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Re:Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @06:25AM (#46704092)
Your comment is 100% not true: https://dbfiddle.uk/Iu-u886S
Re:Select FOR UPDATE considered harmful in PostgreSQL on Thursday June 19, 2025 @05:17PM (#44322604)
> PostgreSQL takes FOR UPDATE on rows before a DELETE, or before an UPDATE that modifies a column that is part of a unique index that neither contains expressions nor is partial

This also happens when you UPDATE the same row twice within the same transaction.

https://goncalo.mendescabrita.com/blog/cross-table-lock/

Re:PlanetScale performs layoff and prioritizes profitability on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @02:43PM (#39620379)
The people against this on X are probably not building a business. They wouldn't be giving PlanetScale money anytime soon.
Re:Announcing The Zig Software Foundation on Saturday July 11, 2020 @06:30PM (#23806707)
> The Zig language accepts hard tabs and carriage returns. The self-hosted compiler implements the Zig language correctly; accepting hard tabs and carriage returns. However, the self-hosted compiler is not yet complete, and what people are using in reality is the stage1 compiler, which does not accept hard tabs.

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/FAQ#why-does-zig-force-m...

You are confusing a layoff and a furlough. It's not your fault though, the Portuguese government decided to call a furlough a layoff for who knows what reason.
Re:Back of the envelope estimation hacks on Saturday May 23, 2020 @06:09PM (#23286989)
Simon Eskildsen has a monthly newsletter called Napkin Math[0] entirely dedicated to practicing practical real-world Fermi problems like these.

[0] - https://sirupsen.com/napkin/

Re:RailsConf 2020 Couch Edition on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @04:27AM (#23077771)
FYI, folks have forked fast_jsonapi to https://github.com/fast-jsonapi/fast_jsonapi as the Netflix repository has been mostly inactive recently.
The "sparkle setting" resets if you haven't been on Twitter Web for a while, even if you always keep up with Twitter on mobile.

I use Twitter Web so infrequently that whenever I open it, it has always changed back to the "Top Tweets" view.

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