By Simeon Griggs Houseplants often die from over-watering, not neglect. It is easy to project human needs onto them: "If I am thirsty, they must be thirsty too." But many indoor plants actually benefit from drying out between waterings. Similarly, your empathy can lead to misinterpreting signals from your database. You don't like feeling overwhelmed, so you don't want your database overwhelmed either. But not all usage is created equal, and memory in computers can be uniquely complex to understa
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