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Comment on A beginner’s guide to the Write Skew anomaly, and how it differs between 2PL and MVCC by Khai
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vladmihalcea.com
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2 weeks ago
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The application node seems suspect though. In MySQL, if the bonus happens first, then insert happens, the lock is released then the outcome is same. Why is there assumption that the transection will be concurrent. Is there any better example where the application establishes the invariant properly and it still behaves differently.
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Lately, I’ve been experimenting with building games in Ebitengine . It’s a 2D engine that lets you create games using the Go programming language. To be able to iterate faster on visual effects, I have created a tool that lets me preview shaders: Luluka . Kage Shaders For those who feel like they missed an episode, shaders are small programs running on the GPU which can be used to modify the pixels of an image. In games, they are use....
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Winner ad placement!" snarked our Peter G. Errors on this website are always a shoo-in for the weekly column. An anonymous reader wrote "I got error 500 when I tried to submit an Error'd. Please make the file uploader check if the attached file is within the file upload limit, which I think is less than 4 MB." They shared an audio error'd which may be coming along next week. "Give us feedback - wait, did it work ....
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Tokio is Rust’s killer app for network services. I don’t say that lightly. After spending years building concurrent systems in Go and other languages, Tokio changed how I think about async I/O. It’s not just a library — it’s a full runtime that turns Rust’s zero-cost futures into something you can actually build production services with. I’ve been running Tokio in production for a while now, and I’ve hit enough walls to have opinions ab..
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Operator is a powerful Agent that helps you manage, optimize, and continuously improve your AI-first support organization. Here's more insight into how we built it.
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Learn how Operator can help you understand, manage, and improve your customer experience in a way that has never been possible before.
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Scaling developer experience: How we improved Android Studio in a large monorepo
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engineering.grab.com
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3 weeks ago
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eng
Introduction Long integrated development environment (IDE) sync/indexing times can quietly erode developer productivity, making code navigation sluggish, spiking memory usage, and slowing down Jetpack Compose preview updates, turning the IDE into a bottleneck rather than a helpful tool. For Android engineers working in a large monorepo, this was a daily reality. In this post, we will share how we built a custom Focus plugin that dramatical....
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Scaling developer experience: How we improved Android Studio in a large monorepo
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engineering.grab.com
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3 weeks ago
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eng
Introduction Long integrated development environment (IDE) sync/indexing times can quietly erode developer productivity, making code navigation sluggish, spiking memory usage, and slowing down Jetpack Compose preview updates, turning the IDE into a bottleneck rather than a helpful tool. For Android engineers working in a large monorepo, this was a daily reality. In this post, we will share how we built a custom Focus plugin that dramatical....
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APEX 26.1 was finally released yesterday. Learn how to quickly set it up locally and test the new features with uc-local-apex-dev.
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New in Node 25 is the node compile cache, which can deliver a 20% to 30% boost in server start-up time. I built `node-prewarm` to make that practical on real projects with minimal changes.
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Malicious node-ipc versions published to npm in suspected maintainer account compromise
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snyk.io
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3 weeks ago
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eng
On May 14, 2026, multiple malicious versions of the popular npm package node-ipc were published to the npm registry. Current public reporting identifies node...
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What my AI inbox-screener actually does to the templated cold outreach hitting my inbox. Three real auto-sends, the footer that draws the line, and where this goes next.
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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS upgrades from 25.10 are officially live – and with Ubuntu 25.10 support ending in July, you’ll want to move soon. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS released on 23 April with GNOME 50, Linux 7.0 and new default apps. Snap store and web searching features were added to the GNOME Shell Overview and you can now enable Ubuntu Pro in the Security Center. Other changes in the ‘Resolute Raccoon’ include a fresh set of folder icons, visual password ..
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Amazon Bedrock introduces new advanced prompt optimization and migration tool
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aws.amazon.com
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3 weeks ago
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eng
Amazon Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization enables customers to optimize their prompts for their current model or migrate prompts to new models faster than before with built-in evaluation feedback loops. Optimize your prompts and compare results for up to 5 models simultaneously.
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How long until we get a functional pragmata? - Linguistics: almost already there (LLMs good enough) - Aesthetics: almost already there (doll manufacturers already use very realistic skinlike materials) - Motorics: not there yet (humanoid robots are very clunky, their movement is not at all humanlike, smooth or realistic) - Power: not there yet (only a few hours of running time on the current consumer grade humanoid robot models,..
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Editor’s note: Missing the daily links? They became “weekly links.” After a year, keeping up the daily pace started to take its toll. The longer gap between posts brings another advantage: a focus on cool links, leaving aside the news items — which I used to include in the daily posts to add more substance. […]
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AI Latent Spaces as Shapeshifting Skeleton Libraries and Explosion Drawings bearing cognitive hazards and new opportunities to play.
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In completely unrelated news, oldest giant dinausor found in South East Asia weighing as much as 9 elephants. www.bbc.com #
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In completely unrelated news, oldest giant dinausor found in South East Asia weighing as much as 9 elephants. www.bbc.com #
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