Readit NewsFacebook portal. Yeah Facebook privacy and all that but that's a good product that allows me to call people without having to mess with the phone. The audio and video is super clear. I use it despite it's from Facebook.
Work sharp knife sharpener. It's superior to sharpening the my knives with the stone.
Apple airtags. I often forget where I put my keychain so this is really well executed. Apple airpods. They just work and they are nice enough.
Hakko soldering station. I don't know if the recent Chinese usbc ones are better but the hakko one I have work well enough for everything I want to do.
It's literally about three people's journey across the cosmos to discover the origin of humanity and really, very little of the original story re: Seldon comes into it. It makes me wonder what happens in between.
Number of Connections * work_mem is usually going to eat up the biggest chunk of your PostgreSQL's memory. AFAIK, the configuration is extremely coarse. There's no way for example to say: I want all the connections from username "myapp" to have 10MB and those from user "reporting" to have 100MB. And it can't be adjusted on the fly, per query.
Being able to set aside 200GB of memory to be used, as needed, by all connections (maybe with _some_ limits to prevent an accident), would solve a lot of problems (and introduce a bunch of them, I know).
Since they're on RDS, I can't help but point out that I've seen DB queries on baremetal operate orders of magnitude faster. 10 minute to 1 second type thing. I couldn't help but wonder if they'd even notice the disk-based sorting on a proper (yes, I said it) setup.
(1) https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Serv...
Sure it can:
SET LOCAL work_mem = '256MB';
SELECT * FROM …Even though it’s a well documented issue with Postgres and you have an experienced team keeping an eye on it, a new write pattern could accelerate things into the danger zone quite quickly. At Notion we had a scary close call with this about a year ago that lead to us splitting a production DB over the weekend to avoid hard downtime.
Whatever the issue is, I’m wishing the engineers working on it all the best.
My wife is an extrovert. She is energized by going out, visiting places, doing things, meeting people.
I'm an introvert. I get energized by staying in, reading a book, watching a movie, spending time by myself.
This creates tension every weekend when we need to negotiated what to do. This friction is weary by itself, but then the outcome almost always makes someone unhappy. Most weekends rather than recharging for the rest of the week, I end up more tired than I started.
Not sure how well this will generalize but if you find yourself in those bottom steps it's worth it to do some introspection and audit how you spend your time.
As a parent, it's hard to remember that ending a weekend "recharged" is a common experience.