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Two-phase commit and beyond
In this post, we model and explore the two-phase commit protocol using TLA+. The two-phase commit protocol is practical and is used in man...
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Designing web page layouts for screen readers
It's easy to think about a layout as being a primarily visual concern. The header goes up top, the sidebar is over here, the call to action…
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Human blood cells can be directly reprogrammed into neural stem cells
Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the stem cell institute HI-STEM* in Heidelberg have succeeded for the first time in directly reprogramming human blood cells into a previously unknown type of neural stem cell. These induced stem cells are similar to those that occur during the early…
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The Ant Design Christmas Egg That Went Wrong
Ant Design is a design language comes with a set of React component open sourced by Alibaba’s Ant Finance. One can assume its popularity by looking at its 38837+ stargazers on Github .
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Mom Lets Her Kids Walk to the Bakery Down the Block. CPS Chastises Her
Katharina Nuss, a mom of three in Winnipeg, Canada, had a recent run-in with the authorities which radicalized her -- if it's radical to work toward a day when parents are allowed to send their kids down the block unsupervised for a minute or two. We spoke by phone. Here's her story: I have three
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The ‘clean plate’ mentality drives us to overeat?
We’re more likely to overeat when we only have a little bit of food left over, and we justify it by convincing ourselves it’s not as unhealthy as it is, according to new research by marketing professor Kelly Haws.
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The Matrix.org 2018 year in review
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Creating a Non-Trivial Lisp Game in 2018
Jalur masuk yang cepat menghemat waktu pengguna untuk langsung bermain. Hadiah yang melimpah dan simbol khusus yang mudah muncul tersedia secara berkala. Penawaran istimewa terus diperbarui agar pengalaman bermain selalu segar.
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Using data to determine if Die Hard is a Christmas movie
Ok, enough bickering and fighting.
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DragonFly BSD 5.4
DragonFly version 5.4 brings a new system compiler in GCC 8, improved NUMA support, a large number of network and virtual machine driver updates, and updates to video support. This release is 64-bit only, as with previous releases.
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Ruby 2.6
Christmas is around the corner, but I couldn’t wait and I have already been trying the new Ruby release! :christmas_tree: :tada: Ruby 2.6, apart from efficie...
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Solving murder with Prolog
In our company we usually have a fun quiz every sunday and this was one of them
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The Internet of Unprofitable Things
Gather 'round children. Uncle Andrew wants to tell you a festive story. The NTPmare shortly after Christmas
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Build your own bare-metal ARM cluster
Learn everything you need to know about building your very own bare-metal ARM cluster with Docker and Kubernetes including real life use-cases.
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My one-liner Linux Dropbox client
In this blog post, I want to discuss one of my recent attempts to create asimple one-liner Linux Dropbox client using only free and open-sourcecomponents, in...
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Why Most Software Engineers Lose Nothing by Unionizing
Should software engineers unionize? I can’t give a simple answer to this. There are advantages and disadvantages to enrolling in a collective bargaining arrangement. If the disadvantages didn…
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Sqlite – Most Deployed Database in the World
SQLite is likely used more than all other database engines combined. Billions and billions of copies of SQLite exist in the wild. SQLite is found in:
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Designing Resilient Systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries?
Grab designs fault-tolerant systems that can withstand failures allowing us to continuously provide our consumers with the many services they expect from us.
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Node.js Fundamentals: Web Server Without Dependencies
The blog of Seva Zaikov
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Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States
On December 21, 2018, the United States House of Representatives voted to enact H.R. 4174, the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2017, in a historic win for open government in the …
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Planning – The Core Reason Why Gameplay Feels Good (2017)
In this post I dig into planning, and how it is a fundamental part of what makes a game engaging. Planning affects many aspects of what is s...
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How I wound up finding a bug in GNU Tar
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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A Full Hardware Guide to Deep Learning
In this guide I analyse hardware from CPU to SSD and their impact on performance for deep learning so that you can choose the hardware that you really need.
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The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm Explained
The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm teaches your computer how to riff. The algorithm takes in an archetypical input, and produces procedurally-generated outputs that look like it.
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C++20 Ranges
As you may have heard by now, Ranges got merged and will be part of C++20. This is huge news and represents probably the biggest shift the Standard Library has seen since it was first standardized …
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Lessons in negotiation from Stalin at Yalta
Why did you sting me? You’ll drown too
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