tragedy of the Commons, with external pressure to boot.

snaps! hiss

done, and much happier here.

exactly. Petitioning those who have already demonstrated that they don’t care unless you have leverage is meaningless.

use leverage, in what ways you can. make a habit of it.

I like to think about ethics. I still pirate some random stuff here and there, but one thing I like to do is make sure I’m getting some money to the creators of what I’m enjoying, skipping the middle man as much as can be.

this is mostly only relevant with music, but if I can buy an album or song directly from the artist, that’s awesome. it not, i try to five what service benefits them most.

Yes, ish. There are aspects of it that are really valuable, and fit some use cases extremely well. But, in some senses, yes. Like any DBMS, you’ve got to know it’s strengths and weaknesses. And if you do, there are definitely circumstances where you’d choose it over others. But not always.

This is kinda absolute BS at this point, though.

Mongo has acid transactions, and has for years now. Although this is only within the same database, there are plenty of dbms (including rdbms) that don’t support cross-database transactions.

Mongo also, since time immemorial, has had “write concern” to ensure that it’s written to disk (to the journal) before the transaction is completed.

points at blurry image of vehicle in background

enhance!

sure.

and chiggers, woo!

-bro, but yeah, good point.

yeah. poorly worded.

yeah, that was ambiguously worded.

Grow up. he did.

he has. people just prefer to go on judging. how you supposed to feel good about yourself if the people you hate for hating stopped hating?

then don’t ask questions you can find out in other comments.

because people like things.

maybe read the headline and the comments, but only like 30% before i react. I guess 75% for the headline maybe.

i get it, and don’t mind seeing him these days, but I don’t seek him out.

so much better