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You're probably looking for seastar, the underlying library used in products like Scylla and Redpanda.

Matt Risinger (austin-based homebuilder) did a freeze comparison between copper, pex, and sharkbite fittings some time back. It was pretty interesting. At this point, I'd probably …

Mine was The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, read around the same age (took me awhile to get through SiaSL). The ideas around TANSTAAFL were what really drove me to believe in the value …

I used to work at a vertically-focused web search engine and ran the operational side of the crawler. Also missing from this discussion would be a mechanism to rate limit (and dete…

Probably the first thing to do is find a copy of Lawrence Chang's Handbook of Spoken Mathematics (also referenced in a previous HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=102840…

What, specifically, is preventing the conversion? I've converted hundreds of TBytes to Parquet (including moving away from that HIVE ACID stuff).

Similarly, certain books show up multiple times, once for each version. It would be great if those were consolidated to the latest version of the book. An example of this is when y…

I don't have a problem with their pricing decisions. It works for some people, it doesn't work for others. I was just noting that the pricing mirrors what I've seen in the photo/ar…

The book took 8 years to make. He died in Oct 2011. He probably knew about it.

Honestly, this cost is on par with other book-based photographic collections from small, bespoke printing companies (Such as Lodima Press). The real question is how many copies did…

This idea was presented at Usenix LISA a few years back. "Two-Person Control Administration: Preventing Administation Faults through Duplication" by Shaya Potter, Steve Bellovin, a…

It's not that far off when you consider replacing just light switches with Z-wave switches in a 2000-2500sq ft home. Figure there's probably 25-30 light switches in a house that si…