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Adding an Effect System to OCaml [video]
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Python 3.0 Released
The official home of the Python Programming Language
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Emacs Survey 2020 Results
Emacs User Survey 2020 Results
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Tvix: We Are Rewriting Nix
TVL's blog
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Parallelism in Crystal
Crystal has made a huge step forward to have parallelism as a first class citizen. In short, you can set up the number of worker threads on runtime and each new fiber will be scheduled to run on one of them. Channel and select will work seamlessly. You are allowed to share memory between workers, but you will probably…
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Getting to Docker 1.0
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Speculation in JavaScriptCore
This post is all about speculative compilation, or just speculation for short, in the context of the JavaScriptCore virtual machine.
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Bring your monorepo down to size with sparse-checkout
Git 2.25.0 includes a new experimental git sparse-checkout command that makes the existing feature easier to use, along with some important performance benefits for large repositories.
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Querying Parquet with Precision Using DuckDB
DuckDB, a free and open source analytical data management system, can run SQL queries directly on Parquet files and automatically take advantage of the advanced features of the Parquet format.
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Eager Execution: An imperative, define-by-run interface to TensorFlow
Posted by Asim Shankar and Wolff Dobson, Google Brain Team UPDATE, April 3 2018: Please see the official user guide for more up-to-date code examp...
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There's Math.random(), and then there's Math.random() (2015)
V8’s Math.random implementation now uses an algorithm called xorshift128+, improving the randomness compared to the old MWC1616 implementation.
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Heroku Node.js Support (experimental)
UPDATE: Node.JS is now officially available on Heroku. Today we’re offering experimental support for node.js to a limited set of users. We know there is a.
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Static checking of units in Servo
Web browsers do a lot of calculations on geometric coordinates, in many different coordinate systems and units of measurement. For example, a browser may need to translate a position expressed ...
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“Xanadu Hypertext Documents” architecture and data structures, 2019 edition
1i1 “Xanadu ® ” and the Eternal-Flaming-X logo are registered trademarks of Project Xanadu .
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REBOL Oneliners
One-liners are like Haiku poetry. Not always practical, not always readable, they are fun to write. As with any art, some are better than others, but from time-to-time, a true gem pops up.
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Gap between asm.js and native gets narrower with float32 optimizations
asm.js is a simple subset of JavaScript that is very easy to optimize, suitable for use as a compiler target from languages like C and C++. Earlier this year Firefox ...
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Async Rust vs RTOS showdown (2022)
It's time for another technical blog post about async Rust on embedded. This time we're going to pitch Embassy/Rust against FreeRTOS/C on an STM32F446 microcontroller.
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Ignoring bulk change commits with Git blame (2019)
A long-standing objection to making bulk changes to code using automated tools (e.g. to conform to a given code style) is that it clutters the output of git blame. With git 2.23, this does not have to be the case anymore! In this post I will start by explaining the value of git blame and […]
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Common Lisp – Myths and Legends (2002)
Lisp has been supporting the world's most complex applications since 1958. And Lisp has grown a lot since then. So if you or someone you know harbors fears or concerns about Lisp because of something learned in a class or muttered by a friend 20 or 30 years ago, it's time to take a fresh look. In this paper we're…
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Gitlab default branch name changes to main
Why we're joining the Git community and updating "master" to "main".
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Make invalid states unrepresentable (2023)
"Type-driven development"
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LLVM's New Versioning Scheme
Historically, LLVM's major releases always added "0.1" to the version number, producing major versions like 3.8, 3.9, and 4.0 (expected by March 2017). With our next release though, we're changing this.