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In general, when working in C I avoid the standard library, libc, as much as possible. If possible I won’t even link it. For people not used to working and thinking this way, the typical response is confusion. Isn’t that like re-inventing the wheel? For me, libc is a wheel barely worth using — too many deficiencies in…
The risks and harms associated with drinking alcohol have been systematically evaluated over the years and are well documented. The World Health Organization has now published a statement in The Lancet Public Health: when it comes to alcohol consumption, there is no safe amount that does not affect health.
University of Sydney scientists have discovered a protein in the lung that blocks SARS-CoV-2 infection and forms a natural protective barrier in the human body.
Five not-quite-normal uses
News and information from Gentoo Linux
Time for a pop quiz. 1. Code Reuse is: a) Goodb) Bad 2. Reinventing the Wheel is: a) Goodb) Bad 3. The Not-Invented-Here Syndrome is: a) Goodb) Bad Of course, everybody knows that you should always…
Whenever I watch videos of how things are made, I marvel at the cleverness of the manufacturing machines. Retired engineer Duc Thang Nguyen has created over 170
A brief overview of what money laundering is, what financial institutions do about it, and why.
Step-by-step tutorial explaining scaled dot-product self-attention for large language models, with Python code that builds the mechanism from scratch.
QGIS is incredible: You can build maps that make use of the absolute wealth of public data out there and put Google Maps to absolute shame. This article is doing just that.
I’ve feared it. I’ve protested it. Now I’m hugging it
Today, the Manticore team is thrilled to announce the release of Manticore Search 6.
Zig is a very interesting language from an IDE point of view. Some aspects of it are friendly to IDEs, like a very minimal and simple-to-parse syntax (Zig can even be correctly lexed line-by-line, very cool!), the absence of syntactic macros, and ability to do a great deal of semantic analysis on a file-by-file basis…
How many Seattleites can walk to fulfill their daily needs?
We bypass read-out protection on the CC2510
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a subset of SGML that is completely described in this document. Its goal is to enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML. XML has been designed for ease of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML…
Ultravox is a real-time voice AI infrastructure layer that powers fast, natural, and scalable voice agents.
Craig's year end wrap-up of 5 things you can do for a healthier Postgres database next year.
Service mesh is a blazing hot topic in software engineering right now and rightfully so. I think it’s extremely promising technology and I’d love to see it widely adopted (in cases where it truly makes sense). Yet it remains shrouded in mystery for many people and even those who are familiar with it have trouble…
This research, led by UNC School of Medicine scientists Laura Kincer, Sarah Joseph,and Ron Swanstrom with international collaborators, shows that in addition to HIV’s ability to lay dormant in the blood/lymphoid system, the virus may also lay dormant in the central nervous system, delineating another challenge in…
A University of Toronto undergrad among an international team of researchers unleashing deep learning in the search for extraterrestrial civilizations.
A genuine question on why we are not getting indexed by Bing.
