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New things for regular expressions in PostgreSQL (pg_tre and pg_re2) – select * from depesz;
In total, there are 1.6 million rows there, with average length of 22kB, max length (of plan) ~ 9.5MB, and total length of all plans around 33GB.
Topics: Databases
Entities: Databases
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Firefox’s AI Switch Is Off. Telemetry Isn’t.
My Wireshark test of Firefox 148 showed that its AI kill switch disables generative features, but leaves telemetry and advertising untouched. Six months…
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Bye Bye Perspective API: Lessons for Building and Governing Measurement Infrastructure
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2604.25580: Bye Bye Perspective API: Lessons for Building and Governing Measurement Infrastructure
Topics: Infrastructure
Entities: Infrastructure
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Read your own writes, off the primary
WAIT FOR in PostgreSQL 19 lets a reader block until the replica has replayed a specific LSN. Measured against sticky routing, sleeps, and synchronous commit, on a replica that misses the write 99% of the time.
Topics: Databases
Entities: Databases
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Solving the Flat Cube
This looks like a Rubik’s Cube, but it’s not: It seems that an open-cab truck filled to the brim with Rubik’s Cubes hit a bump in the road, causing some of the cubes to spill out of the truck bed and onto the roadway. When, mere moments later, those cubes...
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humanity has built the records of FATE by accident
Chrono Cross was one of my favorite games from my childhood. In it, the protagonist, Serge, travels between two dimensions that resulted from a fracture in the timeline. This essay isn’t about Serge, however. It’s about the ordinary people who inhabit El...
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Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH
Open source has become a safe harbor for far-right politics, from David Heinemeier Hansson's white-nationalist rhetoric and the Omarchy Foundation's $12 million in patron funding to so-called apolitical projects that treat marginalized contributors as...
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Bluefin is a capability system
Bluefin is what the Haskell world calls an “effect system”. I released the first version in early 2024, basing it closely on effectful by Andrzej Rybczak. Similarly to effectful, Bluefin is an “IO-wrapper” (or “analytic”) effect system, meaning that it is a...
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Release v3.0.0 · ilius/ayandict
AyanDict - simple yet advanced multi-lingual cross-platform offline dictionary for desktop, using Qt and Go - Release v3.0.0 · ilius/ayandict