NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ

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  • It’s an extremely common aspect of human psychology to make up a story to explain the results of an event or reasoning for your actions after the fact.

    It’s even been demonstrated in specific cases in studies of people who’ve received brain hemisphere bifurcation to prevent grand mal seizures.

    The side of the brain responsible for speech is not shown information or things the individual must complete, then when asked why they performed such an action, the speech responsible side of the brain will spontaneously make up a resonable sounding story to explain it.

    I highly recommend checking it out. It’s an absolutely fascinating look into human psychology

    I’m sure I do this same thing all the time subconsiously, and I’ve certainly noticed it in others.













  • Just went down the rabbit-hole of the acquisition of MySQL as I was bored. What a fascinating story.

    Dude who originally made it in 1995, Michael Widenius, named it after his daughter My, hence MySQL. He sold it to Sun for $1 billion in 2008. He then turned around, forked the software, and produced MariaDB (I always wondered why it was named that) starting a new organization around it in 2009. It’s functionally nearly identical, often able to be used as a drop in replacement, assuming you aren’t using new features developed after the fork. Last month, he sold it again, the same fucking base software, to some private equity firm (yay…). What a guy.

    Unfortunately, he’s run out of daughters to name software after and already used his son’s name for something else, so we might be at the end of open-source, community-driven DB solutions from Michael. To be fair, relying on any projects from him to be free and open indefinitely is apparently not a good idea anyway.