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How we’ve saved 98% in cloud costs by writing our own database
What is the first rule of programming? Maybe something like “do not repeat yourself” or “if it works, don’t touch it”? Or, how about “do not write your own database!”… That’s a good one. Databases are a nightmare to write, from Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability (ACID) requirements to sharding to fault recovery to administration …
Microsoft blamed for “a cascade of security failures” in Exchange breach report
Getty Images A federal Cyber Safety Review Board has issued its report on what led to last summer’s capture of hundreds of thousands of emails by Chinese hackers from cloud customers, including federal agencies. It cites “a cascade of security failures at Microsoft” and finds that “Microsoft’s security culture was inadequate” and needs to adjust …
Americans are YOLO spending more but savings hits lows of Great Recession
Arriel Vinson hadn’t traveled much before the pandemic. Now she can’t stop. The 28-year-old writer leaves her Dallas apartment every chance she gets: to see Beyoncé in Atlanta, Usher in Chicago and for girls’ trips in Jamaica and Mexico. When a favorite artist announces new tour dates, Vinson starts rallying friends and snapping up tickets, …
MOnSter 6502
A dis-integrated circuit project to make a complete, working transistor-scale replica of the classic MOS 6502 microprocessor. FAQ Sixty-Five-Oh-What? The 6502 is the famous processor found at the core of such influential computer systems as the Apple ][, the Commodore PET, the Atari 400 and 800 home video game consoles, the BBC Micro, and the …
A lazy and flippant classification of programming languages
Sometimes I post in an online community of computer touchers, as one does. When talking flippantly about programming languages, it’s sometimes useful to glob a bunch of them together based on characteristics, whether superficial or not. This started with jokes about common features of “P languages” like Perl, PHP, Python, JavaScript and Ruby, but you …
Video shows California deputies fatally shooting abducted teen as she surrenders
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A teenage girl who had been kidnapped by her father was following a sheriff’s deputy’s instructions and appeared to be surrendering when other deputies fatally shot her during a gun battle on a Southern California highway, according to recently released video and audio. Savannah Graziano, 15, was shot and killed as …
NORWEGIAN DAWN: TIMELINE OF EVENTS
Wednesday, April 27: Eight passengers, including Australian couple Violetta and Doug Sanders, disembark the Norwegian Dawn for a day tour on the island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe off Africa’s west coast.The tour group fail to make it back to the cruise liner for the all-aboard time of 3pm and are left at the dock …
Peter Navarro makes long-shot Supreme Court plea to avoid more prison time
CNN — Former Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro asked the Supreme Court to take another look at his request to avoid prison, filing a long-shot request on Tuesday that the high court rarely grants. In an emergency request last month, Navarro asked the Supreme Court to let him remain free while he challenged his contempt of Congress …
