Yay, it's only taken them years to do this.

Since the pool identifiers are static, how do you actually fail over?

Oh, you need a custom domain that presumably routes if the primary dies.

The article buries something interesting at the bottom:

"Herd size is down, but U.S. beef production is steady"

So the author talks about all this stuff, but probably the three big cost drivers are:

1. Input costs are higher

2. Possible price fixing by meatpackers

3. Lack of Mexican imports due to screwworm. Although it sounds like Mexican imports would increase the herd size, not the amount of beef on the market.

Not sure why people haven't been importing more beef. The article mentions tariff cuts for Argentina, but there are other places that export beef. Possibly the market is tight all over the world?

You don't really need clickhouse in this pipeline. And it's interesting (but obvious once said) that you can replace kafka with s3...at least in the "scalable and reliable destination for lots of data" dimension.

It's a demonstration. Kafka is a very popular input for Clickhouse. So are data lakes. The point is neither need Kafka at all.

That's how far s3 has come - it's replacing products that were the pinnacle of scalability back in the day.

I have to look a bit, but it could probably replace Cassandra now as well.

The only thing I can think of is to ask the AI "why this instead of that?"

Every architectural decision is a tradeoff between something and another. Every technology choice is also a tradeoff. If you understand the reasons for the choices you'll start understanding architecture.

Sometimes it starts with requirements (ie: what you're trying to do), or what your deployment environment looks like, your hosting provider, or even what technology static you'd rather use.

For example, I'd never use Java for a project ever again; it's unclear what it really brings to the table, and it's more difficult to deploy on AWS. And if I was going to use Java I wouldn't pick Spring or any other dependency injection framework because they inevitably lead to impossible-to-debug performance issues. I wouldn't use an ORM for the same reason. No Ruby as well, due to issues with migrations and active record. No postgres unless there was a specific feature of it that works better than other, due to RDBMS management overhead and inconsistencies.

Of course, now that I write this my next project is going to be some random Java/Spring/pgsql thing with a Ruby engine attached (aargh).

What helps actually is reading the "why you should use this tool" parts of each tool. You can start building a mental model/checklist of the good/bad things of each one and why would you use one instead of the other. There's almost always more than one tool available, and the way you deploy/scale/manage/backup each one will tell you a lot about when you would (or wouldn't) use it.

In general don't worry about scale until you're at the point you can test for scalability. I mean, some architectures are better than others, but all of them will be performant at 10 users. Even flat files, a bash web server, and bash-based CGIs can handle 10 users.

At this point the models should just start improving themselves.

Rumor is that anthropic writes all their code with Claude. So it kind of is.

The book industry, despite its size, really doesn’t have large budgets on a per book basis. They release so many books and almost all of them lose money. Maybe 20 percent of published books break even and most of those just barely so.

I think that's just a nature of the type of entertainment. Reading is harder than watching, and so comparing the two will always lead you to that conclusion.

My dad was a lefty and played golf right-handed. It's a common enough thing.

In golf, strength is overrated until you get to the pros.

phil mickelson, easily the most famous left handed golfer, is right-handed but plays lefty because he would stand across from his dad and mirror his swing as a kid

In many parts of Asia they will 'correct' children who are using their left hands.

It was pretty common practice in the rest of the world too until a few decades ago.

As the sister comment said - this was common in the past a lot of places. Maybe everywhere. My left-handed father was forced to learn to write with his right hand.

How does this fit into the "you're too dumb to be in the armed forces" idea?

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/37491/is-it-truly-il...

I've heard that dictator's military is usually weaker than democracy's, mostly because dictator don't want their troops to be too smart lest they rebel. But modern military tactics is too sophisticated for dumb people so it results in ineffective military.

The powermate driver still works. My powermate is hooked up to my mac studio. I'll try this one; the real one doesn't init on restart, so I have to open it to get the throbbing.