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The logic of the app I currently work on lives 99% in the database... As a C++ plugin to the DB.

Not stored procedures, or triggers, or anything like that... Just a giant plugin loaded when the DB starts that provides business specific functions that can be called by the client instead of SQL queries (think "CreateAccount" or "GetFooDetails").

Oh, and probably 50% of the columns are giant JSON objects.

It's.... interesting.

If you're American, buy some bread while you're here. Ours is much more "bread" and less "sugar cake".

We frame these situations under the banner of "solve the problem you have".

Avoid premature optimisation for problems you might have. If your site only has 1000 users, there's no benefit to deploying it in infra scaled for a million users. Could you have a million users in the future? Sure, solve it when you start heading that way. Could your site stagnate with 20,000 users? Absolutely. It's a waste of engineering efforts (and money) to scale for 1 million users now.

The one thing I don't like, and this may just be Emirates cabin configuration, but the space between the seat back and the cabin wall on the widow seat is too large to be able to rest your head "comfortably" against the wall to sleep.

I flew MEL DXB LON KEF a couple of weeks ago. First 2 flights were A380, and the last was 757. I got better sleep on that 4 hour flight than either the other 2 legs (13 and 8 hours).

You have a legitimate use case and are using it in good faith. I can't imagine any scenario where someone would have any success in taking it away from you against your will unless you made a mistake in letting the registration lapse or something. Make sure you've got auto renewal set up, with a reputable registrar.

Looks like the catch is that the politicians get an exemption from it all.

Our primary product is backed by sqlite, using BedrockDB to make it client/server and multinode. 10mil users, 2+ TB sqlite database, 6 database nodes.

It was git that implemented the change, then github upgraded to the affected version. AFAIK, MS has no influence over upstream git.

As much as I distrust Microsoft, I don't think there were any ulterior motives here.

Traffic management is pretty low on the list of priorities for us at a going job.

Also, at least in my jurisdiction, traffic control is a police responsibility, and we're technically not allowed to do it anyway.

The preference is anyone who's not a fire-fighter just stays away, for their safety and ours.

Our brigade has hose ramps so we can let people drive over... But they're pretty far down the list of priorities to pull off the truck unless we're just training.

Do you have your own IPv4 allocation? How does that work financially for a side project, if I may ask?

Again? This is the third incident in ~12 months IIRC.

Is every other company hiding their incidents, or are MC developing a habit of actually not "taking the security of our users' data seriously"?

I got to tour the broadcast facility that transmits all the TV and Radio signals for Melbourne, AU. Part of their power infrastructure is a kinetic wheel - IIRC, 5 tons spinning constantly, that can put out 125kva for a few minutes - long enough for the backup generators to start up and take over. Damn impressive, and at least from a physics point of view, so simple too.

Yes, being able to dynamically update and contextually change what is displayed is a benefit of a touchscreen.

I don't believe that should be relevant to mechanical features of a 2 ton weapon though. Entertainment/Nav system that aren't key features for operating the vehicle, sure, have at it.

The hardware isn't being updated remotely to add new features or functionality, so I don't see why the interface for controlling those things should need the benefit of being able to be changed.

"Keep It Simple, Stupid" has been an adage for a long time for a reason.

The tactile interaction that a physical button gives means I don't have to wait for an opportune time when I can take my eyes off the road. I can operate any function in my 32yo car without ever taking my eyes off the road. Obviously it doesn't have any self driving features, but being able to activate the wipers in less than a seconds because my windscreen is suddenly completely obscured by the car coming the other way that splashed a puddle up, or lower the volume because something has happened that needs my undivided attention, or just adjust the heating/cooling without having to think or look away is always going to be superior.

My company pays the sqlite team a significant amount annually for a support contract. (Without going into too much detail, the primary database for our application is an approximately 2TB sqlite database - no, that's not a typo).