You have to understand that Broadcom isn't actually Broadcom the chipmaker. It's a private equity firm that used be named Avago Technologies before it bought Broadcom. So squeezing until there's nothing left is the plan.

https://digitstodollars.com/2022/06/15/what-has-broadcom-bec...

> The truth is Broadcom is not a semiconductor company. Nor is it a software company. It is a private equity fund, maximizing cash flow from an endless series of acquisitions. This is disheartening to many in the semis industry and probably confusing to those in software.

I hate when finance people talk like this.

No, it's not confusing to people in software. We're well aware of your (finance) industry's reputation of sucking capital out of necessary, competitive companies for your own personal gain. If we thought we could get away with it, we'd do something about it.

> Put another way, automated tests don’t go far enough. We need yet another higher layer of abstraction. Computers are better at deciding what tests to run and when, and are also better at interpreting the results.

Sounds like you might be interested in https://antithesis.com/ (no affiliation).

MySQL has a very mature open source HA story with the flavors of group replication, as well as being able to replicate DDL. Not to mention Orchestrator and friends.

As a matter of fact, EnterpriseDB (the largest contributor to Postgres) has a paid multi master offering, so there's anti incentives in place to improve its HA story...

You can also add add GSIs (with their caveats) without any re-work.

Your second sentence is more on the right path (speaking for myself at least). It's about labeling and observing the literal physiological sensation that is occurring in your body and choosing how to react vs. identifying strongly with the current emotion and reacting.

Easier said than done, of course!

And mindfulness meditation is training yourself to detach your conscious sense of self from those physiological sensations, noticing but not reacting to them at all!

I’d be curious to hear more detail about the FoundationDB data loss issue that you saw? Do you remember what version / what year that you saw it?

Elixir is in the process of adding a gradual type system right now FWIW.

Indeed, I mentioned it in my comment. Thanks.

One of the best articles I've seen on here this year! I didn't know about the existence of `pg_hint_plan`.

Thank you very much! :) I still advise that you try really, really hard to avoid using `pg_hint_plan` if you can, but it's nice that it exists if all else fails or if you need temporary relief at a time of crisis.

> Define "actual experiences".

People without aphantasia literally count sheep to go to sleep.

No, they literally do not. "Counting sheep" is a mental exercise. Or do you think people invite actual sheep into their bedrooms?

Same. I would pay 50 / month for an Elixir plugin that had a comparable amount of polish to RubyMine.