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We need to talk about ENUMs | boringSQL

boringsql.com

Designing a database schema, whether for a new application or a new feature, always raises a...
Designing a database schema, whether for a new application or a new feature, always raises a lot of questions. The choices you make can have a big impact on how well your database performs and how easy it is to maintain and scale. Whether you’re just getting started with PostgreSQL or consider yourself a seasoned pr...

boringsql databases postgresql sql
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0 dependencies!

tbray.org

Here’s a tiny little done-in-a-couple-hours project consisting of a single static Web page and a cute...
Here’s a tiny little done-in-a-couple-hours project consisting of a single static Web page and a cute little badge you can slap on your GitHub project. The Web site is at 0dependencies.dev. The badge is visible on my current open-source projects, for example check out Topfew (you have to scroll down a bit). Zero, yo...

programming
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Clojure - Clojure 1.12.0

clojure.org

clojure programming release
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You're allowed to be evil in performance code

push.cx

Bug #1313 prompted a deep dive into the most dangerously clever code on the site. We...
Bug #1313 prompted a deep dive into the most dangerously clever code on the site. We explored why the code works that way, figured out why the performance improvement in #1308 was putting comments in the wrong place, tried to fix it, realized more problems, and ultimately reverted it. (And then fixed a small bug rig...

ruby transcript video
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Building a WoW server in Elixir | pikdum's blog

pikdum.dev

elixir
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The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman

sigops.org

Don’t make me regret submitting this here, y’all. :-) Comments

practices
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Postgres Materialized Views from Parquet in S3 with Zero ETL | Crunchy Data Blog

crunchydata.com

Data pipelines for IoT applications often involve multiple different systems. First, raw data is gathered in...
Data pipelines for IoT applications often involve multiple different systems. First, raw data is gathered in object storage, then several transformations happen in analytics systems, and finally results are written into transactional databases to be accessed by low latency dashboards. While a lot of interesting engi...

databases
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Intuiting Monty Hall

two-wrongs.com

The third universe – that where the round is declared invalid regardless of our choice –...
The third universe – that where the round is declared invalid regardless of our choice – is unsatisfying though, so we will add a small twist to the procedure to avoid invalid rounds. The game still splits the universe into three. These will be the same in the first two cases, but we make a small modification to the...

math
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Announcing Rust 1.81.0 | Rust Blog

rust-lang.org

Sept. 5, 2024 · The Rust Release Team The Rust team is happy to announce a...
Sept. 5, 2024 · The Rust Release Team The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.81.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, you can get 1.81.0 with: $ rustup update stable If you don'...

release rust
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The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending

theverge.com

law
3
Is Linux collapsing under its own weight? On Rust for Linux - the sporks space

sporks.space

Recently, one of the developers of the Rust for Linux project, Wedson Almeida Filho, resigned from...
Recently, one of the developers of the Rust for Linux project, Wedson Almeida Filho, resigned from the project. In his parting message, he linked a video of a filesystem maintainer shouting at him. Afterward, Asahi Lina, developer of the Apple GPU drivers for Linux (which have not been upstreamed yet), posted a seri...

culture linux practices rust
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My most downvoted StackOverflow answer

ohadravid.github.io

blog culture rust tech thoughts
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GitHub - tsenart/pdqselect: Pattern defeating quick selection algorithm adapted from Go's pdqsort

github.com

go
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GitHub - dsrhaslab/lazyfs: LazyFS: A FUSE Filesystem with an internal dedicated page cache, which can be used to simulate data loss on unsynced writes

github.com

databases linux testing
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Beyond Procedure Calls as Component Glue: Connectors Deserve Metaclass Status (SPLASH 2024 - Onward! Papers) - SPLASH 2024

splashcon.org

compsci
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QEMU version 9.1.0 released - QEMU

qemu.org

We’d like to announce the availability of the QEMU 9.1.0 release. This release contains 2800+ commits...
We’d like to announce the availability of the QEMU 9.1.0 release. This release contains 2800+ commits from 263 authors. You can grab the tarball from our download page. The full list of changes are available in the changelog. Highlights include: migration: compression offload support via Intel In-Memory Analytics Ac...

release virtualization
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Porting systemd to musl libc-powered Linux

catfox.life

linux systemd
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SWE-bench

swebench.com

ai
1
The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case

wired.com

law
2
An Optimization That's Impossible in Rust!

tunglevo.com

dynamically sized type german string optimization reference counting rust
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Deploying Rust in Existing Firmware Codebases

googleblog.com

rust
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Giving C++ std::regex a C makeover

nullprogram.com

c++
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Dynamicland

dynamicland.org

programming
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Twelve rules for job applications and interviews - Daniele Procida

vurt.org

job
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