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Patterns for modeling data with absolutely no NULLs? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

Sup friends. I am curious about patterns for modeling data of various types where you just...
Sup friends. I am curious about patterns for modeling data of various types where you just straight up do not persist null values, ever. All fields NOT NULL constrained. But in a way that disambiguates unasked and unanswered questions. Where invalid states can’t be represented, like “none of the above” being stored alongside one of the above. And where there is minimal dependency on...

ask databases
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OpenTimes: Free travel times between U.S. Census geographies

sno.ws

databases visualization
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Virtual Reality Projection Shenanigans

slugcat.systems

games graphics rust
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The Real Failure Rate of EBS — PlanetScale

planetscale.com

databases
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Recyling a OnePlus 6T into a Kubernetes Node

gabrielsimmer.com

devops
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Hexagons and Beyond: Flexible, Responsive Grid Patterns, Sans Media Queries | CSS-Tricks

css-tricks.com

A little while back, Chris shared this nice hexagonal grid. And true to its name, it’s...
A little while back, Chris shared this nice hexagonal grid. And true to its name, it’s using —wait for it — CSS Grid to form that layout. It’s a neat trick! Combining grid columns, grid gaps, and creative clipping churns out the final result. A similar thing could be accomplished with flexbox, too. But I’m here to r...

css float grid layout
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Chris's Wiki :: blog/programming/ErrorHandlingNotSolvedProblem

utoronto.ca

plt
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A Society That Lost Focus

ploum.net

philosophy
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices

container-solutions.com

It happened again last week. I was at an architecture review meeting when a fellow architect...
It happened again last week. I was at an architecture review meeting when a fellow architect eagerly started another debate about *microservices*. Within minutes, eyes glazed over and we were knee-deep in an absurd discussion about something that should have been a means to an end, but had morphed into the end itsel...

distributed scaling
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GPT-3.5 and the latest models

omarabid.com

There is a lot of discussion about LLM benchmarks. The issue is that if models are...
There is a lot of discussion about LLM benchmarks. The issue is that if models are getting better at benchmarks, why are they not getting smarter for use cases?A simple run that I had lately, had me curious to see what GPT-3.5-turbo would answer. It is the oldest model that is still available on the Open AI API and ...

ai
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Slack: The Art of Being Busy Without Getting Anything Done

matduggan.com

humor practices rant work
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Nginx Rejects Dark Mode Support For Error Pages - Phoronix

phoronix.com

desktop linux linux benchmarking linux hardware benchmarks linux hardware reviews linux server benchmarks
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Stop Using and Recommending React

lusito.info

I have used React for a long time. Trust me when I tell you: There is...
I have used React for a long time. Trust me when I tell you: There is no reason to use it and a lot of reasons against it. This is going to be a long explanation, but bear with me! ReactPerformanceJavaScriptTypeScriptWeb DevelopmentBad Choices So the title might sound like click-bait, but it actually isn't. And I'm ...

bad choices javascript performance react typescript
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Extracting content from an LCP "protected" ePub

shkspr.mobi

reversing
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Can we consider self-promo discussion off-topic? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

Every few weeks, a thread on the front page gets dominated by meta discussion about how...
Every few weeks, a thread on the front page gets dominated by meta discussion about how the author is breaking the self-promo guideline. I propose discouraging this by stating in the guidelines that such comments are off-topic. If people want to help enforce the guideline, I think it would be better to kindly PM the author the first time, and flag as spam if...

meta
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Offline PKI using 3 YubiKeys and an ARM single board computer

bernat.ch

security
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GIMP - GIMP 3.0 Released

gimp.org

At long last, the first release of GIMP 3.0 is here! This is the end result...
At long last, the first release of GIMP 3.0 is here! This is the end result of seven years of hard work by volunteer developers, designers, artists, and community members (for reference, GIMP 2.10 was first published in 2018 and the initial development version of GIMP 3.0 was released in 2020). With GIMP 3.0 you can...

release
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After 47 years, OpenVMS gets a package manager (VSP)! - Raymii.org

raymii.org

networking osdev
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JangaFX - Insight: Linux Binary Compatibility

jangafx.com

By Dale Weiler GitHub Time To Read: ~30 Minutes Last Updated: Monday, March 17th 2025 Summary...
By Dale Weiler GitHub Time To Read: ~30 Minutes Last Updated: Monday, March 17th 2025 Summary Linux binary compatability is plagued by one thing that is often overlooked when evaluating shipping software on Linux. This article will deconstruct how to arrive to that conclusion, how to address it when shipping softwar...

linux
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Verifiability is the Limit

alperenkeles.com

ai practices
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Password reuse is rampant: nearly half of observed user logins are compromised

cloudflare.com

Accessing private content online, whether it's checking email or streaming your favorite show, almost always starts...
Accessing private content online, whether it's checking email or streaming your favorite show, almost always starts with a “login” step. Beneath this everyday task lies a widespread human mistake we still have not resolved: password reuse. Many users recycle passwords across multiple services, creating a ripple effe...

account takeover authentication bots password-reuse security
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Tiny Pointers

arxiv.org

This paper introduces a new data-structural object that we call the tiny pointer. In many applications,...
This paper introduces a new data-structural object that we call the tiny pointer. In many applications, traditional log n-bit pointers can be replaced with o(log n)-bit tiny pointers at the cost of only a constantfactor time overhead. We develop a comprehensive theory of tiny pointers, and give optimal constructions for both fixed-size tiny pointers (i.e., settings in which all of the tiny pointers must...

programming
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Announcing Snix

snix.dev

For a long time now, Tvix development has been a bit of a tug-of-war between differing...
For a long time now, Tvix development has been a bit of a tug-of-war between differing priorities. The TVL community’s side project, or Tvix as an end in its own right. The evaluator front and center, or castore as the major innovation. The repository itself, the contributor onboarding flow, and even the choice of I...

nix
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The Rhombus Programming Language

rhombus-lang.org

Rhombus is ready for early adopters. Learn more and get it now at https://rhombus-lang.org/ Comments

lisp plt
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