Christophe Pettus

CEO, PGX Inc. / @galloprehistorico.bsky.social / @[email protected]

[Christophe Pettus @Xof]

Ending my involvement with Twitter. See everyone at Blusky: https://t.co/GARQLdsXuE

[Christophe Pettus @Xof]

@AskWorkspace We have an issue with an employee email. Google is claiming that it is managed by a Workspace, but has never been, and we do not have a Workspace for our company. The account email address uses our domain name. How can we fix this?

[Christophe Pettus @Xof]

One thing I hope every developer takes from the xz situation is that, if someone attempts to shame and badger you into accepting patches on any project, the answer should be, "If you are having trouble finding the 'fork' button, I can send you a screenshot."

[Christophe Pettus @Xof]

PostgreSQL privileges can surprise you. https://t.co/ed0eqs1Dps

[Planet PostgreSQL @planetpostgres]

Christophe Pettus: Checking Your Privileges https://t.co/2Wv5xhmA13

[PGX, Inc. @pgexperts]

Christophe Pettus with an important message for anyone interested in PGX's services!

@Xof @PostgreSQL @nordicpgday #postgres

[Christophe Pettus @Xof]

"AI" customer service chatbots are just incredibly, horribly, laughably bad. They are like someone is conducting a sociology experiment in how much it takes to piss customers off.

"I need help correcting a W-2."
"Got it! Here are some topics about waffles!"

[Christophe Pettus @Xof]

New CTOs can make all kinds of interesting decisions.

https://t.co/llP9QTPaPj

[David Fowler @davidfowl]

Engineers: Let's use C#

CTO: I don't like Microsoft

[Christophe Pettus @Xof]

I wish fewer conversations with clients were of the form:

Client: "We are driving nails with a screwdriver, and it is not working well."

Us: "Use a hammer?"

Client: "It's too risky to introduce a new tool into our system. How can we make the screwdriver work better?"

[Christophe Pettus @Xof]

I think that Kissinger waited until this moment to die so he could kick off at a time when it could cause the largest number of people to scream at each other over the correct interpretation of his legacy.

(Which is silly, because his legacy is that he was a war criminal.)

[Christophe Pettus @Xof]

I am hereby defining a new problem in programming languages, which is: Syntax creep. Python and C++ display this perfectly. The language starts with a (relatively) simple and direct syntax, and slowly adds more and more appurtenances until it becomes totally unreadable.

[Christophe Pettus @Xof]

"Having reliable audio on a laptop is bad, actually."

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

🤔

[Christophe Pettus @Xof]

@htmx_org Man, I have never wanted Twitter to have a "laugh" react as much as I do now.

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

I still haven't heard a good answer to this question, on or off the podcast.

AI researchers often tell me, "Don't worry bout it, scale solves this."

But what is the rebuttal to someone who argues that this indicates a fundamental limitation?

[Christophe Pettus @Xof]

random_page_cost is the brown M&Ms of #PostgreSQL database tuning. If you look at the configuration and see that random_page_cost = 4, look through the rest of the configuration *very* carefully. https://t.co/4dxfIz2nOX

[Joseph Conway @josepheconway]

Amen to that!

"Lorenic said this flood of junk CVE 'is literally going to DOS triage teams, the NVD itself, and open source maintainers stuck dealing with the fallout. Stop doing this!' He's correct."

https://t.co/sF8YhJV6Md

[Christophe Pettus @Xof]

Dear App Developers: Just so you know, the very first time I get a marketing notification on my phone, your app gets notifications turned off and never turned on again. Provide a clear way to opt-in, or don't use them for that.

[Christophe Pettus @Xof]

Many (most?) cities already have zoning laws that, if interpreted strictly, prohibit people from working from home. This is not implausible. https://t.co/1DqP1vW7Mh

[Christophe Pettus @Xof]

Further, the ToS and the blog post are both unclear about what happens if one user has taken action to prevent Zoom from using their data as input to AI training, but other parties on the call have not.

[Christophe Pettus @Xof]

Dear @Zoom: I would like you to state, unequivocally, if Zoom has the right to use user recordings as input to AI training, or not. Do you have that legal right, under the TOS as it stands, right now? Please answer without equivocation. 1/n

[Christophe Pettus @Xof]

My reading of the ToS that Zoom does claim that right, right now, and the user cannot take that right away from Zoom. Zoom might "promise" that it won't do so if the user checks some box on the UI, but that does not take away Zoom's legal right to do so.