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Re:The "Windows XP Box" (2003) on Thursday September 24, 2026 @09:07AM (#49830077)
Loved my Combat Flight Simulator 2 box with like a 150 pages book with presentation, history and pictures of all planes Crimson Skies with comics inside etc
Re:Looking Ahead to Postgres 19 on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @11:21AM (#48734019)
I'm dreaming of block compression in Postgresql, instead of only row compression, too limited to be effective. I know you can store your data on a Zfs pool with block compression, but having it native would remove the burdain of setting this up and maybe better perf.
Re:BM25 in PostgreSQL – 3x Faster Than Elasticsearch on Monday March 03, 2025 @03:31AM (#43239607)
Personally, I also compare it to using Meilisearch. What I find there is a superb doc, ease of use, full support for other European languages, possibility of sorting by field in addition to BM25, custom stop words (even better if the stop words for each language are already defined), custom ordering. If I could find all this in a Postgresql extension, it would be a dream. Congrats for the progress made, I'll give it a try!
Re:40 Years of Koyaanisqatsi on Sunday April 30, 2023 @03:13PM (#35765677)
Movie deserves to be viewed in a better quality than this please
Re:Show HN: Terra Firma, a playable erosion simulation on Monday January 16, 2023 @10:08AM (#34401372)
I perceive an inspiration from the terrain editor of Simcity 4, really nice!
Your change of dying from the vaccine is very low, indeed.

But, if you have no comorbidity, your chance of dying from the covid is extremely low too...

You must also take this into account in your comparison

Good, now i need the same thing but for async :)