Stories by fanf2

Creating a logical replica from a snapshot in RDS PostgreSQL

The parliamentary electoral system in Denmark

Summer time clock changes: is it time for change in the UK and EU? [pdf]

Stage Magic and Software Design (1993)

ParaSail: Parallel Specification and Implementation Language

The Linux kernel /dev/urandom CSPRNG is now good

A partial tour through the Unix Bourne shell [pdf]

The discovery of metastability in digital computer circuits

OmniXtend cache-coherent memory fabric over Ethernet for RISC-V

Alpha: A History in Facts and Comments

Deep sea diving: undersea telecommunication cables

They called it “big iron” for a reason: Cray-1M site planning reference manual

Apollo 11 guidance computer vs. USB-C chargers

Before the DNS: how yours truly upstaged the NIC's official HOSTS.TXT (2004)

Units of measure in Rust with refinement types

On the process that led to the introduction of leapseconds

The state of full text search in PostgreSQL 12

Unsmear: Convert to and from timescales with smeared leap seconds

JavaScript got better while I wasn't looking (2017)

Too much locality for stores to forward