Allen Kinsel

@SowingAlphaSeed I don’t know the scale of your data but I’d probably stay local for a bit with something like SQLite or if cloud is preferred Amazon rds Postgres or Microsoft sqldb in azure. Google is great at many things but that product is meh

@SowingAlphaSeed Sadly, the choice of provider has something to do with your experience here. Not bashing

@BillyM2k Funny, like a lot of things this is repeated across the app yearly

i can’t tell if this app has lost 4/5ths of its real human users or if the dogshit algorithm has just murdered it beyond recognition but this app feels completely dead compared to 6 months ago

@NASAAdmin Love the complete transparency on everything good bad or otherwise!

As an update to my earlier post. - The ICPS helium bottles are used to purge the engines, as well as for LH2 and LOX tank pressurization. The systems did work correctly during WDR1 and WDR2. - Last evening, the team was unable to get helium flow through the vehicle. This occurred during a routine operation to repressurize the system. - We observed a similar failure signature on Artemis I. - The Artemis II vehicle is in a safe configuration, using ground ECS purge for the engines versus the onboard helium supply. - Potential faults could include the final filter between the ground and flight vehicle, located on the umbilical, though this seems least likely based on the failure signature. It could also be a failed QD umbilical interface, where similar issues have been observed. It could also be a failed check valve onboard the vehicle, which would be consistent with Artemis I, though corrective actions were taken to minimize reoccurrence on Artemis II. Regardless of the potential fault, accessing and remediating any of these issues can only be performed in the VAB. As mentioned previously, we will begin preparations for rollback, and this will take the March launch window out of consideration. I understand people are disappointed by this development. That disappointment is felt most by the team at NASA, who have been working tirelessly to prepare for this great endeavor. During the 1960s, when NASA achieved what most thought was impossible, and what has never been repeated since, there were many setbacks. One historic example is that Neil Armstrong spent less than 11 hours in space on Gemini 8 before his mission ended prematurely due to a technical issue. A little over three years later, he became the first man to walk on the Moon. There are many differences between the 1960s and today, and expectations should rightfully be high after the time and expense invested in this program. I will say again, the President created Artemis as a program that will far surpass what America achieved during Apollo. We will return in the years ahead, we will build a Moon base, and undertake what should be continuous missions to and from the lunar environment. Where we begin with this architecture and flight rate is not where it will end. Please expect a more extensive briefing later this week as we outline the path forward, not just for Artemis II, but for subsequent missions, to ensure NASA meets the President’s vision to return to the Moon and, this time, to stay.

Thing of absolute beauty. Give whoever made this video a big fat raise, Wyze

@katelin_cruse I agree with this take but I think your timeline is off by about 3 years.

A quiet prediction for 2026, from someone who has spent a lot of time studying how humans behave at work: I think we’re about to see an unprecedented quiet retirement of elder millennials from tech. Not dramatic exits. Not mass layoffs. Just a steady, largely unannounced backing away. Many elder millennials hit what was supposed to be the payoff phase of their careers—middle to senior roles, stable compensation, some accumulated growth—at the exact moment life got heavier. Kids entering adolescence. Parents aging or dying. Bodies changing. Energy changing. Perspective changing. (Read: perimenopause and midlife crises...) At the same time, the last decade didn’t quite deliver what was promised. Most stock options didn’t meaningfully materialize. Homeownership was delayed or derailed. Many relocated during the pandemic “temporarily” for childcare or sanity and never fully returned—to cities, to offices, or to the pace they once sustained. Then AI arrived. Not just as a new tool, but as a true platform shift. What I’m watching isn’t resistance or denial so much as a widening gap in orientation. Some people are instinctively reorganizing how they think, work, and create around this new substrate. Others are using it incrementally; helpful, but not transformative. Neither is a moral failure. But the gap compounds quickly. For a cohort already tired, already juggling more life outside of work, and already questioning the ROI of constant grinding, the incentive to retool themselves again—this time at platform speed—just isn’t there. So many will choose something else. They’ll frame it (honestly) as leaning into IRL, into human connection, into building tangible things. They’ll open coffee shops, take over family businesses, learn trades, consult selectively, or turn long-held hobbies into second careers. It will look intentional. And often, it will be. What fascinates me is not the “exit,” but the alignment: a generational life stage colliding with a technological inflection point that dramatically raises the bar for cognitive and adaptive load at work. From an HR lens, it’s one of the most interesting workforce transitions I’ve ever seen unfolding in real time... and I think we’re still underestimating how quietly, and how profoundly, it will reshape who stays, who leaves, and what “career success” even means next.

@Meech_Ward Hahahaha trade one problem for another… smart

Never ALTER TABLE again

@JanDrozen @crunchydata Indeed, persisted

Postgres 18 now has VIRTUAL generated columns. Generated STORED columns have been part of Postgres for several prior versions. Generated columns let you: - create a column based on other data - reference other columns - pre-format collations or calculations in the database instead of with the application The GENERATED ALWAYS AS syntax starts an expression clause. This is qualified at the end with the VIRTUAL or STORED tag. Virtual generated columns are computed each time they are read, so are not ideal for heavy computations. For that you’ll want a STORED generated column or maybe even an expression index. But they can be good for something used infrequently that should be calculated. # Example Syntax CREATE TABLE products ( id serial PRIMARY KEY, price numeric, tax_rate numeric DEFAULT 0.05, total_price numeric GENERATED ALWAYS AS (price * (1 + tax_rate)) VIRTUAL );

@JustDeezGuy Most interesting part to me is that this is mostly true for every "traditional" database platform. some more than others, obviously.

I remain a PostgreSQL maximalist for reasons like this. If you aren’t a FAANG, you almost certainly don’t need a “document DB” or a “hot read cache” in front of PostgreSQL… if you actually use PostgreSQL (i.e. don’t make the other popular mistake and “abstract away from it” because “you might switch databases.”)

You Got the Pipes I told the Uber driver I was headed to DFW, and he asked me what airline. “American,” I said. “God help me.” “I got a million miles on those guys,” he said. “Me too." “And another million on United,” he said. “I got you beat there. Two and a half million for me, last I checked. And maybe another million on Delta.” My driver, whose name was Peter, nodded slowly. I could tell from the back of his head that he could feel my pain. “That was another life,” he said. “But I'm done with all that. I don’t travel anymore.” “Well Peter, I hate to break it to you but you’re driving me to the airport. And according to your odometer, you’re still racking up the miles.” Peter chuckled and glanced in the rearview mirror, but I was on the passenger side, and mostly out of site. “You sound like Mike Rowe,” he said. “Anybody ever tell you that?” “Only when I say something incredibly clever.” Peter chuckled. “Yeah, that guy was a real smart aleck. I used to watch him on The Discovery Channel 20 years ago. He did some crazy crap.” I asked Peter would he did in his other life – the one that kept him up in the air so often. “I was a tech guy, he said. "Worked for Sun Microsystems and a bunch of other big companies. I also write books.” What kind of books? “I wrote a ‘How To’ book ten years ago,” he said. “How to what,” I asked. “How to Organize Your Photos in 7 Easy Steps. The First in a Series About Personal Information Management by The PIM Coach, Peter Gailey.” "Who couldn't use a "PIM Coach," I asked? "Did you sell any?" “As a matter of fact, I did. Published it myself, and it went to #1 on Kindle.” “That’s great!” I said. “Congratulations.” I told Peter about my mother’s 60-year writing journey, and the thrill of becoming a best-seller at the tender age of eighty. “Good for her,” said Peter. “Publishing is a tough business.” “It’s a knife fight in a phone booth,” I said. “Are you working on anything now?” “Well, believe it or not, I’m working on a book about the characters who wind up in the back of my car.” Peter grabbed a thick notepad on his dashboard and held it up. It was filled with scribbling. "I always keep this handy, he said. You wouldn’t believe the people I meet, driving for Uber and Lyft. I got a thousand stories." “That’s funny,” I said. “I’m writing a book about the Uber and Lyft drivers who have driven me to the airport.” Peter cocked his head, and I could tell from the lines on the back of neck that he was wondering if was yanking his chain. "I’m serious," I said. “In fact, you can read the first chapter after you drop me off. Just google, ‘A Pretty Good Lyft.’ bit.ly/4ni3WKh It’s the true story about the guy who drove me to Will Rogers Airport a couple years ago. Talk about a character.” “You really do sound like Mike Rowe,” he said. “You should get into voiceovers.” “I’ll take it under advisement,” I said. “Maybe, if I ever finish my book, I should do the audio version myself?” “You definitely should,” he said. “You got the pipes.” As we pulled up to the curb, I thanked him for the ride, and the conversation. “What are you gonna call your new book,” I asked. "I was thinking about ‘Life is a Trip,’" he said. “Not bad,” I said. “Think I’ll make the cut? Maybe a short story about a fellow road warrior who sounds like Mike Rowe with a mother who just happens to be a selling author?” “Possibly,” he said. “You were fun to talk to.” “What if I can get Mike Rowe to narrate it for you? Would that seal the deal?” This time, Peter adjusted the rearview mirror and stared at the guy who used to do some crazy crap on the Discovery Channel. “Son of a bitch,” he said. We shook hands, wished each other a pleasant life, and promised to read each other’s next book – assuming either of us ever finishes. And with that, 'The Original PIM Coach' went in search of more content, as I entered the familiar environs of Terminal A, to further solidified my status as a glutton for punishment, somewhere in the friendly skies...

Having to download an app to use a damn rental car is lunacy

@sqL_handLe I actually agree, wish we could mix the two or something

What an abysmally wasteful use of AI. Twitter was in its heyday when it just showed me the tweets of people I followed. That’s why I followed them, after all.

@iavins I can’t tell if there’s a /sarcasm missing

Nothing comes close to the Postgres extensions ecosystem. Kinda insane that people have extended it with features you just can’t pull off with other databases: •Full-text search like Elasticsearch •Message queuing like RabbitMQ (and kinda Kafka like) •Job / task schedulers •Durable execution engines •Graph, time series, and geospatial databases •Vector databases •Foreign Data Wrappers (FDW)

A lovely tribute to Phil Factor from @redgate 's founder: red-gate.com/simple-talk/fe…

@sqL_handLe They are mean as hell...

this is the first time i've heard of a green jay. ~~~ Rare Hybrid Bird Discovered in Texas Backyard 2025 September 29 scitechdaily.com/rare-hybrid-bi…

This seems likely right. Only time will tell

The weak underestimate and block the internet schizos, while the strong embrace them and their polarizing tendencies because the fact of the matter is… they are right A LOT

@michaelschwab13 Hopefully this isn’t the cop out the front office uses

I had to zoom my web browser out to get all of the Astros injuries transactions on one page. There have been 36. How many in 2022? 17

@sqlstudent144 A schema of DBAs?

Is there a term for a group of DBAs? If not, I'd like to propose: A performance of DBAs.

@sqL_handLe New movie incoming?

Chucky’s Punch!