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The problem is you may pay $20K for gibberish, then try a second time, fail again, and then hire humans.

You can easily pay humans $20k a day and get gibberish in output. Heck, this happen all the times. This happens right now in multiple companies.

Yes sometime humans produce nice code. This happens from time to time...

For us non stable things were sass and Tailwind. Lost a lot of dev work just to upgrade those with no visible benefit at all.

Everything else is smooth and silk

Ohh, yes eslint 8 => 9 migration were also a big pain to handle.

This is my problem in every situation.

Want a car? Here are thousands of options. Want a fridge? Good luck in market research. Want a TV? Nope, I will not help. Too many variables. Bottle of water? Here are hundreds of options. Let's guess why one bottle can cost x100 times more than another.

Sometimes I just want simple things ... Like to drink a cup of coffee.

In my student time. There was a shop where we bought "Beer", "Cognac" or "Vodka", with corresponding simple labels. No trademarks, no info on producers. Very easy to choose.

Ahha, recently my daugher come to me with 3rd grade math problem. "Without rearranging the digits 1 2 3 4 5, insert mathematical operation signs and, if necessary, parentheses between them so that the resulting expression equals 40 and 80. The key is that you can combine digits (like 12+3/45) but you cannot change their order from the original sequence 1,2,3,4,5"

Grok3, Claude, Deepseek, Qwen all failed to solve this problem. Resulting in some very very wrong solutions. While Grok3 were admit it fail and don't provide answers all other AI's are provided just plain wrong answers, like `12 * 5 = 80`

ChatGPT were able to solve for 40, but not able to 80. YandexGPT solved those correctly (maybe it were trained on same Math books)

Just checked Grok3 few more times. It were able to solve correctly for 80.

PostgreSQL 17 2 years ago

Is there any analog for Azure SQL Elastic Pools for Postgres anywhere?

We pay in total something around 600 bucks to manage around 250 databases in MSSQL servers (with failover for prod databases, DTU based model)

We pay for log analytics more then we pay for Sql Servers.

Those Elastic Pools is a blocker for us on the way to migrate to Postgres from MSSQL...

What a Ukrainian settlement looks like when taken by Russia is predominantly on the scale of heavily damaged to totally leveled. Whereas Ukraine has taken localities without huge artillery and bombing preparation and have supplied locals hiding in the largely intact settlements with food and water, about whom Russia had forgotten - furthermore they shell and bomb towns with both Ukrainian soldiers and Russian civilians in them.

There is a lot of cities captured by Russia that have near zero damage, because UAF not used them as fortresses. There is even a mem inside UA about cities-fortresses.

Ukraine targets exclusively war-fueling infrastructure including refineries, ammo/petroleum depots, military airfields and yes, key logistics routes like said bridge that was built by an invading country spanning over to occupied territory.

Belgorod has near zero military infrastructure. Yet missiles shell residential areas on regular basis. Death toll of civilians in this area is quite high already.

Wish we can do same with MSSQL that we stucked with =| Restoring base from snapshot take no less then 4-5 seconds. No way to run on in memory filesystem without big pile of crutches... Tried to do so with TestContainers only to find out that we are limited by disk IO

Testcontainers 2 years ago

We create own DB env for each set of test fixtures to run them parallel. There is no way I can achieve this with this little amount of frictions.