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Unpopular opinion: simplicity is the ultimate sophistication ✨
"Wow, this solution is so simple and obvious—why did it take so long?"
That simplicity is the result of hard work.
Making things look easy is often the hardest part.
This isn't just true in software engineering; it applies everywhere.
"Wow, this solution is so simple and obvious—why did it take so long?"
That simplicity is the result of hard work.
Making things look easy is often the hardest part.
This isn't just true in software engineering; it applies everywhere.
December 9, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Unpopular opinion: simplicity is the ultimate sophistication ✨
"Wow, this solution is so simple and obvious—why did it take so long?"
That simplicity is the result of hard work.
Making things look easy is often the hardest part.
This isn't just true in software engineering; it applies everywhere.
"Wow, this solution is so simple and obvious—why did it take so long?"
That simplicity is the result of hard work.
Making things look easy is often the hardest part.
This isn't just true in software engineering; it applies everywhere.
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S3 (Iceberg) Tables is everything I dreamt of, and more. I blogged some long-form thoughts: meltware.com/2024/12/04/s...
I think we're about to see an explosion of data tools (@materialize.com, @clickhouse.com, @duckdb.org, et al.) learn to write Iceberg tables via S3 table buckets.
#databs
I think we're about to see an explosion of data tools (@materialize.com, @clickhouse.com, @duckdb.org, et al.) learn to write Iceberg tables via S3 table buckets.
#databs
A First Look at S3 (Iceberg) Tables
AWS announced S3 Tables today, which brings native support for Apache Iceberg to S3. It’s hard to overstate how exciting this is for the data analytics ecosystem. This post is a quick rundown of my th...
meltware.com
December 4, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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Fast food chains accused of ‘flooding’ areas near UK schools with unhealthy options
Fast food chains accused of ‘flooding’ areas near UK schools with unhealthy options
Health secretary accuses fast food giants such as KFC, Domino’s and Subway of ‘cruelly targeting kids’ near schools
Fast food firms such as KFC, Domino’s and Subway are “flooding” areas close to schools by opening almost 1,000 new outlets there in recent…
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2024 at 8:46 AM
Fast food chains accused of ‘flooding’ areas near UK schools with unhealthy options
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"It's bad to leave Twitter because-" We live in a society run by weird little billionaires who would prefer we are all unhappy so we keep spending to get occasional hits of dopamine. It is okay to leave the website that makes you feel horrible. Go & be free.
December 1, 2024 at 6:59 PM
"It's bad to leave Twitter because-" We live in a society run by weird little billionaires who would prefer we are all unhappy so we keep spending to get occasional hits of dopamine. It is okay to leave the website that makes you feel horrible. Go & be free.
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Hyundai Ioniq 5 N review: fake shifting, real fun
Hyundai Ioniq 5 N review: fake shifting, real fun
The Ioniq 5 N breaks the mold.
buff.ly
November 29, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Hyundai Ioniq 5 N review: fake shifting, real fun
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if you’ve never changed your Bluesky reply preferences then “hotness” is now the default, which “weights liked replies that are more recent more heavily.”
to change this back:
Settings > content and media > thread preferences > sort replies
to change this back:
Settings > content and media > thread preferences > sort replies
November 29, 2024 at 10:03 AM
if you’ve never changed your Bluesky reply preferences then “hotness” is now the default, which “weights liked replies that are more recent more heavily.”
to change this back:
Settings > content and media > thread preferences > sort replies
to change this back:
Settings > content and media > thread preferences > sort replies
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How Much Memory Do You Need in 2024 to Run 1 Million Concurrent Tasks?
hez2010.github.io/async-runtim...
hez2010.github.io/async-runtim...
How Much Memory Do You Need in 2024 to Run 1 Million Concurrent Tasks?
hez2010.github.io
November 28, 2024 at 9:16 PM
How Much Memory Do You Need in 2024 to Run 1 Million Concurrent Tasks?
hez2010.github.io/async-runtim...
hez2010.github.io/async-runtim...
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It's Twitter, 2024. Posters have moved en masse to BlueSky. Elon Musk tweets a meme of Left Shark saying "the woke virus strikes again." A handful of divorced 50-year-olds in Big Dog t-shirts respond "lmao EPIC sir." All is well
April 29, 2023 at 5:32 PM
It's Twitter, 2024. Posters have moved en masse to BlueSky. Elon Musk tweets a meme of Left Shark saying "the woke virus strikes again." A handful of divorced 50-year-olds in Big Dog t-shirts respond "lmao EPIC sir." All is well