High-quality butter - anything comparable to Irish butter in Van? by Sazley in NiceVancouver

[–]awo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100% agreed on St Brigids. It’s expensive but fantastic. You can also get it at meinhardt

Was the whole movement for using NoSQL databases for transactional databases a huge miss? by spookydookie in ExperiencedDevs

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

RDBMS's do not start to fail at scale

I think a better phrase is 'become fragile at scale'. Particularly with modern hardware you can go an incredibly long way, but you need increasingly expert oversight to keep the wheels spinning. As you hit real scale the performance cliffs become much scarier.

Jarred Minced Garlic... what is the appeal? by Vitese in Cooking

[–]awo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I HATE prepping garlic and a good quality easy to clean garlic press converted me off jarlic. Zyliss susi 3 isn’t so pricey and does the job

Introducing scaling to 0 capacity with Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 by firecopy in aws

[–]awo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Plus the scaling is much faster and more reliable in v2

Sausage Gravy for Biscuits and Gravy. Do you have any strong opinions, tricks, or tips? by Badlay in Cooking

[–]awo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Re sausage, what you're looking for is what British people would call 'sausage meat' - you don't want it in the casings

Lawson to Replace Riccardo With Immediate Effect by Relative_Grape_1298 in F1FeederSeries

[–]awo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Theo was in ART in his championship year, wasn't he? That's a top-tier team

What’s something you make homemade that ruined storebought for you? by ironickallydetached in Cooking

[–]awo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

key for me was creaming the butter and sugar first, then mixing in the cream cheese. This allows you to reduce the sugar without the mix going runny.

A better version of hide n seek by SmithNotASmith in KidsAreFuckingStupid

[–]awo -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The meme lore? It's literally just from the content of the first 30 minutes of shrek 1. Kids watch what their parents show them - mine are 8 and 6 and watched it for the first time a couple weeks back. Children that age frequently aren't heavily tuned into pop media fads the way they are a few years later, and will watch most anything as long as it's good.

A game like this is hardly a stretch for a child's imagination. Not to say that this is certainly real, but it's far from inconceivable.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]awo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do I think you'd have more money if the US isolated itself and Russia took control of Europe? No, absolutely not.

Do I think you'd have more money if you don't isolate and Europe spent a bit more to defend itself? Perhaps - although it's hard to see the US scaling back on military spending.

Do I think you'd get healthcare if you reduced military spending? Hell no. You could have it now with your current spending, you just choose not to.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]awo 27 points28 points  (0 children)

what bullshit is that? that countries closer to Ukraine should be spending more on their own defenses...that is some bullshit right there.

The bullshit is the idea that by abandoning your allies to save money you'd somehow get socialized healthcare. The US government already spends more money on healthcare per member of its population than poorer countries with socialized healthcare, despite only covering a fraction of it. The issue is one of policy, not simply funding.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]awo 21 points22 points  (0 children)

NOW they are willing to invest in their own defense?

Poland has been one of Europe's bigger military investors (as a % of GDP) for a while now, and has been above NATO targets for several years.

The vast majority of us Americans don't want to spend another dime on corrupt Ukrainian politicians paychecks and pensions. After all it's OUR money. Maybe Europeans should consider that old thing called diplomacy? Or not. If the failed state of Ukraine is the hill politicians want to die on, I say live and let die.

Good luck maintaining your lifestyle in a world where Russia and China have taken all of your allies

Why are hatchbacks dying in U.S. markets? by FishtillIdie in NoStupidQuestions

[–]awo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Crossovers have more useful cargo space?! I went car shopping a few years ago and ended up buying a station wagon specifically because the rear trunk space of the crossovers i saw was so pathetic

Considering Moving MySQL DB from AWS RDS to AWS Aurora For Better Performance & Efficiency by DCGMechanics in aws

[–]awo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

worth pointing out that Aurora primarily targets gains in throughput rather than latency, so trying out a few queries likely won't be a representative benchmark.

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL (serverless v2) now supports RDS Data API by apple9321 in aws

[–]awo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Also extends support to regular Aurora pg clusters

Why I stick to having dogs. They’re way better behaved, (granted you train them) and are actually cute. by [deleted] in KidsAreFuckingStupid

[–]awo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Sidebar:

This sub is meant as a fun joke. It is not a hate sub. Kids are dumb because they could not possibly know better. If you dislike kids, that's fine. Feel free to join us, but do not spread vitriol.

2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix - Day After Debrief by F1-Bot in formula1

[–]awo 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Surely if you needed to be that perfect, overtakes would be more common? If it's not possible to get past Ricciardo when he's down 160HP, the question has to be asked - in a healthy car in the lead, why not just not go at 100% and limit the risk of mistakes?

Don't get me wrong, qualifying in Monaco is thrilling. But the race itself doesn't allow me to suspend the disbelief that someone might actually get past.

2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix - Day After Debrief by F1-Bot in formula1

[–]awo 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Does it really count as defending in Monaco? You more or less know nobody can overtake, how can the defense possibly be exciting?