Another day, another stupid Excel chart.
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Another day, another stupid Excel chart.
New advances in the cat science:
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I feel sorry for my friends (still) working at Oracle.
And this. Customer feedback for some of those AI-delivered features has been extremely negative.
Killer bees are generally described as starting out as larvae delinquents.
Killer bees are generally described as starting out as
larvae delinquents.
"The online retail giant said there had been a “trend of incidents” in recent months, characterised by a “high blast radius” and “Gen-AI assisted changes” among other factors, according to a briefing note for the meeting seen by the FT. Under “contributing factors” the note included “novel GenAI usage for which best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established”. "
Interesting times:
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If coding is your favorite part of software engineering, keep coding. AI doesn't stop you. But if coding was the only part you were good at, that's a different conversation. The job was always bigger than the code. #bransoncognac blog.bryanl.dev/posts/ai-sen...
Gemini 3 on väga aus, see ytles mulle otse, et Parquet kirjutamine on talle liiga keeruline, teen selle asemel konsooliplugina. Ainult et... tekstifaili terminali aknas kuvamiseks on juba vahendid olemas, selleks ei pea parseriga raketti ehitama...
If you do not have many titles in "Pick up where you left off" list, Amazon happily hallucinates you some. Needless to say, hallucinated titles are all AI slop.
Enshitification is too mild word for this. You can probably guess on which titles I clicked and which titles Amazon hallucinated.
Book with a title "AI show you how to make money with AI," authored by A. I.
Stuff you see in the Amazon...
First lines of the test generated by a coding agent. Comment says: Build a valid tar with one entry, then append garbage so that the second tr.Next() call returns a non-EOF error.
Amusing: genie created a test to check if corrupted tar file will be handled correctly. I wouldn't bothered to do this by hand, but hey! tokens are cheap
Partitioning comes with tradeoffs. Some database engines try to address those, and some do not.
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This surly king by Bada Shanren 八大山人 (aka Zhu Da 朱耷, 1626-1705) remains the best ever to do it
Nixon romances Mao in Apr 1972
Hatoful Boyfriend but Nixon & Mao is a helluva thing.
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"Organizations are not limited by typing speed. They are limited by decision-making, coordination, and clarity. Even if implementation becomes ten times faster, unclear requirements will still slow everything down."
New blog: Testing the Datadog Explain Plan Visualizer with Oracle execution plans
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is Trump first Ottoman president?
>gilded everything
>retarded, constantly scheming sons
>a harem of slavic wives
>elaborate headgear
>at war with Persia
I have to confess, I'm somewhere between steps 3 and 6.
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📝 "Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet"
Today is the day--beyond excited to share the first release of #Hardwood, a new parser for the Apache #Parquet file format, optimized for minimal dependencies and great performance.
👉 www.morling.dev/blog/hardwoo...
“Andrew … the cows have come home.”
“Andrew … the cows have come home.”
Book cover of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd edition". It has a similar wild boar on the cover as the first edition, but it uses O'Reilly's new cover design, and the boar is now slightly colourised.
The second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by myself and @chris.blue, is finished and sent off to the printers! Ebooks should be available in the next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅
(BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)
Now would you look at it, Henrik Hololei is in the news again:
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The ultimate tempo playlist from Runna. Mostly contains stuff I try not to listen to, like Avicii, Beyoncé.
Runna has created playlists that for me provide "please, make it stop!!!1!" type of motivation. One of the playlists even contains ABBA. But weirdly, didn't spot any c- or K-pop.
Inevitably, their affair ended: Howard worried excessively about what the pack would think, and Agnes simply ate the flowers.
Inevitably, their affair ended: Howard worried excessively about what the pack would think, and Agnes simply ate the flowers.
After a decade of planning, editing, delays due to my own busyness, further editing and waiting for 23c, the release of 26ai and my pre-retirement finally unblocked the situation. I have agreed with Apress to publish the third edition of Troubleshooting Oracle Performance in 2026. #TOP3
A report from this retreat is now available. It's a good, thoughtful summary of how AI is changing software engineering. It avoids breathless hype, but it doesn't bury the head in the sand either. www.thoughtworks.com/content/dam/...
“C’mon! You’ll miss the fun! … All the lemmings are going down to the beach!”
“C’mon! You’ll miss the fun! … All the lemmings are going down to the beach!”
