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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” These are all astonishing tools for making our limited capacity for attention more efficient.

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Additional T-SQL Improvements in SQL Server 2022

SQL Performance

If you’re using T-SQL to compute percentiles as part of your work, these functions should be familiar to you since they’ve been supported in SQL Server 2005 and later. It’s great to see that it was implemented as a search argument (SARG), efficiently utilizing indexing. 75 Test XYZ Student C 55 Test XYZ 77.5

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Dynatrace lists on the NYSE

Dynatrace

From our origins in 2005, we quickly established ourselves as a leader in APM. Our all-in-one Software Intelligence approach, purpose-built for the enterprise cloud, provides a level of ease, efficiency, and speed that is highly differentiated in the market. From an APM leader to defining a new category – Software Intelligence.

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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. Processors and memory consume the most power on the server, followed by the power supply efficiency loss. I may have lured you in with the false pretence of saving the environment….but

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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. Processors and memory consume the most power on the server, followed by the power supply efficiency loss. I may have lured you in with the false pretence of saving the environment….but

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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. Processors and memory consume the most power on the server, followed by the power supply efficiency loss. I may have lured you in with the false pretence of saving the environment….but

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Faster remainders when the divisor is a constant: beating compilers and libdivide

Daniel Lemire

In some instances, libdivide can even be more efficient than compilers because it uses an approach introduced by Robison (2005) where we not only use multiplications and shifts, but also an addition to avoid arithmetic overflows. What if d is a constant, but not known to the compiler? Then you can use a library like libdivide.

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