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With 380MM MAUs, Roblox probably counts more players than the entire AAA gaming ecosystem, is more played than Disney+ is watched, and is starting to rival smaller social networks in scale. But Roblox has yet to profit. How can it become a business comparable to its operating scale?
Connecting a Garmin GPS 95 to a Flipper Zero, the serial adventures along the way, and finding the Netherland's first Geocache.
Predictability machines and personality
Federal court records belong to everyone. But one federal court in Texas lets patent litigants treat courts like their own private tribunals, effectively shutting out the public.When EFF tried to intervene and push for greater access to a patent dispute earlier this year, the U.S. District Court...
Pathfinding applied to the software solution domain
Somehow people are still putting tiny libraries on npm, and it really needs to stop.
A journey through text editors and how I landed on Zed after years of Neovim
CSS finally adds vertical centering in 2024
I love bug squash interviews.
I think that there’s a lot of institutional knowledge in our field, especially about what makes for a productive engineer. But while there are a good deal of books in the management field about “expert” roles and responsibilities of non-technical individual contributors, I don’t see too many modern books or posts that…
This article is about how programming for CP/M, usng a 40-year-old C compiler, differs from modern C development, even for console applications.
A short guide on OCaml type checker, describing the surprisingly elegant algorithm for generalization, which generalizes to first-class polymorphism, MLF and local types. Polymorphism and regions have much in common.
I started writing this retrospective during my last week at Google, I have already wrapped up everything, had my goodbyes. In the spirit of SRE (as an ex-SRE), I thought it would be fun to write a little retrospective in the form of a postmortem. Introduction I joined Google young and relatively inexperienced and had…
As developers, we use databases all the time. But how do they work? In this series, we'll try to answer that question by building our own SQLite-compatible…
A quiz to see how you compare to language models.
Yes, they throw snow. But the mechanical design of residential snowblowers is more interesting than it seems.
1) Foundational math. 2) Classical machine learning. 3) Deep learning. 4) Cutting-edge machine learning.
Introducing the DuckDB + Postgres Extension: You can have your analytics and transact them too with pg_duckdb by DuckDB Labs, MotherDuck, Hydra, Neon and Microsoft. | Reading time: 8 min read
I like Go. I think it is a reasonable good language , and has some good qualities that makes up for its flaws. However, this doesn't mean I think the language couldn't be better, far from it.
Inspiration of how we can use PDF as an attack vector and perform multiple attacks with huge subsequences to the victim.
Next-gen compile-time-checked builder generator, named function's arguments, and more!
Advice: When you are making a new application that requires persistent storage of data, like is the case for most web applications, your default choice should be Postgres .
Data harvesters are reaching into virtually every part of your digital life through the little-known surveillance hardware industry.
Use DIY CAN bus tools to convert your car into the best sim rig ever
Zngur (/zængɑr/) is a C++/Rust interop tool. It tries to expose arbitrary Rust types, methods, and functions while preserving their semantics and ergonomics as much as possible. Using Zngur, you can use arbitrary Rust crates in your C++ code as easily as using them in normal Rust code, and you can write idiomatic…
Assumed audience: ML researchers who frequently work with PyTorch , but are interested in trying out JAX or have yet to be convinced.
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