MotherDuck: Big Data is Dead
Opensource.com: Wordsmith on the Linux command line with dict
Crunchy Data: SQL Tricks for More Effective CRUD
World of BS: All Programming Philosophies Are About State
... in der US-Schreibweise.
Depesz: When to use VACUUM FULL
Well, the short answer is: NEVER.
Jeff Sandberg: I wish Asciidoc was more popular
Ted Dzubia: I'm Going To Scale My Foot Up Your Ass
Engineers love to talk about scalability. It makes us feel like the bad ass, dick-swingin' motherfuckers that we wish we could be.
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Saying "Rails doesn't scale" is like saying "my car doesn't go infinitely fast". Alternatively, saying "We'll have no problems scaling because we're using Django" is like saying "I will win every race because my car is the most powerful". Maybe so, but you suck at driving, and you're up against professionals.
Reuters: Concrete traps CO2 soaked from air in climate-friendly test
A California startup using rocks to soak up carbon dioxide from the air has teamed up with a Canadian company to mineralize the gas in concrete, a technological tie-up that is a first and they say could provide a model for fighting climate change globally.
Pema.dev: Haskell is not category theory