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WeblWabl

@whateverforever.computer
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doing computer things @ Influxdata I like cats and databases 🐱💽

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WeblWabl @whateverforever.computer · 28/09/2026
Definitely was a community effort - shout out all the reviewers and folks who helped with the implementation. TL;DR PEXT instructions allow for really fast bit manipulations on x86 systems with a scalar fallback. Plenty of additional optimizations to be made: github.com/apache/arrow... :D
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Improve performance of `filter` kernel (when `pext` instruction is not available) · Issue #11213 · apache/arrow-rs
Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge? @devanbenz / @Rich-T-kid and others updated the filter kernel to be more efficient #10136 If the CPU has the pext instruction, the compres...
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WeblWabl @whateverforever.computer · 09/06/2025
Syscalls, memory allocation, and cache lines oh my! If any of that sounds interesting to you check out my post on jemalloc whateverforever.computer/blog/jemallo...
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WeblWabl @whateverforever.computer · 27/05/2025
I wrote up a little post on using tpchgen-rs (the best way to generate TPC-H benchmark data on a Pi whateverforever.computer/blog/tpchgen...
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tpchgen-rs on a raspberry pi
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onion person @junlper.beer · 06/10/2023
i got suspended on twitter its over
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WeblWabl @whateverforever.computer · 02/02/2025
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
“on Thursday the [National Science Foundation]’s online payment system was still down, throwing lives into uncertainty. An NSF email seen by STAT suggested salaries had been suspended to “ensure only eligible activities” are funded.” www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
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National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
7 databases in 7 weeks cool idea :) matt.blwt.io/post/7-datab...
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WeblWabl @whateverforever.computer · 24/11/2024
Tube shaped
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Xuanwo @xuanwo.io · 20/11/2024
Updates for my database starter pack and list: - Added @clickhouse.com - Added @memgraph.com Welcome to join the bluesky, let's rock! go.bsky.app/Nd8hieE
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WeblWabl @whateverforever.computer · 20/11/2024
Interesting website for those who are programming literate but not so math literate math4devs.com
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List of mathematical symbols with their JavaScript equivalent.
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WeblWabl @whateverforever.computer · 19/11/2024
When I volunteer to fix a legacy bug within our compaction engine at work
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Xe @xeiaso.net · 18/11/2024
Atproto nerds, what cool things have you seen people in the community do that could use a shoutout or some help? Boost for reach!
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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Three basic suggestions for getting into distributed systems - Read DDIA - Follow MIT 6.5840 - Do fly dot io distributed systems challenge (no particular order)
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WeblWabl @whateverforever.computer · 17/11/2024
She wants to travel
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Now that "scale is all we need" has predictably faltered... 1. Small AI models often perform better in context. 2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to research capture. Me + @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160
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Hype, Sustainability, and the Price of the Bigger-is-Better Paradigm in AI
With the growing attention and investment in recent AI approaches such as large language models, the narrative that the larger the AI system the more valuable, powerful and interesting it is is increa...
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WeblWabl @whateverforever.computer · 14/11/2024
TIL; Complete binary trees can be modeled by arrays with implemented indexing algorithms to find nodes: opendsa-server.cs.vt.edu/ODSA/Books/C... This started out as a small project where I'm implementing huffman codes, but, like any other programming project ya'know I gotta over-engineer.
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7.16. Array Implementation for Complete Binary Trees — CS3 Data Structures & Algorithms
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WeblWabl @whateverforever.computer · 11/11/2024
What do people hack on in their free time? I’m currently working on a Huffman compression library to play around with prefix trees.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
God grant me the serenity to accept I am cooked, The courage to say fuck it we ball, And the wisdom to know when we are so back
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WeblWabl @whateverforever.computer · 10/11/2024
Trying to reach some mutuals! Things I’m interested in: Rust Go C++ Computer Science Anime Progressivism Databases Big data Compilers Programming I work in the database internals space —specifically OLAP and love chatting anything that has to with systems programming!
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