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I started learning Rust about 3 or 4 years ago. I am now knee-deep in several very complex Rust projects that keep slamming into the limitations of the Rust compiler. One of the most common and obnoxious problems is hitting a situation the borrow-checker can’t deal with and realizing that I need to completely…
I was talking to one of my students earlier, and lent him a book to read over summer. It was only after he’d left that I realised that — for me at any rate — the book I’d given him is probably the most seminal work in the whole of computer science, and certainly the book that’s most influenced my career and research…
A bug, most probably in the early part of kernel boot in guest macOS, prevents M4 Macs virtualising macOS prior to 13.4.
LLMs don’t make chips better. Good engineers do.
The query optimizer is an important part of any analytical database system as it provides considerable performance improvements compared to hand-optimized queries, even as the state of your data changes.
*without doing much with it (and maybe not for long at its current growth rate)
A closer look at non-elementary group-by aggregations
GDB is an old and ubiquitous debugger for Linux and BSD systems that has extensive language, processor, and binary format support. Its interface is a little cryptic, but learning GDB pays off.
November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky. I’ve seen a bunch of takes about this recently, but I keep seeing things I disagree with. I figure that’s a good enough excuse to write more about this weird-assed social network.
Most Django scaling guides focus on theoretical maximums. But real scaling isn't about handling hypothetical millions of users - it's about systematically eliminating bottlenecks as you grow. Here's how to do it right, based on patterns that work in production.
Let’s talk about tech interviews – specifically, the ones that go overboard with unrealistic coding assignments. If you’re a developer who’s been asked to de...
“Where they burn books, they will also burn people” — Heinrich Heine
PEP 740 is a Python standard for defining cryptographically verifiable attestations hosted by indices like PyPI.
Welcome to the Matrix. Matrix is an open protocol for decentralised communication. Matrix allows users on different servers to communicate with each other, similar to how people on different email servers can email each other.
Why cookie banners frustrate users, when EU device-access consent is required, and which narrow exemptions may apply to necessary and audience-measurement cookies.
CHM remembers the remarkable career and contributions of 2023 Fellow Thomas E. Kurtz, who passed away on November 12, 2024.
There are two main aspects to compile times that matter to developers. Cold build times, when building from scratch and warm build times when you’ve already built and you’re rebuilding following an edit. This article focuses on warm build times, which for rapid iteration during development is what generally matters…
The OpenMP ARB is pleased to announce Version 6.0 of the OpenMP API Specification, a major upgrade of the OpenMP language.
Contribute to CNCF: Simplify application management with Red Hat's Podman, Buildah, Skopeo, and more
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O2 has today unveiled the newest member of its fraud prevention team, 'Daisy'. As ‘Head of Scammer Relations’, this state-of-the-art AI Granny's mission is to talk with fraudsters and waste as much of their time as possible with human-like rambling chat to keep them away from real people, while highlighting the need…
AI increases the penalty for low quality code. Gauge is solving the monolith/microservices dilemma. We’re building tools to untangle codebases through incremental modularization. Our open-source toolkit supports defining and enforcing rules for interfaces and dependencies. By focusing on high cohesion and loose…
Building git for lawyers at Version Story (YC W21) — versionstory.com
Announcing support for PEP 740 on the Python Package Index
Is it normal for the Little Snitch Network Extension to consume Gigabytes of memory? No it isn’t. Unfortunately that’s another new bug in the Network Extension framework of macOS. It’s a memory leak in Apple’s framework, which developers…
Today marks two years since I first set up an e-ink display in my mom’s apartment to help her live on her own with amnesia.
When doing systems programming we often need to wait for something to happen. Common examples might be waiting for some data to come through a socket or waiting on a lock. We also often want to wait on any of several conditions to become true. A web server might be handling many sockets at once, waiting for any number…
