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by pbz 3y ago
Your original argument was the government caps the number of doctors (not taxi drivers). I am not finding anything that would show this. There is a cap on the total amount the gov is subsidizing (should be increased, but that's a diffe
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by pbz 3y ago
The US government caps the number of residencies it is paying/subsidizing. Yes, you have to go through residency, but there's nothing stopping the private sector from taking on this cost (well, other than greed) It is a subsidy pr
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by pbz 3y ago
The government does not cap the number of doctors. There's no law that you can only have X doctors. What it caps is the amount of social help it's willing to subsidize. This is like complaining that the government is not "soc
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by pbz 3y ago
> I'd rather pay a little more to a corporation It's hardly "a little more" though. We're spending almost twice as much and get almost half as little back. Objectively speaking the capitalist market has failed in
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by pbz 3y ago
These kinds of changes just make the OS look cheap (like a bazaar of sorts). They're visually ugly, but easily ignored (I rarely open the start menu). What I'm more concerned / annoyed by is the trend of Windows fighting with
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by pbz 4y ago
That depends on how authoritarian the regime is... However, I was talking about putting a price control over the level/amount of profit. If you look at the financial reports of late you'd see record profits during record inflation
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by pbz 4y ago
There's historic precedence that increasing rates controls inflation. Yes, it's a very blunt and crude instrument. However, when you know this tool works, trying another tool is too risky to experiment with (in case it fails). Inf
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by pbz 4y ago
I'd put taxation in the same bucket as price control because for this to be effective the taxes would need to be on the rich (in effect to drain liquidity) and that's as likely as price control.
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by pbz 4y ago
It's the only way we know of to stop greed/fomo running rampant. Folks need to be put in a time-out to cool off and force them to reprioritize. We like to think of the market as this calculated and rational entity. It's far f
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by pbz 4y ago
My understanding is that the .NET version is a port and only related in the style/approach. However, if I was them I'd consider renaming the lib. Looks like the name "Akka" is tainted at this point.
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by pbz 4y ago
If they serve them locally (same domain as / part of the main site) they could still track you on the backend and you wouldn't even know it.
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by pbz 4y ago
Depends on how the PG team decides to implement this feature. If they're OK with a virtual order (for "UI" purposes) while keeping the true order hidden then this would not require table locking (or it would be a very quick l
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by pbz 4y ago
Views are not a good solution for this. The point is to be able see a specific order in 3rd party apps and when writing quick add-hoc queries (select *). Writing views for every table would just pollute the db.
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by pbz 4y ago
The problem is that we hear a lot of different features touted as "the crucial missing one" -- I would definitely put this into the polish category, but items in that category are also important; especially for those with a MySQ
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by pbz 4y ago
I've worked with DBs for 20+ years as well. This is a quality of life type of improvement. If you've worked mainly with DBs that don't make this easy it's hard to know what you're missing. Do a search for column reo
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by pbz 4y ago
I'm not sure how I could show if something is easier/harder to work with. Speed in this context refers to human processing speed, not database speed.
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by pbz 4y ago
Yeah with maybe an option to manually optimize (that would rebuild the table if needed).
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by pbz 4y ago
The trouble is when you need to add a new column you can only add it at the end, so you'd lose the alphabetical ordering.
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by pbz 4y ago
With SQL Server the management tool does give you a way to do this. Yes, it does a table rebuild behind the scenes. The point is that it's easy. Don't have experience with the other two, but MySQL is the most popular so it kinda s
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by pbz 4y ago
Exactly... You gain so much speed by having everything in the right order.
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by pbz 4y ago
Oh, absolutely; I'm just trying to raise the awareness/importance of this missing feature. Most devs that I know IRL that looked at PG had a very similar reaction to mine.
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by pbz 4y ago
I'm not talking about the physical layout of the data, just a thin UI layer that the DB tool could use. Maybe we could have two modes: physical vs UI ordering?
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by pbz 4y ago
Soothing my OCD is important, but it also helps when working in a team and having a shared ordering style. For example, we have certain types of columns that are always at the bottom. One would look there first. With PG you're forced t
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by pbz 4y ago
Since we have some PG devs here: Can we please have a way to reorder columns? Coming from MySQL, this is one of the first missing features one hits. It's like moving to a new house where you're told you can never clean or move the
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by pbz 4y ago
There's this constant tug of war between supply/demand (also applies to powerful/regular folks, those with money/without, etc). Inflation is the delta by which one side is winning against the other.
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by pbz 4y ago
I'm not upset nor do I have a solution; I'm just pointing out the model/problem.
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by pbz 4y ago
It doesn't matter what new model you come up with. As long as capitalism is around and pushing for ever increasing profits this kind of behavior will always be on the menu.
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by pbz 5y ago
And I was complaining about a 4s rebuild time for a similar (number of lines) .NET 5 solution
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by pbz 6y ago
It's been rock solid for us. We're not using PS on Linux, just running/building binaries.
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by pbz 6y ago
"Amazon can easily fund developers, they just didn't because they didn't have to" That may be true for a few OSS projects, but if they were forced to do that for ALL the projects they're profiting from the math woul

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