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Microsoft Open Source Discord - Upcoming Events (github.com/microsoft/op... ): - June 10-12 2025: POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2025 - June 10, 2025 @ 9:00am PT: Radius Community Call with Mark Russinovich (CTO, Microsoft Azure) (external)

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Just a reminder - total world wide energy consumption is 30k TWh So if growth continues at this rate (it usually doesn’t)- Solar could power the entire world by 2035 Solar ADDITIONS could power the entire world by 2038.

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PING

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Good morning ☕️

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Excellent point from @aaronw.dev 😄 That's how I used them too, as a better search engine, and a way to spark ideas to fix problems. (Had to fix a silly Google pop-up issue on brave (a dictionary definition that would never vanish) AI solutions were all wrong but led to a fix, eventually)

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TIL. Had no idea the Foursquare product design story goes back even further and Dennis was inspired by someone else. Makes it an even better example now. This is why social apps can be great!

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4️⃣ days until POSETTE 2025 kicks off. Have you checked out the Ultimate Guide? Use it to plan your #PosetteConf 2025 experience. ⛰️ techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpo... #PostgreSQL #postgres #conferences

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🙋 Are you an engineer who wants to work on #Postgres features? "Do not hesitate to ask questions on the pgsql-hackers mailing list or even write to people directly", says #PosetteConf speaker Tomas Vondra.❓ Hear more from Tomas at: posetteconf.com/speakers/tom... #postgresql #databases

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🎾 #PosetteConf speaker Johannes Schuetzner recently learned to play padel. Learn more about Johannes, his talk, and the other #PostgreSQL talks he's looking forward to at: posetteconf.com/speakers/joh... #postgres #databases #OpenSource #community

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OK, fine. Maybe Twitter was worth $44 billion.

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Marc Garneau, Canada's first astronaut, and later a MP and cabinet minister, dead of cancer at age 76, by @ianabailey.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... via @theglobeandmail.com

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everything is securities fraud www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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quickly looking up my basket of bad news folder

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Evergreen 🫡

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⏰ The countdown begins! 5️⃣ days until the 2025 version of POSETTE: An Event for Postgres begins. Have you saved the date? 🗓️ posetteconf.com/2025/ #PosetteConf #PostgreSQL #Postgres

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My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

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BIG doc score by @danahull.bsky.social @bloomberg.com is publishing photos & partial footage of a fatal Tesla crash, which was recorded by the Model Y and downloaded by police, for the 1st time after obtaining the images & video through a public records request www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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Why and how did Microsoft create VS Code? The actual story is amusing because creating VS Code was seen as the least important decision across 3 bold "bets". Scott Guthrie (who heads up Cloud + AI at Microsoft) recalls below. Watch / listen: youtu.be/lDfjPEA4BUM (cont'd)

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🐘 Want to know how something could or might go wrong? Ask #PosetteConf speaker Robert Haas, that's his superpower! ⚡ Learn more about Robert and get some tips for first-time speakers: posetteconf.com/speakers/rob... #postgresql #databases #OpenSource #community

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Gift link to a must-read from my colleagues. "I think people should know that research that they probably would support is being canceled," said Eden Tanner, who lost a grant to work on a new glioblastoma treatment. "I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial."

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Good morning ☕️

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Slow Horses (Apple TV+) is coming back! 🍿 www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...

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Trump administration ending multiple HIV vaccine studies, scientists and officials say - CBS News www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

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Risks of bird flu are real. We can’t bury our heads in the sand, even for the love of ostriches. We’re being bamboozled by a small group of zealots who think laws - and science - don’t apply to them, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... @theglobeandmail.com #H5N1

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🧊 Do you know #PosetteConf speaker @philippemnoel.bsky.social's (Philippe Noël) favorite icebreaker at #Postgres events? Spoiler--he doesn't have one! 🐘 But he shares more fun facts at: posetteconf.com/speakers/phi... #postgresql #databases #OpenSource #community

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I've been turning over my use LLMs as a "thought partner" for quite some time, and it captured my attention when I encountered this piece & listened to the podcast episode of the same name (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5... ). I see @itaiyanai.bsky.social shared a very similar thought 2 months ago!

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Next week, #PosetteConf will happen Jun 10-12. Free & virtual If you want help navigating the 4 livestreams & 42 #PostgreSQL talks at POSETTE: An Event for Postgres (& to figure out the virtual hallway track), this ultimate guide post should do the trick techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/ADforPo...

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“Our project was awesome. It was part of the largest investment the National Institutes of Health had ever made in TB. It was honestly the most satisfying science I’ve ever been a part of because it was really working.” But now, “all the data and knowledge” her team has gathered “is gone”.

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Good afternoon ☕️

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🦆 Nitin Jadhav's favorite #Postgres extension is pg_duckdb, but he's not talking about that at #PosetteConf. 🐘 Discover what he IS talking about and more about him at: posetteconf.com/speakers/nit... #postgresql #databases #OpenSource #community

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There was some review of hospital injury/death cases, and ~holding things while walking on stairs~ causes super-dramatic risk. I recently had a close-call on my own stairs after hurting my foot, somehow I kept up with the misplaced feet to save myself. It sounds dumb but Jesus Christ.

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Was Git built in 10 days? Linus Torvalds tells us the real story. 👀 Watch the full interview in honor of Git's 20th anniversary here.👇 github.blog/open-source/...

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Some interesting insights here, including that people are much more influenced by people they follow switching platforms than by their own followers switching platforms. Preprint: "Why Academics are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky" arxiv.org/abs/2505.24801

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I wrote about the 23-year-old crypto bro with effectively no relevant work experience, who @alondra.bsky.social revealed is sitting in meetings, not paying attention, and then giving the thumbs up/thumbs down on whether they can get their NSF grants...

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