Wan Shen Lim
wslim.bsky.social
Wan Shen Lim
@wslim.bsky.social
databases @ CMU-DB | capybara enthusiast | Pittsburgh | Brunei
Maybe that's why they permanently decommissioned the CSD coffee machines 🥲
September 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
DOOMQL max fps as a new database benchmark? You could release a new workload trace every year by capturing a multiplayer session.
September 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I just got a MMR booster last week! Fully covered by student insurance, experienced no side effects. The only downside was the 5 minutes to walk there, pretty cheap for peace of mind.
March 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
From another angle, admiralcloudberg's plane crash investigation summaries go into safety's complexity.

e.g., half mm part error admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-matter-of-... , automation surprise admiralcloudberg.medium.com/one-hundred-... , human factors admiralcloudberg.medium.com/painted-into...
March 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It was great chatting with you!

(also, we're @db.cs.cmu.edu not @cmudb.bsky.social :) )
February 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This is the case at CMU too: projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...

Our exec compensation tends to stay at around 0.6-0.7% of total expenses. Other universities that I checked have it at 0.2-0.3%, but the absolute amount is roughly the same (~10m).
Carnegie Mellon University - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica
Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...
projects.propublica.org
December 13, 2024 at 4:36 AM