A pioneering technique that captures precisely how mountains bend to the will of raindrops has helped to solve a long-standing scientific enigma.

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Valve has released a new version of their compatibility layer for Linux: Proton 5.13, making Red Dead Redemption 2 work out of the box!

Book review - Philosophy - The TLS | Time of the Magicians: The invention of modern thought, 1919–29 by Wolfram Eilenberger, reviewed by David Motadel

Some thoughts on Conway's Law and its effect on the software stack and open source ecosystem.

Just weeks before the election, the tech giants unite to block access to incriminating reporting about their preferred candidate.

Not only is Btrfs seeing notable improvements with the in-development Linux 5.10 kernel but the XFS file-system also has some prominent changes of its own.

Dr. Manuel Rigger and his colleague have found 400+ bugs in popular DBMSs, including 50+ TiDB bugs. Learn their experience in finding logic bugs in DBMSs.

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Creates Wireguard configuration for hub and peers with ease - burghardt/easy-wg-quick

In economics, the Baumol effect, also known as Baumol's cost disease, first described by William J. Baumol and William G. Bowen in the 1960s, is the tendency for wages in jobs that have experienced little or no increase in labor productivity to rise in response…

This is pure disaster porn. It’s the story of how I drank some wine and then managed to delete the production database. Thankfully there was a backup.

Why is this shaped like this? Let's talk about two things that used to not go together: Japan and butter. Like other East Asian cultures, butter was never a part of the traditional Japanese diet, and was actually treated with disgust when introduced by Europeans…

This is an updated version of a post we originally published in 2020. You can read the original version here. The growth of the data infrastructure industry has continued unabated since we published a set of reference architectures in …

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