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@jeuasommenulle It was year 2026 of our Lord. 88 years after uranium fission has been discovered. Parts of the world kept descending into the Dark New Ages.

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Phil Williams. My boss’ boss at Apple. Surfer dude, feet on his desk. We guys asked each other over lunch “What does Phil do all day?”

Then Phil left.

“Oh.”

I’m sorry, Phil.

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@kamilkazani Some lessons a hard to learn. Even or specially after living in communist/kinda post communist - once a communist - forever communist - society. The mind takes all the wrong examples of what makes a working community.

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@_Felipe Pergaps c-header files could have solved part of the problem.
Once web scripting languages took the scene it was too late for anything less than machine boundary isolation.

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@royal_bhati Failure to apply theoretical knowledge is still a failure. Some exercises are left to the reader

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@kamilkazani Basic religion. There is always hope. Always hope of salvation

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@tekbog @grok fancy to explain that to us miserable uninformed?

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@mattrickard @beyang Derivatives, derivatives everywhere!

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@BrianRoemmele @CompSciFact There is a lesson here.

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@kamilkazani Therefor:
A. Academia will be outcompeted
B. Academia knows that and fights against it but…it will be outcompeted.

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@rene_cannao And that without analyzing whats about all kinds of isolation modes. Some modes might depend on something less than a pure forward moving clock. So hopefully, this thing will only be used by very few.

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@rene_cannao The biggest critique is that LSN in SQL exposes internals and prevents PG from evolving into distributed implementations. PG has always been very abstract. If LSN was some abstract data type - fine. But now, LSN is a number. In distributed system it could be a vector or whatnot.

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@SantiagoAuFund The slowest speed in the universe is the rotting of capitalism.

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@system_monarch Like a manly man - like a database. Wait? Why not just use database then?

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@rene_cannao OTOH, if app is designed with replica lag tolerance in mind - no such worries.

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@rene_cannao That opens another can of worms. What if? What if replica is chronically late. Will those queries go to primary db and crash it? Just fail?
In other words, new capabilities need stricter guarantees: replica must basically catch in … seconds? Subseconds?

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@Kekius_Sage The God!

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@burkov @jenzhuscott Basically, every manager with half a brain has figured it out. And ruthlessly use tech folks to their advantage.

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@burkov @jenzhuscott Hope in humanity fades when supposedly smart technical people fall for a simple social scam. OTOH, good at tech means bad at social life.