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The 1999 revision to the C programming language brought several interesting changes and additions to the standard. Among those are variable length arrays, or VLAs for short, which allow array types to have lengths that are determined at runtime. These can show up in different contexts, but for the purposes of this…
How LocalStack's AWS Server Framework and snapshot testing framework keep its AWS emulation in parity with changes to AWS APIs.
MIT spinout Quaise Energy is working to create geothermal wells made from the world’s deepest holes in order to repurpose coal and gas plants.
With the world inundated with productivity apps, it feels nice to return to the tried and tested pen-and-paper methods. In this blog post, I'll share my anal...
The government has withdrawn the Personal Data Protection Bill, which had been in the works for three years, slamming the brakes indefinitely on privacy safeguards in India.
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On the anatomy of malpractice
How best to punish spammers? I give this topic a lot of thought because I spend a lot of time sifting through the endless rubbish they send me. And that's when it dawned on me: the punishment should fit the crime - robbing me of my time - which means that
If your app has just ruined my day, I need help, not humour.
I have a pornography problem, but it’s not what you’re thinking. In fact, if you’re anything like me, you might too.
Here’s my story… About 20 years ago or so, I was at a Salvation Army auction one morning. They were selling of tons (literally) of junk they’d had donated to them over the last few year…
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
Chips are the clearest example that economic efficiencies will not be the ultimate decider of technology’s end state: politics will play an important role.
Being swamped — overwhelmed by stuff to do — is the default state of being within a startup. There's always more to do than time to do it, and the list keeps growing. Everyone else working at every other startup feels this too. Even if it doesn't look that way
On Tuesday, December 7th 2021 I discovered a critical vulnerability in Cloudflare’s Email Routing service. This vulnerabilty enabled anyone to modify the routing configuration of any domain using the service. A bad actor could have overwritten the destination address to their own email address in order to read any…
Posted by Carlton Gibson on Aug. 3, 2022
For the last couple of years, we have been working with our friends at Igalia to bring Vulkan to the Raspberry Pi 4 platform, and today we're happy to announce that we have achieved Vulkan 1.2 conformance from Khronos.
Just a few months ago, it seemed that the biggest social media news of the year would be Elon Musk’s flirtations with buying Twitter (see, ... Read more
Over the last twenty years, I have used over a dozen languages professionally, from C to Common Lisp, from Java to Python, from C++ to Typescript. Yet, I ...
It might surprise some that our departure from Facebook was one of the simplest decisions we’ve ever made. Many posts that discuss leaving a FAANG company focus on leaving some grand sum of money or prestige of working at the company. For us, we were leaving the company where we had launched a project that we knew…
With an encoder-decoder architecture — rather than decoder only — the Alexa Teacher Model excels other large language models on few-shot tasks such as summarization and machine translation.
The latest Go release, version 1.19, arrives five months after Go 1.18 . Most of its changes are in the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries. As always, the release maintains the Go 1 promise of compatibility . We expect almost all Go programs to continue to compile and run as before.
Introducing multitasking to Arduino: learn how to run several tasks at once in your sketches and keep your code responsive.
