PRQL is a modern language for transforming data

Are there things that AI will never be able to understand, no matter how advanced it gets in the future?
I think there are.

Starting with a bilingual pun, I look at a number of examples of things that current large language models have difficulty understanding…

The most popular option to decompress ZIP files from the Rust programming language is a crate simply named zip — At the time of this writing, it has 48 million downloads. It’s fully-featured, suppo...

Some thoughts in support of simple solutions.

There is cost to your lifestyle.

Motivation
Around 20% of Firefox’s HTTP traffic today uses HTTP/3, which runs over QUIC, which in turn runs over UDP.
This translates to substantial UDP I/O activity.
Firefox uses NSPR for most of its network I/O.
When it comes to UDP I/O, NSPR only offers…

Learn how Amazon built the backbone of the modern web that scales to 1 PB/s and 150M QPS on commodity hard drives

用户界面中复选框和单选按钮的历史

Why do intelligent people become stupid? German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer discovered the answer in 1942 while imprisoned by the Nazis — and it's more terrifying than you think.

In this video, we break down Bonhoeffer's theory of stupidity: why smart…

Honestly, I hate that I read about LLMs all the time. I hate all the marketing bullshit, but also all the critical pieces. Not because the criticism is wrong. I hate them precisely because they&#82…

The appearance of Mythos – a private LLM allegedly capable of finding a multitude of 0-days – has made people concerned about being denied powerful tools. This seems to be a turning point in the mainstream discourse, and it motivated me to complete the think…

In case you’re unaware, I’m not a developer. I’m actually an autistic catgirl annoyed by suboptimal use of computing power, and fixing that happens to involve programming. Crucially, it also includes discussing foundational technology with people behind the…

There is no need to update symmetric key sizes as part of the post-quantum transition, due to the details of how Grover's algorithm scales. Most authorities agree.

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Instagram has run on PostgreSQL since day one. Spotify, Reddit, Twitch, Apple — all PostgreSQL.…

Out of all the migrations I help teams with, Go to Rust is a bit of an outlier.
It’s not a question of “is Rust faster?” or “does Rust have types?”, Go already gets you most of the way there.
The discussion is mostly about correctness guarantees, run…

It’s a question I had to ask myself multiple times over the last few months. Depending on the context the answer can be:
very simple, just call the standard library function extremely hard, don’t trust anything If you are an app developer, you’re lucky and…

In a real world benchmark, the default musl allocator caused a 7x slowdown compared to other allocators. I recommend all Rust projects immediately swap to a different allocator in a musl environment.