pointy_hat

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by pointy_hat 2y ago
Imagine a day when a scam bot will talk to AI granny.
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by pointy_hat 2y ago
You can attend all events without signing a form, I’m pretty sure no one would also mind if you volunteer without being a member. The form is only a thing in case you’d like to support a registered nonprofit and has no influence on your par
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by pointy_hat 2y ago
There’s a book reading club in the database internals discord, on this book! We’re up to chapter 8, but a motivated reader can still easily catch up: https://databass.dev/discord
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Systems Distributed 2024, a conference systems programming and thinking(systemsdistributed.com)
8 points by pointy_hat 2y ago|0 comments
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by pointy_hat 3y ago
Also, making a correct one is not an easy fit.
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by pointy_hat 3y ago
It’s almost like all seasons of Curb your Enthusiasm were made into the book!
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by pointy_hat 3y ago
Reminded me of Bartebly the Scrivener and “I would prefer not to”, but also Byul-Chun Han and “Burnout Society”. A very short summary of the latter is that in our day and age we exploit ourselves on behalf of people who would in previous de
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by pointy_hat 6y ago
One more book on the subject, possibly even closer related to the field of databases (should cover many of the items mentioned in the post): https://www.databass.dev
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Database Research in 2019: The Year in Review(datastax.com)
3 points by pointy_hat 7y ago|0 comments
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Database Internals(databass.dev)
305 points by pointy_hat 7y ago|38 comments
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On Ways to Agree: Links, Two Generals and FLP Impossibility Problem(medium.com)
5 points by pointy_hat 8y ago|0 comments
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Modern B-Tree Techniques (2011)(citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
314 points by pointy_hat 9y ago|11 comments