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Lesson Learned from Queries over 1.3T Rows of Data
Explore how our customers use TiDB to handle their mission-critical workloads.
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Curve fitting A: Linear Least Squares
The graph on the left shows a third example, taken from analytical chemistry: a straight-line calibration data set where X = concentration and Y = instrument reading (Y = a + b X). Click to download that data . The blue dots are the data points. They don't all fall in a perfect straight line because of random noise…
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Upgrading Messaging on Android in the U.S. with RCS
Get modern messaging features in the US with RCS in the Messages app
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MPAA Welcomes Netflix as New Member
WASHINGTON – The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has added Netflix as a new member of the global trade association that advocates on behalf of the film and television industry. “On behalf of the MPAA and its member companies, I am delighted to welcome Netflix as a partner,” said MPAA Chairman and CEO…
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Two Years of Vanlife: A Retrospective
This is our most EPIC post to date: two years of vanlife condensed into one article! Tales from the road, van talk, lessons learned, etc. MUST READ!
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How many keywords I can fit into a single C# expression?
As I was playing few days ago with “yield return await“ I got an idea to try fit as much “keywords” as possible into one “expression”. I mean as much blue words (in Visual Studio’s default colors) as possible together (not separated by semicolon, comma, colon, bracket, etc.).
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Sysop Chat
Back in mid-90s before anyone I knew had an Internet connection, a few of us had modems and would use them to call bulletin board systems via the phone line. On these systems what to me seemed the main thing was discussions and chat. For the first time I could talk to other like-minded people, and just being able to…
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Rethinking Files
In Unix, everything is a file. This is often viewed as a positive, but it's often a poor abstraction for many things. This discussion goes into some of the issues.
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Programmer Migration Patterns
I made a little flow chart of mainstream programming languages and how programmers seem to move from one to another. There's a more common...
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Will the Long-Term Stock Exchange Make a Difference?
Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance2019110 points51 commentsTech Industry & Business details
Read our latest post from Cooley special counsel Cydney S. Posner.
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FatELF: Universal Binaries for Linux (2015)
FatELF is a file format that embeds multiple ELF binaries for different architectures into one file. This is the Linux equivalent of what Mac OS X calls "Universal Binaries."
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Cargo's next few years
The Cargo team have been thinking about and discussing long-term plans for Cargo. In this post I'll talk about what we hope Cargo will look like around the time of the next edition (assuming there is another edition and that it happens in about three years, neither of which is
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Librem 5 April Update
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Russia Has ‘Oligarchs,’ the US Has ‘Businessmen’
Our elites are engaged in normal economic activity or else looking out for the betterment of humanity, while theirs are nefariously dominating politics.
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My Year in Review: 2019
Here are some of the things I’m most proud of from 2019, and some of the biggest lessons I’ve learned.
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Under-Investigated Fields
Nominations for fields that are not being researched as much as they should be
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How Cybercriminals Profit by Tapping Your Email
A few days ago I came across the CBC story on how a Canadian man had been defrauded out of $800,000 when cybercriminals inserted themselves into a real estate deal and had the funds diverted to themselves: Here is the "Whois" record for the fake domain used to send the…
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Using GoAccess for self-hosted web analytics
Intro With current hot topic of ditching Google services wherever and whenever we can, we often forget about that little piece of JavaScript code embedded in …
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MakeCode Arcade: Retro Gaming, Modern Programming
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Bumblebees Sleeping in Flowers (2012)
Above you can see photos of Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) male falling asleep on a spike of lavander flower. I took the photograph in the evening, just as sunset was over and the temperature w…
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AdaCore Joins the RISC-V Foundation to Provide C and Ada Compilation Support
GNAT Pro and GNAT Community toolchains available both for professionals and hobbyists NEW YORK and PARIS, January 29, 2019 - AdaCore today announced its…