also is the first thing that I thought about when reading this article. I have to admit that I found the kid's fascination with making a round shiny mud ball a bit weird. After reading this article this scene make sense.
It's news to me that fully fixing a bug constitutes an "astoundingly high standard for successful collaboration." I consider that a baseline expectation, across my 14 years and 5 different companies of industry experience.

I stand by my point that this is a symptom of amateur hour engineering.
The point is that he enjoys them. Throwaway project can be like a puzzle (at least for me). Pick a subject, find some problem and figure it out.

I could ask the same about going hiking, what's the point of that? You're still back home at the end of the day.
"2. You tell them how to procure, and handle a weapon"

Do you think most people in Belorussia would approve?

.. and then you complain of the (fabricated) "Russiagate"..
“Nothing untoward was found and the aircraft and its passengers were cleared to depart”

The omissive wording is utterly revolting. While the Ryanair PR people were at it they could’ve taken it a small step forward and said that a few passengers decided to stay as they really enjoyed the sights.
How about u post a few passages ?
Exactly, engineers should be lazy (seriously).
If you really want your program's output to be a pure function of its input you can use the "interact" function in Haskell. I would recommend that the author try this and see the limitations, since it might help him start to understand why Haskell uses the IO monad.
Hi, great implementation, i was curious if there was any plan to offer a pricing per blog or something of the sort. I don’t write too much even though id like to, so 8$/mo seems steep to justify me writing once in a while. So a pricing per post or something might be awesome
Nowadays there’s hardly a device that can’t easily be updated after shipment - so the cost and effort required to make a perfect error-free CPU is not as incentivezed.
> because the government didn’t have data rights to the design in order to hold down development costs

Isn't this the very problem? These kinds of contracts should be illegal, not just in the military, but across the whole public sector. Not getting full designs along with a custom product makes the public agency dependent on a commercial vendor. Might as well put a neon sign above should provision that says "a loophole for defrauding the public".
There’s two types of people who are against GMOs. Those that are afraid of eating genetically modified organisms, and those who take issue with how GMOs are used in practice. In practice, the most common GMOs (I believe) are Monsanto’s Roundup Ready crops. The point of that crop is that farmers can spray huge quantities of the herbicide glyphosate in to the soil to kill all plants in the field without damaging the crop. Monsanto swears this is safe but there are many reasons why this practice puts workers and eaters at risk and seriously damages ecosystems.

So I would love to know what plants are GMO and specifically what strain is used and why. This would help me avoid GMOs that are used to damage farm ecosystems. This is also why I look for certified regenerative organic products - I want the food I eat to regenerate the soil, not destroy it.
I bought The Division 2 after seeing a promotion on the Epic store. To install it, you have to install the Ubisoft store Uplay, which is launched through an integration with the Epic store.

After playing that game, I saw promotions for Assassin's Creed Odyssey on Uplay, and purchased it. I later went on to purchase many other games on Uplay.

In short, Epic allows Ubisoft to sell games on its store, for which they presumably pay a cut - for those sales. But Epic has no problems letting Ubisoft require their store be installed for those games, and if you buy something there - even though the Epic Launcher installed it - they don't get a cut.

This is more akin to the App Store installing Fortnite - which Apple could get a cut out of, but not getting a cut for purchases in the app.
I'm not proposing that any user experience be extinguished. I'm fine with the Apple App Store being the default app store, and users being able to continue getting apps only through them and making all payments through them if they want to. I just don't think it should be forced even on people who don't want it.
I cannot speak for Mailchimp, but open and click report in a Constant Contact seems to be persistently broken.

e.g. email security software driven opens and clicks are registered as human by CC's reporting tools (GUI and API).
Your shallow dismissal not only ignores a substantial portion of my linked article concerning risks and actual case history, but even the portion quoted above.

Information is not power, information is a power multiplier. It enables actions (including attacks and defences) to be specifically focused and targeted.

In the case of Kim Jung-nam, two women (by all accounts innocent accomplices) managed to kill a significant political target in what they thought wasn an entertainment prank by splashing him with liquid, on the ground, at an airport.

Critical to the success of that attack was not access to supersonic military jet fighter aircraft, but simply knowing where and when the target would be in a specified location.

Information that's now broadcast to accuracy of centimetres and seconds on many hundreds of millions if not billions of people worldwide right now.

To give another example I've noted previously, what rights to privacy should a rhinocerous have?

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/25ll1v/does_a_...
The magnetic field is mostly confined to the core of the transformers, so your power supply isn't going to start attracting things like a giant magnet. This internal field is pretty strong, though, up to 0.3 Tesla in a ferrite core. In comparison, a refrigerator magnet is 5 millitesla and the Earth's magnetic field is 30 microtesla.
A local hairdresser owns one and drives it 300m to her studio at the same time every morning. Easy to find a parking space with and oddly charming looks, but the thing sounds like a rolling tin can with a stone in it and smells like death.
Yeah, and imagine further that people were bidding up the price of IP addresses in a speculative frenzy instead of actually using them.
Nothing stopping you from using a P2P exchange to turn that Euro into hard cash if you don't want to go through the KYC/AML. In fact that's exactly how I bought my BTC after the government here banned it.
> I mean, muster a large scale invasion, for what? A couple dead journalists?

For a one big thing, for honour

For not letting a foul CPSU nincompoop spitting in the face of the Whole Western World from the doorstep of Europe.
Louis' biggest issue is he can't buy parts because apple stops their suppliers from selling parts to other people, and apple now designs devices so even authentic screens/etc from other devices will cause errors.

The schematics are already out there. The issue is its impossible to find parts. You can't take your 2 year old apple to him to get its screen replaced, because there are no screens available to buy for him to replace it with. Apple doesn't let the manufacturers sell them, apple doesn't sell them, and there aren't enough 'donor' screens from devices broken in other ways to satisfy demand.

Louis has done more examining than you give him credit for, while you ignore a lot of the real issues at hand.

Locking down car repair to protect car IP and having no parts available because your car manufacturer wants you to buy a new car or pay for a refurbished car directly...
This is something I try to be careful of. Programming takes time, which is an opportunity cost as we get older. If I was well off, I would love to relax my mind on projects not going anywhere.

However until that point, I try to do something that I feel has some value (or hope will one day).

That said, I do agree with the general premise that work is where we spend to make money and we should relax in our spare time. The criteria for me is that I should enjoy what I’m doing and it should have some small chance of success. But as long as I enjoy it, then I’ll be okay. Better to do a project with 2% chance of success that I enjoy than one of 50% chance of success that I feel like a chore. Life’s too short.

However I would not be able to actively do a project with zero chance of any value (learning can be achieved through many ways, so I don’t count that as value on the outset, only as justification for the time spent afterwards). I rather go for a walk then. There are only a few hours a day where I have the energy to code, it’s too precious to waste.

(ps sorry for the over use of first person - just wanted to share my perspective)
> Literally nothing

Not a single thing? Not one iota?
> Contrast with GCC Rust (https://thephilbert.io/2021/05/14/gcc-rust-weekly-status-rep...), which is attacking the problem from the other side by building a GCC Rust frontend in C++. That one will help with bootstrapping, which currently has to go through mrustc and many rustc builds.

Wouldn't it depend on what kind of bootstrapping? It doesn't help with trusting trust, but rustc frontend + gcc backend would help with porting to a new platform, wouldn't it?
Organized criminal activity is a powerful centralizing force that is always ignored in these discussions.
> the two never have to know each other, and can interact entirely with a smart contract available 24x7, what's there not to be excited about?

I tell you that I'm totally going to follow what a program tells me and you should give me your money to earn interest. Are you excited about the possible interest from this uninsured, pinky-swear promise exchange?

> Code is Law

"Code is law unless things go really bad." - DAO
Yeah not surprising, but I’d like to see Entrepreneurs at least acknowledge luck.

Irrational certainty I feel is dangerous. Unbiased reality on the other hand is actually where I personally see the opportunities are since most don’t frame reality correctly and it’s impossible to know it all.
This now marks the 2nd time we are "letting" this company fix the same mistake, and it gets harder to assume good faith when the same issue crops up repeatedly.

Calling out poor engineering is not prohibiting them from fixing it. It's calling the bluff on "oopsie woopsie a privacy issue again, silly us," for a company whose primary KPI is public profile engagement. The more things like this happen, the less they look like mistakes.
I would consider Seattle an outlier. Look at Indianapolis, Nashville, Columbus, Pittsburgh, etc.
What Russia has to do with this incident?
He's saying the App Store should be held to a different standard because it is the ONLY store for iPhones. That isn't true for the Epic store - you can just install one of the other stores, or purchase from a different method.
> I am perfectly happy upgrading the memory on my MacBook Air with a reflow air station

Probably 0.01% of Apple product owners in North America also own a hot air reflow station and have the skills/practice to use it safely on a very densely populated laptop or phone motherboard.

I would also wager that if you were to look at the pay scale for skilled electronics repair people capable of safely doing so with little risk of killing the board, the market rate for a person running a hot air reflow station to do that work, in a big city in north america (chicago, SF, seattle, NY, etc) might be $200/hour. By the time you were to pay for the repair service and the parts it might not be economical.

One of the things that seems to be much more common in mainland China is that random small phone/laptop repair shops have the technical capability in house to do this sort of work. In the USA the same shops' technical abilities are limited to what can be done with some tweezers, a set of precision screwdrivers, prying tools/spudgers, etc.

Note that I am not excusing apple's terrible repair parts availability or pricing, or other practices which make it difficult for a trained third party to acquire and install legit parts.
I've been working on my own startup for a few months now, I'd say email is one of these things where I really don't mind paying for, even though I hate how expensive Mailchimp/Mandrill is.
> It’s their store.

But once you buy a phone from them, it's your phone, not theirs. You shouldn't have to use their store exclusively on your phone, but since you do, it should be subject to way stricter rules regarding anticompetitiveness and unfairness than non-exclusive stores that other platforms have.
> Its the users phone let them decide. ... Nobody who doesn't opt in for privacy shredding will have their privacy shredded.

If you don't opt-in to privacy shredding then you will be locked out of being able to use facebook, whatsapp, and other "network effect" things that you more or less don't have a choice about without cutting out communication with large parts of your social network, so this is not really a "free choice" at all.

Right now those companies don't have the leverage to lock out Apple users. This immediately gives them that leverage and they will use it, just like they already have tried (and gotten their hands slapped for).

App store review is the only thing standing between you and Facebook demanding full permissions for everything, and allowing third-party app stores or sideloading is a mortal blow to app store review.

I understand that you don't personally care but the Apple customer base does, a large number of them specifically choose that because Apple is using their leverage in favor of the customer here. You can get the experience you desire on the dominant smartphone platform (with 85% of the global smartphone marketshare), just leave us the freedom to choose this experience as well. You're arguing that we should be explicitly denied this because it's not convenient for Facebook.
No ones forcing you to buy an iPhone; if this is really bothering you, go to Android or petition Microsoft or Amazon to start up their phone efforts again.
Yes, there's actually a lot of stuff that uses 3.3 V, e.g. anything connected to smbus. But none of them connect directly to the PSU, so there is no need for the PSU to do it.
Appreciate the response :)
AWS SES is ~1$/10,000 emails. Are you the biggest spammer or just very very poor?

Also, 20 years ago running your email server was way easier than now
Apple's App Store has plenty of scummy apps. A yearly 100 fee isn't going to stop that from happening.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/02/11/app-store-scam-apps-how-to-sp...
Yep, if someone is able to maintain above market level profits for so long it's usually a sign of monopolistic pricing. That's not necessarily bad, but in Apples case it's just double dipping on their monopolistic position and is clearly a drain on the market with no benefit. They have the same incentives to invest in R&D and support the ecosystem on the insane HW margins alone, I'd be willing to bet their dev budget doesn't change at all if this change in rate was made.
Not eveyone earns 100€ an hour, especially in Europe. The newsletter has a French name ("Le courrier du Hacker"), and in France 45/50k€ a year is a good salary. That's around 14/15€ an hour. Which means ~33 hours a year of maintenance.
The Chinese government hasn't always pushed that theory. At times they have claimed the virus originated in another country and was brought into China on frozen food. I don't think there's any evidence to support that claim.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-...
So that means that anyone with access to my computer can put child porn on it and then report it? What exactly would the people involved of been guilty of if the 4 images were found on their computer?
A short oral history of the Neo Geo
Something between that and a Lamborghini Miura
> The 5 V and 3.3 V step-down converters in the PSU are pretty much only for Molex/SATA-connected peripherals, and those don't use 3.3 V anyway (99.5 % of them), since it's not guaranteed to be there.

Yeah, not only is 3.3V not guaranteed to be there, the latest rev of the SATA power spec reused (at least one) of those pins as a signal to inhibit spin-up; used for power sequencing in large disk arrays, with the fun side effect that if you've got a PSU old enough to have 3.3v on sata power, and you use a hard drive new enough to support spin-up inhibiting, you need to either tape the pin, or cut the orange wire, or you can't use your disks.
> It's really not. Ever had your ISP inject shit into your pages?

This. And all the other skulduggery that MITM attacks enable.

I'm kind of surprised that none of the powers-that-be ever pushed for an HTTPS mode that merely signs requests and responses rather than encrypting them, in an effort to undermine encryption advocates.
Well, if you don't have anything better to do, got the time and have a DIY attitude, then it's a great investment. Also, there are more years to come so Y+1 it still saves you 500.
"The international community will do exactly NOTHING"

I very much hope you are right. I very much hope also, that this very same "international community", as you choose to call it, would stop supporting what might be very objectively called fomenting violence in Belorussia and Russia.
This article is a good example of why MailChimp isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

One-to-many email solutions are crazy: it's either some crap or super expensive marketing software. We all wish there was something a bit better.
Everyone should be held to the same standard of respecting private property. You know what you are getting into when going onto apples store; if you don’t like it then encourage all your clients to use Android.
Speaking from personal experiences on non-dedicated IP plans on both SendGrid and SES, SES is much better in deliverability of transactional emails, esp. when sent to .edu domains.

I felt like SES is more careful in vetting their customers to prevent shared IPs being polluted.
Don't hold your breath waiting.

I mean, you might be able to convince me that the world should work that way, but it definitely does not work that way right now.
Removing the requirement for app store review will extinguish the option for a curated user experience, as major apps will explicitly use sideloading/third party app stores to bypass the app review process and permissioning systems, just as they have already attempted. You literally are arguing for something with the immediately foreseeable consequence of removing the choice for a curated experience with applications required to undergo app review.

Again, you already have the choice for your user-freedom oriented experience on the dominant market platform with 85% global smartphone marketshare. Stop arguing to deny us the choice for this user experience.

But for you it's not enough to merely choose the experience you desire, you have to force it on me too.
If you buy a Camry and then become an Uber driver, should you have to give Toyota a cut of your earnings?
In the Haskell example in the article, the `do`, braces, semicolon and `return ()` are not necessary:

main = do { putStrLn "Hello, World!" ; return () }

The code should read like this instead (and I think the linter would suggest this):

main = putStrLn "Hello, World"
Unmanned supermarkets to the rescue in Sweden's rural areas