It took me almost a decade of living nearby but I finally got a chance to climb and then rappel from the top of Der Kegel today!
August 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
It took me almost a decade of living nearby but I finally got a chance to climb and then rappel from the top of Der Kegel today!
they opened a nice cafe at tempelhof 2 minutes from my favorite book shop 😁
July 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
they opened a nice cafe at tempelhof 2 minutes from my favorite book shop 😁
On AliExpress you will find many shoes. But how comfortable, you ask? As comfortable as "stepping on shit". And if you search for "step on shit" on AliExpress they can be yours, too, at last.
June 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
On AliExpress you will find many shoes. But how comfortable, you ask? As comfortable as "stepping on shit". And if you search for "step on shit" on AliExpress they can be yours, too, at last.
One of the darkest illustrations of the "universe of obligation" concept from genocide studies that I’ve ever seen, as well as the Stalin quote. 300k estimated dead related to DOGE spending cuts and it’s barely a blip on anyone’s radar.
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
June 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
One of the darkest illustrations of the "universe of obligation" concept from genocide studies that I’ve ever seen, as well as the Stalin quote. 300k estimated dead related to DOGE spending cuts and it’s barely a blip on anyone’s radar.
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
Inside you are two wolves
May 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Inside you are two wolves
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The advent of germ theory, vaccines, sanitation, and antibiotics, in this view, indirectly lead to an increase in social services, and a decrease in capital punishment, murder, slavery, and torture. In effect, it raised the value of human life in human eyes.
May 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The advent of germ theory, vaccines, sanitation, and antibiotics, in this view, indirectly lead to an increase in social services, and a decrease in capital punishment, murder, slavery, and torture. In effect, it raised the value of human life in human eyes.
Lots of Real Engineer energy out here in Japan, feels good.
May 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Lots of Real Engineer energy out here in Japan, feels good.
I put together a talk for HYTRADBOI 2025 about my favorite technique for building databases or almost anything with high complexity - extreme rewriting!
February 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I put together a talk for HYTRADBOI 2025 about my favorite technique for building databases or almost anything with high complexity - extreme rewriting!
Six straight days of blue skies and great skiing conditions is a nice way to transition into funemployment 😁
January 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Six straight days of blue skies and great skiing conditions is a nice way to transition into funemployment 😁
It’s always a bit surreal being back in the old country.
December 25, 2024 at 12:33 PM
It’s always a bit surreal being back in the old country.
Lately I've been playing around with a new type of LSM storage engine that has some interesting properties. Most LSM implementations split the sst data into blocks. But what if those blocks were stored in a heap instead of a file, and compaction only happened on overlapping blocks? Kinda Bε-like.
December 1, 2024 at 9:37 AM
Lately I've been playing around with a new type of LSM storage engine that has some interesting properties. Most LSM implementations split the sst data into blocks. But what if those blocks were stored in a heap instead of a file, and compaction only happened on overlapping blocks? Kinda Bε-like.
After 8.5 years in Germany, I finally earned the right to wear socks and sandals. Citizenship has been a goal for a long time- I’ve had to line up at 4am and dodge physical punches at the immigration office to compete for limited appointment slots for visas. Now it’s time for some exciting new goals
November 24, 2024 at 11:10 AM
After 8.5 years in Germany, I finally earned the right to wear socks and sandals. Citizenship has been a goal for a long time- I’ve had to line up at 4am and dodge physical punches at the immigration office to compete for limited appointment slots for visas. Now it’s time for some exciting new goals
Was not expecting to see Korzybski graffiti in the neighborhood, but it brightened my day
November 6, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Was not expecting to see Korzybski graffiti in the neighborhood, but it brightened my day
Took a chance and used mezcal instead of red wine while making the sauce for this lasagna. The smokiness really goes well with the spicy salsiccia inside!
March 24, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Took a chance and used mezcal instead of red wine while making the sauce for this lasagna. The smokiness really goes well with the spicy salsiccia inside!
I keep coming back to this talk years later, there is so much interesting stuff in here that has been beneficial for reasoning about performance issues, even though it's ostensibly about security.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGX-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGX-...
November 30, 2023 at 10:27 AM
I keep coming back to this talk years later, there is so much interesting stuff in here that has been beneficial for reasoning about performance issues, even though it's ostensibly about security.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGX-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGX-...
When the German desire to incorporate English into marketing materials spectacularly backfires.
October 2, 2023 at 6:32 PM
When the German desire to incorporate English into marketing materials spectacularly backfires.
Just increased the write throughput of my lock-free B+ tree by around 400% when it's dynamically detected that it's not being used concurrently.
This is another benefit of selectively avoiding Sync in concurrent Rust.
Also, now that I'm preparing to merge it into sled, I've made it MIT/Apache-2.0
This is another benefit of selectively avoiding Sync in concurrent Rust.
Also, now that I'm preparing to merge it into sled, I've made it MIT/Apache-2.0
optimize non concurrent insert by spacejam · Pull Request #6 · komora-io/concurrent-map
lock-free B+ tree. Contribute to komora-io/concurrent-map development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
June 9, 2023 at 2:57 PM
Just increased the write throughput of my lock-free B+ tree by around 400% when it's dynamically detected that it's not being used concurrently.
This is another benefit of selectively avoiding Sync in concurrent Rust.
Also, now that I'm preparing to merge it into sled, I've made it MIT/Apache-2.0
This is another benefit of selectively avoiding Sync in concurrent Rust.
Also, now that I'm preparing to merge it into sled, I've made it MIT/Apache-2.0
"Whole essays could develop from this, in terms of how a few simple passive components in the TB-303 mimic the distress cry of a living, sentient creature."
https://www.firstpr.com.au/rwi/dfish/303-unique.html
https://www.firstpr.com.au/rwi/dfish/303-unique.html
www.firstpr.com.au
May 24, 2023 at 10:19 AM
"Whole essays could develop from this, in terms of how a few simple passive components in the TB-303 mimic the distress cry of a living, sentient creature."
https://www.firstpr.com.au/rwi/dfish/303-unique.html
https://www.firstpr.com.au/rwi/dfish/303-unique.html
Ahhhh, the old country https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnheTcWRemU
www.youtube.com
May 20, 2023 at 8:17 PM
Ahhhh, the old country https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnheTcWRemU
Quorum Fixer and FlexiRaft are good examples of applying both operational and theoretical best practices while scaling up large numbers of quorum-based replicated systems.
Meta has published a blog post on making MySQL distributed using Raft
🔗 https://engineering.fb.com/2023/05/16/data-infrastructure/mysql-raft-meta/
🔗 https://engineering.fb.com/2023/05/16/data-infrastructure/mysql-raft-meta/
May 17, 2023 at 2:02 PM
Quorum Fixer and FlexiRaft are good examples of applying both operational and theoretical best practices while scaling up large numbers of quorum-based replicated systems.
I'm so happy that This is Hexagon Sun, the Boards of Canada documentary, was also freely released. It's so wholesome and well-made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI3b6EEltD4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI3b6EEltD4
May 5, 2023 at 7:57 AM
I'm so happy that This is Hexagon Sun, the Boards of Canada documentary, was also freely released. It's so wholesome and well-made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI3b6EEltD4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI3b6EEltD4