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whateverforever.computer
doing computer things @ Influxdata I like cats and databases 🐱💽
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submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

“on Thursday the [National Science Foundation]’s online payment system was still down, throwing lives into uncertainty. An NSF email seen by STAT suggested salaries had been suspended to “ensure only eligible activities” are funded.” www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...

submitted 37 days ago • 112 comments

7 databases in 7 weeks cool idea :) matt.blwt.io/post/7-datab...

submitted 98 days ago • 3 comments

Tube shaped

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Updates for my database starter pack and list: - Added @clickhouse.com - Added @memgraph.com Welcome to join the bluesky, let's rock! go.bsky.app/Nd8hieE

submitted 109 days ago • 2 comments

Interesting website for those who are programming literate but not so math literate math4devs.com

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

When I volunteer to fix a legacy bug within our compaction engine at work

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

Atproto nerds, what cool things have you seen people in the community do that could use a shoutout or some help? Boost for reach!

submitted 111 days ago • 5 comments

Three basic suggestions for getting into distributed systems - Read DDIA - Follow MIT 6.5840 - Do fly dot io distributed systems challenge (no particular order)

submitted 110 days ago • 7 comments

She wants to travel

submitted 112 days ago • 1 comment

Now that "scale is all we need" has predictably faltered... 1. Small AI models often perform better in context. 2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to research capture. Me + @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160

submitted 112 days ago • 29 comments

TIL; Complete binary trees can be modeled by arrays with implemented indexing algorithms to find nodes: opendsa-server.cs.vt.edu/ODSA/Books/C... This started out as a small project where I'm implementing huffman codes, but, like any other programming project ya'know I gotta over-engineer.

submitted 115 days ago • 1 comment

What do people hack on in their free time? I’m currently working on a Huffman compression library to play around with prefix trees.

submitted 117 days ago • 1 comment

God grant me the serenity to accept I am cooked, The courage to say fuck it we ball, And the wisdom to know when we are so back

submitted 118 days ago • 104 comments

Trying to reach some mutuals! Things I’m interested in: Rust Go C++ Computer Science Anime Progressivism Databases Big data Compilers Programming I work in the database internals space —specifically OLAP and love chatting anything that has to with systems programming!

submitted 119 days ago • 2 comments