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Are we doing this again? Yes, we're doing this again
Y esterday I was rudely summoned away from a beautiful autumn day of wild foraging by The King.
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i386 Assembly Language trick for storing data in .text
Don’t want a big old bloated multi-kilobyte executable with a data segment, but you do need to store some data?
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Early computer art by Barbara Nessim (1984)
Whilst searching for something else entirely I stumbled across these images and was struck by just how beautiful they are. The September 1984 (Vol 9, No 10) ...
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On-Crash Backtraces in Swift
The new Swift 5.9 release contains a number of helpful, new features for debugging code, including an out-of-process, interactive crash handler to inspect crashes in real time, the ability to trigger the debugger for just-in-time debugging, along with concurrency-aware backtracing to make it easier to understand…
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Interesting Bugs Caught by ESLint's no-constant-binary-expression (2022)
A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.
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SciPy builds for Python 3.12 on Windows are a minor miracle
Moving SciPy to Meson meant finding a different Fortran compiler on Windows, which was particularly tricky to pull off for conda-forge. This blog tells the story about how things looked pretty grim for the Python 3.12 release, and how things ended up working out just in the nick of time.
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$200M gift propels scientific research in the search for life beyond Earth
November 8, 2023, Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute , a non-profit scientific research organization, announced today a philanthropic gift of $200m from the estate of Franklin Antonio, a visionary supporter and catalyst of the work of the SETI Institute for more than 12 years. Co-founder of communications chip…
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Kurdish Parentheses on OpenStreetMap, Three Ways
While making a proposal to update Noto fonts for OpenStreetMap tiles, which fixes an issue with Kurdish labels using ڵا , I noticed a street with mismatched parentheses and was anticipating a deep dive into the tile renderer. But the actual problem was somewhere else:
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Is AI the next crypto? Insights from HN comments
The OpenPipe platform has migrated to Weights & Biases and CoreWeave. Browse migration details and the OpenPipe technical archive.
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Swedish unions strike: Blocks mail and package deliveries for Tesla
Här publicerar vi nyheter från fackförbundet Seko.
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US Smartphone Shipments Decline 19% in Q3 2023 as More Americans Delay Upgrade
Counterpoint Research Insight
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EU's concealment of secret 'expert list' on CSAM regulation is maladministration
After a year-long inquiry, the EU Ombudsman recommends that the European Commission should monitor stages of progress in every Big Tech case that the Irish Data Protection Commission is responsible for.
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Officially Qualified – Ferrocene
It’s official: Ferrocene is ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 qualified! You can even find the certificate in TÜV SÜDs certificate database. This means we achieved qualification for the open source Ferrocene toolchain. Ferrocene 23.06.0, based on Rust 1...
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Hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software engineer job
Last weekend I had a chance to talk with some students who just got their degree. They are pursuing their first software engineer job. In conversation with them, I learned that they have a pretty wrong perception of this job.
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Don't disable buttons
One of the most common accessibility issues I find (and fix) on client projects is dynamically disabled form buttons when a form is being submitted. Today I want to talk about why developers do it, why it’s bad, and what you can do instead. Let’s dig in! Why developers disable buttons Typically, I see the pattern used…
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Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API
Why the MyQ integration will be removed in Home Assistant 2023.12
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Stop making every conversation about yourself
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Interactive examples for learning jq
Learn how to search, query, and modify JSON data with 25 interactive jq examples and explanations
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What the QWAC? An EV Certificate all over again
Almost 2 years on from the last time I wrote about QWACs, I'm sadly not here to tell you that things have gone well since then. In fact, I'm actually here to tell you that things are not going well at all... QWAC Back in Jan 2022, I
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What does and doesn't matter about Apple shooting their October event on iPhone
You’re somewhere on the spectrum of occasionally shooting video on your iPhone to a professional-ish video maker with some gear, and you see at the end of Apple’s October “Scary Fast” event announcing new Macs with M3 silicon that the entire event was “Shot on iPhone.”
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Writing a Compiler is Surprisingly Easy (part 1)
Part 1: expressions, arithmetic Part 2: statements, control flow Ever since I was a teenager I wanted to create my own systems pr...
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Go, Containers, and the Linux Scheduler
How to make the Go runtime play nicely with the Linux Scheduler
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I Got the Fed to Release Its 2011 "Treasury Default" Playbook
Subscribe Readers may recall that I wrote a Politico Op Ed at a critical moment in the debt ceiling showdown. That piece, was entitled “Biden Can Steamroll Republicans on the Debt Ceiling”, and I aimed squarely at debunking the idea that the Federal Reserve would step on any “unilateral actions”
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Article 45 of eIDAS 2.0 will roll back web security by 12 years
The EU is poised to pass a sweeping new regulation, eIDAS 2.0. Buried deep in the text is Article 45, which returns us to the dark ages of 2011, when certificate authorities (CAs) could collaborate with governments to spy on encrypted traffic—and get away with it. Article 45 forbids browsers from...
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Northlight technology in Alan Wake 2
Showcasing new Northlight technology in Alan Wake 2
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Seeing like a bank
The structural reasons why banks sometimes behave bizarrely in interactions with customers, like forgetting things which customers tell them.
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Vitess 18
Vitess 18 is now generally available, with a number of new enhancements designed to improve usability, performance, and MySQL compatibility.
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Fedora 39 Released
We’re pleased to bring you Fedora Linux 39, our complete, community-built operating system. And stop by our virtual release party! It's free!