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Re:Dual-Engine Serverless SQL Lakehouse on Friday June 06, 2025 @05:23PM (#44205121)

Powerful lakehouse with DuckDB, Neon PostgreSQL, and Google Cloud Storage

Dual-Engine Serverless SQL Lakehouse

Posted by inrev on Friday June 06, 2025 @05:23PM
from the rvernica.github.io dept.

https://rvernica.github.io/2025/06/ducklake-with-postgres

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B612 – Airbus Cockpit Font

Posted by inrev on Saturday November 12, 2022 @03:55PM
from the b612-font.com dept.

https://b612-font.com/

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Re:B612 – Airbus Cockpit Font on Saturday November 12, 2022 @03:55PM (#33576962)

B612 is an highly legible open source font family designed and tested to be used on aircraft cockpit screens.

Re:Standing up to Steve Jobs – a tale of one of his early pilots on Saturday April 03, 2021 @01:51PM (#26683071)

The story starts at 2:07

Standing up to Steve Jobs – a tale of one of his early pilots

Posted by inrev on Saturday April 03, 2021 @01:49PM
from the youtube.com dept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbY0w1e4zpw

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Changes to how LastPass Free users access LastPass across device types

Posted by inrev on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @10:43AM
from the support.logmeininc.com dept.

https://support.logmeininc.com/lastpass/help/what-can-i-expect-to-change-for-lastpass-free-on-march-16-2021

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Foxit Reader update removes Print to PDF

Posted by inrev on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:01PM
from the forums.foxitsoftware.com dept.

https://forums.foxitsoftware.com/forum/portable-document-format-pdf-tools/foxit-reader/177686-foxit-pdf-printer-gone-after-foxit-reader-upgrade

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Things you can make from old, dead laptops [video]

Posted by inrev on Saturday February 15, 2020 @11:43PM
from the youtube.com dept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLP_L7Mgz6M

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HBO is hacked, and Game of Thrones episodes may have leaked out

Posted by inrev on Monday July 31, 2017 @11:16PM
from the washingtonpost.com dept.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/07/31/hbo-is-hacked-and-game-of-thrones-episodes-may-have-leaked-out/

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Energy-Free Display, IonTouch Technology, HP Labs, Palo Alto

Posted by inrev on Thursday May 04, 2017 @05:49PM
from the youtube.com dept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7GtwViT16w

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Re:AK47 assault rifle inventor Kalashnikov dies at 94 on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @02:30PM (#6960756)

Russia Today short documentary on AK-47: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQtFYkvascA

Re:Stanford Fall 2011 - Introduction to Databases on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @02:39PM (#2892361)

This is the undergraduate DB class. You are probably looking for the graduate DB class: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~widom/cs346/

Re:Programming error invalidates US Diversity Visa lottery results on Friday May 13, 2011 @08:28PM (#2546745)

BTW, if you win, you have to pay the Diversity Visa Lottery fee $440/person

Re:Programming error invalidates US Diversity Visa lottery results on Friday May 13, 2011 @08:15PM (#2546716)

It says that in the video message posted: http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1857622883?b...

Re:Yahoo Weighs Spinning Out Hadoop Engineering Group for $1 Billion O... on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @08:16PM (#2487835)

Original Wall Street Journal article:

Yahoo Mulls Spinoff for Hadoop Software Unit http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870472930457628...

Plagiarism in Dissertation Costs German Defense Minister His Job

Posted by inrev on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @06:40PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/world/europe/02germany.html?_r=2&sq=guttenberg%20plagiarism&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print

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Re:Looks Like “Google +1″ Was Just Accidentally Revealed on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @02:55AM (#1982248)

I don't get the "accidentally" part. Somebody inside Google shared a screenshoot of something they should hane not...

Anyway, I don't see much of a product here.

Re:23andMe for $99 on Friday November 26, 2010 @02:52PM (#1943117)

Used to be $99 last year on the DNA day without the required subscription.

Google Calendar - Service outage

Posted by inrev on Monday November 15, 2010 @12:41PM
from the google.com dept.

http://www.google.com/appsstatus#rm=1&di=2&hl=en

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The World Bank - Apps for Development

Posted by inrev on Friday October 29, 2010 @11:52AM
from the appsfordevelopment.challengepost.com dept.

http://appsfordevelopment.challengepost.com

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Facebook Now Lets You Take Your Data With You

Posted by inrev on Thursday October 07, 2010 @02:09AM
from the gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com dept.

http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/facebook-now-lets-you-take-your-data-with-you/

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Re:LaTeX CV Template on Tuesday September 21, 2010 @10:25PM (#1714972)

Here is also a nice one using XeTeX and some cool fonts: http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex

Or this interesting two-column-CV movement: http://www.cv-templates.info/2009/05/advanced-two-column-lat...

Outage Curtails Chase’s Online Banking

Posted by inrev on Wednesday September 15, 2010 @12:40AM
from the bucks.blogs.nytimes.com dept.

http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/chases-online-banking-outage/

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Re:Autocomplete your life with Greplin (YC W10) on Tuesday August 31, 2010 @05:27PM (#1650923)

For the Facebook search, can you also index of my friends' wall posts, as sometimes they post relevant information there?

Re: Review my site: AwesomenessReminders on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @09:26PM (#1616196)

"If for some reason someone else picks up your phone and is abusive to us, we reserve the right to terminate your service and issue you a refund." :-)

After reviewing some cloud database papers

Posted by inrev on Thursday August 12, 2010 @12:25PM
from the deanbjacobs.wordpress.com dept.

http://deanbjacobs.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/cloudpaperreviews/

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Re:Love in the Age of the Pickup Artist on Thursday July 15, 2010 @01:35AM (#1517042)

"Your website has been suspended!"

Hacker News effect? :-)

Still in Google's cache http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?client=ubuntu&#...

Re:Logarithmic calendar view on Wednesday April 07, 2010 @07:37PM (#1248729)

The Agenda view in Emacs's org-mode has similar ideas. In the week view you see great detail for the current day and a short overview of the days to come.

Here is a screen-shot I found online: http://tiny.cc/3gwoj

Re:Six best start-ups from Y Combinator demo day on Thursday March 19, 2009 @12:52PM (#523597)

> how come none of these startups managed to get a single dollar out of me? Am I alone asking myself this question?

Count me in. :)

> Dropbox is one that immediately comes to mind that has solved a very hard problem that I pay for.

Not really... It is not so hard to setup SVN, Apache, WebDAV, and NetDrive, and you got your own Dropbox...