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Re:Indiana Bell moved a functioning building in 1930 on Thursday November 07, 2019 @04:02AM (#21471590)
A timelapse of a building being moved in 2012 in Zurich: https://vimeo.com/42984680

It's taken from close up so you see how a concrete platform has been poured under the building, then the whole thing pushed on rails.

Re:Go is Google's language, not ours on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @03:10AM (#19978607)
Prometheus is a (rare) recent example of a significant, thriving open-source project that is community-based. Not quite as broad in scope as something like Elasticsearch though.
Re:SQLite as an Application File Format (2014) on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @09:06AM (#18757445)
For those wishing to see Sqlite used to publish data sets:

Datasette (https://github.com/simonw/datasette) is a new tool to publish data on the web. It uses SQLite under the hood.

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