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As a product, the original iPhone exemplified Apple’s holistic approach to hardware and software that are designed for each other, yet, at the engineering level, the iPhone hardware and software teams were almost completely siloed, with only Jobs and a mere handful of his most trusted (and talented) senior executives…
NetBlocks metrics confirm the restriction of Twitter in Russia from the morning of Saturday 26 February 2022. Facebook servers have subsequently been restricted as of Sunday. The restrictions are in ...
Blasphemy? Probably! But still pretty awesome!
As you’re reading through our reviews or researching the best backpacks yourself, you may see a profusion of various technical terms being…
Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn has been a long time in the making, and I am excited to finally get to talk about the release of my new book…
Some years ago, you blogged about a research article by Hasan and colleagues (2013) .
Some days ago I noticed that on a Mac, doing snprintf calls from multiple threads shows curious lack of scaling ( see tweet ). Replacing snprintf with {fmt} library can speed up the OBJ exporter in Blender 3.2 by 3-4 times . This could have been the end of the story, filed under a “eh, sprintf is bad!” drawer, but I…
Is Grammarly a keylogger? Here's what to consider so employees can reap the benefit of this valuable tool without compromising data security.
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Does your child love to draw? Ever wished that characters in their drawings could “come to life” and move around the page? Using AI, we’ve developed automatic animation that can bring children’s one-of-a-kind characters to life!
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Creating backups is a basic necessity for anyone who stores data. With the help of a dedicated server, the Linux operating system and the rsync software, you can securely and efficiently retrieve data from any computer via an SSH connection and store it in a backup. It doesn’t matter if there is another Linux server…
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This week, I want to break from our usual format and respond to the fairly unusual global events. I expect a lot of my readers are trying to get a grasp on what is happening right now in Ukraine an…
Between 2016 and 2020 I wrote a series of blog posts called “How to speed up the Rust compiler”. These were mostly about my work on the Rust compiler, plus some updates on the progress on the Rust compiler’s speed in general.
Recently piet-gpu has taken a big step towards realizing its vision, moving the computation of path clipping from partially being done on the CPU to entirely being done on the GPU.
NOTES: I have grouped the options such that the Boolean ones (read: on/off true/false) come first, then those with a short amount of "flags", and after that the ones with a very long value.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine will be captured in incredible detail by smartphones and social media. This changes everything.
Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem states that there are mathematical statements that can neither be proven or disproven. His proof is fairly difficult to ...
Guardian Project has been awarded a grant from the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) to work on decentralizing veracity and distribution (...
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Soybean oil is linked to metabolic and neurological changes in mice in new research.
One in three young people say their mental health and wellbeing improved during COVID-19 lockdown measures, with potential contributing factors including feeling less lonely, avoiding bullying and getting more sleep and exercise, according to researchers at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford.
ActiveRecord's ConnectionPool is now fiber-safe! Configure config.active_support.isolation_level for better throughput.
Gigabit ethernet has been around for a long time, it’s so ubiquitous that there is a very strong chance that if you have a RJ-45 port on your computer, it’s going to be a gigabit ethernet network interface.
