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delish commented on Migrating to Postgres engineering.usemotion.com... · Posted by u/shenli3514

etler · 3 months ago

I've lost count of how many "Migrating from X to Postgres" articles I've seen.

I don't think I've once seen a migrating away from Postgres article.

delish · 3 months ago

Related: Oxide's podcast, "Whither CockroachDB," which reflects on experience with postgres at Joyent, then the choice to use cockroach in response to prior experiences with postgres.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNHMYp8M40k

I'm trying to avoid editorializing in my above summary, for fear of mischaracterizing their opinions or the current state of postgres. Their use of postgres was 10 years ago, they were using postgres for a high-availability use case -- so they (and I) don't think "postgres bad, cockroach good." But like Bryan Cantrill says, "No one cares about your workload like you do." So benchmark! Don't make technical decisions via "vibes!"

delish commented on Rippling sues Deel over spying twitter.com/parkerconrad/... · Posted by u/amacneil

pilingual · 5 months ago

I still can't understand how YC funds competing companies. Where is the efficiency in that? You have your portfolio companies wasting time with (alleged) spies and lawsuits.

They say they just admit smart people. So 3 friends from MIT get in to YC, and at the first office hours said friends tell the YC partners they are working on a startup that starts startups. Awkward.

delish · 5 months ago

As the complaint says on page 4: https://rippling2.imgix.net/Complaint.pdf

Deel was founded in 2019 and, in Rippling's opinion, began competing with Rippling in 2022.

delish commented on Even Apple cannot explain why we need AI in our lives ft.com/content/1355ccd9-4... · Posted by u/thm

GJim · a year ago

> I love chatGPT for information lookup (while knowing that it hallucinates)

Hallucinates?

I'd use the term 'bullshits' when it doesn't know the right answer.

This makes it a dangerous thing to trust.

delish · a year ago

We need a different word than "hallucinate" or "bullshit" because the LLM is executing the same functionality when it _gets_ the correct answer or incorrect. It doesn't _know_ the correct answer in either case.

delish commented on Microsoft's Emissions Spike 29% as AI Gobbles Up Resources pcmag.com/news/microsofts... · Posted by u/alwillis

delish · a year ago

It is praiseworthy Microsoft straightforwardly reported the increase.

I haven't paid attention to these kinds of optional disclosures. Never thought about it but were I asked I would have said these are advertisements. I don't dislike sustainability, but I thought those function as advertisements because you can expect to get more sustainability "for free" over time, because of many things (Moore's Law, ephemeralization, societal investment). So of course savvy corporations publish sustainability reports that say, "We're doin' great : )."

Therefore I'd argue their commitment to sustainability is shown by their disclosure of the increase.

delish commented on I don't want to fill out your contact form adamjones.me/blog/dont-us... · Posted by u/domdomegg

delish · a year ago

>I don't want to fill out your contact form

Yes -- and companies or governments don't want to be _contacted_ by you. It's a cost to them. The median "contact us for a sales quote" form is clearer and has less friction than the median "file a complaint / ask a question" form.

One reason not in the article people might use forms instead of email is the "set and setting" of being a guest on a website and filling out their form. When in "your" email inbox as opposed to on "someone else's" site, you may conduct yourself differently.

An example of this is the sometimes-onerous Github issue template questions. I'm not arguing they're not necessary, but they do two things: mandate required information and _imply_ that you are a guest and you must hold yourself to someone else's communication norms.

delish commented on Google delays third-party cookie demise yet again digiday.com/marketing/goo... · Posted by u/Vinnl

janpieterz · a year ago

There is also a Federated Credential Management (FedCN) API coming in, that should help somewhat.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FedCM_API

delish · a year ago

Thank you! Will look!

delish commented on Google delays third-party cookie demise yet again digiday.com/marketing/goo... · Posted by u/Vinnl

delish · a year ago

I pay for Youtube Premium, which uses third-party cookies to not show ads on embedded videos.

https://privacysandbox.com talks about advertising, but not "logged in elsewhere" functionality. Does Youtube or Google have something ready, or will all Youtube Premium subscribers see ads on embedded videos?

delish commented on Home buyers need 80% more income to buy than 4 years ago washingtonexaminer.com/ne... · Posted by u/delichon

amluto · a year ago

> Housing is close to a perfectly-competitive market.

Pick any US jurisdiction (with the possible exception of Puerto Rico? I’m not very familiar with how taxation works there) and contemplate the tax implications of selling an appreciated property. Further contemplate how those implications are different for different potential buyers and sellers of that same property at the same price. Then say again that it’s perfectly competitive.

Hint: there are all manner of effects here. Capital gains. The basis step up at death. 1031 exchanges and their associated rules. Transfer fees, title fees (which is pretty close to being a tax).

(I’m not the one who downvoted you.)

delish · a year ago

Transfer fees and title fees equally affect any buyer and any seller in the long run, don't they?

>Further contemplate how those implications are different for different potential buyers and sellers of that same property at the same price.

Sure -- this is why I was asking for examples. "Rich people having more options than poor people" (which is what I think 1031 exchanges and your nod to capital gains refers to) is true across all domains without exception. It's true that I tend to discount that, acknowledging its unfairness. My point was prices are public(!), and historic sale-prices are public(!). A _particular_ (rich) buyer may have individual reasons for buying a house, but the market is almost perfectly competitive, because prices are public.

delish commented on Home buyers need 80% more income to buy than 4 years ago washingtonexaminer.com/ne... · Posted by u/delichon

rtev · a year ago

This appears to be what happens when rich people that don’t need houses buy them anyway as investments. There should be laws preventing a person from owning more than three houses in the United States.

delish · a year ago

I'll try to invoke Cunningham's Law by saying: Housing is close to a perfectly-competitive market.

I think the above is true, but I'd welcome counterexamples.

So, the way to depress housing prices is to build more houses. _Most_ housing regulations, including making it illegal for people to own four houses, reshuffle the ownership of existing houses, and don't depress their prices. As regards that regulation: if the super-rich aren't able to own $many houses, the merely-rich will buy more, and thus housing prices would be the same.