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In medieval England, ale was an alcoholic drink made from grain, water, and fermented with yeast. The difference between medieval ale and beer was that beer also used hops as an ingredient. Virtually everyone drank ale. It provided significant nutrition as well as hydration (and inebriation). The aristocracy could…
For almost two decades, MSKey Readme 1 has heralded the defeat of Windows XP's product activation, not via mere circumvention , but by cracking the encryption algorithm itself.
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They provide a safety net when making changes, and give you that nice, warm feeling when you see them all pass after a change.
A blog by and for database architects.
Let’s see how Gentoo is doing these days. Below is a plot of Gentoo’s rankings on DistroWatch :
Explores why scale-out became so dominant, whether those rationales still hold, and some joyful advantages of scale-up architecture. | Reading time: 16 min read
The UK’s flagship institute for artificial intelligence, the Alan Turing Institute, has been at best irrelevant to the development of modern AI in the UK.
Expert articles, security news, product updates, guides, and research from 1Password on password management, privacy, and digital security.
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A way to talk about programming languages, and a plea to Think Different™
Europe’s standards bodies have no functional relationships with Open Source charities and do not consult them.
“We value your privacy…”, the clichéd beginning of many a privacy notice. I legitimately do value my own online privacy, and whenever I read that phrase as part of a website consent banner it sounds like lip service at best. Consent banners ostensibly exist to give users control over their data & personal privacy. Far…
Bash is oft-maligned: you hear it sneered at in sentences like “our continuous integration pipeline is just a pile of bash scripts .” It is commonly regarded as unintelligible and thus unmaintainable. The pile of bash scripts are the toxic byproduct of an infrastructure team understaffed, pressed for time, unwilling…
Notes about creative coding on the Web.
Update on 2023/05/19: ASUS has publicly acknowledged the issue and provided an explanation and workaround of their own (rebooting, or a hard reset if the reboot doesn’t fix it). The original post is below:
The DuckDB team is happy to announce the latest DuckDB release (0.8.0). This release is named “Fulvigula” after the Mottled Duck (Anas Fulvigula) native to the Gulf of Mexico. To install the new version, please visit the installation guide. The full release notes can be found on GitHub. There have been too many…
Bun.js is a new (as of 2023) JavaScript runtime that is still very much in development, with it’s primary focus being on extreme speed. I’ve been following it for a while but until toda…
Google Analytics was the go-to analytics tool. It set the standard, we all learned on it, and we all used it. But Google Analytics 4? It’s a nightmare. I’ve ...
Colab will soon add AI coding features like code completions, natural language to code generation and even a code-assisting chatbot.
A modern look at how to combine CSS :has, :nth-last-child, and style queries to create dynamic components.
Stability AI releases StableStudio, an open-source text-to-image consumer application that emphasizes the company's commitment to advancing open-source development within the AI ecosystem. With StableStudio, users can help shape the future of generative AI through community-driven development and lo
A new study led by Stanford Medicine researchers is the first to reveal how magnetic stimulation treats severe depression: by correcting the abnormal flow of brain signals.
The Staff Engineer’s Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change is written by Tanya Reilly and published on October 25, 2022, by O’Reilly Media. Favorite Quotes Early in your career, if you do a great job on something that turns out to be unnecessary, you’ve still done a great job. At the…
An experiment of using incremental computations for managing state in Humble UI
This is a Python/Pandas vs Julia cheatsheet and comparison. You can find what is the equivalent of Pandas in Julia or vice versa. You can find links to the documentation and other useful Pandas/Julia resources. The table below show the useful links for both: Pandas Julia data analysis
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