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> honest to goodness question, looking to learn.

Awesome. I have probably dozens of posts over the years about why one would choose Oracle, so I won't rehash it all right here, but I'll link some relevant ones. Briefly though:

> in 2022 when we have equally capable or even superior open source alternatives

This isn't really true. Postgres is a truly excellent RDBMS, but most people compare it at a rather superficial level, because many use only very superficial features. If you need to insert, select, update, and delete, you have a lot of compelling options. (This can easily veer off in another direction, but I astounds me how many people shun the database and chose to reimplement innate features in procedural code outside of the database.) For example: Oracle has an extremely richly featured, powerful, and stable data warehousing feature set that has no open source analog.

A lot boils down to build vs buy. Some places build because it's exciting. Some don't even know that the thing being built has existed for three decades. This applies equally to open source. It's entirely possible that a materialized view will obviate your whole external caching infrastructure.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23068341

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32246208
Is there some edge to Oracle compared to the FOSS stuff that I'm not aware?

One is that there is still a lot of third party (or in house) software out there that doesn't support any of the FOSS databases for its backend. So if you depend on one of those tools then you're not only replacing Oracle, but a bunch of additional software as well. In fact very few people choose Oracle in a vacuum. They 'choose' one of these software platforms and then end up with Oracle. Every time I've worked with Oracle it was because we wanted to/had to use some software that had to use Oracle.

Another point is that there are very few really large PostgreSQL database deployments out there and very few people who have any experience working with huge Postgres databases, while Oracle has been doing that for a long time. If you need 100s of TB in a data warehouse there are hardly any FOSS systems out there with any sort of track record, while for Oracle it is their bread and butter.

That being said, the only people I know still deploying new Oracle systems today are people supporting legacy systems. Even the former pro Oracle people I know are using Postgres these days for almost everything, if only to get away from Oracle's licensing bullshit.
It's possible that the installation assumed a particular temperature range in the surrounding area. The water was still heated to the proper temperature but because the surrounding air was lower than design parameters allowed, was leaking more heat than designed for, requiring the water heating to work harder. Zero idea if any of that is correct but it shouldn't be ignored as a possibility and is one possibility that could be eliminated very quickly if not true.
Yeah, tell me about it.

My personal pet peeve is "crowded interfaces". Lots of modern facelifts attempt to solve the "clutter" problem by making the widgets larger and improving widget space and padding. Which does actually make the whole thing look nicer, and does make things easier to find to some degree...

...except it also reduces the document viewport, literally making the space I look at most of the time more cluttered just in order to get the part I almost never look at to look better.

I swear to God the quality of modern interfaces would skyrocket if the people who design them had to learn how to use them first and just go through a project with them, start to finish. Bullshit like monochrome icons you can't tell apart and touch-sized widgets on professional workstations would evaporate in a matter of months.
If you're on Linux, I recommend Geany as an alternative (also has autosave, etc.). Also my favorite IDE at the moment.
I'm going to say mostly false.

Realistic lighting makes things feel very... alive. It almost always looks better. It doesn't need to be a photorealistic game. Nanite works great with those ultra high resolution megascans, sure, but it also works well with simple things. A large benefit of it is that you don't need to make many levels of depth.

Putting 2D games aside, I think Unreal is a pretty flexible choice. Moreso, I think the term AAA used to refer to realistic looking graphics, but now refers to the amount of handcrafted content in a game. Good looking graphics are simply becoming easy to obtain.

I do hope Godot eats unity's lunch though
We do Kanban rather Scrum, but we walk the Kanban board each morning which has a similar purpose to Scrum stand-up. Our manager is there, but because the board shows all the tasks the team has got that need working on, some of their tasks will be included (e.g. those that affect projects or the team as whole, not those that are direct line-management related). This helps them to know what the team is working on and also helps the team know what's happening that might affect them.

We're lucky that they don't have a micromanagement tendency, which means that when they say not to work on something it's usually backed up with a valid reason.
As someone who used to work in execution brokerage, this rule change seems on net to be good news for retail investors and bad only for folks like citadel and robinhood.[1] In the wake of flash crash there was a fair amount of research suggesting that rolling auctions (rather than continuous order matching) are net positive for almost everyone except HFTs who exploit market microstructure.

In my view they should also get rid of reg NMS, which entrenches HfT arbs and gives a permanent advantage to people who pay to colocate at the exchanges. Europe has shown that reg NMS is not needed and doesn’t benefit investors.

[1] noone should be crying for robinhood. Their entire business model is about disadvantaging small investors to benefit themselves and Ken Griffin.
Why would you only use it as a second screen when instead you can double your processing power too?
I always use a text file, one per client: date, number of hours that day, and a description of what I did. I round up to the nearest quarter hour.
I have been very happy with Daily Time Tracking, dailytimetracking.com (Mac)

What is great about is that it just polls you every n minutes (based on your preferences), and then you just: Press the 'V' button (if you are working on the same as before – our Shift+Ctrl+S) OR Write in the new task that you are working on OR Select an earlier task from a dropdown menu. Time is then automatically added to the task chosen. Then you can just see the total of time spent on each task or export the data to CSV, JSON etc.

Not affiliated in any way, but has been working great for me.
If you keep your BUSD on Ethereum, you would be fine in theory even if Binance is gone.
I've seen Oracle 1000 times for ERP.
Twitter blocks users from sharing Mastodon links
> Someone posted yesterday that the beginning of Musk's Twitter buy happened shortly after elonjet refused his $5000 offer to buy the account. The rational part of me says he surely couldn't have spent $45 billion dollars to shut the account down, but it's kinda feeling more and more true as the story continues.

This is hn, not 4Chan
The local types are less invasive than the full support for typed effects. In particular, they are opt-in and associated complexity is pay-as-you-go. In my initial experiments, they seemed pretty nice to program with.
Barrier user for over 7 years across OSX, WIN, and Linux. It beats all other solutions. Light, open source, and reliable workhorse. Just get it.
I'm sorry for your friend's loss and for the lost livestock, but it seem like it was simply a ticking time-bomb.

If your friend had 30 tanks and thousands of fish, they should have had a more involved backup plan that involved a dedicated generator in addition to a UPS. A small generator would have been a tiny fraction of the materials and livestock costs of running a setup like that.
For me SRE/DevOps is just support for developers. It's possible that such person has more knowledge/experience in development and operations, but in general their focus is on infrastructure, automation and general troubleshooting.

They might know how to build/test/deliver/monitor some solution, they might know to some degree how to configure solution (but developers should support them with it and describe it well), how to script some operations, however they definitely won't write bugfix themselves.
Could it be an addon is overriding your font sizes by chance? HN is presented to me in the font and font-size I set in the settings. I am using Firefox on Linux. I will try it on the phone a little later.

I set this in Settings -> General -> Fonts/Zoom and in Advanced Font Settings I uncheck the box that allows sites to set their own settings. Be sure to set the "Minimum Font Size" in advanced font settings.
Yes. And I was so happy when Squid Game didn't do that.
The stardome reminds me of the Boyne Coracle, a small rudderless raft made of willow and ox hide. Here's a video from 1935 showing its construction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCWFDMnKLyM
Adventures of a Java Programmer in ChatGPT Land
I agree. I think this chaos will only damage Twitter’s reputation with a small percentage who pay attention and leave due to conflict of principles.

The vast majority will simply continue to use the platform as it is, whether to engage or be engaged.

If Twitter is to pass the way of MySpace, a competitor will need to come along with a more tempting siren song. As with Facebook, that transition may take a couple generations.

I don’t think Twitter will look significantly different in terms of usage in 5 years. It will be an uglier, even more monitized experience, but it will also be more profitable.

All advertisers will be back, as with most users who left as a reaction to Musk.

Twitter will be the #1 short form mass blathering platform for a very long time to come.
Accounting firm suspends work with crypto clients including Binance, Crypto.com
Minecraft-targeting botnet MCCrash can spread to Linux devices
Germany says Twitter journalists ban 'unacceptable'
Ah, ok, so it's just a pain to get back into the social network. Isn't this just adding friction for friction's sake?
Inference is latency sensitive so the front end is still relevant.
High-Quality Deepfake Puppetry in Thirty Seconds
The magazine wasn't wrong. NetWare was a real mess architecturally. The core file and printer sharing features worked great. But as an application server for email, database, or anything else it was a dead end. No memory protection, no real multitasking, bizarre proprietary API, terrible developer tools. One of the major relational database vendors did actually port their product to NetWare but it was a flop in the market.

Novell eventually tried to catch up by grafting their proprietary networking features onto Unix but that was too little, too late. The CIOs who started migrating off of NetWare early were the smart ones.
> It seems you're being intellectually dishonest

Fair assumption. But actually I'm Canadian and, while I knew COVID discourse was a clusterfuck in the US, I didn't realize that there were people that clearly knew better blatantly lying about this.

For instance, we KNEW that the best case scenario was 90% effectiveness for the MRNA vaccines. Seeing these people saying "you won't get COVID" is an absolute disgrace and people should lose their jobs and medical certifications for this.
See also http://0x80.pl/articles/simd-strfind.html

The basic idea there is:

- mask_start = (64 chars from idx i) & (first letter)

- mask_end = (64 chars from idx i + len - 1) & (last letter)

if mask_start & mask_end is nonzero, you can now memcmp at the nonzero mask indices (which could also be done with AVX512 if the needle length is big enough)

That should give better performance for long needles, since you can immediately check 64 chars of the needle against the first character match, whereas OP's version does one load per needle character (ok, it does check multiple matches in a 64-char window in parallel though).

I wonder though if Boyer-Moore type of optimizations are possible (e.g. if the match breaks at substring length i, that means you can skip forward j chars from a precomputed table)
Problems with disk encryption in AWS
Is Your Sales Compensation Upside in Overdrive?
Matt Levine is a treasure.
Click on the menu item at the top of the page marked “Science”. All the rest is for the lay audience.

Can you say more about your group?
Well that's the core of the deep state theory; but for it to apply in this instance you'd have to allege that the deep state is capable of issuing EOs against the will of the president. That's taking things... a bit far.
This here.

The earth you live on is not solid, more like a squishy orange. When you build a heavy building on it, the building can sink further.

Buildings themselves are subject to the dynamic loads of temperature, wind, their occupants square dancing, and more.

Sometimes unexpected loads are added. A new highway or building built into a rock layer near it can subject the previous building to vibration and other forces and cause damages.
Because when something doesn’t work you can pick up the phone and call someone at Oracle. Who would you call when you have problems with Postgres?
It's not one comment. The guy has a string of them across multiple threads.

And you are going to critique me for "inferring a lot" while ignoring his comment is not only sprinkled with evidence he's a conclusion looking for justification ("lethal jab-associated myocarditis"), but is nothing but inference itself.

It's not interesting, it's just old.
> I have zero interest in AI-created art or music.

I'm afraid in near future we will all bombarded with AI-created music, art and text whether we want it or not.
> it’s too complicated to configure; JSON is ugly and it’s 2022, why not favor GUI configurations?

GUIs can change layout and users have to spend time learning where things are. Someone who is using a text editor is probably comfortable editing text.
Take a look at Biden's 2020 platform. It's relatively broad, specific and actionable. And then look at his attempts to get it passed. First he had to throw out anything that couldn't be passed through reconciliation. Then he had to significantly water down even the reconciliation bills due to the DINO's Manchin and Sinema. And he also had to fight with a conservative court. And yet despite all that he managed to pass several major bills.
Living alone? This innovation could save your life
Living solo is great. But there is a chance that someone gets incapacitated and can not call for help. TheLifeSigns free service sends a daily email with a lifesign button. You won't be contacted by any of your friends or relatives as long as you push the button each day. In case you are not able to press the button, TheLifeSigns automatically sends requests to your buddies to check in on you. This can be life saving. This service was launched in the Netherlands two years ago and is now also available in the rest of the world.
NixOS feels the same but somehow... I still end up in those Linux evenings but for different reasons...
SRE here too. We need to stop building knowledge ex ante and focus in building capabilities to introspect the service ex post, that is, during the outage. Even if you are told how it works when starting to support it, you'll have other 50 services to support too and will lose (rightfully) track of where things stand at the moment you need.

Build telemetry and convergence into well known platforms to make response easier.
I generally mean the free competitors, but also the "NewSQL" DBs, cloud company offerings, and data warehousing companies. The traditional "enterprise" databases like MSSQL and Oracle all look kind of silly (from a technical perspective) in comparison.
It takes years or decades to do the swap. You’ll have both teams working in parallel all that time which costs the company a TON of money.

This process also outlasts aging managers. Chances are that leadership will shift at least once and decide it’s taking too long So they kill the replacement, switch languages and/or teams, and try yet again.
The VW egolf had it in 2015 or so…
Absolutely insane that they would do this. It's like they thought "what's the most obvious anti-trust violation we could implement in a day using existing code?" and then did.
Well, of course not. But that was certainly Dear Leader's line originally, so it'll be interesting to see how the followers rationalise this.
What is stopping someone from publishing SNKRX to a site like itch.io and
selling it for 1€ instead? And if nothing is stopping it, why hasn't someone
done it yet (that I know of).
That's the toxic part
We give ourselves (humans) too much credit. How does a child learn? By copying observing, copying and practice (learning from mistakes). ChatGPT differs only in that it has learned from the experience of millions of others over a period of 100s of years. Suffice to say, it can never behave like a single human being since it has lived through the experience of so many.

How does one articulate “conscience” or “intelligence” or an opinion? I think these are all a product of circumstances/luck/environment/slight genetic differences (better cognition, or hearing or sight, or some other sense brain, genes could define different abilities to model knowledge - such as backtracking etc).

So to get a “true” human like opinionated personality, we’ll need to restrict its learnings to that of one human. Better yet, give it the tools to learn on its own and let it free inside a sandbox of knowledge.
It really depends on whether non wholesale players step up and participate in these auctions.

While Citadel and Virtu are very large market makers, there are other equally large firms that don't jump through all the hoops to participate in wholesale, but would probably do on-exchange auctions.

The SEC also talks about non market makers using this for execution, but I don't think that's going to happen immediately...
it is strange not to know to run dmesg first-thing when you have a HW problem for a guy who rants about "I spent several hours fixing a problem and I learned next to nothing in the process"

if you wanna learn, you should've known at least about dmesg
I played with this - it seems to be confused about whether the front legs on a cat are legs or arms, and gives inconsistent answers. One cat has four legs, but when you ask about multiple cats, each cat has two legs, at least from 2 - 6 cats.

Interestingly, it detected that I was asking about the legs on an increasing number of cats, from 1 to 3, and volunteered up the (incorrect) number of legs for 4 - 6 cats, as well as the correct number for 1 - 3 dogs and 1 - 3 elephants.

If you change "legs" to "limbs", it starts answering correctly for multiple cats. But when you add the horse, it goes back to saying cats only have two.
I had no idea that, until the recent round of “innovation”, the retail investor traded only with other investors in the brokerage consumer list. I always thought the brokerage is just facilitating access to the actual trading desk where the trade is put up for anyone to pick up.

Am I right in understanding that Robinhood took this and abused it by turning itself and its customers as the source for high frequency traders?
Huge benefit of SaaS is it makes the underlining database being used irrelevant.
What is the point in having all of the drivers be open sourced and mainlined if we're not willing to fix them to support this?
You do realise that becoming a 10x dev will mean you're getting underpaid? It's better to become a 0.1x developer so you're sure you're getting the better end of the deal ;).
That's a tough question; I'm right in the middle of syrup country and the syrup snobs will all buy direct from the farm.

When buying retail we have the same problem you do; the grocery stores typically only have one brand or two, and there isn't much correlation between the brand and the product.
Warhammer – Staring Henry Cavil
Options already have to go through an on exchange auction process
Well, depends. If you do any kind of application which

1. Needs more than one programmer

2. The domain of the program is not the expertise of the programmers

Then you need someone to talk with the domain experts. Ideally someone who can communicate well, get information and handle the upcoming problems which arises whenever different domain expertises meet.

This role is called a manager, sometimes product manager. Sometimes the application is so large one person is not enough. Sometime a corporation is so disfunctional there are more managers talking than programmers doing the actual work.

But in its essence it is not a useful but an essential part of building something for other people.
How does getting booed at an SF club equal incredibly and generally disliked? I find your extrapolation from an extremely small sample of ~100-300 people to, what quite obviously sounds like, literally 1-10-100 million or more people, very bizarre. How is that logical?

I'm quite neutral to all this political stuff. Instead, it's this mathematical nonsense of extrapolating from extremely small subsets to make extremely general sweeping statements, like "booed (not even universally) at an SF club" => "lots of people dislike Elon", that really gets to me.

Also, Elon has, many times, expressed that he isn't politcally "right" or "left", so to use a very small number (1? <5?) tweets to say that an individual is "authoritarian right" is, IMHO, just the same nonsense as before.
He's not an engineer though, not even close. He isn't a tech person either. He never even got that physics degree he claims to have
I think that's been a bit overblown.
I have seen some planes that were not broadcasting any signals... Maybe FBI.
Sounds good - can you sign up for the free tier and send me an email to support@oikolab.com? This comes to me so I'll know which account belongs to you and we can take it from there.
They specifically called out the lack of a UI designer. Which isn't really a thing in Squeak, Pharo, etc.

Though that's kind of not fully the case when one consider Morphic is a kind of prototype-based authoring tool. There's an interactive authoring/physical manipulation aspect to Morphic UI construction.
Anyone used MicrosoftGarage Mouse Without Borders and can provide some comparison based on experience / tips ?

I have used Mouse Without Borders across work and personal Windows machines -- mostly works with occassional quirks. I think there is some latency though when mouse input is routed through another PC.
My own nonota: https://github.com/matheusd/nonota

CLI TUI, just a list of tasks, track time across them or manually add the time. Backing is a yaml file, so you can adjust if needed.

Runs anywhere you can use Go to compile to.
Fellow SRE/DevOps here. I agree with this interpretation.

Specifically, if things are not "working", I expect the developers to understand how their code works and what it needs to function properly. I'm constantly surprised by how much developers don't know about the app they write code for.

I'm not asking for your intellectual capital because I want to sue you. I want to understand how the app comes up.

The main problem I'm usually trying to solve is, apps are just packages of stuff, if I can deliver 1000 packages no problem, but one doesn't deliver is it the package, the address it got sent to, or is this some brand-new package requiring a different way of handling it. I need the package sender to explain to me what it contains.

On another note, @klodolph, if you are getting paged a lot, then your SRE needs to improve. Perhaps you were slightly exaggerating, but I consider any escalation to SRE personnel a failure on the SRE side. It's kind of a brutal metric to follow, escalations as close to 0 as possible. An interesting thing that happens if you try hunting for it is you will realize 80% of your calls come from 1 or 2 things. Addressing them will make developers happier and SREs happier.