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Re:Improving Interoperability Between Rust and C++ on Monday February 05, 2024 @01:17PM (#39264614)
C++ and RUST interop with async is very nascent. Hope this helps to make improvements in this space.
Re:On-disk HNSW index for Postgres with pg_embedding on Thursday August 03, 2023 @03:23PM (#36990517)
Can you explain: What does it mean to be constructed on disk?
Re:Maybe Treating Housing as an Investment Was a Colossal Mistake on Monday March 06, 2023 @06:06PM (#35049110)
No we don't want to live with other asians. We want to live near our family (brothers / sisters / cousins) who are also in Tech. We will have no family in rural Utah.
Re:I used indie hacking to sponsor my own green card on Thursday February 03, 2022 @01:16PM (#30196296)
For immigration to USA, whatever you do just don’t be born in India where wait to get Green Card is 2-3 decades (yes 20-30 years estimated wait). If only one could control the place of birth…
Re:Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous on Monday January 24, 2022 @02:22AM (#30054515)
Color Scheme hurts my eyes.
Re:Microsoft gaming chief calls for industry-wide game preservation on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @06:19PM (#29260156)
Most of the game discs that ship today don’t have the full game bundled and require Day 1 updates. Impossible to preserve these games just with emulation if the game servers are shut down.
Re:Exodus of Silicon Valley on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @06:55PM (#25053770)
Only for US citizens and Green Card holders. Hundreds of thousands of H1B immigrants stuck in forever Green Card backlogs stay where they are to comply with immigration laws.
Re:Ad Fraud Scheme Drained Users’ Batteries By Running Hidden Video Ad... on Friday March 22, 2019 @01:15AM (#19459814)
How are they making money by draining batteries?
Re:Microsoft: 70 percent of all security bugs are memory safety issues on Monday February 11, 2019 @06:02PM (#19139371)
Where can I find the original presentation from Microsoft's engineer?
Re:I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and st... on Friday July 06, 2018 @01:46PM (#17473514)
https://www.gcreforms.org/key-issues/
Re:I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and st... on Friday July 06, 2018 @01:31PM (#17473359)
Is the american dream over for Indian nationals (multiple decades wait for GC in EB2/EB3 category). What would you suggest to people stuck in backlog?
Re:Why Use Postgres? on Sunday April 30, 2017 @10:57PM (#14235314)
Most important reason to use PostgreSQL : Constant Time Recovery (Recovery from long running transaction that rollback is instantaneous)
Re:India's demonetisation of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 notes on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @12:27PM (#12902135)
Is this Nano GPS Chip for real? How does it work and how much does it cost to make such currency?
Re:All of Google's cloud database services are now out of beta on Friday August 19, 2016 @10:08PM (#12324749)
On Cloud SQL : If you start with 10GB amount of storage, you can always get more storage but never decrease your storage amount. Why?
Re:ZeroDB (YC S16) Provides Security for Enterprise Big Data in the Cloud on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @04:16PM (#12257404)
Microsoft offers "Always Encrypted" for Query Processing over encrypted data in SQL Server and SQL Azure : https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt163865.aspx (Disclaimer : Microsoft Employee)
Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B on Monday June 13, 2016 @05:35PM (#11897886)
Most Important Question : Do LinkedIn employees stop getting free food or Microsoft employees get free food now?
Re:Tech layoffs more than double in Bay Area on Thursday May 12, 2016 @09:35PM (#11688064)
Microsoft continues to hire in WA.
Re:LittleD – SQL database for IoT, can run queries in 1KB on Thursday November 26, 2015 @01:49AM (#10631647)
Do we have transaction (ACID) support? If not, have you thought about it? Is is feasible with the IOT constraints?

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