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“Holy Grail” Bugs in Emulation, Part 2
It’s been two months since first writing on Holy Grail bugs in emulation and while it did pique the interest of many emulator developers there has been little movement on solving the bugs. Lior did much more research on solving Pinball Fantasies and byuu dug up a forum post implying that there is in fact a three…
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Breaking up the Container Monolith
Dan Walsh, of SELinux Coloring Book fame, presented on the work he and his team have been doing with containers. Dan has long been a technical leader in the container and SELinux spaces and is an
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Beginners Guide to Vulkan
Recently I asked the community for beginner-friendly resources on Vulkan, and I compiled a list of them that you can find below. For the beginners reading this, Vulkan is a new graphics API-- in other words, a way to communicate with your GPU and make it do things. It's managed by the Khronos Group, which means it's…
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Go 1.9 is released
Go 1.9 adds type aliases, bit intrinsics, optimizations, and more.
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Gtk-rs: The huge and long awaited release is finally here
Rust bindings for GTK and GLib-based libraries
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Deep Learning for Siri’s Voice
Siri is a personal assistant that communicates using speech synthesis. Starting in iOS 10 and continuing with new features in iOS 11, we…
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Code Smells: Iteration
This is part of a series investigating code that looks suspicious ("code smells"), and exploring possible alternatives. Code Smells: Null Code Smells: Deeply Nested Code Code Smells: Iteration
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How JavaScript works: inside the V8 engine
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Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE
The bad news: from Firefox 55 onwards, Selenium IDE will no longer work. The reasons for this are complex, but boil down to two main causes: Browsers are complicated pieces of software that are con…
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Postgres geography type is not limited to Earth
It's a little known fact that the PostGIS geography type since PostGIS 2.2 (well was introduced in 2.1 I think but had a bug in it until 2.1.4 or so), supports any spheroidal spatial reference system that measures in degrees. When an srid is not specified, it defaults to using 4326, Earth WGS 84 long lat.
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Diaspora version 0.7.0.0 released
August 27th marks five years since diaspora*, the open, privacy-oriented social network, was placed into the hands of its community by its founders. One year ago the community released diaspora* version 0.6, the result of a huge effort of refactoring the old code to make it perform better, as well as redesigning…
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Announcing .NET Core 2.0
.NET Core 2.0 is available today as a final release. You can start developing with it at the command line, in your favorite text editor, in Visual Studio 2017 15.3, Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio for Mac. It is ready for production workloads, on your own hardware or your favorite cloud, like Microsoft Azure. […]
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Let's Remove the Global Interpreter Lock
Hello everyone The Python community has been discussing removing the Global Interpreter Lock for a long time. There have been various atte...
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Thread Pools in Nginx Boost Performance 9x (2015)
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Hello WebAssembly
We have been experimenting with a couple of approaches to bring Mono to the web using WebAssembly - a technology that can efficiently and safely execute code in web browsers without being limited to Javascript. Running code written in C or C++ inside the browser has been a big motivator, but most major programming…
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Implementing Backup
How we implemented consistent, distributed, incremental backup in CockroachDB.
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Principles of Sharding for Relational Databases
Some say sharding is the best way to scale a database. Sharding enables you to linearly scale cpu, memory, and disk by separating your database into smaller parts. Yet, sharding is controversial. This post explores the principles of sharding relational databases for B2B, B2C, and B2B2C applications.
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WebAssembly: A New Hope
What is WebAssembly, and what does it mean for the web?
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Atom 1.19 – Improved Responsiveness and Memory Usage
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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Official support for .NET
Stripe.net is a popular open-source library for .NET that many users rely on today. Today, we’re adding it to our collection of official client libraries.
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Markov's and Chebyshev's Inequalities Explained
A look at why Chebyshev's Inequality holds true and some potential applications.
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