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extra-AI··on Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap
But if the objects being scanned are already located on the same page, aren’t we just wasting time managing the page and tracking the objects within it?
extra-AI··on AI companies are shredding rare books
And this is the beginning of the end for content creators.

Why would I spend hours creating original content if Google can extract it and present the answer directly in an AI Overview? What is the incentive to keep doing the work?

If creators stop producing high-quality original material, the information we get over the next few years will increasingly be based on recycled, low-quality garbage.

extra-AI··on MinHash – How to Find Similarity at Scale
This is the first time since graduating that I’ve actually had a reason to use set difference :)
extra-AI··on Postgress in Rust
This is a pretty ambitious project. What part are you starting with first — the SQL parser/planner or the storage engine?

Also curious what you mean by “little twists”. Are you aiming for PostgreSQL compatibility, or mainly using it to explore different design choices around things like MVCC and WAL?

extra-AI··on ChatGPT Is Down
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