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The shop was supposed to close at five and I noticed it was five fifteen, so I shut my mouth and paid and thanked her. I walked back to my inn along the shore under the last of the day's light. The waves broke and broke some more, like how a disease overtakes the body, or how a peninsula consumes itself, collapses, starts again. Given enough time, a ceaselessly bashed seaside mountain briefly becomes a lion.

Things Become Other Things

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I like the idea that even as our chips and disks get faster, enhancements are simultaneously being pushed through on the software level through the likes of io_uring. So even while every newly available hardware cycle in web or mobile apps is immediately burned away through increasingly deep stacks of JavaScript nonsense, at least our databases and server software should be getting strictly faster.

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