Reposted by SimasSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 11/10/2026How will MAGA know what to think? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 531575
Reposted by Simasderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026this fall, consider dressing like the man in gary bunt's paintings 1156187647
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. 442036514
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. 193354115284
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." 1379818830
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. 403378272
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
Simas @paulikas.bsky.social · 18/01/2026media.tenor.comJames Franco The GIFALT: James Franco The GIF 010
Simas @paulikas.bsky.social · 07/12/2025"The most important thing Europeans need is to panic." yea duh. Should've panicked when Vance gave his little speech, or when Trump was elected, or when Ukraine was invaded... Baltics have been yelling about this for a decade+. The inaction is maddening. 020
Reposted by Simasderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/12/2025The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow 507385207424
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
Simas @paulikas.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Who would you be marketing for? Who’s payong you? Small data companies? Linear regression? 040
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
Simas @paulikas.bsky.social · 01/11/2025What, and just earn money and make a profit like some povel? How do you grow your stock like that into mega-unicorn? MORE FEATURES I SAY 000
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
Simas @paulikas.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Anything your reading on C++ next after Bjarnes book? I’ve been meaning to read this one with a title that must be familiar 😀 www.manning.com/books/100-c-...manning.com100 C++ Mistakes and How to Avoid Them - Rich YontsLearn how to handle errors, inefficiencies, and outdated paradigms by exploring the most common mistakes you’ll find in production C++ code. 100 C++ Mistakes and How To Avoid Them reveals the problem... 010
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
Simas @paulikas.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Because workers don’t get the benefits of productivity increases, the owners do. You’re either going to be paid for 3 days or be expected to produce more in 5. 030
Simas @paulikas.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Never have I ever met a smart person who gave two diddly dicks about IQ scores. 010
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
Simas @paulikas.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Just waiting for Neil deGrasse Tyson to come over and overly explain to you that Earth is a planet and not a star, so “slightly brighter star” is inaccurate. 100
Simas @paulikas.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Time to go to bed and wake up to the familiar scent of fresh horrors 0111
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
