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A surprising enum size optimization in the Rust compiler
Enums are one of the most popular features in Rust. An enum is a type whose value is one of a specified set of variants.
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A Supermarket Bag and a Truckload of FOMO
The day was nearing to a close. The sun has already set, but that Friday evening in Amsterdam was still warm. Unusually warm, in fact, for those late days in March – as if spring decided to bless my pilgrimage, for that pilgrimage was not jovial. I was sitting at a ramen joint, sipping on the broth. To my left, a…
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Why Companies Don't Fix Bugs
A few years ago, a lone programmer named t0st did something extraordinary: he fixed an 8-year-old bug in GTA Online that had been driving players crazy. The bug? Painfully long load times, sometimes u
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Gemini Live with camera and screen sharing capabilities
Gemini Live with video and screen sharing is now rolling out to Android mobile devices.
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20 years of Git
Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world?
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LLMs understand nullability
The last five years have shown us that large language models, like ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek, can write code in many domains, to huge excitement: many claim to be using these models to write entire web servers and apps from scratch. These tools have opened up programming to a whole new class of people who consider…
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Decoding the 90s: Cryptography in Early Software Development (2023)
In August 2020 we were commissioned to recover a cache of locked QText documents from the mid-90s. This is the process of analyzing the encrypted documents and reverse engineering a DOS-era Hebrew-English word processor written in Turbo Pascal.
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Fewer Foreign Passengers Are Flying to the US
On using a new dataset and ensuring your analytic findings aren't a data reporting issue.
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A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn
The Missing Middle Path: What VCs Don’t Tell You
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Writing C for Curl
It is a somewhat common question to me: how do we write C in curl to make it safe and secure for billions of installations? Some precautions we take and decisions we make. There is no silver bullet, just guidelines. As I think you can see for yourself below they are also neither strange nor … Continue reading Writing…
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The Difference Between Municipal Fire Trucks and Airport Fire Trucks
Fire trucks across all environments are unique, but what key features change? Learn about the differences between municipal and airport fire trucks now.
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Bill to block OpenAI's for-profit conversion gets mysteriously gutted
I hope the media will look into this
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Nix Derivations, Without Guessing
I went on a little low-level Nix adventure yesterday and early this morning because of this excellent blog post. In it, Farid builds up the simplest possible Nix derivation—making a file that has the contents “hello world”. Here’s what I like about it:
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Let's Ban Billboards
Most improvements to cities are hard — they take millions of dollars and years of planning.
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Baby Steps into Genetic Programming
While my final ranking in the Google AI Contest was disappointing ( 280th ), it was a very educational experience and was totally offset by Gábor Melis' dominating win using Common Lisp as well.
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Data centers contain 90% crap data
We need to talk about the data. Crap data. We’re destroying our environment to create and store trillions of blurred images, half-baked videos, rip-off AI ‘songs’, rip-off AI animations, videos and images, emails with mega attachments, never-to-be-watched-again presentations, never-to-be-read-again reports, files and…
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Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia
On many Unix-based operating systems, rsync is a command line tool for transferring and synchronizing files on a computer, either between storage attached directly to the computer or between anothe…
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Gmail E2E is as terrible as expected
Recently, Google introduced E2E encryption in Gmail. It went bad.
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Knowing where your engineer salary comes from
How tech companies make money and why it's important
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MonkeysPaw – A prompt-driven web framework in Ruby
Be careful what you wish for...
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The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer
Is something I think about often because I can’t help but wonder if most other jobs are like this.
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Deleting multiplayer from the Unreal engine can save memory
Although the title of this article might suggest otherwise, I don’t dislike Unreal’s multiplayer features. As someone who has worked on two different multiplayer games in Unreal, I enjo…
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The “S” in MCP Stands for Security
Spoiler: it doesn’t. But it should.
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SeedLM: Compressing LLM Weights into Seeds of Pseudo-Random Generators
Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed natural language processing, but face significant challenges in widespread deployment due to…
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My Browser WASM't Prepared for This. Using DuckDB, Apache Arrow and Web Workers
by Przemyslaw Maciolek
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