Mastodawn

xevix Nov 15, 2024

The performance on MBP M4 Max is pretty impressive. Running an OLAP query on 6M rows w/o filters.

M1 Mac mini: 300ms
M4 Mac Mini: 180ms
M4 MacBook Pro Max: 120ms

Based on: https://duckdb.org/2024/10/25/topn.html#performance-comparisons

Fast Top N Aggregation and Filtering with DuckDB

Find the top N values or filter to the latest N rows more quickly and easily with the N parameter in the min, max, min_by, and max_by aggregate functions.

DuckDB

xevix Sep 26, 2023

DuckDB 0.9.0 with early Iceberg support, performance improvements and more! https://duckdb.org/2023/09/26/announcing-duckdb-090.html

Announcing DuckDB 0.9.0

The DuckDB team is happy to announce the latest DuckDB release (0.9.0). This release is named Undulata after the Yellow-billed duck native to Africa. To install the new version, please visit the installation guide. The full release notes can be found here.

DuckDB

xevix Sep 2, 2023

Did you ever wonder what the highest ancestor of Docker images is? It’s… nothing, but you can call it “scratch” and you get it by typing FROM scratch. https://hub.docker.com/_/scratch#

Docker

xevix Aug 27, 2023

codecolorist Aug 25, 2023

A state-owned company of China rebranded VSCode as their own and charges users for "VIP"
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/191229

Vscode, have you collaborated with China? · Issue #191229 · microsoft/vscode

请大家不要在这里发无关的issue了，这是对开发者的骚扰。我们在这里的issue已经给开发者造成了诸多麻烦，请大家不要再去提交issue了。我也很理解大家的心情，当初看到这玩意儿的时候我也是很震惊很不爽的，毕竟这玩意就加个vip套皮然后就宣称国产自研，你说这些不如信我是秦始皇。确实国产cec-ide很垃圾就是个套壳，丢国人的脸。但我们在这里乱提交issue不也是很丢脸的事情吗？这里是...

GitHub

xevix Aug 23, 2023

Simple but useful, allow use of * wildcard in reverse incremental search in zsh https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/16629

Search commands in history with discontinuous keywords

I was wondering how to search commands in history without knowing the first few letters of the command? When searching using Ctrl+R in bash, one has to give the first few letters of the command. W...

Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

xevix Aug 13, 2023

The word micro is somehow still around. Microbatch, microservice. How does this differ from a batch, a service?

xevix Jul 24, 2023

100 TB SSD for only $40,000. Interesting we don’t see higher capacities but I guess even servers of today can’t quite use this much. https://www.easeus.com/knowledge-center/100tb-ssd.html

Breaking Records: New 100TB SSD Sets a New Standard for Data Storage

This article will give you full instructions about 100TB SSD, including what is 100TB SSD, the pros and cons of 100TB SSD, do I need 100TB SSD, and how could I use it.

EaseUS

xevix Jul 23, 2023

YouTube should allow search results on mobile to not include shorts. Not everyone wants to be barraged by full screen short attention span videos. There’s many reasons I don’t use Tik Tok, don’t force us into that world please.

xevix Jul 19, 2023

One day I’m going to hit the human limit of these mosaics of buzzwords.

xevix Jul 1, 2023

Companies should actively encourage and support education on new topics instead of hoping they’ll figure it out themselves. There’s a lot of value in even the smallest tutorials.