Had a similar experience with a vendor. Marketing team requests we add some DKIM settings for yet another vendor that is gonna spam people on our behalf. The requested record is
* TXT test
I explain that's gotta be a bug on their UI, we send a screenshot to the support of the vendor. The marketing team has 4 turns with an AI that refuses to escalate to a human and is convinced this is the only entry it needs us to add to our DNS. Dropped the vendor. Someone from their retention team followed up and we linked them the ticket talking to the bot about the obvious bug. Never heard back.
Google results will also rank these “high quality” sites above a self hosted domain. To the point where even a direct string search on an indexed page will never return on Google. Kagi and Brave search do a better job here if you’re looking for content on someone’s self hosted blog.
Apparently yes. Visa/MasterCard pressure Patreon to drop users with views they don’t approve of. Most recently alt-right users. I think it’s important to protect free speech, especially the kind I don’t agree with.
Yeah the lack of acoustic treatment is a running thing I see. A few absorbing panels at primary reflection points coupled with diffusers should be the next upgrade on a midrange system. Bass traps as well depending on your sub and music.
Agree. I have been using Postgres and Oracle in production since ~2000 (oracle 8i). Postgres is an amazing project but the oracle core database has billions of R&D dollars. Don't confuse the oracle core database with the awful applications they hang off of it. Oracle will still destroy pg for most OLAP workloads, now you have to decide if the insane licencing cost is worth it.
Also just want to add an oracle developers post that I find hilarious...
I think there are two use cases here, I was referring to debugging during development and a lot of replies are regarding troubleshooting an active prod system.
Of course we all hope for well thought out logging to troubleshoot issues we're seeing in prod.
I'm referencing an pattern I see with junior devs who simply use "printf debugging" in development instead of learning to use a debugger properly, even with distributed systems.
Fair enough, but attaching multiple debuggers across several interacting components with conditional breaks gets me there faster than incrementally inserting progressively more print statements, in a dev environment. Proper logging is a given doping out problems in a production system to then verify and correct in dev.
Agreed, these books are interesting and cover the geopolitical aspects of a mars colony attempting to break away from the control a dying earth government.
* TXT test
I explain that's gotta be a bug on their UI, we send a screenshot to the support of the vendor. The marketing team has 4 turns with an AI that refuses to escalate to a human and is convinced this is the only entry it needs us to add to our DNS. Dropped the vendor. Someone from their retention team followed up and we linked them the ticket talking to the bot about the obvious bug. Never heard back.