OrioleDB is a storage extension for PostgreSQL which uses PostgreSQL's pluggable storage system. Designed as a drop-in replacement for PostgreSQL's existing Heap storage, OrioleDB aims to overcome scalability bottlenecks and fully utilize modern hardware…

In this third part of the series, I will show how we can implement a durable, distributed, and highly available log using S3

Update 2024-12-02 : There was a lively discussion about the post on Hacker News you might also find interesting: link to thread.

At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain. Find our highlights of what lies in store for 2025 here.

How to program the Commodore 64 in BASIC, Assembly or C using Microsoft Visual Studio Code on Mac, Windows and Linux!

The Central Dogma is not a 'dogma,' and it has never been broken.

An operational calculus converts derivatives and integrals to operators that act on functions, and by doing so ordinary and partial linear differential equations can be reduced to purely algebraic …

RESOLVED (bwilson) in CA Program - CA Certificate Compliance. Last updated 2025-02-14.

After more than 37,000 votes on our shortlist, we're pleased to announce that the Oxford Word of the Year for 2024 is 'brain rot'.

On all Unix-like operating systems, sudo is often provided as the standard package for executing commands as superuser (or an alternative user). When sudo is invoked by the user for the first time,...

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PHerc. 172 (Scroll 5) is here.

An international law enforcement operation has dismantled a pirate streaming service that served over 22 million users worldwide and made €250 million ($263M) per month.

Great thought and effort go into creating restaurant menus – and there are some very powerful psychological tricks employed to make you choose.

The government grant is less than originally expected because the chip giant is also receiving separate funding for defense-related projects.

Disclaimer 2024-12-02 Since this rant is going viral again (again (again)), some disclaimers:
I wrote this six years ago to “”“win”“” an ugly Twitter fight. I’m glad I anonymized the inciting tweet and hope I’m the only person still getting grief over this.…