Why people aren’t as picky in love as they think
Bryan Lufkin in BBC: Finding a life partner is considered a major milestone – one that requires deliberation and careful assessment. We want someone whose long-term plans match our own:…
The Groove Project – Soul Free (feat. Fahir Atakoğlu)
This single "Soul Free" is from the new contemporary #jazz concept album "The Winds of Change" by The Groove Project and features guest Fahir Atakoğlu on #piano. If you like…
Sunday Firesides: Youth Is Not an Identity
https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/sunday-firesides-youth-is-not-an-identity/ Identity is composed of an individual’s qualities, values, and achievements. A person’s age, his stage of life, serves as the scaffolding upon which his identity rests. While this stage-of-life…
Do Singaporean Chinese and Chinese populations elsewhere feel proud about mainland China? Would they want to be governed by mainland Chinese?
https://qr.ae/pGETyV I am Chinese Singaporean. Born and bred here. You ask me if I wanted to be governed by mainland china, I will counterpropose that I am already being governed…
Insults and injuries
Beneath the surface of this sly literary satire is a meditation on hidden trauma. By Emily Rhodes Mona is the enjoyably mischievous and daring third novel by Argentine writer Pola…
The Web3 Fraud
https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/web3-fraud December 16, 2021OpinionAuthors: Nicholas Weaver Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow By now effectively all ;login:’s readers have heard the term “web3” and “dapps” bandied about as if they are…
PostgreSQL vs. fsync
https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/postgresql_fsync/ How is it possible that PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years, and what we’ll do about it. About a year ago the PostgreSQL community discovered that fsync (on…
This Song Will MAKE YOU SMILE!! – Sunny Skies
David Perry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYGvDgQLyIk3.85K subscribersAnother song from my prolific early 20's, pretty much same arrangement as I did back then, early 70's style, no desire to "make it sound contemporary." I…
Engineer Your Data Before it Engineers You
Excerpted from Kode Vicious’s (George V. Neville-Neil) post on Data Engineering and Data Maintenance https://blog.borneo.io/engineer-your-data-before-it-engineers-you-1ac791533116on ACM Queue https://blog.borneo.io/engineer-your-data-before-it-engineers-you-1ac791533116 In a world that now contains so many rules and regulations around…