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I will raise you- desktop.ini and thumbnails.db

Without interacting with it myself, none of this is surprising.

I have used excel in the past, and I am a long term python user. But if you asked me today what I really wanted to make my life easier and ultimately a product or business better using only excel? I would ask for lua or scheme. I don’t need a batteries included environment embedded into a spreadsheet. I just want sane syntax for common functionality which does not require arcane knowledge and long forgotten wisdom.

Here’s a take nobody asked for, this costs a little less than 2 Real Dolls[1].

1. No way am I linking that.

For multi-tb or pb needs I would not stray from mariadb. Especially when using columnstore. I have taken the pepsi challenge, even after trying vertica and netezza. Not HANA though; one has had enough of SAP.

And if you use MariaDB, just enable columnstore. Why not treat yourself to s3 backed storage while you are there?

It is extremely cost effective when you can scale a different workload without migrating.

Well it is obviously not enough as most of these are addons. Most of these are already built into MariaDB.

Excerpt from the motivaion of "PostgreSQL HTTP Client":

> Wouldn't it be nice to be able to write a trigger that called a web service?

Rather you than me.

This is mariadb.com the enterprise branch. Nothing to do with the open source foundation at mariadb.org, which is unaffected by this.

This is a real kick in the teeth for existing skysql customers.

Xpand though? That's really silly. It's a great engine. Maybe Samsung could buy it? I wouldn't be surprised if we saw their published efforts eventually into migrating to some like ScyllaDB or FoundationDB.

On the oft trip to Southwold, I am usually left to my own devices which involves a few pints and a copy of 2000AD from WHSmiths.

A must watch for comic fans not just 2000AD fans is their documentary Future Shock! The story of 2000 AD:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock!_The_Story_of_200...

I predict the most interested parities will be in insurance. The quicker an entity can mitigate libel the better, for them.

FTA

> 1. Europe to plug into desert sunshine Solar energy harvested in the sunbleached dunes of the Sahara desert is set to power millions of homes in Britain and Europe.

It's not just nice points. It's the entire point of the article.

John the Ripper!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Ripper

The term "demake" is really popular in the fantasy console scene:

https://itch.io/games/tag-demake/tag-pico-8

Some of these projects like Alone in the Dark and UnduneII are incredible.

The forum post for UnduneII has lots of info on it's creation: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=47155

That’s great to hear. Most commenters are focusing on the issue with console development.

Godot themselves wrote about it in July:

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-consoles-all-you-need-...

It’s a fickle beast indeed. But what many people gloss over is the fact the option is there! Make your full game now or just a PoC, happy with the knowledge there is already help available.

You are spot on. And more importantly, a roll back procedure.

In this case, RENAME TABLE x TO y, and watch or wait for a process to fail in test/QA/UAT/etc.

Have a DROP ready, but also a RENAME back.

A production quality MySQL or MariaDB installation should have enabled binary logging and maybe delayed replication to handle any issues.

For more Godot goodness I recommend, Martin Donald, a technical artist whom has a great mini-series of re-creating various game effects using Godot:

- https://www.youtube.com/c/MartinDonald/videos

It makes a huge change from the tsunami of "I made pong for breakfast" level of material on youtube.

I am very ignorant of the current ARM cloud offerings. Is it similar prices but less power usage? Or have they had to ramp up the watts to compete?

Here is Charles Cecil doing a post-mortem talk at GDC:

https://youtu.be/REKr5QvLR8o

MariaDB Columnstore! And now Xpand has columnar indexes.

Columnstore was previously known as InfiniDB and Xpand, Clustrix. Both have been in production for over 10 years and I have been a very happy user of them.

Slightly related, it's been posted before; OpenDiablo2 is an effort to re-write Diablo 2, in Go:

https://github.com/OpenDiablo2/OpenDiablo2

My thoughts are with you and everyone else. I love you all. The H in hackernews can sometimes also mean, Human , Human News.

I’d love to take a look at it. Some bigger studios did buy copies of the source for $50k pet-site. It’s probably long gone.

That’s disappointing to hear. At least The Art and Science of Digital Compositing, I find, is still a good read.

This is great.

Highly unlikely, but maybe Apple could release some gems from the Shake code base into the Blender compositor?

For those that don't know, this will only be available in Windows 11, see https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/347#issuecomment-87...

Hamlet, from Last Action Hero; Series A funding 20 millions USD.

MariaDB is massive now.

mysql and MariaDB diverged from versions 5.6 and 10 respectively, although MariaDB can and does still merge some fixes from mysql; oracle don’t do that.

MariaDB and the original InnoDB developers are now doing heavy rewrites with big performance gains, replication options like multi-source, spider for sharding and galera are all built in and actively maintained.

Oracle attempted to extort anyone trying to licence a mysql based product(rip infobright), so infinidb and clustrix, now respectively called columnstore and xpand, have new homes with MariaDB and are core parts of the system. Online schema changes, easy horizontal scale (huge numbers that make db2 and oracle sweat), s3 backed tables, non blocking backups, flashback, versioned tables.

The list goes on, and many industry veterans from ibm, oracle, sybase etc are finding a home there and helping MariaDB grow.

There are new public developer resources and the connectors are feature rich and well loved. There have been a few free online conferences during the pandemic, and MariaDB now has its own place at fosdem not just bundled in with mysql.

If you go enterprise, there isn’t much out there as accessible as maxscale for transaction failover!

Very nice! I shall give that a try. I always get excited by SQLite and go projects.

I maintain a similar go tool for work, which I use to stuff around 1TB into MariaDB a time:

https://github.com/rcbensley/brimming

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