How accurate are vote-by-mail elections? WA's 39 counties (mostly red) just did a hand recount of 1.9 million ballots to determine the 2nd-place finisher in our top-two primary for Commissioner of Public Lands, resulting in a net change of just 2 votes. This is how fair elections REALLY work.
The recount needs to be certified by the secretary of state's office, which is expected to happen Wednesday, Sept. 4.
That I'm most excited about the Notes app upgrade in Sequoia says heaps about how I use my Mac now-a-days.
DuckDB adds native DeltaLake support. Very cool. duckdb.org/2024/06/10/d...
DuckDB now has native support for Delta Lake, an open-source lakehouse framework, with the Delta extension.
AWS just published about MemoryDB. "The internal AWS transaction log service provides strong consistency, durability across multiple AZs, and low latency." www.amazon.science/publications... We set out to democratize such a building block.
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is a database service designed for 11 9s of durability with in-memory performance. In this paper, we describe the architecture of MemoryDB and how we leverage open-source Red...
Running a full-blown DuckDB in the browser for analysis, sharing and visualization of remote data sources, including the NYC taxi set... tobilg.com/using-duckdb...
Rapid prototyping SQL Queries & Data Visualizations