I've read that Aluminum is used in medicine as a catalyst, in toothpast as an abrasive, its in your dental cement, used as food additives, in your cooking utensils, used in vaccines as an adjuvant, etc. Some say Aluminum is linked to Alzheimer's, types of cancer, and now even autism. Could modern life in the west cause toxic levels of aluminum in our bodies? Sodium-rich water can supposedly detox your body from aluminum, personally I drink water with a very high Sodium content, unfortunaltly some of the brands contain a lot of fluoride - you just can't win :) ...
Most westerners don't get cancer, and most westerners don't get Alzheimers, yet most westerners consume all the things you mentioned. Perhaps the problem isn't as simple as consuming the right things.
According to Geekbench there is only about a 50% performance gain with Intel i7 CPUs since MacBook Pro Retinas from 2012, am I the only one that is surprised about this - Moore's Law and all? https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/search?q=macbook+pro
I have Late 2013 MBP Retina i7-4850HQ CPU @ 2.30GHz. The score I see is: 4120 14264. For the latest MBP Retina i7-7820HQ @ 2.90HZ and its score is: 4644 15802.
I see just 10% gain, and I don't see any reason to upgrade unless the logic board fails on my 3.5 years old laptop.
There's a heavily modified SQLite embedded in Comdb2 for query parsing/planning. There's some auxiliary tools that can optionally use SQLite (or Comdb2). It'll run without installing an SQLite package.
I believe originally it wasn't sql, and they added SQL by using the sqlite parsing engine for SQL. They are a massive contributor to the sqlite project. It is in no way supposed to be compatible with sqlite
I think you're mixing 2 things. This is a complete rewrite of an old key-value store (hence the 2 in the name) but comdb2 was always SQL. Comdb2 shares a few things with comdb, but they're really just to make migration easier (the preference for tags in csc2 files instead of usual DDL, and then a tag based API that it looks like we got rid of for this release). Under the covers comdb2 is completely different and as far as I know shares no code with comdb.
Yep. With a false start or two along the way. One of the most interesting things on this project was repeatedly changing engines while the plane was in the air.
We've had databases literally up for 10+ years, through 5-6 major version upgrades. There's been one file format change that required downtime very early on.
I've been kind of negative to VR until I worked on the Microsoft HoloLens for some clients, and now I'm convinced that Mixed Reality(MR) is the way of the future and not VR. Sure, the current HoloLens has some disadvantages like a small field-of-view and a high price tag, but I'm sure that these things will be improved in future editions. This video shows someone playing Portal using the HoloLens, which also shows off its spatial awareness capabilities:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk-_4yIE6Cs
Very cool with small code pieces that does a lot. I was a big fan of the Amiga Boot sector intro's back in the 80-90s where the programmers had to make entertaining pieces of digital art where compiled code, music, and graphics all had to fit inside 1 KB boot sector of a 3.5" floppy disks. Here are some examples https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPTkTobvsaw&list=PLDAE2D6D92... . Thanks for sharing! :)
Remember that from when I was a teen, the first crack took months after the initial release and came on like 20 disks, while the retail game was on 10 disks. Kevin R. Kachikian is the name on the patent, currently he is CTO at Amuse Inc. according to his LinkedIn page - must be a very smart guy.
