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The part of Postgres we hate the most: Multi-version concurrency control
Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University,
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Why did Google Brain exist?
This essay was originally written in December 2022 as I pondered the future of my job. I sat on it because I wasn’t sure of the optics of posting such an essay while employed by Google Brain. But then Google made my decision easier by laying me off in January. My severance check cleared, and last week, Brain and…
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The Full-Source Bootstrap: Building from source all the way down
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
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Mastodon is doomed?
Mastodon won't be the next Twitter, and it's not because of Bluesky. The ideals and execution won't scale.
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Why is OAuth still hard in 2023?
We implemented OAuth for the 50 most popular APIs. TL;DR: It is still a mess.
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Science is a strong-link problem
OR: How to eat fewer asparagus beetles
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What I learned unsubscribing from 22 newspapers
Online newspaper subscriptions have a reputation for being difficult to cancel, but new guidance from the FTC may change that.
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A guide to prompting AI, for what it is worth
A little bit of magic, but mostly just practice
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Ruby's switch statement is flexible
Ruby's switch statement is very versatile and flexible, especially due to the dynamic nature of Ruby. This post shows how it works with examples.
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Gradle still sucks
I wrote a blog post a while ago complaining about Gradle, mostly from a position of ignorance: I had never really taken the time to properly learn the tool and I was frustrated while trying to stumble my way through working with it. But luckily, my company encourages learning and experimentation so I was given an…
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How to use Podman inside of a container (2021)
One of the most asked about topics to folks working on upstream container technologies is running Podman within a container. Most of this has histo...
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Your First LTE
This post is the perfect starting point for learning to build your own LTE network. View this lession as a guided introduction – including the installation, configuration, and best practices that will ease your learning.
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Why do prime numbers make these spirals? (2019)
A curious pattern in polar plots with prime numbers, together with discussion of Dirichlet's theorem
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You could have invented futexes
The futex ( f ast u serspace mu tex ) is a Linux kernel feature designed for synchronization primitives (mutexes, condition variables, semaphores, etc.). Like many topics in concurrency, they have a reputation for being tricky (for example, see the paper Futexes Are Tricky ). Despite that, they really are a…
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We glued together content moderation to stop soccer pirates
If you had asked me two years ago which sport a video startup needs to be most worried about, I would have said American football or basketball. My US-centric mind would never have considered that socc...
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NitroKey disappoints me
A look at NitroKeys latest article
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Debugging a Mixed Python and C Language Stack
Debugging is difficult. Debugging across multiple languages is especially challenging, and debugging across devices often requires a team with varying skill sets and expertise to reveal the underlying…
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Amazon makes everything you buy more expensive, no matter where you buy it
Amazon is very proud of its "flywheel": at first, the company offered subsidies to customers, which lured in sellers. Then, it demanded that those sellers lower their prices, which lured in more customers. With more customers, more sellers piled in. Faster and faster, the flywheel spins, creating the "everything…
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Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a giant geothermal power plant?
It’s become fairly common knowledge that Yellowstone National Park, in addition to being incredibly beautiful, is sitting on top of an enormous supervolcano that catastrophically erupts every few hundred thousand years.
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Use Gröbner bases to solve polynomial equations
A self-contained introduction to Gröbner bases and solving polynomial systems
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Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH
Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM file transfers over SSH using Qodem
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A non-technical explanation of deep learning
This document will explain what neural networks are and how they work, which will help you understand how AI and machine learning work. In the scenario below you'll play the part of the neural network.
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The dark forest and the cozy web (2020)
An illustrated diagram exposing the inner layers of the dark and cozy web
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My thoughts on OCaml
Since 2013 I’ve had the chance to use OCaml a few times in different jobs, and I got frustrated and disappointed every time I had to use it. I just don’t enjoy writing OCaml.
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Smartphones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm
Nitrokey security research reveals that smartphones with Qualcomm chips secretly send device data to Qualcomm without user consent. NitroPhone is not affected.
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Transformers from Scratch (2021)
I procrastinated a deep dive into transformers for a few years. Finally the discomfort of not knowing what makes them tick grew too great for me. Here is that dive.
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GCC 13 and the State of Gccrs
The first official GCC 13 release is just around the corner, and you may be a bit surprised to find out that gccrs will not be included in it. The aim of this blogpost is to go into a little bit more detail as to why this was done and how you can still try out our compiler if you’d like to.
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Deming Paradox: Operationally rigorous companies aren't nice places to work
Is it possible to be data driven and operationally rigorous and still be human centric at the same time? Deming — who came up with these data techniques — believe that it is possible. I'm not so sure.