DigitalOcean Launches Premium Droplets

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@digitalocean.com | 3 years ago

Do: Premium Droplets with Faster Intel and AMD CPUs and NVMe SSD

Rockstar Tom Petty put it this way: “the waiting is the hardest part.” | Continue reading


@digitalocean.com | 3 years ago

Postgres: Built-in full text search vs. trigram matching

A brief introduction to text search in Postgres. | Continue reading


@aapelivuorinen.com | 3 years ago

Making complex topics stick (Part 2: Composition)

A list of ingredients doesn’t make a recipe. You need to know the right dosage. | Continue reading


@architectelevator.com | 3 years ago

Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (1985) [pdf]

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@thecosmosphere.com | 3 years ago

Fundamentals of Amazon DynamoDB Single Table Design

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@m.youtube.com | 3 years ago

Improving application availability with Amazon RDS Proxy (2020)

One of the benefits of Amazon RDS Proxy is that it can improve application recovery time after database failovers. While RDS Proxy supports both MySQL as well as PostgreSQL engines, in this post, we will use a MySQL test workload to demonstrate how RDS Proxy reduces client recove … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 3 years ago

And a Half Insights from Charlie Munger at the 2021 Daily Journal Annual Meeting

Charlie Munger answered questions for two hours today at the 2021 Daily Journal Annual Meeting. The topics ranged from the current investing environment to worldly wisdom, and there was something to learn for everyone. | Continue reading


@behavioralvalueinvestor.com | 3 years ago

Solving the data integration variety problem at scale with Gobblin

Co-authors: Chris Li, Kevin Lau, and Subbu Sanka | Continue reading


@engineering.linkedin.com | 3 years ago

Python: Formatting a string

There are three main ways to format strings in python: name = 'Luke' food = 'pizza' # old style "My name is %s and I like %s." % (name, food) # str.format() "My name is {0} and I like {1}.".format(name, food) # f-strings f"My name is {name} and I like {food}." | Continue reading


@lukesalamone.github.io | 3 years ago

Linux front-end development environment: my experience

When I started programming I had no idea of the difference between front-end and back-end development. I had a basic knowledge of java and php and I had experience in a Windows environment. For some reasons I urgently needed a laptop and installed ub... | Continue reading


@dev.giuseppeciullo.it | 3 years ago

who’s my little chef

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@mobile.twitter.com | 3 years ago

CSS Masonry Layout Draft Specification

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@drafts.csswg.org | 3 years ago

Illinois State Representative to Call for Grand Theft Auto to Be Banned

Lord, I come before you this evening asking that you grant me the strength you gave Jamie Foxx when he ended Doug Williams’ whole career. Apparently, I woke up in 2006 today because a string of recent carjackings has led an Illinois state legislator to call for Grand Theft Auto t … | Continue reading


@theroot.com | 3 years ago

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@niemanlab.org | 3 years ago

A Guide to NFTs, and How They Are About to Revolutionize Pretty Much Everything

Non-fungible tokens are about to change the way we consume content on the internet. Here's what you need to know. | Continue reading


@one37pm.com | 3 years ago

More than 700 unaccompanied kids held at U.S. border without parents

9 of those children were detained in Border Patrol stations for over the agreed-upon 72-hour limit. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 3 years ago

Working at Shopify Is Great

Carol Chen's blog about stuff she does or reads about or observes | Continue reading


@carolchen.me | 3 years ago

Country Export Risk Ratings Q4 2020 – Euler Hermes [pdf]

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@eulerhermes.com | 3 years ago

DFI and Canonical offer risk-free system updates and reduced software lead times for the IoT ecosystem

Feb. 25, 2021 – DFI and Canonical signed the Ubuntu IoT Hardware Certification Partner Program. DFI is the world’s first industrial computer manufacturer to join the program aimed at offering Ubuntu-certified IoT hardware ready for the over-the-air software update. The online upd … | Continue reading


@ubuntu.com | 3 years ago

We Use a MySQL Alternative to Avoid Sharding and Provide Strong Consistency

Meituan is the largest local life service company in China. As their business expanded, Meituan chose TiDB as a MySQL alternative to solve the difficulty of manual sharding and provide strong consistency. | Continue reading


@pingcap.com | 3 years ago

Don’t define functions inline in your public headers

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@thatgeoguy.ca | 3 years ago

Scaling a Bernie Meme

This episode is a conversation led by Greg Nokes, a Product Manager with Salesforce, Dan Mehlman, a Director of Technical Architecture for Salesforce, Mike Rose, a Director of Technical Architecture for Salesforce, Jack Ziesing, a Technical Architect with Salesforce. They're … | Continue reading


@heroku.com | 3 years ago

Healthcare in the home – future of urgent care?

Over the past year Ready has evolved and grown through the COVID-19 crisis. It has been the highlight of my career to help build our systems that provide urgent care and COVID diagnostics directly in the home. | Continue reading


@linkedin.com | 3 years ago

Diablo Canyon Is Shutting Down. Is California Ready?

In this moment, California’s electrical grid faces no shortage of challenges. There’s the year-round risk that utility power lines will spark wildfires, and there’s the real possibility that an extreme summer heatwave will trigger more rotating blackouts. But there’s another issu … | Continue reading


@blog.ucsusa.org | 3 years ago

Show HN: Alert yourself after a long-running task in terminal

Alert yourself after a long-running task in terminal - README.md | Continue reading


@gist.github.com | 3 years ago

Uxn is a 8-bit virtual stack machine

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@wiki.xxiivv.com | 3 years ago

USS Enterprise Owners' Workshop Manual

The Starship Enterprise gets the Haynes treatment! This fascinating Haynes Manual features cutaway drawings, technical illustrations and photographs along with comprehensive background information and specifications on the technology used on board the USS Enterprise, in all its v … | Continue reading


@haynes.com | 3 years ago

Disgruntled Oregonians joining Idaho? Some Oregon counties to vote on it this

“Divisions in Oregon are getting dangerous, so we see the relocation of the border as a way to keep the peace,” the group’s president said. | Continue reading


@news.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

US Covid-19 Cases Caused by Variants

Symptoms, testing, what to do if sick, daily activities, and more. | Continue reading


@cdc.gov | 3 years ago

The VTEC Engine / 1989

Honda Motor Co.,Ltd. Honda Global Site - Visit the official Honda global web site and find episodes about the birth of VTEC engine. | Continue reading


@global.honda | 3 years ago

Cloud Engineer

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@platform.sh | 3 years ago

ink 1.0 released

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@inklestudios.com | 3 years ago

Superhero Bits: ‘Superman & Lois’ Premiere Ratings, ‘The Boys’ Season 3 Starts Shooting & More

When will Stargirl and DC's Legends of Tomorrow return to The CW? When can you see Superman: The Animated Series in HD on HBO Max? All that and more. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 3 years ago

Over 8 million COVID-19 test results leaked online

Millions of COVID-19 test reports were found to be publicly accessible due to flawed online system implementation. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 3 years ago

Wednesday's parting shot

EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City. | Continue reading


@evgrieve.com | 3 years ago

Nvidia Estimates $100-$300M in Q4 Revenue from Miners

Nvidia rakes in the cash, again. | Continue reading


@tomshardware.com | 3 years ago

A Place with No Places

Traveling through South Florida. | Continue reading


@defaultfriend.substack.com | 3 years ago

Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation (DALL-E)

Text-to-image generation has traditionally focused on finding better modelingassumptions for training on a fixed dataset. These assumptions might involvecomplex architectures, auxiliary losses,... | Continue reading


@arxiv.org | 3 years ago

Johnson and Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine, explained

The latest COVID vaccine to show high effectiveness rates works a little differently from either of the currently approved vaccines in the US. | Continue reading


@popsci.com | 3 years ago

Steve Jobs letter to former Power Computing customers (1997)

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@i.imgur.com | 3 years ago

Accelerating the Impact of AI

The purpose of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, according to its bylaws, is twofold. The first is to promote research in the area of AI, and the second is to promote the responsible use of these types of technology. The result was a 35th AAAI Confer … | Continue reading


@microsoft.com | 3 years ago

Cleanup Docker

If you do heavy development with docker without a cleanup strategy soon your disk will fill at the time you really have to ship something out ASAP because production is on-fire but you cannot because docker refused to let you do anything with it.When we run a process in our compu … | Continue reading


@hanami.run | 3 years ago

Facebook says it will pay news industry $1B over 3 years

The pledge comes as Australia passes a new media law designed to make tech giants pay for news. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 3 years ago

Game Gulf (2013)

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@the-magazine.org | 3 years ago

First Principles

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@draconianoverlord.com | 3 years ago

Reflecting on Gutenberg’s 100th Release

Gutenberg 10.0 released this week, February 17, 2021, marking the 100th release of the Gutenberg plugin; the 100th release of a journey that started more than four years ago when Matt announced the… | Continue reading


@wordpress.org | 3 years ago

What’s the Difference Between Can and Ethernet?

Increasing connectivity has made the next generation of vehicles into “computers on wheels.” While CAN buses have long been the automaker’s top choice to support communications, Ethernet will transition into the preferred automotive network backbone. | Continue reading


@electronicdesign.com | 3 years ago