16. Postgres

18. Azure

Oof. This hits hard

I haven’t seen this mentioned but apart from 8K being expensive, requiring new production pipelines, unweildley for storage and bandwidth, unneeded, and not fixing g existing problems with 4K, it requires MASSIVE screens to reap benefits.

There are several similar posts, but suffice to say, 8K content is only perceived by average eyesight at living room distances when screens are OVER 100 inches in diameter at the bare minimum. That’s 7 feet wide.

Source: https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-size/size-to-distance-relationship

💯

Should have built one more lane

My eepc is also 32 bit with 2gb of RAM. I did Debian 12 with LXDE from the net installer and it works really well.

Search your feelings. You know it to be true

Talent, passion, skill, and a worthwhile cause, all coming together on display, beautifully. It’s so imprssive what people can make.

He’s very good!

This is almost 10 months of continuous use as a monitor spread over 5ish years.

My C1 which I’ve been using as a monitor has no burn in. Gray uniformity is not perfect and there are some minor issues with ghosting on grays but it’s still a better monitor for my uaecase than anything else. I assume newer models are even better.

I have a pic of if closer up:

I need to add Sam Altman to this picture. He always looks like he’s about to cry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJO7hcinS-U

Just to be clear, I think T-SQL is fine and apparently they added some string agg function so you don’t have to hack XML_agg so… Something improved. But stinky spaghetti SQL is unfixable

Oh god this turned into a vent session

I think back of what I left behind. And I feel bad.

But then I feel better because I remember the reason I left was that we outgrew our processes and codebase and we desperately needed a restructure but i got no support in doing so.

I bitched for years that it was a continuity risk and a performance nightmare. But no. “Deliver more features. Add more junk for use cases that brought us no business value.” Never consider governance or security. Never consider best practices. Just more.

I knew eventually something bad would happen and I would be thrown under the bus. So I split. It was a good decision.

But yeah. Seone inherited a lot turd code

I wish I was working on your stuff back when I supported stinky 2008 T-SQL where everything was dynamic and sequential. I would have called you just for moral support

Oh look. A life savings worth of DDR4

Edit. Not meant as a comment repy. This is embarrassing

This is so on point.

I get not wanting to compile your code. Its extra work and, if you’re already catering to a very thech-savvy crowd, you can let them deal with the variance and extra compile time.

BUT if you’re releasing your code for others TO USE and you don’t provide reproducible instructions, what’s the point?!?

I totally agree.

Also I just saw your user name and I started imagining a movie pitch in my head and laughed. Thank you for making my day

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