https://www.youtube.com/@arduinoversusevil2025 also great for teardowns of specific tools. Seeing a few really put into perspective how many companies were transitioning to trading on their brand goodwill instead of making good stuff.

by definition connection poolers re-use connections so it it can happen with any connection pooling setup, PG or no.

in pgbouncer the connection is reset via a customisable command [0] which should reset the connection to a clean state.

[0] https://www.pgbouncer.org/config.html#server_reset_query

The answer is probably an automatic state in any company over a specific size given to the government. The only competition is then international.

Still perverse incentives. In this case the government is implicitly biased against startups competing against a giant.

I read recently that corporate taxes used to be a lot higher on large conglomerated companies, which used to deter monopolization somewhat. Under this automatic-stake idea, it'd be interesting if the government's stake in corporations increased as they got larger? Companies try to avoid this and so don't combine so much?

Of course once the government does have a large stake in the largest monopoly-like companies, it's immensely motivated to keep them large. Hmm. This idea isn't good.

Reinventing Socialism from first principals

Really the correct unit is Joules, but try convincing anyone of that.

Watt-hours and joules are the same thing, and you are indeed technically correct, but you'll get funny looks if you ask to buy an 18MJ BESS for your home...

> This isn't an energy issue.

Renewables don't have the same level of external dependence on a constant flow of instantaneously used fuel. So while I do agree with you, it is an energy issue regardless of your politics.

Sync is good, but they also have a great git plugin. One big advantage of local text based notes is that you can just source control them and set up quick shortcuts to commit, push and pull; as well as setting up automations to do that automatically when you open the app.

> And are exposed as local files stored in documented, stable, and sane paths.

This is highly dependent on the user (Mine is a god damn mess) :D.

Or us dyslexics, I don't mind having the robot check and rephrase my work.

They now also own xAI

Which in turn owns Twitter. SpaceX is now a social media company in addition to a rocket company.

One theory I think Matt Levine posited, is that SpaceX will go public with dual-class stock that gives Elon control even with a minority ownership stake, and will subsequently buy Tesla, which doesn't have dual class stock, making SpaceX the singular "Elon Musk company", with him having operational control despite being public.

That theory aligns with Elon's long-held dream of X as the "Everything Company".

Then he'll rebrand SpaceX to " X" (a space followed by an X).

Agreed, we should also nationalise resource extraction and put the funds in there. Canadian resources should be for Canadians.

No.

Historically, this just ends up with Toronto and Montreal (and to a more limited extent, Vancouver) treating the rest of the country as a resource colony. The pretense that consent of the governed is equally geographically distributed is, naturally, very useful to you.

If you do that again, as you did in the '60s, Canada will only be Toronto and Montreal.

> this just ends up with Toronto and Montréal (and to a more limited extent, Vancouver)

So, where most Canadians live?

There’s a reconciliation dimension that complicates that framing, at least in BC.

This feels not unlike talos linux, but for single instances over k8s containers. Pretty neat.

Yes, it is a single Docker Engine instance. But Lightwhale fully supports Docker Swarm, so you can easily build a lightweight cluster as well.