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from my link log —
Faster asynchronous WAL archiving with pgBackRest to avoid PostgreSQL WAL backlog.
https://www.percona.com/blog/2020/12/01/how-pgbackrest-is-addressing-slow-postgresql-wal-archiving-using-…

How pgBackRest is Addressing Slow PostgreSQL WAL Archiving Using Asynchronous Feature
How pgBackRest is addressing slow PostgreSQL WAL Archiving using its Asynchronous archiving feature.

Between 2020 and 2024, no cervical cancer deaths were recorded in women aged 20 to 24
- the first time that had happened over a five-year period.
Without vaccination, around 23 deaths would have been expected.
"It's incredible to think that a single jab can almost eliminate a particular type of cancer,"
said Prof Peter Sasieni, the lead researcher at Queen Mary University of London.

Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.

Because today is the June #solstice, here is my 2020 animated map of this solstice’s day-night cycle rendered using the #CahillConcialdi map projection, which is my most favorite.
Grab the file here:

from my link log —
Discovering Dennis Ritchie's lost dissertation.
https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies-lost-dissertation/
saved 2020-06-20

Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation
Until recently, across a half-century perhaps fewer than a dozen people had ever had the opportunity to read Dennis Ritchie’s dissertation—the intellectual and biographical fork-in-the-road separating an academic career in computer science from the one at Bell Labs leading to C and Unix. Why?