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Re:Remove pgrust: the entry is cheating on Friday October 23, 2026 @09:10AM (#50208441)
The way it has been defended and talked about here, yeah, I did. It wasn't just a "here's this vibe slop, do what you wish" dump.
Re:Remove pgrust: the entry is cheating on Friday October 23, 2026 @08:26AM (#50207880)
Oh lord. I thought pgrust was a serious project.
Re:The cost of lies: A Mineserver story on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:11AM (#49990182)
I've hosted a Minecraft server, reading this I immediately thought that a Pi was just not powerful enough to do an adequate job at running one. Perhaps they figured that out once it was too late?
Re:Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale on Saturday September 26, 2026 @02:36AM (#49853835)
It's Stonebraker, he has a history of doing this to sell shit to people who don't need it.
Re:Grok Build is open source on Thursday July 16, 2026 @03:12AM (#48931263)
That doesn't sound like it would require a lot of code.
"The settlement"? Not gonna cut it.
Re:I design with Claude more than Figma now on Monday June 08, 2026 @08:11AM (#48444328)
Damn prompt engineering has become an art already. No wonder so many people have been left behind.
Re:The worst job interview I ever had on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @05:50AM (#48291902)
I probably would've done the same. "I don't remember what the function is called" would've been fine-ish, but reaching for a regex is just insane.
This doesn't sound correct. Source?
> Personally I've always called this style "declarative schema management" since the input declares the desired state, and the tool figures out how to transition the database to that state.

Personally I've called it a mistake, since there's no way a tool can infer what happened based on that information.

I renamed a column and it added a new one.
Re:Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users on Friday January 23, 2026 @05:07AM (#46730636)
> If you use streaming replication (ie. WAL shipping over the replication connection), a single replica getting really far behind can eventually cause the primary to block writes. Some time back I commented on the behaviour: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45758543

I'd like to know more, since I don't understand how this could happen. When you say "block", what do you mean exactly?