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Simon PhippsAre you going to @oggcamp this year? April 25-26 in Manchester (the original one in the UK).
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It's more complex than that. They fire workers to reduce operational costs in an attempt to make their P&L look better. Fewer hands mean it's even harder to maintain the revenue, so they look for a force multiplier. And that's where AI comes in with false promises.
PGDay LowlandsPGDay Lowlands is back! We can't wait to see you all at the "second best PostgreSQL conference in Europe", September 10, at TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht: https://2026.pgday.nl/
Ian BetteridgeI am VERY tempted to write another long post about how the decision in the 1970s not to establish a Norway-style sovereign wealth fund in favour of simply using the oil money to prop up finances at the time, has done more damage to the UK than any other decision in history. LONG THREAD, SORRY.
OggCampWe are thrilled to announce that the main stage schedule for OggCamp 2026 is now officially live.
More details here: https://www.oggcamp.org/posts/schedule/
Full main stage schedule here: https://talks.oggcamp.org/oggcamp-2026/schedule/
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Adam Jacobs 🇺🇦I don't think the UK media have made nearly enough noise about the US Navy sinking an *unarmed* Iranian warship and then, in clear violation of the Geneva Conventions, leaving them to drown.
This is a heinous war crime which the media would be rightly up in arms about if any country that wasn't nominally an "ally" had done it.
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/gcii-1949/article-18/commentary/2017
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Craig S. KaplanIn my online undergraduate P5.js course, students are about to begin the module on motion and physics, including a bit of physics simulation using Matter.js. It suddenly occurred to me that I had never seen anybody put together this particular demo before, and I realized it had to be done. Messy source code at https://editor.p5js.org/isohedral/full/vJa5RiZWs.
LWN.net[$] The ongoing quest for atomic buffered writes
There are many applications that need to be able to write multi-block chunks of data to disk with the assurance that the operation will either complete successfully or fail altoget [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1060063/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git #PostgreSQL #PostgreSQL #XFS #BPF #io_uring