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Re:Our Journey to PostgreSQL 12 on Monday January 25, 2021 @08:29PM (#25911303)
Purely at a guess, people's images are stored in the app as blobs because it's "easier"
Re:Our Journey to PostgreSQL 12 on Monday January 25, 2021 @08:26PM (#25911290)
The fact that the answer isn't "move to RDS where Amazon solves the problem for us, which isn't our core business as a relationships app" seems to me to be a massive failing of the RDS offering and cloud services in general.
Re:Openstreetmap’s product fails to compete with Google Maps on Saturday January 02, 2021 @08:23PM (#25618451)
Clearly hasn't seen OSM's view on the whole thing: https://2020.stateofthemap.org/sessions/DYXWDC/
I mean the ability to patch is why they ship broken. Games now are published to rely on Day-1 patching to fix key issues.

In the era of zero-patch gameplay the PS2 and Gamecube versions wouldn't have shipped.

Re:Could Carbon Dioxide Be Turned into Jet Fuel? on Friday December 25, 2020 @06:40PM (#25540056)
Alternatively, methane is easier to create from Carbon Dioxide. Burning methane in an engine is practical. https://climate.miami.edu/renewable-energy/methane-as-a-fuel...
Re:Could Carbon Dioxide Be Turned into Jet Fuel? on Friday December 25, 2020 @06:38PM (#25540038)
Why does there need to be energy other than heat if the heat is enough and it's endothermic?
I don't think he's bothered too much about the pricing model itself merely the way it's presented.
While: https://www.brainboard.co/static/js/main.af9695a1.chunk.js is loading the page is blank

This file is large (15.7MB) and took 1.2 minutes to load

So your website looks broken for 1.2 minutes for me.

I doubt anyone else but a web-dev has the patience to wait for it.