Most companies can afford not to give a shit until they hit SOC2 or GDPR compliance and then suddenly orphaned data is a giant liability.

Does vacuum not release free pages at the end of an index file in the same way it does for the heap?

No, it does not

> hybrid OLAP+OLTP .... in Postgres this pattern requires careful planning to avoid falling afoul of max_standby_streaming_delay for example

This is a really gnarly problem at scale I've rarely seen anyone else bring up. Either you use max_standby_streaming_delay and queries that conflict with replication cause replication to lag or you use hot_standby_feedback and long running queries on the OLAP replica cause problems on the primary.

Logical Decoding on a replica in also needs hot standby feedback which is a giant PITA for your ETL replica.

Make friends with lawyers.

Purely vibes but as a Kiwi I feel like Number 8 Wire mentality has been dead for at least 20 years now.

Symbols have been GCed since CRuby 2.2 https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9634

Well thats great, guess I have carried that baggage with me as misinformation for years now.

One of the things I’ve said I would do and never did is create a set of test suites for as many facts about a language as I know and then run it for every new release to see what I need to unlearn.

Most but not all of these were performance related. If it took a few days to run that’s fine. Major versions don’t come out that often.

Same here. Turns out writing too much code for RPG Maker XP when young ruins one’s perception of Ruby forever

Can we demonstrate them doing that? Absolutely.

Will they fail to do it in practice once they poison their own context hallucinating libraries or functions that don’t exist? Absolutely.

That’s the tricky part of working with agents.

Hallucinations are now plausibly wrong which is in some ways harder to deal with. GPT4.1 still generates Rust with imaginary crates and says “your tests passed, we can now move on” to a completely failed test run.

The USA hasn’t managed to completely impose their idea of intellectual property on everyone yet. Some countries you can’t sign away authorship even if you can commercial rights.

I am unsure if I fully understand your point, so let me ask a related question to see if I understand.

For many open source projects, there is a CLA (contributor license agreement) that must be signed before contributions can be accepted. The Free Software Foundation (which holds the copyright for most/all? GNU tools) is pretty in/famous for requiring it. Their reasoning: If there are copyright violations, they have the time and financial resources to pursue the violators.

Are you saying that these CLAs and their intended purpose are invalid in some jurisdictions? If yes, please share some examples. To be clear: I'm only interested in "normal/regular" jurisdictions that have at least accepted the Berne Convention.

Parent objected to:

> You'd need a custom license where everyone in the world could use the results except for the contributor

> That one is incompatible with copyright laws in many countries outside USA.

Does authorship confer usage rights?

Yeah the older Pilot Sport tyres wore out quickly. I had PS4 before and now PS5 and they are wearing at something like half to a third as fast? Very happy. Only slightly less grip in cold weather.