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

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Joined February 2007
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Christophe Pettus
2 years
Ending my involvement with Twitter. See everyone at Blusky:
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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.".
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1 year
PostgreSQL privileges can surprise you.
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1 year
RT @planetpostgres: Christophe Pettus: Checking Your Privileges
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2 years
"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!".
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2 years
New CTOs can make all kinds of interesting decisions.
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Uber Engineering explains the technical reasoning behind its switch in database technologies, from Postgres to MySQL.
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Engineers: Let's use C#. CTO: I don't like Microsoft
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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?".
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2 years
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.).
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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.
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2 years
"Having reliable audio on a laptop is bad, actually.".
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2 years
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.
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In the 1980s, Van Halen famously banned all brown M&Ms from their dressing room. David Lee Roth, reunited with the band for a new album and tour, explains why.
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2 years
RT @josepheconway: Amen to that!. "Lorenic said this flood of junk CVE 'is literally going to DOS triage teams, the NVD itself, and open s….
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PostgreSQL and cURL aren't the only ones. Someone is faking security alerts for numerous open-source projects.
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2 years
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.
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2 years
Many (most?) cities already have zoning laws that, if interpreted strictly, prohibit people from working from home. This is not implausible.
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2 years
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.
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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.
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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.
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