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> But the biggest reason why PostgreSQL would not change its license is the disservice it would do to all PostgreSQL users. It takes a long time to build trust in a technology that is often used for the most critical part of an application: storage and retrieval of data

> Changing the license of PostgreSQL would shatter all of the goodwill the project has built up through the past (nearly) 30 years.

I love Postgres and I have no reason to think they would change their license. But IMO any type of "it would be a disservice to users" is useless. This blog post itself is in response to Redis changing their license after 15 years. Surely this would be a disservice to their users?

Businesses have proven time and time again - They will absolutely cause a "disservice to users" or "harm the product" once money is involved.

Again I recognize the way PostgresQL is structured gives me hope this wouldn't happen, but a simple "we wouldn't break user trust" is meaningless.


> NASA, which follows the federal government’s General Schedule pay scales, offers starting salaries along a range that starts at $54,557 for engineers with bachelor’s degrees, $66,731 for master’s degrees and $73,038 for doctorates at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

I know people likely want to join NASA for more than the salary. But that's brutal.


One thing is Florida is much cheaper than SoCal where SpaceX is located, so there's some COLA to be made. But still quite bad.


this says it's 115k, which seems more reasonable https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/NASA-Engineer-Salaries-E730...


Heads up that tickets generally don't guarantee the plane you'll be on, they can change at any time for a bunch of different reasons.


Yep thanks for adding this clarification! Planes swap out last minute for operational reasons all the time, so nothing is guaranteed until you're physically on the plane.


AMD desperately needs to improve their software situation.

It's been like this for 10 years - they have competitive hardware in many cases - but the software is always a buggy mess.

Unfortunately it has caused the situation to be "if you don't want a migraine just use CUDA" for many, many years. Even now they still have issues.


I assume it's similar to the 1 billion row challenge with java - C# and Java have sufficiently advanced VM's that they can compete with C/CPP performance - assuming you go out of your way to optimize for it.

https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc



I think that happens because talc deposits often contain asbestos so it's not an uncommon contaminate.

that doesn't mean talc products always contain asbestos

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7691901/


I'm not completely disagreeing.

But it is one of the few "engineering fields" where many of the top performers don't have degrees or formal educations.

It would be a shame to gatekeep devops engineers with leet code exams for example.


Good point. Maybe it could be a certification test, or maybe some roles wouldn't require it, but I think standardizing software engineering would help the industry by allowing people to focus on the field for their entire lives instead of being sidetracked into management.


Is this a question or a statement?

All ChatGPT does is predict the most likely next token (with a little sampling on the top most likely tokens).

That's it.

It doesn't lookup whether it wrote it before, it doesn't use an watermarking tools to check, all it does is predict the next most likely token after the tokens you sent it.

It can't even fill in text in the middle, they have to use a special trick where they have a <filltexthere> token.

It's been finetuned/trained with text that it's generated since it's been all over the internet since it's launch. However I highly doubt it's been tuned to detect chatgpt text (instead I imagine they'll make it opt to use a tool and use a watermarking tool when they eventually do implement it)

You just happened to find two cases were it says yes or no.

You should not expect any accuracy from asking it that question.


Dark sky used to be accurate almost to the minute for me.

Apple Weather will tell me it won't rain today or all week.

Meanwhile NOAA will tell me I'm currently in a thunderstorm and that it will rain all week - And it was right.

Carrot is nice because you can switch between several providers.


What the actual crap did Apple do to mess it up so bad then?

Switching between providers on Carrot, Apple Weather often doesn't predict any amount of rain for the entire week, meanwhile I'm soaked in water in a thunderstorm, and NOAA and others predicted rain the entire week (which it did).


No clue. They have strong folks on their weather team, too. Not obvious what's gone wrong over there.


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