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Recently, we've been working to scale Sourcegraph cloud's index to 1 million open source repositories and beyond. Part of that effort has been reducing the RAM usage for the Zoekt (pronounced "zooked") servers responsible for handling most of our code searches.
The origin of AWS and the story of Zimki, the world's first Platform as a Service that belonged to Canon.
Apple’s NeuralHash: real-world collisions, false positives, and implications for CSAM detection. See what this means for system reliability.
Criminal hackers will try almost anything to get inside a profitable enterprise and secure a million-dollar payday from a ransomware infection. Apparently now that includes emailing employees directly and asking them to unleash the malware inside their employer’s network in exchange for a percentage of any ransom…
Today we’re announcing a variety of new policies and updates to help keep kids and teens safe as they spend more time online.
The engineering blog of Bill P. Godfrey.
When developing software, there's no shortage of work: building new features, fixing bugs, maintaining infrastructure, launching new systems, phasing…
I’ve done a couple of posts on LLVM itself, mostly on things you can do with LLVM or how LLVM represents particular program features.
The 386sx wasn't much of an upgrade from the 286, but was popular for a time. Let's take a look at the 286 vs 386sx, and what the SX offered.
The way we work is changing. More people are working remotely, more people want flexible work options, and more people are re-thinking what it means to be in an office. So today, we’re excited to launch the open beta of Horizon Workrooms, available for free on Oculus Quest 2 in all countries where Quest 2 is supported.
TL;DR Instead of attaching tooltips directly to document.body, attach them to a predefined div in document.body. BAD html my tooltip ...
As an ex-pat living in Denmark, I use FaceTime audio a lot. Not only is it simple to use and reliable, but the sound quality is incredible. For those of you old enough to remember landlines, it reminds me of those but if you had a good headset. When
A month ago, I built a personal search engine called Monocle that let me search through a trove of personal information I’ve saved over time, from notes to journal entries to bookmarks and tweets. Shortly thereafter, I switched my default search engine in my web browser from Google to Monocle, marking the start of my…
According to new data, the most popular post on Facebook is a business that sells golfing dates with former Green Bay Packers players. What?!
gfx-rs is a project bringing efficient cross-platform graphics to rust. This blog supposedly hosts the major milestones, concepts, and recaps of the project.
The backlash from privacy and human rights advocates to Apple's new plan this month for scanning photos on user devices to detect known child sexual abuse images has been loud and nearly unanimous. The tech raises press freedom problems, too.
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
I recently did a PC power supply teardown so I figured it would be interesting to go deeper and see what happens inside the power supply'...
GitHub Discussions is now out of beta, with features that include labels, Discussions GraphQL API and webhooks, and mobile functionality.
T-Mobile is warning that a data breach has exposed the names, date of birth, Social Security number and driver’s license/ID information of more than 40 million current, former or prospective customers who applied for credit with the company. The acknowledgment came less than 48 hours after millions of the stolen…
In our team at Rakuten, we have been using Elm1 in production for almost two years now. This post is about our story, the lessons we learned, and our likes and dislikes. This post is quite long so if you prefer to see an overview, feel free to jump to the index. Everything started in the Berlin branch of Rakuten…
A surge involving the rapidly-transmitting Delta variant in heavily vaccinated countries has led to much hand-wringing that the vaccines are not effective against Delta, or vaccine effectivenss wanes after 4-6 months. This has fueled anti-vaccine sentiment suggesting the vaccines are not working, and causing much…
American Chemical Society: Chemistry for Life.
Forget about the y-intercept; slope is the only thing that matters in the long run.
Transcript of interview on how tech changes the world
