It’s his second term, and he doesn’t care about the GOP after him, so it’s not like he needs funds for the next election, or needs to deliver on the economy.
And as I understand it he doesn’t have long term bonds of friendship with Texan oil folks.
Nepotism-wise, his kids only need one job each, that’s all squared away already. Trump needs allies who can keep him and his kids out of jail, but oil companies don’t have any super powers in that area.
So what's his "Drill, baby, drill" about? He thinks renewable energy is the something sent by the anti-christ. The only energy source he accepts is burning fossil fuels or nuclear power.
I was just about to ask some friends about it. If I’m not mistaken, Postgres began using ICU for collation, but not string matching yet. Curious if someone here is working in that direction?
I have seen a lot of people sort by (generated) integer values to return the rows "in creation order" assuming that sorting by an integer is somehow magically faster than sorting by a proper timestamp value (which give a more robust "creation order" sorting than a generated integer value).
Assuming the integer value is the PK, it can in fact be much faster for MySQL / MariaDB due to InnoDB’s clustering index. If it can do a range scan over the PK, and that’s also the ORDER BY (with matching direction), congratulations, the rows are already ordered, no sort required. If it has to do a secondary index lookup to find the rows, this is not guaranteed.
(I have family and lots of close friends in the US. I miss them all. But I don't intend to visit given the way things are over there these days. _Maybe_ after the next administration change? Depending on how things change? But I've come to accept I may never visit again.)
I already missed a funeral on account of all this bs. But it just doesn't seem worth the hassle any more to go there. It is frustrating because I have more friends on that side of the Atlantic than I do in the EU. But the last interaction with US border patrol was enough to sour me for the rest of my life.
I've been to the US multiple times this year and it's really not much different from how its been for the last decades. If you are choosing to to not go to events that you would want to attend over this you only have yourself to blame.
I only have bluesky with only work posts, nothing else. I've gotten a visa in last few months. Even though I never went because of the situation. Needed to get a visa for potential work related stuff which eventually could be worked around.
The German Wikipedia page[1] about the Z1 also contains a quote from Kurt Pannke, who Zuse told about his plans for the computer.
"Oh, Mr Zuse, there is absolutely nothing left to invent in the field of calculating machines. But you are a nice young engineer, I'll give you 1,500
Reichsmarks and when you have come up with something, show it to me."
(Translated by Deepl)
I like the "640K ought to be enough" vibe of that statement :)
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