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Nim 1.6
Nim version 1.6 is now officially released!
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Raspberry Pi Build HAT – Controls Lego Technic motors and sensors
Priced at $25, the Raspberry Pi Build HAT brings Raspberry Pi computing to the LEGO components we love: control LEGO Technic motors and sensors from your Raspberry Pi.
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Redis Anti-Patterns
Learn to dodge common Redis pitfalls like large keys and hot keys. Boost both your performance and stability. Try it today.
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First federal grant for psychedelic treatment research in 50 years
Can #psilocybin help smokers quit? #NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse has funded @HopkinsMedicine Matthew Johnson, Ph.D., to find out. @Drug_Researcher ›
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Mach Engine: The Future of Graphics (With Zig)
In the coming months, we'll begin to have truly cross-platform low-level graphics, with the ability to cross compile GPU-accelerated applications written in Zig from any OS and deploy to desktop, mobile, and (in the future) web.
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Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors
Apple today announced M1 Pro and M1 Max, the next breakthrough chips for the Mac.
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The next generation of AirPods
The third-generation AirPods deliver powerful audio features and a magical wireless headphone experience in a new contoured design.
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Open-sourcing the MuJoCo physics simulator for robotics
When you walk, your feet make contact with the ground. When you write, your fingers make contact with the pen. Physical contacts are what makes interaction with the world possible. Yet, for such a common occurrence, contact is a surprisingly complex phenomenon. Taking place at microscopic scales at the interface of…
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Sequoia PGP is now LGPL 2.0
Sequoia is a modular OpenPGP implementation in Rust.
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Usbimager – A non-electron based alternative to Balena Etcher
USBImager, Windows, Linux, MacOS
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Hypertext Tools from the 80s
The pre-internet era was full of wonderful and very powerful systems that are well forgotten now, but we definitely can learn from them, try to understand why we had an enormous degradation in the 1990s and 2000s, and why we are enjoying hypertext systems renaissance now.
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Concurrency is not parallelism
Watch Rob Pike's talk, _Concurrency is not parallelism._
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How Time Series Databases Work, and Where They Don’t
This blog takes a deep dive into the hows and whys of time series databases—and why Honeycomb couldn't be limited to a TSDB implementation.
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Why not “Why not WireGuard?” (2020)
An article by Michael Tremer titled Why not WireGuard is sometimes shared in VPN discussions. Unfortunately that article contains several misconceptions and some out-of-date information that deserves to be addressed.
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Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing
Alan Kay — “father of personal computers" — is best known for his work on personal computing and for leading the team that developed Smalltalk.
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Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations
Researchers developed an algorithm that shows just how much more effective Spotify would be if it incorporated both likes and dislikes, in the style of platforms like Pandora.
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Pursue High-Quality Leisure
If I stop surfing the Internet, what am I going to do all day?
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Cracking Random Number Generators Using Machine Learning
Cutting-edge cyber security research from NCC Group. Find public reports, technical advisories, analyses, & other novel insights from our global experts.
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Implementing form filling and accessibility in the Firefox PDF viewer
We decided it was time to reinvest in the PDF viewer (PDF.js) and support filling PDF forms within Firefox to make our users' lives easier.
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Viral Loads Similar Between Vaccinated and Unvaccinated People
A new study from the University of California, Davis, Genome Center, UC San Francisco and the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub shows no significant difference in viral load between vaccinated and unvaccinated people who tested positive for the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2. It also found no significant difference between infected…
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Open source is coming to financial services
Open source will catalyze the financial services industry’s biggest evolution to date. This evolution will shift the power in this $25 trillion industry from business executives to developers, not just in fintech companies, but in centuries-old incumbents, as well. Until very recently, financial services were…
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Antiviral compound blocks SARS-CoV-2 from entering cells
New compound also could be effective against other coronaviruses
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What’s Vivaldi’s business model?
Some browsers use your data in ad networks, push promoted content or use other invasive methods to fund their development. We don’t.
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OpenBSD Webzine Issue #2
Webzine created by volunteers who are passionate about the OpenBSD project development.
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Postgres text search: balancing query time and relevancy
How do you balance query time and relevance with Postgres text search? Stephen Gutekanst, an engineer working on Sourcegraph's API docs feature, shares tips for stirring code analysis with search indexing.