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How we upgraded our 4TB Postgres database
Last fall, we migrated our 4TB Postgres database from version 9.6 to version 13 with minimal downtime. Here is how we did it (gotchas included).
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,153 posts.
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I almost failed to search a 37 GB text file in under 1 millisecond
... in which we check if your password has been compromised in many inconvenient ways, in a tale of destruction, obsession, and self-discovery.
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macOS Ventura is now available
macOS Ventura takes the Mac experience to a whole new level with groundbreaking capabilities that help users achieve more than ever.
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Why Galesburg has no money
It's not the normal stories we tell ourselves, but a new analysis
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FTX was registered with and licensed by the CFTC, which failed to regulate FTX
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Dennis M. Kelleher, Co-founder, President and CEO, issued the following statement regarding the CFTC’s failure to properly regulate or supervise FTX, which was registered and licensed by the CFTC and which had hired innumerable former CFTC officials: “FTX via FTX Derivatives US LLC, a derivatives…
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Inky Impression 5.7“ – Colour e-ink display for Raspberry Pi
It has finally happened, they figured it out! The new frontier of Colour Electronic Paper is here and I'm very impressed. People have been demanding this ever...
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Grafana releases OnCall open source project
Grafana OnCall is now open source for self-managed and on-premises deployments.
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Apple unveils all-new MacBook Air, supercharged by the new M2 chip
MacBook Air features a new, strikingly thin design in four finishes, 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display, 1080p HD camera, MagSafe charging, and more.
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Privacy vs. “I have nothing to hide” (2019)
A recent post received numerous comments asking why I was so concerned about privacy and asking what I have to hide. Here's my reply...
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Sri Lanka is having a textbook currency crisis, triggered by policy mistakes
A textbook currency crisis, triggered by a bunch of policy mistakes.
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Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
I've decided to stop using dark mode across all of my devices, because research suggests that going to the dark side ain't all that.
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McDonald’s to Exit from Russia
Company initiates process to sell its Russian business, seeks to include future employment for Russian employees as part of terms
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You don't need that CORS request
A low code optimization
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Workplace surveillance is coming for you
If you want to do something terrible with technology, you can't just roll it out on people with money and social capital. They'll complain and your idea will tank. Successful shitty tech rollouts start with people you can abuse with impunity (prisoners, kids, migrants, etc) and then work their way up the privilege…
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Extism: Make all software programmable with WebAssembly
Hello, World!
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I’m taking some time away from Comma
I’m taking some time away from comma. In some ways, I feel like it’s all planned out, it only remains to see if it works or not. I rewatched my first Lex Fridman and realized I hadn’t said much new on the self driving front for the past couple years. My two part blog post from 2019 remains a true description of the…
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Terraform should have remained stateless
For major providers, Terraform does not really need state. My proposal: add a ’none’ backend that uses the provider APIs as state. Here’s how.
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Old jokes
That’s what she said, a rabbi resolves a dispute, and six categories in the Philogelos
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Google removed our website from search because it uses YouTube-dl
Update: Google accepted our DMCA counter notice and reinstated all 317 Kapwing webpages that they took down. In the week that the takedown was in effect, our website traffic was down 30%. A week ago, we received an email that every website owner dreads - a notification of a DMCA
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Finnish as a world language?
It is obviously difficult to answer this question with certainty. At the moment there seem to be several factors which would hinder such a development.
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I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012
How trying out new laptops and messing with my personal computing setup motivated me to go back to a laptop that some would call ancient.
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Did insurance fire brigades let uninsured buildings burn?
This paper derives from a short, time-bound, review of the literature, which sought to investigate the question “Did Insurance Fire Brigades let uninsured buildings burn?”. The question is set in the context of property fire insurance in London, from 1680. The situation was possibly comparable with other large British…
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Why is Apache clinging to OpenOffice?
Why is Apache clinging to OpenOffice? It's dead. Its last major release was version 4.1, from 2014! In contrast, LibreOffice's release schedule is robust: Timelines of major product releases. OpenOffice is light blue, LibreOffice is green. (source) In 2020, LibreOffice wrote a constructive letter, outlining a path for…
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C Isn't a Programming Language Anymore
Phantomderp and I have both recently been very aligned on a particular subject: being extremely angry about C ABIs and trying to fix them . Where we’re not aligned is why we’re mad about them.