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New comment by winslett in "Golfing Is Not Rowing"

winslett — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 15:14:09 +0000

For golf, you don't try harder, you relax more. At the highest level of sports, even rowing, I suspect it's similar. Only in golf do we compare the outcome of a ball flight -- we think we row similar to professionals, but there a ton of difference, you just can't see it in the result of ball flight.

My go-to golf philosophy book is "Cheng Hsin: The Principles of Effortless Power":

> To relax, you must surrender your mind-even the notion that you have a mind. You will find that relaxing your mind is the same thing as relaxing your body. There should be no separation between your mind's activity and your feeling-awareness of bodily sensations and impulses. Feel yourself letting go so that your body isn't "held" so much--this requires doing the same thing with your mind. When you relax your tissues, nervous system, organs, the muscles around your organs, every-thing, then the energy will flow. It is this very relaxation that allows for the energy, or feeling-attention inherent in your body-being, to circulate, develop, and be utilized.

Don't know how this affects daily writing ;)

Pg_parquet v0.4.0: Google Cloud Storage and HTTPS storage

winslett — Wed, 14 May 2025 17:08:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/announcing-pg_parquet-v-0-4-google-cloud-storage-https-storage-and-more

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43986869

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: Where are developers hanging out?

winslett — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 16:10:49 +0000

Conferences seem dead. Meetups deem dead. Where are developers learning from others?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43185018

Points: 7

# Comments: 6

New comment by winslett in "3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec empire"

winslett — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 15:39:50 +0000

Do all of these comments seem like they are AI generated to anyone else?

Name Collision of the Year: Vector

winslett — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:11:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/name-collision-of-the-year-vector

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42516702

Points: 12

# Comments: 0

The PostgreSQL extension ABI issue in the latest patch release

winslett — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 12:50:47 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/marcoslot/status/1857403646134153438

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42146445

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Future of Postgres?

winslett — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 17:00:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.craigkerstiens.com/2024/10/18/the-future-of-postgres/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41881293

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Postgres Tips

winslett — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:07:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crunchydata.com/postgres-tips

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41702657

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

You only need 12 slides to fundraise for your startup

winslett — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 12:54:27 +0000

Article URL: https://startuppitchdecks.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41445084

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Postgres' Clever Query Planning System

winslett — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 16:18:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/indexes-selectivity-and-statistics

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40876047

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Postgres Indexing: When Does Brin Win?

winslett — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 13:28:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/postgres-indexing-when-does-brin-win

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40749410

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

We Fused DuckDB into Postgres with Crunchy Bridge for Analytics

winslett — Sat, 25 May 2024 14:33:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/how-we-fused-duckdb-into-postgres-with-crunchy-bridge-for-analytics

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40475295

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Postgres Performance Boost: Hot Updates and Fill Factor

winslett — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 16:12:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/postgres-performance-boost-hot-updates-and-fill-factor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39792094

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Postgres Row Level Security – interactive tutorial

winslett — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 17:59:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crunchydata.com/developers/playground/row-level-security

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39360604

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Postgres and Citus and Partman, Your IoT Database

winslett — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 19:32:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/postgres-citus-partman-your-iot-database

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38368765

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by winslett in "Ask HN: SaaS Founders, What 3 advice would you give your younger selves?"

winslett — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 18:41:31 +0000

Finding a business / product that actually is working is unique. When you find it, stick with it. Nothing is perfect, and shit is going to be hard, it’s just the next level of the company. Be optimistic — look for what’s working and do more of what’s working. Don’t let pessimism get routed in the way you think. All of that, and fight the urge to build first — sell first.

Postgres 16 – JSON Updates

winslett — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:04:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/json-updates-postgres-16

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37645028

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Integer Overflow in Postgres

winslett — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 21:41:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/the-integer-at-the-end-of-the-universe-integer-overflow-in-postgres

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37329526

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by winslett in "Pgvector 0.5.0 Feature Highlights and how tos"

winslett — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 00:31:58 +0000

You can do this with a lateral join.

SELECT * FROM A, LATERAL (SELECT * FROM B ORDER BY a.embedding <-> b.embedding LIMIT 2) AS closest_in_b ORDER BY A.id;

It’s going to have so-so performance. So, don’t hose your production server. Create a vector index on b.embedding. HNSW will be nice for this use case.

Postgres Subquery: CTEs, window functions and more

winslett — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 16:23:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/postgres-subquery-powertools-subqueries-ctes-materialized-views-window-functions-and-lateral

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37177942

Points: 3

# Comments: 0