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Cloudflare launches Workers Unbound, next evolution of its serverless platform
Today, we are excited to announce the next phase of this with the launch of our new platform, Workers Unbound, without restrictive CPU limits in a private beta.
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Apache Arrow 1.0
The Apache Arrow team is pleased to announce the 1.0.0 release. This covers over 3 months of development work and includes 810 resolved issues from 100 distinct contributors. See the Install Page to learn how to get the libraries for your platform. Despite a "1.0.0" version, this is the 18th major release of Apache…
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The Rise of Synthetic Audio Deepfakes
Nisos Resources Library is full of interesting case studies, client success stories, infographics, videos and more. Click to see what we do.
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It’s easier to manage four people than one person
A guide to scaling product & engineering teams from $0 to past $100M ARR
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Imperial Wars Always Come Home
There’s a person I think about from time to time.
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How to pay your rent with your open source project
A look at the different business and pricing models to fund open source software and make it sustainable.
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Appearances vs. Experiences: What Makes Us Happy
In the search for happiness, we often confuse how something looks with how it’s likely to make us feel. This is especially true when it comes to our homes. If we want to maximize happiness, we need to prioritize experiences over appearances.
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50 authors, 50 science fiction stories shorter than novels
See the updated 80 author version. I've been playing around with re-reading favorite science fiction short stories while also seeing if the...
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Small mail server best current practices
(This post was originally written as a reply on the mailop mailing-list, but a friend asked me to turn it into a blog post. I’ve edited it, mostly adding more links to elsewhere, but there are some additions here.)
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Masking lack of evidence with politics
The increasing polarised and politicised views 1 on whether to wear masks in public during the current COVID-19 crisis hides a bitter truth on the state of contemporary research and the value we pose on clinical evidence to guide our decisions.
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Colorize Your CLI
A passionate engineering student who writes about Unix related topics and tech stuff.
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Remote work is not necessarily a good thing for the worker
Remote work is sold as a win for workers. But it also makes you easier to outsource, reduces your job to a metric, and can stall your career growth.
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Finding Gene Cernan's Missing Moon Camera
It’s often repeated how most of the cameras that landed on the moon stayed on the moon. Gene Cernan had been telling the story of how he left his camera on the lunar rover for years, recounting the tale in interviews. Looking closer, however, you being to unravel a space-age mystery.
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A Surprise AWS Bill
The tale of the July 4th surprise $2700 AWS bill. It is more nuanced than you think and might have exposed a bug.
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How to effectively evade the GDPR and the reach of the DPA
Musings on Information Security and Privacy Risk Management - Thierry Zoller.
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Pinebook Pro longer term usage report
I bought a Pinebook Pro in the first batch, and have been using it on and off for several months now. Some people I know wanted to know if ...
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Named arguments are coming in PHP 8
A close look at named parameters in PHP 8
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Typometer: A tool to measure and analyze the visual latency of text editors
Typometer is a tool to measure and analyze visual latency of text / code editors.
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Doing stupid stuff with GitHub Actions
TL;DR: DevOps doesn't have to be all work and no play. I built 5 stupid (but fun!) GitHub actions... because why not ?
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Inside the 8086 processor, tiny charge pumps create a negative voltage
Introduced in 1978, the revolutionary Intel 8086 microprocessor led to the x86 processors used in most desktop and server computing today....
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Cryptography is not magic
Crypto is often treated like a black art only anointed experts can hope to wield safely. It's not. There are laws, and we can learn them.
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Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere
Even the ‘successful’ contact tracing apps have fallen well below expectations, and incapable of discovering their effectiveness.
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Audio from Scratch with Go: Stereo Panning
In the previous post we have written code to change the amplitude of wave files. Now we’ll take a look at how we can turn a mono wave file into a stereo wave file with optional panning, and explore how this is represented internally by the WAVE file format. Channels The raw audio data inside a WAVE file consists of…
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Ozymandias
Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those…
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Banks are slow to increase rates on savings accounts, but quick to reduce them
Chase Sunset & Vine, 2012. Painting by Alex Schaefer There is a fundamental asymmetry to banking. Banks don't like to share higher inte...