Posts and writings by Lennart Poettering

A functional standard library for Python. Contribute to pytoolz/toolz development by creating an account on GitHub.

Instacart Inc. is cutting about 1,900 employees’ jobs, including 10 workers who recently formed a union, as the company seeks to boost its ranks of contract workers.

Colleagues with critiques want the same thing as you: to understand the world.

A denoscription of Jonathan Blow's programming language, Jai - BSVino/JaiPrimer

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The New DMC DeLorean

Last week, Elastic announced they will change their software licensing strategy, and will not release new versions of Elasticsearch and Kibana under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2). Instead, new versions of the software will be offered under the Elastic…

The F-35 helmet: does it show too much too small? My background – Current F-35 pilot and Weapons School graduate. I Have flown the Harrier II and F/A-18 Hornet operationally as well as instructing …

In the U.S.

If you haven’t read the previous parts of this series yet, here are the links: [ Part 1 | Part 2 ].
A Refresher In the first part of this series I said that RAM access is the slow component of a modern in-memory database engine and for performance you’d want…

From the creators of rebar3_format, here comes… rebar3_hank, a powerful but simple tool to detect dead code around your Erlang codebase (and kill it with fire!)

If you’re thinking it’s weird to treat a friendship like a backlog grooming meeting, then maybe you’re right. But it works.

You just keep on trying till you run out of cake

P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary. Click to read Astral Codex Ten, by Scott Alexander, a Substack publication.