Upvoted because educational, despite the AI-ness and clickbait.

I’ve worked at orgs that used Postgres in production, but I’ve never been the one responsible for tuning/maintenance. I never knew that Postgres doesn’t merge pages or have a minimum page occupancy. I would have thought it’s not technically a B-tree if it doesn’t.

This is some of the best writing I've read in a while, and truly fascinating.

Radix sort is not a comparison-based sort and is not O(n log n).

No, because radix sort is not a comparison-based sort and is not O(n log n).

This semi-explains why I have started to notice (sadly) serious bugs in TextEdit, not just scrolling but editing/corruption.

> Never place rich UI elements within a table, list, or other markdown element.

> Place rich UI elements within tables, lists, or other markdown elements when appropriate.

Yeah, and video games were just a way to distract kids for a few hours so parents could watch tv or read a book without being bothered.

It's become something else, Wired has a brand name and a reputation, so when they pooh-pooh something that has more weight that if you or I do.

Googlebot respects robots.txt. And Google doesn't use the fetched data from users of Chrome to supplement their search index (as a2128 is speculating that Perplexity might do when they fetch pages on the user's behalf).

Yes, but there's no way to say "allow indexing for search, but not for AI use", right?

But there is: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...

There is an user agent for search that you can control in robots.txt.

    user-agent: Googlebot

There is another user agent for AI training.

    user-agent: Google-Extended

Wow, I had no idea this page existed, thanks for the reference!

I met someone with SDAM who described it in a more striking way.

He said he doesn’t have any “first-person” memories. Most people, even if they forget most things they do day-to-day, and don’t have great “indices” of their memories, can think back on certain times where they remember being there, doing a thing, probably with some visuals associated with that, which can be played back. This person said that none of the things they remember that they did, they can remember personally doing, if that makes sense.

For me, I have scattered samples, like once in a while throughout my life, my brain sort of takes a snapshot and forms a memory. I can imagine myself back in each place I lived, for example, or each place I worked, or graduating from college, or walking on the beach.

I don’t think the parent was saying that everyone’s intentions were pure until recently, but rather that naked greed wasn’t cool before, but now it is.

The Internet has changed a lot over the decades, and it did used to be different, with the differences depending on how many years you go back.

As recently as the Silicon Valley tv show, the joke was that every startup pitch claimed they were “making the world a better place”.

"I don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place better than we do." -Gavin Belson

Gavin is a perfect example of this, tho fictional. "Doing good" was a route to personal success and domination; Gavin under a Trump admin would have dropped the act, just as others have done.