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Throughout history, people have believed that new inventions would solve complex social problems. The telegraph was supposed to end war, the telephone to cure loneliness, and the a…

Author here. Thank you all for the comments. I take full responsibility for stupidly using an image for posting the code snippet. Sorry for that! Also, the article was originally p…

I think just as with full-text search, vector search, if supported, will be full of tradeoffs for general purposes databases. The view that everything needs to support direct input…

I feel that logs are around for so long that it's easy to take their capabilities for granted and not go much further. This is another example there's more that can be done. It rem…

Right now the MAX version is at least an order of magnitude less safe than the previous generation (put some rough estimated in another comment)

There were 41k flights until May 2018 [1]. I was not able to find the current number but with 350 models delivered so far and 4 average flights per day that would sum up to ~500k f…

> Predictable runtime behavior (zero cost abstractions and no garbage collector). I see a lot of people considering Rust/Go because they are looking for something much more modern …