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Postgres is adding a "unique nulls not unique" index, which prevents duplicate nulls. Normally a unique index allows duplicates if any column is null, so duplicate values of (123, null) are allowed. blog.rustprooflabs.com/2022/07

UK Air Traffic Control is observing a 2 minute silence for the Queen tomorrow notaminfo.com/explain?id=18546

Tonight! The IgNobel prizes! 6pm US Eastern Time is 11pm British Summer Time. Be there or be a regular quadrilateral! improbable.com/ig/2022-ceremon

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Got round to transcribing the "dog-eared" sections of Alison B. Powell's Undoing Optimism.

Which also means I've got a copy free if anyone wants to borrow it...

Blog All Dog-eared Pages: Undoing Optimization by Alison B. Powell mcqn.net/mcfilter/archives/urb

Delayed Gratification gives the full story. The huge volcano eruption in March has finished, and the number of casualties and risk of another eruption are known.
slow-journalism.com/long-reads

Paddle Steamer Waverley is back in London and the Thames between 23 September and 9 October. Always exciting to travel by steam ship! waverleyexcursions.co.uk/

Measuring Worth calculates inflation if you want to know the value of commodities, the percentage of the economy, or the cost of labour of a price from the past.
measuringworth.com/calculators

Today is Anti-Pancake Day, the tuesday 6 months on from Pancake Day. You can celebrate Anti-Pancake Day by eating pancakes again. Why eat pancakes just once a year?

The rest of the story: the bird flu worries from April have reduced to the stage where restrictions are being lifted. Chickens will be allowed outdoors again (the free range ones, anyway). gov.uk/guidance/avian-influenz

A look at git hashes, including why the hash of a blob isn't the sha1sum of the original file. dbatley.com/blog/2022/08/how-g

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Legacy tech systems are like zombies; they survive on brains. My post for dxw's blog, I'm quite pleased with it!

dxw.com/2022/07/legacy-tech-sy

The sentient Google AI story certainly reads like the first chapter in a Charles Stross novel ... Or is it just optimized to give the responses the creator wants to hear?
cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-

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