correction, it is downdetectors all the way downdetectors

are the homes that were burned down by solar farms in the room with us right now?

hey don't forget about nintendo too

not the point of the article, but i really like the structure of this site

there are also a significant number of previous vitess maintainers that have gone to supabase to work on it with him, so there's that.

it is not at all accurate to say that neki is made by "the team that brought you vitess" and that multigres is somehow not

come for the clickbait, stay for the real-life star wars buildings

I'm think Science Patrol from the O.G. Ultraman.

Yes. For a long time, butter and cheese were the _only_ toppings for pasta. If you're interested, I'd really recommend reading The Discovery of Pasta by Luca Cesari, which traces the development of a few well-known pasta dishes through historical documents, cookbooks, etc.

wait not the pizza oven? :(

The whole British English thing of "companies are plural nouns" (e.g. "Apple are creating a VR headset") simultaneously makes so much sense from how companies actually are (vs the American English that treats the company as a singular individual) and sounds completely wrong to me lol

British English usage would distinguish between the cases when the company as an entity in itself does something and when the people who comprise the company do something.

Here Centrica is regarded as a singular:

"It is the third time Centrica has upgraded its annual expectations this financial year,"

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/12/british-gas...

Exactly. And the fact that (probably) none of these people ever use the singular "datum" in writing makes the whole thing reek of gate-keeper-y "I am smart and you are not because I know a Latin thing".

Also, every single time I see this "gripe" I am tempted (but don't because it helps nothing) to go "hmm, interesting you don't have the same issue with 'agenda'."