Pessoa
You're as smart as Fernando Pessoa.
Ты умна
Как Фернандо Пессоа
Ну а я
Я умен so-so
You are smart
Like Fernando Pessoa
As for me
I am smart so-so.
And now just one more.
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Sail runs Doom on DataFusion with a single query
Sail is a Spark-compatible compute engine written in Rust on Apache DataFusion: PySpark and Spark SQL clients connect to it over Spark Connect, and DataFusion executes what they send. This week Sail played Doom. Freedoom's first level, 1,200 tics of it, ran as one SQL query:
Interoperable Cloud Services at First Pair
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Making Lightroom usable again after years of stalled imports
After years of stalled imports, a large Lightroom catalog handled an ordinary October card quickly. The reusable repairs preserve existing edits and separate indexed performance, previews, settings and Sync outcomes.
Two rivers, one road: Rust and OxCaml race to count meanders
We ran the verified meander-counting machine as fast as two languages could take it. OxCaml took the lead, our first explanation was wrong, and one experiment let Rust catch up and count 50 crossings.