Why can’t Postgres auto-tune these values itself in 2026? Microsoft SQL Server has mostly done a good job of this since about 2005. It will set parallelism thresholds, soak up as much cache RAM and CPU as the runtime environment allows, etc. It will give RAM back when the OS is under memory pressure, and schedule worker threads based on current resources.
A DB with a privileged supervisor process could generally detect how much free RAM, CPU usage/layout, etc at startup and re-evaluate periodically while running.
Illinois bans nearly all fireworks, not just commercial grade. You can basically only buy sparklers or tiny fountains.
You have to visit Wisconsin or Indiana to get anything that pops, spins, bangs, or flies. Even those little ground spinners are banned in Illinois and they are hardly “commercial grade”.
That’s generally too slow though; these things run in kernel space as they scan every I/O stream. Context switching and memory copies would kill performance.
This is market-dependent. We offer email OTP login for small business customers because it is “poor man’s SSO”. You’re basically validating the recipient is still at the company, able to receive at their work email.
Larger customers have IT staff and set up OIDC or SAML with us. We don’t add an SSO tax.
The Nagasaki “Fat Man” bomb was the same plutonium implosion design tested at Trinity.
The Hiroshima “Little Boy” bomb was the uranium “gun” design that was never tested before combat use. The physics and engineering were comparably straightforward so the scientists were very sure it would work assuming the Urnaium enrichment was pure enough.
Vena is one of the most popular enterprise budgeting/forecasting packages. It ships as a new-style Excel extension making Excel the UI for department heads contributing to a rolled up enterprise budget
One thing that gets neglected by policymakers is that our top priority for energy policy should be resiliency. That means distributed systems with varied generation sources, without dependence on foreign suppliers.
This requires regulation unfortunately as it is inherently less efficient and cost optimized than the 1-2 solutions the market will coalesce around.
Solar + batteries are great but if the panels and cells all come from China we can’t base our energy future on that. We’d just be trading the Strait of Hormuz for the Taiwan Strait.
I know the USA can build forests of wind turbines that stretch from horizon to horizon. I’ve seen it in central Indiana. But can we do the same with solar cells and batteries?
Bitcoin has no dispute/chargeback mechanism in case of error or fraud. That inherent unsafety trumps just about all other safety concerns for a practical payment network.
Jira is justifiably derided, but Bamboo was truly Atlassian’s entry into the worst software of all time derby. Basically a random event generator masquerading as a CI/CD system.
I’ve observed airlines will do this as well if they have maintenance or gate queues. They will sacrifice 1-2 flights (hours late or even cancelled) to keep many other flights near on-time. Fewer angry customers, better reported average “on-time” metrics.
Concur. My kids and watched a “small” Falcon 9 launch from the mainland park nearest the pad at Cape Canaveral. The noise alone was astonishing; bring binoculars to see detail.
FIPS-140 allowed encryption using 3DES up until Jan 1 2024, and allowed certification of modules containing SHA-1 through the end of 2025. There is some transition-timeline nuance involved, but those examples are in general pretty horrible from a security perspective.
The shortage of ATC staff dates back to the Clinton Administration. It’s just hard to attract people into a 5+ year training program for a very stressful job where you might get bounced near the end with no payout and no transferrable job skills.
This article states higher per-capita horse deaths in 1900 New York City than automobile deaths in 2023. This stat does not account for the significant disease caused by all that manure mixing with water supplies. Its unclear if automobile pollution is overall worse from a public health standpoint than mountains of horse poo.