Andy Pavlo’s 27-page retrospective on #databases in 02025. Strictly limited to big databases and mostly OLTP databases, and especially startups and investment; no mention of SQLite (though one mention of Turso), only one passing mention of DuckDB, one passing mention of LMDB, only three mentions of JSON. But extremely insightful within that niche.
This is apparently the #HTML5 thing to use to figure out the frame of reference within an element (such as a <canvas>) where a mouse or touch event is happening. Literally all of the element properties you can see in the DOM inspector are the wrong thing.
more about #HTML5 mouse events.
A #Native-American California tribe of about a thousand in San Diego county, whose ancestral language is a Yuman language. Their original reservation is now entirely submerged by El Capitan Reservoir, and they’re headquartered in Lakeside. #tourism
A California #Native-American tribe of about 400 in Palm Springs. Their ancestral language is a Uto-Aztecan language. There’s a Cultural Museum in Palm Springs.
list of #Native-American reservations in California. #tourism
California #tourism map
hyperscalers using #CXL across their #data-centers to interface to DDR4 RAM because of the shortage
NVIDIA employee #4 David Rosenthal (#DSHR) thinks five-year straight-line depreciation is dramatically overstating #AI profits, because #NVIDIA chips are “more than half the #capex for a new data center”; also, 80–90% of #neural-networks energy usage is now inference rather than training. “If the lenders are using a five-year life when valuing the hardware as collateral they will run into trouble too. It is rumored that Macquairie was lending against GPUs using a seven-year life.” Quotes Ed Zitron: “#OpenAI currently spends $2.35 to make $1.” #finance #accounting
#DSHR is like 77 and wrote #NeWS with #Gosling and also wrote the book on it before he became employee #4 at #NVIDIA, then later was chief scientist on #LOCKSS (#archival)
#video by Taylor Jones about the 6-7 meme.
