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PEP 584 – Add + and – operators to the built-in dict class
This PEP proposes adding merge (|) and update (|=) operators to the built-in dict class.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,838 posts.
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Why American Construction Costs Are So High
I am embarking on a long-term project to investigate why US construction costs are high using case studies, so everything I’m going to say so far is tentative. In particular, one of my favori…
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The sad state of font rendering on Linux
As it turns out, font rendering is a highly controversial topic. If you don’t see anything wrong with Linux font rendering, please disregard this as a shitpost. Thanks.
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The Growth Stacks of 2019
Explore the latest trends, best practices, and expert tips shaping the future of customer engagement.
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A Behind the Scenes Take on Lithium-Ion Battery Prices
Automakers and policy makers are increasingly voicing their belief that the passenger vehicle of the future will be powered (partially or fully) by electricity. There remains, however, a lack of consensus on the timing and speed of the transition, in large part due to differing opinions on current and future…
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Autistic Burnout: The Cost of Masking and Passing (2017)
Autistic burnout is a state of physical and mental fatigue, heightened stress, and diminished capacity to manage life skills, sensory input, and/or social interactions, which comes from years of being severely overtaxed by the strain of trying to live up to demands that are out of sync with our needs.
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Achieving 100k connections per second with Elixir
In this article, we explain how to scale Elixir to handle 100k connections per second.
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FaunaDB 2.5.4
In 2012, Thomson, Diamond, Weng, et al. published Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for Partitioned Database Systems : a transactional protocol optimized for geographic replication. Each Calvin cluster is comprised of multiple replicas , where a replica is a collection of nodes which store a complete copy of the…
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Spidermon: Scrapinghub’s Now Open Sourced Spider Monitoring Library
Learn how to easily monitor scrapy spiders & validate data with Spidermon! Developed by Zyte Spidermon is now available as an open-source library.
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Neural MMO – A Multiagent Game Environment
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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Web Design 3.0: When Your Web Design Matters
Explore Web Design 3.0 and discover modern website design principles with free positioning, overlapping elements, creative layouts, and flexible grids.
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Google open sourced GPipe, a library for training large ML models
Posted by Yanping Huang, Software Engineer, Google AI Deep neural networks (DNNs) have advanced many machine learning tasks, including speech rec...
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Facebook Doubles Down on Misusing Your Phone Number
When we publicly demanded that Facebook stop messing with users’ phone numbers last week, we weren’t expecting the social network to double down quite like this: By default, anyone can use the phone number that a user provides for two-factor authentication (2FA) to find that user’s profile. For...
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24 Hours of Rust Game Development
In this post I'll talk about a small game I've been developing in about 24 hours in total (mostly in a few hour blocks during evenings or…
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Facebook exploit – Confirm website visitor identities
I discovered a Facebook bug which allows me to identify whether a visitor is logged in to a specific Facebook account. It can check hundreds of identities per second.
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Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try
I have been part of the Firefox Test Pilot team for several years. I had a long list of things I wanted to build. Some I didn’t personally want to build, but I thought they were interesting ideas. I didn’t get very far through this list at all, and now that Test Pilot is being retired I am unlikely to get to them in…
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Generating C code that people want to use
Project Everest is a large, collaborative research effort that aims to verify and deploy a new, secure HTTPS stack. All of our code is verified using the F* programming language. Using KreMLin, a dedicated compiler, the verified F* code is compiled to readable C, meaning existing systems projects can readily integrate…
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Understand, Design, Build: A Framework for Problem-Solving
Discover how to create solutions using Lob’s framework for problem solving. Learn how to understand the problem, design an approach, and build a solution.
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Interview with Dennis Ritchie (2003)
dmr: I'm not a person who particularly had heroes when growing up.
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Building Fast Interpreters in Rust
In the previous post we described the Firewall Rules architecture and how the different components are integrated together. We created a configurable Rust library for writing and executing Wireshark®-like filters in different parts of our stack written in Go, Lua, C, C++ and JavaScript Workers.
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Everyone should read support emails
A company can learn more from people sharing their experiences than from numbers in a spreadsheet
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ReactOS 0.4.11 Released
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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German Data Privacy Commissioner Says Article 13 Inevitably Leads to Filters
German Data Privacy Commissioner Ulrich Kelber is also a computer scientist, which makes him uniquely qualified to comment on the potential consequences of the proposed new EU Copyright Directive. The Directive will be voted on at the end of this month, and its Article 13 requires that online...