cldellow (u/cldellow)

cldellow commented on The pitfalls of partitioning Postgres yourself hatchet.run/blog/postgres... · Posted by u/abelanger

cldellow · 8 days ago

Ha, what a coincidence. Just today I was reading a three year old Stackoverflow discussion about this [1].

It prompted Laurenz to submit the documentation patch that is cited in the article. In the discussion of the patch itself, people seem to conclude that it's a good improvement to the docs, but that the behaviour itself is a bit of a footgun. [2]

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73951604/autovacuum-and-...

[2]: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/Y8cQJIMFAe7QT73/%40mom...

cldellow commented on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy... · Posted by u/belter

gjsman-1000 · 9 months ago

> Is the US just matching the tariffs set by the other countries?

No. Trump claims that the new tariffs are a 50% discount on what those countries tariff US goods at. (Even if that's questionable - is VAT a tariff?)

If he's correct, or anywhere close, this is a "tough love" strategy to force negotiations. We'll see how it goes. It also plays to his base - why should we tariff any less than they do us? And they have a point, it's the principle of the thing.

cldellow · 9 months ago

> If he's correct

He's not.

According to [1], the White House claims Vietnam has a 90% tariff rate.

According to [2], 90.4% is the ratio of Vietnam's trade deficit with the US -- they have a deficit of $123.5B on $136.6B of exports.

The same math holds true for other countries, e.g. Japan's claimed 46% tariff rate is their deficit of $68.5B on $148.2B of exports. The EU's claimed 39% tariff rate is their deficit of $235.6B on $605.8B of exports.

Who knows, maaaaybe it just so happens that these countries magically have tariff rates that match the ratio of their trade deficits.

Or maybe, the reason Vietnam doesn't buy a lot of US stuff is because they're poor. The reason they sell the US a bunch of stuff is because their labour is cheap to Americans. (They do have tariffs, but they're nowhere near 90%: [3].)

America's government is not trustworthy. Assuming that what they say is truthful is a poor use of time.

[1]: https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1907533090559324204/photo/1

[2]: https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/southeast-asia-pacific/vi...

[3]: https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/news/vietnam-gives-us-tax-b...

cldellow commented on Ask HN: Is there any way to find an archive of search results pages? · Posted by u/SteveVeilStream

cldellow · 10 months ago

Search engine rankings, both live and historical, have value to marketers.

Google makes it challenging to reliably crawl their rankings at scale, so there is a real cost to collecting this data.

As a result, there aren't good, open, public archives of rankings. There are paid services like Semrush, though.

cldellow commented on Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe? · Posted by u/julianpye

le-mark · 10 months ago

Is the backlash worse than the Bush invasion of Iraq in 2003? Is it worse than the first Trump administration? Genuinely curious. The reality is the 50% of voters who DID not vote for the current president are just as shell shocked as the Europeans. Only we KNEW it was coming.

cldellow · 10 months ago

I'm Canadian.

We definitely had a dim view of the Iraq invasion. At the time, I ran a Microsoft recruiting event on campus at University of Waterloo. Students made some widget using whatever framework du jour was popular in order to win a prize. The top-voted widget was one that showed how many Iraqi civilians had been killed by the US so far during the war. Still, we sort of understood: y'all had a legitimate grievance due to 9/11 (just, not, y'know, against Iraq...)

We had a dim view of the first Trump administration. Muslim ban? Trump's anti-vax horseshit during a pandemic? January 6?

And then Americans re-elected him. Whether it's the Nazi stuff, the tariff stuff, the annexation stuff, the trans stuff, the firing the blacks and women stuff, it's just exhausting chaos that was all predictable.

Now we have a dim view of Americans.

There is a benefit, in that I'm hopeful this will be the impetus for Canada to become a more serious country. Still, it's incredibly wasteful. If we retool to trade more with Europe and Asia, both Canada and the US will be poorer for it. But god, it will be worth it.

cldellow commented on 50 Years of Travel Tips kk.org/thetechnium/50-yea... · Posted by u/thm

ngneer · 10 months ago

I have a feeling that male and female travel experiences may differ in this regard. "To stay safe, smile." seems pretty naive to me. Clearly, the author is male. I would proffer "always have an exit", "do not walk into something you cannot walk out of" and "do not stray too far from the crowd".

cldellow · 10 months ago

Yeah, the author seems to be writing for a white male audience in some regards.

My wife and I host bicycle tourers when they pass through our town. One was Thomas Meixner, an East German who started travelling the world on bike when the wall fell. He's visited something like 120 countries and biked 250,000 km.

My wife asked him if he thought a solo woman could do what he did in the places he did it. He tactfully changed the subject.

cldellow commented on .gov Sites Are Offline faa.gov/... · Posted by u/ngkw

minimaxir · a year ago

https://www.census.gov/ also semidown?

cldellow · a year ago

It seems to be pointing at something attempting to visualize JIRA activity, but with a lot of content-security-policy warnings?

Seems like someone screwed up some load balancer settings.

cldellow commented on Why Canada Should Join the EU economist.com/europe/2025... · Posted by u/gpi

skissane · a year ago

> At present nearly every min wage and gig economy position in the country is 99% early 20s males from India taking advantage of being able to enrol in a diploma mill to qualify for PR. The Feds knew of this shady pipeline for years and did nothing because it juiced GDP numbers that otherwise would have revealed a recession.

Australia has had the same problem and in the last few years the Australian government has cracked down heavily on education visas, diploma mills, etc. If Trudeau isn't doing it already, I expect Poilievre will. Which means this may turn out to be more of a passing problem.

cldellow · a year ago

Canada has begun cracking down on this. There are now caps on the number of visas issued. Foreign students are no longer allowed to work full-time jobs by default while studying. This is especially relevant, because the Comprehensive Ranking System for permanent immigration gives points for years of full-time work experience in Canada, as well as for diplomas earned in Canada.

Unwinding it will be a bit messy: lots of post-secondary institutions have to figure out how run programs with a lot less funding, and what to do with capital projects that no longer make sense in light of greatly reduced enrollment, etc.

The damage done to the average Canadian's view of immigrants will take some time to fade away. But I suspect it will, with time, especially since our traditional immigration system really does just skim the "good" immigrants -- the ones with money and the skills to succeed.

cldellow commented on Marshall Brain has died wral.com/news/local/nc-st... · Posted by u/bsagdiyev

shiroiushi · a year ago

>on the tail of covid when people were unironically making such proposals

They were? I remember a lot of awful stuff about those years, but this isn't one of them. I remember people making somewhat mean-spirited but understandable comments about (some) older people getting killed off by Covid due to their own actions (refusal to take the threat seriously and take precautions, leading them to catch it, and then have much worse outcomes due to the fact that the disease was much more deadly for unhealthy and older people).

cldellow · a year ago

The Lieutenant Governor of Texas, one month into the pandemic, was mulling how it might be best for society if we just carried on as-is and accept that a lot of old people would die:

> As a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival, in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for your children and grandchildren? And if that's the exchange, I'm all in.

The chief science advisor of the UK described his meetings with the PM of the UK in 2020:

> “He says his party ‘thinks the whole thing is pathetic and Covid is just nature’s way of dealing with old people – and I am not entirely sure I disagree with them. A lot of moderate people think it is a bit too much.’”

> Vallance’s diary also recounts how then chief whip Mark Spencer told a cabinet meeting in December 2020 that “we should let the old people get it and protect others”. He said that Johnson then added: “A lot of my backbenchers think that and I must say I agree with them”.

cldellow commented on Rim/Blackberry tales – reply all awadwatt.com/tezoatlipoca... · Posted by u/cloudedcordial

dddddaviddddd · a year ago

I have no specific experience with Waterloo, but sometimes towers follow a Corbusian ideal of a tower surrounded by nothing; or worse, a tower surrounded by high-speed roads/highway — essentially a stacked bedroom community with no walkable amenities.

cldellow · a year ago

FWIW, I live in the region and disagree with OP's characterization of "serious decline" and "most people have left".

I went to school here from 2003-2008, moved away and moved back in 2011.

The area's population has increased by ~20% since 2012 (~the death of RIM, according to its stock price). In 2011, it got regional train service to Toronto. In 2019, it got a local light rail train.

The university area that the OP seems to be referring to is, IMO, more walkable and bikeable now than before. Some of the towers are mixed use, with ground floor retail.

The city is definitely quite different from the early 2000s, though.