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Postgres is getting pluggable storage engines (pdf) .
Imitation, flattery, 3,236 satellites , etc.
"In this paper, we aim to answer a long-standing open problem in the programming languages community: is it possible to smear paint on the wall without creating valid Perl?"
Bored? Avoiding work? Miss the numbers 640x480? Play the open-source version of Transport Tycoon in your browser . Or just read about how real train lines are optimized (good HN comments , too).
From the AAAAAAAAAAAAA department: The prospect of robotic tentacle monsters is unsettling enough even before building soft, pneumatic, EMP-proof brains for them. Why would you then jam the "squick factor" knob to 11 and tell me you could just index match the whole thing and have it be invisible under water?! I wonder how well ML models 3D print into fluidics...
Quick, distract the AI by teaching it to optimize agricultural flavor yield .
Or, you know, just a sticker will do, too . PDF paper with more details .
Look, don't make fun of MySpace for losing all their music in a server migration , computers are hard and the data loss elder gods have ironically long memories and feast upon hubris. Instead, cheer for the discovery that many of those songs were saved in a carefully-unspecified manner .
Do not put your ferret into a particle accelerator, Felicia is a highly trained specialist .
Why doesn't the US use the metric system? Pirates .
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! YOU WILL BE AVENGED!