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When you’re tuning queries It’s sort of a relief when the first time you get your hands on it, you get the plan and there’s a missing index request. Even if it’s not a super high-value one, something in there is crying for help. Where there’s smoke, there’s a bingo parlor. But does adding missing...

Americans can legally manufacture an assault rifle for personal use without registering it, so Daniel Crowninshield figured his paying customers could push the button to start his milling equipment…

A look at three alternate natural sweeteners that could be safe for our health.

I'm deeply in love with history right now (and especially American history) due to my reading of the Hamilton biography. It's over 800 pages, but worth

Most LWN readers are likely aware of the doom impending upon us in January 2038, when the time_t type used to store time values (in the form of seconds since January 1, 1970) runs out of bits on 32-bit systems. It may be surprising that developers are increasingly worried about this deadline, which is still nearly 24 years in the future, but there are good reasons to be concerned now. Whether those worries will lead to a solution in the near term remains to be seen; not much has happened since this topic came up last August. But recent discussions have at least shed a bit of light on the forms such a solution might take.

Locate data quickly and easily with the SQL Server Management Studio diagram tool.

One of our design principles at Desmos is to “delay feedback for reflection, especially during concept development activities.” This makes us weird, frankly, in Silicon Valley where no …

A conversation about the end of work, individualism, and the human species with the historian Yuval Harari

Facebook has long had too much power, but Mark Zuckerberg’s expressed willingness to use said power for political ends means it’s time to consider countermeasures.

Design thinking helps organizations grow, innovate, and improve financial performance.

The simplest definition you’ll find…or your money back*

Introduction Consul is a product developed in Go language by the HashiCorp company and was born in 2013.

Learn how to root out corruption in your image folders with this Python script.

Anything Bezos can do, you can do better, right?

Hazelcast, known chiefly for its open source in-memory data grid (IMDG), has launched an open source lightweight, distributed data-processing engine called Hazelcast Jet. This new Apache 2-licensed open source project is designed to enable processing in near real time for data-intensive applications such as smart home sensors, in-store e-commerce systems, social media platforms, log analysis,…

"If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions."

Liew says the Valley needs to come to terms with the fact that it’s a bubble that doesn’t represent "normal America."

Earlier this week, Jim VandeHei, a former executive editor of Politico, wrote an op-ed article for The Wall Street Journal accusing the Washington political est…

“Normal America.” I’m not sure what that means anymore, but at some point it had a lot to do with demographics. Naturally, the “normal” that you look at or want bleeds…

Algorithms update bureaucracy’s long-standing strategy for evasion

I saw this coming, for the past ten years or more. I saw small Trumps, rising and tramping around, first timidly, then bravely, and finally boldly.

Despite the growing interest in container technology, information is sparse about using containers with applications involving credit card data. The latest version of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, version 3.2, doesn’t mention containers at all and the only mention of containers its cloud computing guidelines refers to virtual machines. Gartner analyst Joerg Fritsch,…