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Parallelism in PostgreSQL
Parallelism in PostgreSQL was implemented as part of multiple features which cover sequential scans, aggregates, and joins.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,838 posts.
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What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?
In August of 2015, my hands stopped working. This is what happened next.
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Energy Storage Investments Boom as Battery Costs Halve in the Next Decade
Access the latest perspectives on the energy transition with samples of research reports and data-driven analysis from BNEF experts.
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DEF CON and Stack Overflow: What Our Traffic Says About Cybersecurity
Stack Overflow traffic during DEF CON shows what technologies are trending in the hacker community
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Solar Powered Raspberry Pi Camera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M53eJI90ETE Update: this project was featured in issue 92 of the official Raspberry Pi magazine (download as PDF, buy the issue or subscribe). SSH-ing into a remote solar powered Raspberry Pi at the top of an apple tree has a special feeling -- almost like commanding a spaceship where…
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Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights
Find inspiration for where to go, decide what neighborhood to stay in, and book flights and hotels with more confidence at google.com/travel.
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The lat/lon floating point delusion
This morning I had a shower for 6.11686718 minutes. For breakfast I had 189.41576911 ml of fruit juice, followed by 75.24902503 g of muesli topped with 36.55668786 ml of milk and 15.44171338 g of yogurt.
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The Erlang Rationale
It's been a very long time since the last post. So there have come up questions about the Erlang Rationale. I wrote this over 10 years ag...
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Open-source firmware
Today we are proud to announce the porting of coreboot, an open-source firmware, to the Supermicro X11SSH-TF server platform.
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AMD EPYC processors come to Google, and to Google Cloud
Google is using the new 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processor for its own workloads, and will offer VMs based on the chip to Google Cloud customers.
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What’s the difference between statistics and machine learning?
I had an interesting discussion at work today (among people I think would all call themselves statisticians!) about the distinction(s) between statistics and machine learning. It is something I am …
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Group sex app leaks locations, pics and personal details
We’ve seen some pretty poor security in dating apps over recent years; breaches of personal data, leaking users locations and more. But this one really takes the biscuit: probably the worst security for any dating app we’ve ever seen And it’s used for arranging threesomes. It’s 3fun. It exposes the near real time…
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Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do
Incessantly annoying and fraudulent robocalls. Corrupt wireless company employees taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to unlock and hijack mobile phone service. Wireless providers selling real-time customer location data, despite repeated promises to the contrary. A noticeable uptick in SIM-swapping…
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The market figured out Gitlab’s secret
Why we decided to combine version control with CI, and the rise of the single application.
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GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories
GitHub Actions now includes built-in CI/CD. Easily automate how you build, test, and deploy your projects on any platform, including Linux, macOS, and Windows.
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How the new open-source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be
How the new open source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be
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Building a State of the Art Bacterial Classifier with Fast.ai and Paperspace
In this post, we’re going to be demonstrating how to to build a state of the art Bacterial Classification model on Gradient using the Fast.ai machine learning library.
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First modern coreboot server platform
With our expertise we create security solutions which are robust and easy to use, leveraging leading open source technology.
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What Is Zig's Comptime?
Let's take a quick look at what compile-time execution looks like in Zig.
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Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn
When I was 16 I was visited by a man who said he had come from the future. He had traveled twenty years back to 1999 to sit down with me and have a chat. We talked for an hour...
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USB-C Easy Bake Oven (2017)
I modified an Easy Bake Oven to run off USB-C. The obvious question is "Why?", but I prefer to ask, "Why Not?". The USB-C spec allows for 100 Watts of power to be transferred through the connector, and that is the power rating for the oven, so it should work.
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What has to happen with Unix virtual memory when you have no swap space
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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