Reposted by SimasSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 11/10/2026How will MAGA know what to think? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 531576
Reposted by Simasderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026this fall, consider dressing like the man in gary bunt's paintings 1156122644
Reposted by Simasderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Ivan Turgenev's "Execution of Troppmann" is a short essay, published in 1870, that gives a first-hand account of the writer attending a public execution in Paris. Turgenev's details how the drunk, unruly crowd turned a somber moment into a carnival. A deeply moving essay; I encourage you to read it. 432027515
Simas @paulikas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Tom Hardy releasing a rap album with a couple of members of the Wu-Tang Clan and reciting “Now is the winter of our discontent” in his Bane voice on one of the tracks was not on my bingo cards 000
Reposted by Simasderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress. 193354125285
Reposted by Simasderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The year is 2035. Flock cameras are everywhere. You step out of your home and hear a voice coming from somewhere overhead, possibly close to the streetlight next to you. It's me. "Collar gap." 1379820830
Reposted by Simasrob pike @robpike.io · 21/08/2026A lovely analysis of what makes human-made things last. www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-...experimental-history.comI like 'em thickOR: an apology to my English teachers 1358
Reposted by Simasrob pike @robpike.io · 23/02/2026STOP LAUNCHING CRAP WE DON'T NEED OR WANT It's staggeringly depressing how blithely they plan to ruin everything. Everything. I went to a dark site last week so I could say goodbye to the sky. Took a little hand-held photo and guess what? A satellite trail appeared. Just stop! 417326
Reposted by SimasKelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 15/02/2026Slop is the perfect word to describe the low-quality, high-volume, AI-generated content being thrown around. If you don't have time to write it, I don't have time to read it. 926334
Reposted by SimasDouglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 09/02/2026It’s time to post this. Confirmed. Sam Darnold is a Super Bowl Champion. ilovecitr.us/darnold/ 41885393
Reposted by SimasKelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 09/02/2026AGI is coming … as soon as our website comes back online. 113715
Reposted by Simasderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Lithuanian Olympic uniforms by Issey Miyake for the 1992 games in Barcelona. This was Lithuania's first time in the Olympics after gaining independence from the Soviet Union. Fabric was cut and shaped using heat, not scissors or sewing machines. 403379272
Reposted by SimasMartin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 03/02/2026Spent the last few days at a retreat on the future of software development, convened by @thoughtworks.com and @martinfowler.com. Excellent conversations and plenty of food for thought www.thoughtworks.com/en-us/about-...thoughtworks.complaceholderplaceholder 1262
Reposted by SimasAndy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Spring 2026 Seminar Series: PostgreSQL vs. The World db.cs.cmu.edu/seminars/spr... First talk on Mon Feb 2nd @ 4:30pm EST. We will alternate between a speaker from either a Postgres DBMS or a non-Postgres DBMS. Open to the public over Zoom. All videos available on YouTube afterwards.db.cs.cmu.eduPostgreSQL vs. The World Seminar Series - Carnegie Mellon Database GroupEvery major cloud vendor now offers an enhanced, opinionated PostgreSQL-compatible database management... Read More + 1222
Reposted by SimasBruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Time to dump ChatGPT! The latest model of ChatGPT has begun to cite Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers, raising concerns about misinformation on the platform.theguardian.comLatest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests revealGuardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers 1251309637
Reposted by Simasrob pike @robpike.io · 24/01/2026The author @philipball.bsky.social has always written extremely well about science, but he has reached new heights in sheer beauty of publication with his new book, Alchemy. Also: it has a fascinating story to tell, one you might incorrectly believe you know. 1302
Reposted by Simasderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/12/2025The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow 507385227424
Reposted by Simasderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/11/2025enjoyable little video on how wool gets graded and sorted IG community_clothing and campaignforwool 622475306
Reposted by Simasrmoff 🏃♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 18/11/2025A deep dive into Apache Kafka's KRaft protocol developers.redhat.com/articles/202... - Good article from Federico Valeridevelopers.redhat.comA deep dive into Apache Kafka's KRaft protocol | Red Hat DeveloperLearn about the Apache Kafka's KRaft protocol, a consensus algorithm that ensures fault tolerance and consistency in a network of interconnected nodes 095
Reposted by SimasAndy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · 03/11/2025New database leaderboard from Yellowbrick ranks the quality of DBMS optimizer estimates and plans. They only evaluate TPC-H for now and report results for Postgres + DuckDB + MSSQL: sql-arena.com/components/p... Repo: github.com/sql-arena/db... LinkedIn Group: www.linkedin.com/groups/15775... 1143
Reposted by SimasAndy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Our SIGMOD paper with our friends at Tsinghua + @wesmckinney.com + @pateljm.bsky.social on creating a next generation open-source data file format is out. F3 is a future-proof file format avoids the mistakes of Parquet. 📄 Paper: db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2025/... 📁 Code: github.com/future-file-... 46921
Reposted by SimasWIRED @wired.com · 22/09/2025The tech industry’s embrace of President Trump has left many of us asking the same question: What the hell happened to Silicon Valley? On Sept. 23 at 11 AM, our WIRED experts get into it. wrd.cm/4mslR0k Have questions? Drop them below 👇🏼 119924
Reposted by SimasAndy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Next week is the start of @db.cs.cmu.edu's latest seminar series: Future Data Systems @samarchdb.bsky.social and I are hosting speakers from leading systems in the datalake / lakehouse space. Mondays @ 4:30pm ET via Zoom. Open to the public. Videos posted to YouTube: db.cs.cmu.edu/seminars/fal... 14113
Reposted by SimasRobert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Get in, losers. We're posting John Berkey spaceships. 717145
Reposted by SimasMartin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 03/09/2025This paper is pretty exciting. Near-zero-carbon steel production costs only 36% more than steel from a blast furnace (under reasonable electricity price assumptions); a carbon tax like the one in the EU is already enough to make it cost-competitive. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comAssessment of hydrogen direct reduction for fossil-free steelmakingClimate policy objectives require zero emissions across all sectors including steelmaking. The fundamental process changes needed for reaching this ta… 34920
Reposted by SimasTechnische Universität München @tum.de · 28/08/2025How can #ELearning make studying math easier? 💡 Read our interview with Florian Lindemann from our Department of #Mathematics, on a new platform funded by the 2025/26 Ideas Competition, which supports #InnovativeTeaching formats: go.tum.de/989485 📷N. Neudertgo.tum.deHow a platform is transforming mathematics educationA new e-learning platform for mathematics makes studying easier for TUM students. What’s the idea behind it? Project leader Dr. Lindemann explains. 021
Reposted by SimasAndy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Today is the new semester for @db.cs.cmu.edu's Intro to Database Systems! We're going harder into material than before. More challenging projects but you can use LLMs to help. We also have 10min talks each Wed from leading DB companies: 15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall202515445.courses.cs.cmu.eduCMU 15-445/645 :: Intro to Database Systems (Fall 2025)You want to know whether this is the premier course at Carnegie Mellon University on the design and implementation of database management systems? Well, it is. This course rips through data models (re... 16318
Reposted by SimasJepsen @jepsen.mastodon.jepsen.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2025Antithesis and Jepsen are releasing a glossary of terms useful in distributed systems testing: antithesis.com/resources/reliabilit…antithesis.comA distributed systems reliability glossaryA list of key concepts for building and testing reliable distributed systems, with basic definitions and deep references. 02113
Reposted by SimasChris (Links) @links.chris.blue · 28/07/2025lurklurk.orgEffective Rust - Effective RustA collection of specific ways to improve your use of Rust 001
Reposted by SimasAndy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · 03/07/2025At last @abigalekim.bsky.social's paper is out! Its the most complete eval of DB extensions/plugins ever. We analyze PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, DuckDB, Redis. TLDR: Postgres extns ecosystem is fraught with footguns. Other DBMSs have fewer extns but less problems. DuckDB has cleanest API. 16612
Reposted by SimasAlex Miller @alexmillerdb.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Periodic reminder that I have a list of database startups at transactional.blog/blog/2024-da.... If you're aware of any that I've missed (especially ones founded 2024/2025), please let me know!transactional.blogDatabase Startups 1153
Reposted by SimasAntonio Pardo Sánchez @apardo.spluca.org · 21/04/2025#ElixirLang and #RustLang is a good mix fly.io/phoenix-file...fly.ioElixir and Rust is a good mixMake your Elixir projects even faster using Rust! 1154
Reposted by SimasRob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 13/03/2025yeah! what is it about them? 🤔 402478407
Reposted by SimasPhil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Help me out: what companies in Europe (or with a large Europe presence) are not "database companies" but build databases internally. I'll go first: - Cloudflare in Lisbon - DataDog in Paris - Elastic in Amsterdam - Dynatrace in Linz - Grafana in Stockholm 11374
Reposted by Simasderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/03/2025The biggest reason why I dislike the idea of respectability in dress is because it conflates the *appearance* of virtue with *actual* virtue. Wearing a suit doesn't make you respectful, intelligent, or capable, just as wearing a leather jacket doesn't make you rugged. 74100831839
Reposted by SimasAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/02/2025For eight decades, alliances have formed the bedrock of American foreign, trade and cultural policy. But not any more. Europeans, but also America's Asian allies, need to accept this new world, and learn how to live in it. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...theatlantic.comThe End of the Postwar WorldTrump’s cruelty and lies about Ukraine send a dark message to America’s other allies. 901567477
Reposted by SimasMartin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 18/02/2025A remarkably comprehensive write-up of what xor is and why it’s useful www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/qu...chiark.greenend.org.ukXOR 1017224
Reposted by SimasMartin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 12/02/2025Seph Gentle made a video in which he builds a CRDT for collaborative text editing from scratch www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lQ2...youtube.comText CRDTs from scratch, in code!YouTube video by Joseph Gentle 2658
Reposted by SimasAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 13/02/2025"the assumption that a cease-fire will end Russia’s primary threat to Ukrainians misunderstands the nature of the conflict" From Nataliya Gumenyuk. A warning www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/puti...foreignaffairs.comPutin’s UkraineThe end of war and the price of Russian occupation. 451646431
Reposted by SimasCMU Database Group @db.cs.cmu.edu · 10/02/2025Today's SQL or Death Seminar Speaker: @jamescowling.dev (@convex.dev co-founder) will profess his love for Larry Ellison and @typescriptlang.org stored procedures. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/sql-d...db.cs.cmu.edu[SQL Death] Larry Ellison was Right (kinda)! TypeScript Stored Procedures for the Modern Age - Carnegie Mellon Database GroupNo one uses SQL to write business logic. It’s written in a... Read More + 1112
Reposted by SimasGrant Sanderson @3blue1brown.com · 08/02/2025New video! Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos: youtu.be/YdOXS_9_P4Uyoutu.beTerence Tao on how we measure the cosmos | Part 1YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown 2344080
Reposted by SimasAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 08/02/2025The US government has now gutted all of the tools created to fight kleptocracy. It's going to be up to other democracies to save their political and financial systems from anonymous flows of cash. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/07/w...themoscowtimes.comWashington Has Given Up the Fight Against Kleptocrats. Here’s What Democracies Should Do - The Moscow TimesOpinion | On Feb. 6, new U.S. 21060642456
Reposted by Simasderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/02/2025People sometimes ask me where they can get really basic things, such as button-up shirts. So I'm writing a two-part guide. Except, this one isn't a "what every man should own" type of guide (those are stupid). It's filled with personal prejudice (what I think is useful). 🧵 413191178
Reposted by SimasSteve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 05/02/202521st Century C++ (thanks @dancrossnyc.bsky.social) cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/21s...cacm.acm.org21st Century C++ – Communications of the ACM 10706
Reposted by Simasjohanna @jola.dev · 04/02/2025I love finding ways to use distributed elixir that are accessible and not complex, with low risk and low effort implementation. I wrote a blog post for AppSignal on one of these sweet spot use cases #ElixirLang 1318
Simas @paulikas.bsky.social · 25/01/2025It's surprisingly hard to convince new hires who are getting onboarded into Go to just use the standard library http package. Do it please. lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/1/24/bu...lucumr.pocoo.orgBuild It YourselfWe need a vibe shift on dependencies in programming. 020
Reposted by SimasLawrence Paulson @lawrpaulson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comI knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca ShawElon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl 16522
