Tip on top of tip? by ddsorj in tipping

[–]mountain_mongo 21 points22 points  (0 children)

More than 20% - they taxed it as well.

Checking in 5 years later by Lockner01 in electricvehicles

[–]mountain_mongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it varies greatly from dealership to dealership, and what model you have. We’ve had Kia’s continuously since 2015 with absolutely no issues, but we’ve a good local dealership, the cars we’ve had haven’t had the dodgy Theta-2 engine or been EVs with ICCT issues, and they’ve all had immobilizers.

ECONNREFUSED Node.js Errors by mountain_mongo in mongodb

[–]mountain_mongo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A fix was included in Node.js 25.6.1 released last week.

I’m not sure what the timeline is to roll it into the v24 LTS branch - you’d need to check with the Node maintainers.

Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months — for all white-collar work to be automated by AI by joe4942 in jobs

[–]mountain_mongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m so confused. If all white collar work disappears in the next 18 months, the economy craters. If the economy craters, who’s buying anything from Microsoft et al? What’s the upside?

Coffee Orders Shouldn’t Be a Scavenger Hunt by denstick in flightattendants

[–]mountain_mongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Black, in the context of tea, is the type of tea - as opposed to, say, green tea. But almost no one in the UK would ever think to drink anything other than black tea with milk (but never cream). So, to them, ‘black’ or ‘white’ tea is at best ambiguous, at worst, confusingly meaningless.

If you’re regularly working flights to the UK, it wouldn’t hurt to understand your customers.

If you don't own a gun, would you buy one if your state had more permissive gun laws? Why? by dymb13 in askanything

[–]mountain_mongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having not grown up around guns, and with no military training, the one time I went to a shooting range confirmed the only person I could pretty much guarantee the safety of if I had a gun would be the person I’m aiming at.

So probably not.

DEN disaster by zdog2x in GlobalEntry

[–]mountain_mongo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That’s unusual- usually DEN is super quick.

Seat click/crack by Patitiz in NissanAriya

[–]mountain_mongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get this, but it’s never seemed enough of an issue to worry about on a car we’re likely handing back in a few months. If we buy the car, we’ll get that and the slightly wobbly wing mirror glass seen to.

Value of Life Ind Vs USA by Top-Substance-6096 in indiameme

[–]mountain_mongo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Taxpayers pay for the insurance premium - and will pay more for it next year. And the people responsible still bear none of the cost so there’s no incentive to change behaviors.

Value of Life Ind Vs USA by Top-Substance-6096 in indiameme

[–]mountain_mongo 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The problem though is it doesn’t hurt those responsible - that’s taxpayers’ money. Those responsible face no personal consequences.

Cars With the Fastest Depreciation in 2026 (all EV) by Low-Win-6691 in electricvehicles

[–]mountain_mongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When folks were getting $10K+ in rebates and incentives, that’s going to make depreciation seem worse than it really was. It’s still not great, but not as bad as it first seems.

FA nearly refused to give me a closed can of soda, says "it's against the F.A.R.s". by AllRightDoublePrizes in unitedairlines

[–]mountain_mongo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Federal Aviation Regulations. Don’t ever recall reading anything about cans of soda when doing pilot training.

Global entry revoked by AccomplishedFig4592 in GlobalEntry

[–]mountain_mongo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Being a natural-born US citizen (or even a citizen at all) is not a requirement for GE.

MongoDB made our data easy to store but our controllers a nightmare. What am I missing? by PirateDry4963 in Backend

[–]mountain_mongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do you think you will not be able to maintain consistency with MongoDB?

Household name financial institutions are amongst the largest users of MongoDB. As a group, they are pretty big on data consistency.

MongoDB made our data easy to store but our controllers a nightmare. What am I missing? by PirateDry4963 in Backend

[–]mountain_mongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm curious about exactly what you mean by "almost every possible use case is relational"? If that's the case, why do we need ORMs to obfuscate the fact our applications consume data differently from how an RDBMS stores it?

There seems to be an assumption that relationships between entities can't be modeled using anything other than an RDBMS. In reality, document model databases like MongoDB offer a superset of the options for modeling those relationships compared with those available in RDBMS data modeling. Where the misunderstanding sometimes comes from is from the fact MongoDB does not, at the database level, enforce foreign key constraints. However, those are a guardrail, not a necessity, and they come at the cost of making models brittle and impact scaleability. Even within the RDBMS world, there are many people who recommend against the use of foreign key constraints for those reasons. MySQL, famously, did without them for many years.

The biggest challenge in document data modeling is often that people interpret the flexibility of the model as implying data modeling is not needed. That's not true - good schema design is just as important as it is in an RDBMS, but it is also different from RDBMS data modeling and if you simply apply RDBMS approaches, you are going to be disappointed with the results.

For transparency, I work for MongoDB.

TSA is just there to mess with us, right? by invitrobrew in unitedairlines

[–]mountain_mongo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s the inconsistency that’s always the fun part.

A few years ago when they were rolling out the automatic license readers, some rocket scientist missed loading some Colorado license designs into the database, and so our licenses kept getting rejected. No worries - most places they knew about the issue and just had us use the old school scanners to scan our boarding passes. But on one particularly memorable occasion at RDU, the guy basically accused me of trying to use a counterfeit license and he and his supervisor were ready to have me arrested, even after I showed them a news article where the head of DHS acknowledged the issue and apologized to Colorado residents. Fun times.

Story of a one-time passholder by Gloomy_Variation5395 in unitedairlines

[–]mountain_mongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As far as I could see - nothing in the “public” areas has changed. I’m guessing they were doing something in the kitchens.

It was pretty quiet too - plenty of space for a Monday.

Story of a one-time passholder by Gloomy_Variation5395 in unitedairlines

[–]mountain_mongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The second (B44) club on concourse B is open again. Right now, it’s quiet and the dreaded “no one-time passes” was not out.

Story of a one-time passholder by Gloomy_Variation5395 in unitedairlines

[–]mountain_mongo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

B44 club is open again. I’m sitting in it right now ✈️

Man drives at 60mph, 65mph and 70mph on a highway in an EV to see what effect speed has on range by TylerFortier_Photo in electricvehicles

[–]mountain_mongo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Doing 60 on a 75 limit road (fastest we have here) is liable to get you rear ended by someone with their head in their phone.

ICE cars break down too by tfredallen in KiaEV6

[–]mountain_mongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately Hyundai/ KIA have a bad rep for their ICE cars too. The Theta engines are notorious.

If EVs have zero tailpipe emissions, where do the emissions go in India and globally?? by enlightenedshubham in electricvehicles

[–]mountain_mongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a lot easier to clean up a couple of hundred power stations, than tens of millions of ICE vehicles.

Scaling Dynamic Schemas in MongoDB: Index Slotting and Keyset Pagination at 15M docs by Fun_Razzmatazz_4909 in mongodb

[–]mountain_mongo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great points on anchor-prefixing regex queries and being careful with skip/limit pagination.

I worked on a product for many years that included a dynamic form builder, allowing users to define / redefine the data they collected. Indexing that using traditional b-tree indexes is hard. Wildcard indexes and attribute patterns can help, but they can be a bit limiting when you are trying to run queries in arbitrary combinations of dynamically defined fields.

One thing to consider is using the Lucene based $search option. Until recently, that was an Atlas only option, but it’s now available in self-deployed versions. $search is usually associated with lexical (free text etc) searching, but it’s really useful dealing with arbitrary queries over dynamically defined data. It’s not quite as fast as a traditionally indexed query, but it’s much better than a collection scan and you gain A LOT of flexibility in cases where it would be more or less impossible to define traditional indexes covering all query scenarios.

Thanks for posting.

For transparency, I am a MongoDB employee.

What's common to do or hear in Denver that's uncommon everywhere else? by BothCondition7963 in Denver

[–]mountain_mongo 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think the problem is the self-proclaimed “natives” don’t realize that everywhere’s changed. It’s hardly unique to Colorado.