CEO, PGX Inc. / @galloprehistorico.bsky.social / @cep@fosstodon.org
Joined February 2007
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9 Jan 2024
Ending my involvement with Twitter. See everyone at Blusky: galloprehistorico.bsky.socia…
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One thing I hope every developer takes from the xz situation is that, if someone attempts to shame and badger you into accepting patches on any project, the answer should be, "If you are having trouble finding the 'fork' button, I can send you a screenshot."
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Christophe Pettus retweeted
25 Mar 2024
Christophe Pettus: Checking Your Privileges postgr.es/p/6sb
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Christophe Pettus retweeted
12 Mar 2024
Christophe Pettus with an important message for anyone interested in PGX's services!
@Xof @PostgreSQL @nordicpgday #postgres
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8 Jan 2024
"AI" customer service chatbots are just incredibly, horribly, laughably bad. They are like someone is conducting a sociology experiment in how much it takes to piss customers off.
"I need help correcting a W-2."
"Got it! Here are some topics about waffles!"
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30 Nov 2023
I wish fewer conversations with clients were of the form:
Client: "We are driving nails with a screwdriver, and it is not working well."
Us: "Use a hammer?"
Client: "It's too risky to introduce a new tool into our system. How can we make the screwdriver work better?"
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30 Nov 2023
I think that Kissinger waited until this moment to die so he could kick off at a time when it could cause the largest number of people to scream at each other over the correct interpretation of his legacy.
(Which is silly, because his legacy is that he was a war criminal.)
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29 Nov 2023
I am hereby defining a new problem in programming languages, which is: Syntax creep. Python and C display this perfectly. The language starts with a (relatively) simple and direct syntax, and slowly adds more and more appurtenances until it becomes totally unreadable.
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26 Nov 2023
"Having reliable audio on a laptop is bad, actually."
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Christophe Pettus retweeted
21 Nov 2023
I still haven't heard a good answer to this question, on or off the podcast.
AI researchers often tell me, "Don't worry bout it, scale solves this."
But what is the rebuttal to someone who argues that this indicates a fundamental limitation?
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25 Oct 2023
random_page_cost is the brown M&Ms of #PostgreSQL database tuning. If you look at the configuration and see that random_page_cost = 4, look through the rest of the configuration *very* carefully. npr.org/sections/therecord/2…
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Christophe Pettus retweeted
7 Sep 2023
Amen to that!
"Lorenic said this flood of junk CVE 'is literally going to DOS triage teams, the NVD itself, and open source maintainers stuck dealing with the fallout. Stop doing this!' He's correct."
opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/…
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15 Aug 2023
Dear App Developers: Just so you know, the very first time I get a marketing notification on my phone, your app gets notifications turned off and never turned on again. Provide a clear way to opt-in, or don't use them for that.
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7 Aug 2023
Many (most?) cities already have zoning laws that, if interpreted strictly, prohibit people from working from home. This is not implausible. x.com/LeavittAlone/status/16…
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7 Aug 2023
Dear @Zoom: I would like you to state, unequivocally, if Zoom has the right to use user recordings as input to AI training, or not. Do you have that legal right, under the TOS as it stands, right now? Please answer without equivocation. 1/n
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7 Aug 2023
My reading of the ToS that Zoom does claim that right, right now, and the user cannot take that right away from Zoom. Zoom might "promise" that it won't do so if the user checks some box on the UI, but that does not take away Zoom's legal right to do so.
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7 Aug 2023
Further, the ToS and the blog post are both unclear about what happens if one user has taken action to prevent Zoom from using their data as input to AI training, but other parties on the call have not.
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