Oops you forgot this part:

> Here we account for the influence of three main natural variability factors: El Niño, volcanism, and solar variation.

Whoops! Whoopsies! Oopsy doodles!

Indeed, if only it were as simple as “{n} rows”.

I18n / l10n is full of things like this, important details that couldn’t be more boring or fiddly to implement.

Which is why Windows UI is littered with language like "number of rows: {n}".

Makes it easier to parse by automatic tools too

> Indeed, if only it were as simple as “{n} rows”.

How long till we just have a LLM do it on the fly?

If I may suggest two artists besides the great Fela Kuti: William Onyeabor (try "Tomorrow") and Dizzy K Falola (try "Sweet Music").

William Onyeabor got me into African fusion. He's definitely one of the most interesting characters on the scene and the synthesizers in his music were some of the best. RIP.

I didn’t see the source graph thing, but the Grab episode always seemed odd to me. He wrote these breathless rants about how epic it all was, then quit after a year or so. I just figured the long hours eventually stopped being awesome.

Man we better hope the solution to that problem is working code. Otherwise we better start working the fryers or something.

From what I can tell, he was insufficiently enthusiastic about immigration. And, you know. You can't be saying that stuff.

I can't agree, it's been nice to have these people off Twitter. They don't contribute much and their shrillness got really old.

Yeah. I don’t want to see “wow look at how pretty this markup is”. I want to see “look how flexible and easy to change this is, without redoing everything”.

If you’re not talking about change, the other stuff is pointless.

I gather by the mention of fascism that the correspondent is a bad person. So it makes sense that Russell told him to get bent. But, that is all that he's really saying here.

I can only guess this is noteworthy due to the parties corresponding because it isn't very interesting outside of that.

Have you been reading the news? Perhaps about someone who engaged people in debate while holding extreme views? In the process, they gained some measure of credit amongst people with less radical views, merely for the act of having conversations. Except in this case the debates were not with Bertrand Russell, but with 18 year old college freshman.

I understood the posting to be a subtweet-style comment on that.

It would only take you a weekend!

It is a lot of work but it is work that for the most part should not have been done. I took a quick look at the code (since I know PG very well) and I would not recommend anyone to use that mess off Bash code which configures PostgreSQL in an annoying and incorrect way and exposed some arbitrarily select settings in the environment (some very rarely used) while you have to do most in the config file. Better to just write your own Docker image for scratch, or use the official PG image of your needs are simple.

This is what happens if you merge every feature request you get and do not have a clear plan or architecture. After reading the code I am happy they are deleting the images, at least if this one is typical.

As a PostgreSQL expert I can write a much better image which suits my needs in one day, which I have also done several times. It would be harder for a non-expery but I do not think a non-expert should use this image due to some footguns I spotted. This kind of generic image is a bad idea and very hard to build.

> but I do not think a non-expert should use this image due to some footguns I spotted

Could you elaborate on your findings?

Hindsight is 2020, there’s now helm/kubernetes operator under the cloud native umbrella. I’m sure they took in all the mistakes from here. This helm chart is getting long in the tooth, but is still monumental. Imo running psql on kube is a mistake to begin with but here we are.