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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. The market was maturing.

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MySQL or PostgreSQL: Which is Better?

Percona

Both MySQL and PostgreSQL do the basics very well From a high level, one relational database management system is pretty much like every other relational database management system. These problems have been rectified, but the old reputation lives on in the annals of the Internet and the memories of critics.

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I Actually Chatted with ChatGPT

O'Reilly

I’ve recently been brainstorming ideas for how to design such a system and how to deal with the practical challenges of scaling and maintenance. Speech recognition errors : ChatGPT’s speech recognition system (presumably based on OpenAI’s open-source Whisper model ) is very good, but it does at times misinterpret what I’m saying.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

The Budget, 2024 JavaScript-Heavy Markup-Heavy Calculate Your Own Situation Report Mobile Desktop Takeaways The Great Branch Mispredict The Budget, 2024 # In a departure from previous years, we'll evaluate two sets of baseline numbers for first-load under five seconds on 75 th ( P75 ) percentile devices and networks. In the U.S.,

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C++ safety, in context

Sutter's Mill

We must make our software infrastructure more secure against the rise in cyberattacks (such as on power grids, hospitals, and banks), and safer against accidental failures with the increased use of software in life-critical systems (such as autonomous vehicles and autonomous weapons). Consider some reasons. The C++ community has not done so.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 27th, 2018

High Scalability

millio n: buy the Brady Bunch house; 5.623 trillion : Amazon Sable requests handle on prime day; 91% : Facebook's advertising revenue on mobile; $18 billion : deep learning market by 2024; Quotable Quotes: Ryan Cash : The App Store has changed the world so drastically it’s hard to even imagine sometimes. They'll love you even more.

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Core Web Vitals for Search Engine Optimisation: What Do We Need to Know?

CSS Wizardry

In March 2024, First Input Delay (FID) will be removed, and Interaction to Next Paint (INP) will take its place. Furthermore, they add: Google’s core ranking systems look to reward content that provides a good page experience. Until then, INP is not a part of Core Web Vitals. Search Console reports INP data to help you prepare.