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Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than expected
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The Changing "Guarantees" Given by Python's Global Interpreter Lock
A look into the implementation details of CPython's Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) and how they changed between Python 3.9 and the current development branch that will become Python 3.13.
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Volvo delivers 74-tonne electric truck
Volvo Trucks has delivered an electric truck for heavy transport to a haulier in Gothenburg, Sweden. The truck can handle a total weight of 74 tonnes.
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We Automated Bullshit
Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology2023369 points319 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details
ChatGPT is a bullshit generator. To understand AI, we should think harder about bullshit
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Deobfuscating World of Warships' Python Scripts
An in-depth analysis of how World of Warships obfuscates its game scripts and how to mostly deobfuscate them automatically.
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The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable
It’s 11:43pm on a Monday night. My 6-week-old son is asleep in my office so my wife can get some uninterrupted rest for the first half of the night. He’s finally asleep now, and I probably should be also after a full day of work. But I’m not done for the day. Even though I’m a software engineer by trade, I’m also a…
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NilAway: Practical nil panic detection for Go
Uber has widely adopted Golang (Go for short) as a primary programming language for implementing backend services and libraries due to its high performance. The Go monorepo is the largest codebase at Uber, comprising 90 million lines of code (and growing). This makes tooling for writing reliable Go code a critical…
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An automatic indexing system for Postgres
The pganalyze Indexing Engine simulates hundreds of possible combinations to recommend missing Postgres indexes using its 'What if?' analysis.
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I analyzed Stack Overflow for secrets
I analyzed stackoverflow for secrets and leaks.
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HTML Web Components: An Example
In my article on HTML web components , I said: But the unique power of web components (in the browser) is that they can render before JavaScript. React…
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The Tesla Semi from an Insider's View After One Year: "Hot Mess"
PepsiCo employee says the Tesla Semi is a "disaster" & does 400 miles "at best" with round-the-clock servicing by Tesla engineers
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Stable Fiddusion: Frequency-domain blue noise generator
Frequency-domain blue noise generator
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Air Accident Investigation Branch: film lights caused window damage on A321neo
The UK AAIB says high-powered film lights caused damaged to the windows of the Titan Airways A321neo G-OATW.
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Google resumes transition to Manifest V3 for Chrome extensions
In December of last year, we paused the planned deprecation of Manifest V2 in order to address developer feedback and deliver better solutions to migration issues . As a result of this feedback, we’ve made a number of changes to Manifest V3 to close these gaps , including:
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Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive
Signal is the world’s most widely used truly private messaging app, and our cryptographic technologies provide extra layers of privacy beyond the Signal app itself. Since launching in 2013, the Signal Protocol—our end-to-end encryption technology—has become the de facto standard for private commu...
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Zimbra 0-day used to steal email data from government organizations
TAG’s discovery of a 0-day exploit used to steal email data from international government organizations.
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Emu Video and Emu Edit, our latest generative AI research milestones
Today, we’re announcing new research into controlled image editing based solely on text instructions and a method for text-to-video generation based on diffusion models.
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From email to phone number, a new OSINT approach (2019)
How to find out someone's phone number if you just know their email address and how it can be automated using a new OSINT tool: email2phonenumber
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Saying Goodbye to OpenSubtitles.org API
Attention Subtitles Enthusiasts! Big Changes Ahead for OpenSubtitles.org API As the familiar landscape of online movie subtitle searches undergoes a transformation, OpenSubtitles.org has announced the end of its original API service in 2022. A significant shift in its system has been set in motion, marking the end of…
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You don't need a CRDT to build a collaborative experience
You don’t need CRDTs You don’t need CRDTs for collaborative experiences. First lets get the ‘what-about-ery’ out the way… Things you do need CRDTs for …
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Printed robots with bones, ligaments, and tendons
For the first time, researchers have succeeded in printing a robotic hand with bones, ligaments and tendons made of different polymers using a new laser scanning technique.
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A failed AI girlfriend product, and my lessons
Lessons from Dolores, my failed AI girlfriend product: built on the Stanford AI Town paper with GPT and ElevenLabs voices, why it earned $50 and I gav
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Smart drugs reduce quality of effort, and slow decision-making
New study finds that so-called ‘smart drugs’ reduce the quality of effort, and increase time taken to complete a decision-making task in cognitively healthy people.
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Google's advanced music generation model and two new AI experiments
Announcing our most advanced music generation model and two new AI experiments, designed to open a new playground for creativity
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Last Post, Please Read
Good morning. This is Zandar's Dad. I am sorry to tell you that he passed away over the weekend, peacefully in his sleep. Fortunately, his c...
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How to build trust as a new engineering manager
New managers often want to get everything right from the get-go. But, ironically, that would be their first mistake. Why? Because that's the total opposite of authenticity.
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More people should write (2012)
More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the cursor around — write full sentences about themselves and the things they care about.
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Push ifs up and fors down
A short note on two related rules of thumb.