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Back in 2004, I visited a now bankrupt Dutch computer store called MyCom 1 , located at the Kinkerstraat in Amsterdam. I was there to buy a Western Digital Raptor model WD740, with 74 GB of capacity, running at 10,000 RPM.
When early stage programmers get stuck, they can get frustrated. Here's how to make the most of it.
Hi there! This is a guest post from Robert Mader, who contributed enormous improvements to Firefox’s graphics stack on Linux. TL;DR In the upcoming Firefox 94 release we will enable the EGL b…
I was wondering what would be the ultimate upgrade for my 386 motherboard. It has a soldered-in 386 CPU, an unpopulated 386 PGA socket, and a socket for either a 387 FPU or a 486 PGA. It might even be compatible with a Weitek processor, though I’m not entirely certain. There’s also a possibility that it has a…
Across the U.S., home prices have outpaced income. Our data reveals how the American dream of homeownership is becoming a nightmare.
Roku provides the simplest way to stream entertainment to your TV. On your terms. With thousands of available channels to choose from.
The papers over the next few weeks will be from (or related to) research from VLDB 2021 - on the horizon is one of my favorite systems conferences SOSP . As always, feel free to reach out on Twitter with feedback or suggestions about papers to read! These paper reviews can be delivered weekly to your inbox , or you…
This documents my process of finding a fix for the “Original game not found” problem when installing Heroes of Might and Magic V: Hammers of Fate from Ubisoft. For the actual fix, pleas…
The FAA has approved approximately 611 more engine models to burn General Aviation Modifications Inc.'s 100-octane unleaded avgas that, when combined with approvals announced in July, account for about 70 percent of the GA aircraft fleet's powerplants. An AOPA consultant said the move signals the FAA's "bullish"…
I made a 7'x7' mattress that I've been sleeping on since mid 2018. It's October 2021 now, so I've been sleeping in it for about three and a half years. This retrospective will cover my findings from worst to best:
In honor of Open Access Week, and particularly this year’s theme of structural equity, we wanted to highlight a project from the Internet Archive that is doing extraordinary work promoting access to knowledge. The bad news: that project is also under legal threat. The good news: the Archive, with...
This interview underlies an abbreviated version to appear in the March 1998 issue of IEEE Computer .
Turning off JavaScript blocks ads but not device tracking. Discover how no-JavaScript fingerprinting works.
Signal still knows nothing about you, but inexplicably the government continues to ask.
We compare NGINX performance in bare-metal and virtualized (hypervisor) environments, finding a small but measurable performance cost for hypervisors. We also find that performance in Kubernetes environments is worse for network-bound but not CPU-bound operations.
The Douglas Self Site, steam locomotive, Shay, Climax, Mallet, Garratt, Turbomotive, Reid-Ramsey
Announcing PWABuilder's new iOS platform. Publish your PWA to the App Store and gain new iPhone and iPad users.
Tech firms and financial institutions, working together, have in the recent past made core financial services much better for consumers.
DuckDB-Wasm is an in-process analytical SQL database for the browser. It is powered by WebAssembly, speaks Arrow fluently, reads Parquet, CSV, and JSON files backed by Filesystem APIs or HTTP requests, and has been tested with Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Node.js. You can try it at shell.duckdb.org or on Observable.
Updated: 2023-01-06 About a year ago I was bitten by the PL bug. It started with reading Crafting Interpreters and discovering the wonders hidden under the hood of a compiler. I am also been a big fan of Emacs, and this started to get me interested in how its interpreter works. At the same time, I was reading the Rust…
Facebook’s reorganization into Meta is the ultimate bet on the power of founder control.
OpenBSD remains a crucial yet largely unacknowledged player in the open-source field.
Explaining Ruby Fibers - Noteflakes
