#news on #Milei winning big in midterm elections, he claims getting up to 101 seats in Diputados and 20 seats in the Senate. #Argentina #politics
#Clickhouse has an open-source "clickhouse-local" utility “ch” that offers #SQL queries on the command line which is supposedly super fast. “While clickhouse-local is a great tool for development and testing purposes, and for processing files, it is not suitable for serving end users or applications. In these scenarios, it is recommended to use the open-source ClickHouse. ClickHouse is a powerful OLAP database that is designed to handle large-scale analytical workloads. It provides fast and efficient processing of complex queries on large datasets, making it ideal for use in production environments where high-performance is critical.”
#Prolog in the #LLM #AI era #logic-programming
Ken Thompson on Unix #history, some excerpts from the #CHM oral history #interview
"AGit" is supported on #Forgejo: “this workflow provides a way of submitting changes to repositories hosted on Forgejo instances using the #git push command alone, without having to create forks or feature branches and then using the web UI to create a pull request.”
places where the #LuaJIT #FFI’s inability to pass structs by value from C to callbacks into #Lua code has caused problems
#Paper (or rather book chapter) on #racism in #Jack-London, who invented the phrase “great white hope”
#IMLAC #retrocomputing issue about Scroll Saver with emulated screenshots. “SSV is the program sometimes resident in MIT-DMS IMLAC terminals. It provides communication with the DEC-1040, copious local storage for characters and graphics, flexible local editing functions, and ARDS-compatible graphics.”
#IMLAC #retrocomputing software library
#IMLAC #retrocomputing notes