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Re:Scaling Relational SQL Databases (2020) on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @01:42PM (#27531296)
How about keeping transactions short? I thought that would be at the same level of importance as others.
Re:Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @06:00PM (#24560464)
This https://us.macmillan.com/author/sujathagidla/ writer says even Communists are not immune to caste influences. This book is a hard read, but it is worth a read to understand some of the background: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374537821
Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @12:39PM (#22868082)
A couple of (I hope easy) requests - 1. Can we add separators in constants (C++ does 0xFFFF'FFFF'FFFF'FFFF any other reasonable scheme is fine too?)

2. I think many compilers already do this, but can the static initialization rules be relaxed a bit?

  static const int a = 0;
  static const int b = a; /* This is not standard C afaik. */
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