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>For example, to build shared threads like OpenAI’s, you might end up creating a new collection, a caching layer, or an index just to connect messages that logically belong togethe…

Parkytowers is site about repurposing thin clients of various kinds, it's a goldmine for finding out power consumption, Linux compatibility, possible hardware mods, etc: https://ww…

Around 20 years ago when I was trying to decide on what database to use my requirement were that it should store data reliably. I learned that MySQL in contrast to PostgreSQL: 1. w…

Is there an example demonstrating what it looks like and how it works?

My problem with blockchains is that they AREN'T decentralized. If controlling a blockchain becomes valuable enough then it's a matter of time before someone will figure out how to …

So here's a challenge if anyone is up for it: Build a container orchestration engine that can run in 16MB of RAM on top of a Linux kernel. Must have: - Some form of networking (duh…

The main reason I thought Russia's invasion of Ukraine wouldn't cross the line of being a convincing threat was how little off ramps it left everyone involved. It's going to be har…

It's not, the editor banning words is what's lazy. Banning certain words is a symbolic action that makes it harder to use precise language. If their journalists are lazy how would …

The lazy solution to a lazy problem

Yes you can build more wind and solar but people need power also during the dark and sometimes windless winter months. Storing enough power isn't currently feasible so it's basical…

Oh no! Anyway..

Imagine sitting on a huge carousel spinning fast, like 100 times the speed of sound fast. Now imagine jumping off and trying to get to the center of it. Yes, gravity is holding us …

Please ask them to write a regex that filters out those naughty base64 strings! Yes, "12345678" is a valid base64 string and so is "clueless".

In my experience dealing with code written by people who only know ORM:s is about as fun as dealing with code written by people who refuse to use ORM:s when they really should have…

Adding an index on tags.name is likely not very useful on its own but adding an index with an uniqueness constraint to prevent duplicates is probably a good idea. Assuming there ar…

>is designed as a fault-tolerant distributed and scalable system What is the consistency model and have you validated that it actually works as designed (for example with Jepsen)? …

Will do, I love PostgreSQL so I'm pretty excited to se what the possibilities are! Found this gem in the docs :D Unsupported Aggregates: xmlagg ( xml ) :(

This is awesome, thanks for making it open source! Would it be possible to set triggers or something on the continuous views? Lets say I want to take action (immediately) when a va…

That is also true for the higher environmental costs of fossil fuels and health costs of exhausts fumes.

A daemon that isn't part of systemd init or even started by default does yes.

Looks interesting, a bit similar to Apache Storm https://storm.apache.org/