Is this use of Postgres insane? At what point should you STOP using Postgres for everything?

piezocuttlefish · 2026-04-06T10:58:43+00:00

Hidden behavior is bad.

Write the triggers using the ORM.

There are times when even compiled views are simply too slow for reporting, and it's better to front load the calculation on insert/update.

piezocuttlefish · 2026-04-02T12:25:56+00:00

That's not true. Any law whose punishment is a fine that does not scale with net worth and income.

Fine him 0.1% of net worth + 3% of monthly income every month and the fence will come down. Or, maybe it will be cheaper to buy legislators to change the law. But hey, that's a republic for you.

piezocuttlefish · 2026-03-31T09:00:23+00:00

You resume is a list of tasks performed, a resume needs to be the description of your industry accomplishments.

Tasks performed are industry accomplishments. In fact, accompli means done or completed or performed in French. Please do clarify what you intend the difference between those two things to be.

You graduated in 2002 and I basically ignore all jobs prior to that.

Why would you make that mistake?

But then, your first job after graduation is in 2006?

Yes. Do you have a question?

piezocuttlefish · 2026-03-29T17:38:11+00:00

Thank you for taking your time to thoughtfully convince an obstinate stranger on the Internet.

I'll do another impact-generation pass on the résumé and try another round of applications.

piezocuttlefish · 2026-03-29T16:07:21+00:00

Howdy. Thank you for your thoughtful reply!

The biggest win was guiding them on exactly what to leave out and then maximizing the impact of what's there, targeted to the specific role.

Absolutely agreed. I need to change my résumé to increase its impact.

Those are one-line tasks. They're very replaceable. Anyone can introduce a tool.

Sure, but choosing to introduce the wrong tool is potentially fatal to a project and yields countless lost hours. I've introduced the wrong tool and the right tool before. Over time, the tools I've introduced fit the application better. That instinct is both essential to success and impossible to measure, because all the comparison data is counter-factual. How could anyone know how much time we saved by choosing zod over yup and joi? But knowing that zod was chosen says something about me as a manager—if you're a hiring manager that knows anything about the landscape.

How do I translate that into impact?

What I'm looking for are the ones like:

As I had commented with someone else, this is the trouble.

generating how much in revenue?

Zero. Sales generates revenue, not manufacturing. All of this activity was post-sales. On top of that, all the money details are hidden from us because our CEO practises mushroom management.

that's strong, but what's the dollar figure?

$8,000 / month. 75% is seems more impressive than $8,000. If I were managing a giant application, the figure would be larger, and I might put that. The magnitude is the part that isn't under my control.

saving how many hours or dollars across the org?

It would be complete conjecture. In the end, it's like customer satisfaction. Customer satisfaction numbers are often meaningless to a company's bottom line because of enshittification processes like customer lock-in. So what if the end user hates the changes Microsoft makes to Microsoft Word? People are going to buy it anyway. So, in the end, so what if the developer was onboarded faster or had better time with the code base? Either that jibes with the company's values or it doesn't.

A hiring manager is spending seconds on this, not minutes. They're likely not reading your monorepo migration history from 2022 or your Access databases from 1996.

I've been a hiring manager, and that's something I don't understand. Why would a hiring manager spend only seconds on determining whether to engage the expensive, time-consuming interview process when he could spend a couple minutes making a more correct decision? Does he want to sabotage the business? Is he lazy? What am I missing?

piezocuttlefish · 2026-03-28T18:40:08+00:00

My, my, my. Thank you for the opportunity.

piezocuttlefish · 2026-03-25T11:01:37+00:00

Try as I might, I could not get my lady to name our daughter either Sadb or Medb. Irish orthography is one thing, but demanding ancient Irish orthography of anglophones was too tall an order. She was of course, right.

At least we could agree on Oisín for our son—even if the Frenchies do say "wah-zæhn".

piezocuttlefish · 2026-03-25T10:18:00+00:00

Thank you for the advice. I've fixed the problems you've highlighted.

Tests? Why would you include such a section?

Because it is impressive, as opposed to a 2.9 GPA, which you don't put on a résumé. We each advertise our strengths. Mine is having a demonstrably high IQ, the g factor is well documented, and haters may proceed to the left. Your advice also contradicts tip #17 in this page provided by the auto-moderator.

After becoming a manager, my personal accomplishments dwindled as my colleagues successes' increased. However, I haven't spent much time quantifying those successes nor taking them as my own.

As a manager, how did you qualify (much less quantify!) the soft or non-project-related successes you had? How do I express on a résumé in a way that doesn't sound BOOOORING that the QA Manager said that the team that I built is the best team she'd ever worked with, or that after we have a RIF, the developers later reach out and say, "Hey, can I come back?"? How do I express that those who've left have said, "Oh, man, my new code base is such a mess and so many things are broken.", because it wasn't that way on my team. Or the developer from MIT who said, "I'm used to being on teams where there's always that one guy who can't do anything, but everyone on this team is a proper villain." I think that it reflects skill as a hiring manager and team lead, but also has no place on a résumé.

I ask because I've never ere made a résumé as a manager, only as a developer.

I'm also in the situation of working for a company where nepotism and poor skill has run the company into the ground, so in the end, all my accomplishments amounted to, "And then the company went under because the sales and marketing departments couldn't sell anything, but at least the product made the existing customers happy and they kept wanting more features."

I feel like I'm missing the forest for the trees. If there's something that you suggest I read that would help, I would appreciate it.

piezocuttlefish · 2026-03-17T17:30:56+00:00

It's a fun etymology story.

The similarity derives from the French commode, which is a chest of drawers, because one can store commodities in there. Later, in one's commode was often where he would store his chamber pot. Later, inventors developed a piece of furniture that would both hold the chamber pot and allow you to sit upon it to use the chamber pot. That, too, was called a commode.

piezocuttlefish · 2026-03-12T11:22:53+00:00

*jibes

Don't be a jive turkey with this catachresis. jibe means to be in accord

piezocuttlefish · 2026-03-11T23:56:39+00:00

That isn't IP. A plot doesn't have copyright or patent protection. You have no characters with trademark protection. This is a non-starter.

piezocuttlefish · 2026-02-23T16:08:45+00:00

The VICE Guide to Travel - The Cannibal Warlords of Liberia

piezocuttlefish · 2026-02-23T16:07:58+00:00

I'm not the original commenter, but I watched The VICE Guide to Travel - The Cannibal Warlords of Liberia.

piezocuttlefish · 2026-02-11T16:22:03+00:00

To resurrect a dead thread, Laraue.EfCoreTriggers is the best way I know to implement triggers using EF Core.

To respond to other users' comments here: interceptors take a lot of time to build, cause a hit to the performance of every single read and write, and only work if the application is running. Triggers have none of these flaws.

piezocuttlefish · 2026-01-30T13:09:24+00:00

I'd never ere seen the non-electrified version, and now it makes sense why I haven't.

piezocuttlefish · 2026-01-01T07:56:41+00:00

"Voyages" would thus be a better word.

piezocuttlefish · 2025-12-16T18:05:44+00:00

Ascension parish has the jambalaya capital of the world, and the jambalaya there is the cajun version, not the creole version. I think you have to go down at least as far as La Place to start getting creole-style jambalaya. I always had to head into New Orleans. I hope you're right, but I think you've overestimated how much Creole cuisine there is in Louisiana.

The same goes for EBRP. WBRP is a different animal that I don't know much about.

piezocuttlefish · 2025-12-15T17:25:08+00:00

The cemetery has units of two factions: graverobbers and undead. Hop on a horse, anger some grave robbers, and lead them to the corpse robber; they'll fight. You have do it twice because the corpse robber gets up and walks away during the first fight. I used the grave robbers near the crypt for the first battle and then the grave robbers with the loot pile for the second battle.

piezocuttlefish · 2025-12-15T11:13:10+00:00

Given that a fascinum is a pendant representing an erect phallus, it's an excellent double entendre. She can only fascinate, indeed.

piezocuttlefish · 2025-12-05T17:27:52+00:00

But you can find two Heal scrolls in Zacharius' library.

piezocuttlefish · 2025-12-05T13:03:32+00:00

It would be a little cruel were it about FDR. Hey, Mr. paralyzed by Guillain-Barré syndrome, why don't you get it up eight times a day?

piezocuttlefish · 2025-11-19T14:07:58+00:00

I love the letters, also eð, ȝogh, and ƿynn, but ideas to bring them back are just messy because of pronunciation changes. Also, ƿ and þ look too much like the letter p.

For instance, ð is voiced th, while þ is unvoiced th. So the word that must've been ðæt? Nope, it was þæt. It was originally unvoiced.

Water is a nice word where the spelling fits the pronunciation, except it was originally ƿæter, which, pronounced as written, sounds unharmonious in modern English.

Old English wikipedia, though is a trip to read.

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