Gotta take microclimates into account. Where I am, we have gone weeks lately barely if ever hitting 60 (uh, 15.5 I guess in Canada).

Shot (from #Snowflake Summit 2025)

Dat's cold me buddy

Best of both worlds

I found the setting, I changed the setting from what it's showing here. Music still starts when the car turns on. The flip side is, if music is paused and then I press play on the phone, it doesn't start through the car speakers. (That's been true since the start.)

For me, the worst UX with settings is trying to find the keyboard shortcuts dialog on macOS. Because there are a zillion "keyboard" items and a comparable number of "shortcut" items.

I have the opposite experience. I think database pioneer Michael Stonebraker looks just like my high school graduation picture. But only when we are both wearing somewhat oversized and slightly tinted glasses. No one has ever brought this to my attention.

Case in point about the wonky sorting. They always said, someday SELECT DISTINCT might not implicitly ORDER BY. I was skeptical! The database got upgraded sometime after the codebase was frozen, to a version that needed explicit ORDER BY, and some of the alphabetical listings... weren't anymore.

Users tended not to draw the same distinctions as we did between SQL syntax, PL/SQL syntax, functions, packages, etc. (Cf. Conway's Law.) So we mashed 'em all up together in a single cheatsheet. Later, SQL*Plus keywords were added too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway'...

Master Index, Master Glossary were too labor-intensive to keep constructing by hand. Entries were scraped out of the HTML and queried via PL/SQL. Each letter page is a 3-way self join. It's a tossup if ordering works everywhere; I was skeptical if ORDER BY really was needed for every DISTINCT query.

One usability test subject scoffed at the 3-letter shortcuts that jump into the big list of doc titles. I asked how he would solve a performance problem. He instantly clicked on TUN to find "Tuning". I made special shortcuts TUN and PER - the official title is "Designing and Tuning for Performance".

I went to Oracle7 docs to see if that version had constraints. Because I remember documenting constraint stuff in Oracle8i - was that when they first appeared? Wow, what a blast from the past. Download Netscape or IE to use the Java version of the doc UI. "Applicaton" Programming Interfaces, cute.

Uh oh, shades of the Fail Whale.