Priit Piipuu

That feeling when you have nothing to submit to the conference and then get the good idea two days after the deadline.

I WENT TO WALTER REED HOSPITAL TO GET A BRAIN SCAN. THE DOCTORS FOUND NOTHING.

"Inserts happen at the “end” of the index, not at a random place." -- So in a high concurrency situation that would create a contention on the rightmost leaf blocks?

Smoked and cured ham with beer

After the marathon this tastes heavenly

Hello Arlanda airport terminal 2, my old friend. Here even the fast track has a massive queue. But it is fine, my flight got delayed anyway

Cursor AI suggested index key compression for CUSTOMER_ID, and yes, we have quite a few more than 6 customers.

And now managers are curious why we're cross-checking the suggestions developer got from our AI overlord instead of fixing the issue in prod.

B font on intellektuaalsem kui A, aga C on ka kena. Kust neid tellida saab?

The Majority AI View - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

New Work by Gary Larson | TheFarSide.com Get an exclusive look at brand new cartoons and artwork from cartoonist Gary Larson, creator of the iconic comic strip The Far Side®.

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again.

www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

Blockchain and smart contacts find another great use case:

Dark Traquillity, down in the middle DT flag

Dark Traquillity @ Fållan, this was great!

Bloodstain playing in Fållan

Bloodstain @ Fållan

Joel Kallman Day 2025 : It’s a Wrap! (#JoelKallmanDay)

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Oracle AI Database 26ai Released

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Simplicity, Troubleshooting, #JoelKallmanday TL;DR: You don't have to be a genius to solve problems. And there is no shame in not-knowing or not understanding all the geeky details. Ma...

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We tend to forget that troubleshooting is mainly just about Clear and Calm thinking..
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Is SYSDATE Deterministic? #JoelKallmanDay TL;DR No, SYSDATE is not deterministic. However, it behaves very similarly to a deterministic function within an Oracle Database SQL statement. Background On a customer site, we used faketime on the O...

Is SYSDATE Deterministic? #JoelKallmanDay

No, SYSDATE is not deterministic. However, it behaves very similarly to a deterministic function within an Oracle Database SQL statement.

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Thou shalt not wrap your connection pool, badly — #JoelKallmanDay Using oracledb.ConnectionPool is straightforward: first, you create the pool, and then you use the pool and connection object as a context manager. Like this: pool = oracledb.ConnectionPool(**param…

I thought I won't post anything for #JoelKallmanDay, but then I got sudden inspiration from the day job. TL;DR: if your Python code isn't thread safe, then even GIL might not save it.

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I just realized how much of the Python code works only because of GIL.

I've been doing Go lately, and suddenly had to look at what my co-workers came up, and it was like wow! This two line method has both the data race and the race condition, how does it even work?!

“Jimzfxxy! Do you have to mess with the organisms on every planet we visit?”

“Jimzfxxy! Do you have to mess with the organisms on every planet we visit?”

Did you already sign up for the autumn event of the Nederlandse Oracle User Group (nlOUG)? It is going to be a great day with an awesome - international - speaker line-up! 🌍

Don't miss out—spots are filling up fast! Head over to nloug.nl/events/najaa... and secure your place today.

This is your chance to shape what products we build, how we build them, and what features they should have ... Take the Oracle DB Developer Survey 2025 and share your insights:

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Hungover Hegseth Struggling To Remember How He Ended Up In Room Full Of Generals QUANTICO, VA—Racking his brain for answers as he gazed out at the high-ranking officers gathered before him, a visibly hungover Pete Hegseth reportedly struggled Tuesday to remember exactly how he end...

Hungover Hegseth Struggling To Remember How He Ended Up In Room Full Of Generals

The Halo Effect is a Swedish melodic death metal supergroup formed by former members of In Flames. They are signed to the Nuclear Blast label.

So funny, but with InFlames things have developed to the point that their first lineup created their own band.

Results are good, The Halo Effect indeed sounds like early In Flames

The screenshot is from Wikipedia: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hal...

The woods were dark and foreboding, and Alice sensed that sinister eyes were watching her every step. Worst of all, she knew that Nature abhorred a vacuum.

The woods were dark and foreboding, and Alice sensed that sinister eyes were watching her every step. Worst of all, she knew that Nature abhorred a vacuum.

GitHub Copilot thinks I'm astute

Our AI overlord makes me feel like a little Einstein. Wonder what else could I spot in the AI generated code slop?

On the other hand, chatting with the codebase and fixing this burned 0.4% of my monthly premium request allowance.

Presentation: Get me off that Exadata!

Presentation: Fundamental Oracle Security

Only a couple of weeks to go until the #HrOUG2025 conference in Rovinj, Croatia.

I am so looking forward to celebrating the 30th anniversary of this wonderful conference; full of fun and full of learning in an amazing location.

Joel Kallman Day 2025 : Announcement

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“I just don’t like it, Al. … Whenever Billy goes outside, the new neighbors seem compelled to watch every little thing he does.”

“I just don’t like it, Al. … Whenever Billy goes outside, the new neighbors seem compelled to watch every little thing he does.”