The Oracle of Bacon has four nines of availability. It runs on a single VM, uses SQLite, costs under $10/mo, and when I need to upgrade the kernel, I just type “sudo reboot.”

I built a thing!

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All the employees at @planetscale.com are sponsoring open source projects and their maintainers today. My choice: @pgrx.bsky.social, which lets us write PostgreSQL extensions using Rust. github.com/pgcentralfou...

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I think people want AI to be useless, to consume huge amounts of water, etc. because that lets you find another reason for it to be bad that isn’t: it’s useful and that’s why it’s bad. The thing works and is getting better, millions have found use cases for it, and that is why it is bad.

PlanetScale now supports Postgres.

I regret nothing yet! fly.io/blog/youre-a...

Detroit-style pizza is better than NY or Chicago-style.

Birth rates and male mental health/loneliness are both legitimate societal issues that also unfortunately have been adopted as causes by the worst people imaginable

I would have voted for her in a 2024 Dem primary but it’s safe to say that she is toast in a 2028 primary

YouGov just dropped a poll that includes intvs from yesterday/this am and just wow - Trump's job approval is 41%-54% (-13). Economist/YouGov yesterday was just 43%-51% (-8). - Indies 30%-61% (-31) - 18-29 30%-65%(-35) - Hisp 35%-61% (-26) Dude is melting down. (h/t @sjclermont.bsky.social)

Just talking to my databases in plain English

asterisk because i think we look at that period of stability deeply red rose-colored glasses. when people think prosperity they don’t think “family of six sharing a 1200 sq ft home living largely on canned goods and hand me downs” but that was the reality

From Nov 7:

Allison Riggs won the election for NC Supreme Court. Changing the rules after the election to throw out the votes of tens of thousands of North Carolinians who followed all of the rules is a travesty.

/4 In my view, a movement that so transparently rejects the deal — so obviously adopts the policy “the only valid result is I win” — is not entitled to the protections of the votes-instead-of-sticks approach. They should get the sticks.

North Carolina Democrats WILL fight this decision. But make no mistake, the statewide court of appeals bench has cowered to political pressure and corruption from their own party. The NCGOP and RNC are trying to steal an election and test the waters for future election denial.

Most rich people understand that the candidates need their money, not their sparkling personalities. Elon may never realize how toxic he is, but the actual politicians certainly will.

One statistic for you: → Net jobs created under Clinton and Obama: 33.8 million. → Net jobs created under Bush, Bush, AND Trump: 1.9 million. That is not a typo.

Went all the way to DC and I can’t find the T.Rex Moai Skull anywhere 😢

in two days the US will be imposing massive tariffs on a wide range of imports and nobody, not even senior WH officials, know what they will actually be.

PlanetScale vectors is now GA! We have made vectors a first-class part of MySQL - focusing on robustness to make sure vector support is as solid as every other data type MySQL supports. pscale.link/vectors

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

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And it also further harms Musk's businesses under the guise of protecting him. As mentioned elsewhere on here, no one is gonna wanna cross a line of cops to buy a car anywhere, much less in the middle of a major city. They'll just happily take their business elsewhere.

Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.

the quote btw

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It would be good if the UK canceled Trumps visit. He’s an international pariah and a source of shame to all upstanding Americans

Willing involvement in this lawless assault on the American people, the rule of law, and basic decency should be career ruining for everyone here.

I think if you came to this issue without preconceptions, from a conservative, classical liberal perspective, the answer is pretty simple "It mostly doesn't matter, let people sort it out with their doctors, self-identification is the best approach for 90% of issues, and we can work on the rest."

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Should I tell them?

The Republican budget plan: -Cut SNAP by $230 billion -Cut Medicaid by $880 billion -Give $1.1 trillion to the top 1%

Luke Farritor is not “letting them die”, he is actively breaking the law and withholding life saving meds from the most vulnerable. He is actively killing people on Musk’s orders. This is a death squad. We won’t forget his face or his crimes. #vlakplas #doge #warcrimes

For no particular reason, what the Commonwealth of Virginia thinks about kings.

Lower bowl seats for free at the UNC game because it snowed

Snow day in NC

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.