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Comparing Parallel Rust and C++
In this tutorial, we will implement a Rust program that attempts to utilize 100% of the theoretical capacity of three relatively modern, mid-range CPUs. We'll use an existing, highly efficient C++ implementation as a reference point to compare how our Rust program is doing. We start with a simple baseline solution of…
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The Emergent Features of JuliaLang: Part II – Traits
Introduction
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Fastly launches its new compute environment – supports Rust
Fastly is now offering access to its serverless compute environment in private beta. Meet Compute@Edge, a uniquely secure, performant, and scalable approach to serverless computing.
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Using the linear distance operator in Postgres 12 to find the closest match
Experience zero data sprawl with EDB Postgres AI. Capable of handling 30B+ trades a day and managing 50 TB.
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Is GraphQL Still Relevant in an HTTP2 World?
GraphQL offers a lot more than reduced round trips.
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Layers in Software: From Data to Value
Then Back in the 2000s, we wrote applications in layers. Presentation layer, client, data transfer, API, business logic, data access, database. We maintained strict separation bet ween these layers…
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OpenAI Releases Largest GPT-2 Text Generation Model
As the final model release of GPT-2’s staged release, we’re releasing the largest version (1.5B parameters) of GPT-2 along with code and model weights to facilitate detection of outputs of GPT-2 models. While there have been larger language models released since August, we’ve continued with our original staged release…
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Stripe CLI
The Stripe CLI is a developer tool that helps you build, test, and manage your Stripe integration right from the terminal.
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How to Build an Income Sharing Agreement Product
Regardless of specifics, however, the Income Sharing Agreement (ISA) structure is relatively consistent. To define it more explicitly, an Income Sharing Agreement funds a student’s tuition upfront in exchange for receiving a percentage of the student’s future earnings (hence “income-sharing”) based on a pre-defined…
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C++ 20: The Core Language
My last post C++20: The Big Four started with an overview of concepts, ranges, coroutines, and modules. Of course, C++20 has more to offer. Today, let’s continue my overview of the core language.
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What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95?
It acted as the 16-bit legacy device driver layer.
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RISC-V OS Using Rust: Memory Management Unit
From the operating system's point of view, we have a large pool of memory from some starting address to some ending address. We can use our linker script (the virt.lds file) to provide us symbols representing the address of the starting and ending points.
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What SQL Analysts Need to Know About Python (2016)
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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Algebraic Structures: Things I wish someone had explained about FP
Algebraic Structures are something I wish I’d understood better, sooner. I had a hazy idea of what they were, but didn’t know the correct terminology. That was a massive barrier to finding out more. This article is my attempt to stop that happening to others. We’ll look at: What are algebraic structures? How do we use…
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A CS degree is better than teaching yourself how to code?
Should I teach myself to code or get a college CS degree? This is a question that many face. Software development is a field that is heavily reliant on skills. So surely teaching yourself to code should be enough right? Wrong.
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The Misunderstood Roots of FRP
An archive of Steve Krouse’s Future of Coding research notes
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Why to use ‘python -m pip’
Fellow core developer and Canadian, Mariatta, asked on Twitter about python -m pip and who told her about that idiom along with asking for a reference explaining it: I learned sometime ago that we should be doing `python -m pip install ...` instead of simply `pip install ...` but now I can'
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Firefox to Discontinue Sideloaded Extensions
To give users more control over their extensions, support for sideloaded extensions will be phased out starting with Firefox 73.
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Typestates in Rust (2018)
A long time ago, the Rust language was a language with typestate. Officially, typestates were dropped long before Rust 1.0. In this entry, I’ll get you in on the worst kept secret of the Rust community: Rust still has typestates.
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FastSpark: A New Fast Native Implementation of Spark from Scratch
TLDR: Here is the code to explore.
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