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How I Built Zig-SQLite
Article explaining how to leverage Zig's compile time metaprogramming to build a SQLite wrapper that can type check SQL queries
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GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
Goodwill ransomware group propagates very unusual demands in exchange for the decryption key. The Robin Hood-like group is forcing its Victims to donate to the poor and provides financial assistance to the patients in need.
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Why, oh why was this added?
In this post, I take you on a debugging journey and show you why it might be a good idea to add a comment next to a certain method.
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Today’s JavaScript, from an outsider’s perspective (2020)
Today I tried to help a friend who is a great computer scientist, but not a JS person use a JS module he found on Github. Since for the past 6 years my day job is doing usability research & teaching at MIT, I couldn’t help but cringe at the slog that this was. Lo and behold, a pile of unnecessary error conditions…
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NPM security update: Attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens
npm's impact analysis of the attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens and additional findings.
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Cannoli: The Fast QEMU Tracer
Cannoli Cannoli is a high-performance tracing engine for qemu-user. It can record a trace of both PCs executed as well as memory operations. It consists of a small patch to QEMU to expose locations to inject some code directly into the JIT, a shared library which is loaded
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Inflation is differential and restructuring (2021)
When it comes to inflation, economists get it wrong. Inflation is always and everywhere differential.
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What are the odds that some idiot will name his mutex ether-rot-mutex (2017)
As part of my job I spend quite a lot of time scanning through files and disk contents, often in hex or filtered text view, searching for sp...
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I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next (2020)
If you follow Gamefromscratch on Twitter, you may have already seen this tweet I put out last night about a blackmail demand that was made against our YouTube channel:First off, I really want to give a gigantic shout out to all of the people that helped get the message out, the tweets, retweets and even [...]
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What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S.
The number of gun deaths in the U.S. fell for the third consecutive year in 2024 but remained among the highest annual totals on record.
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AlloyDB for PostgreSQL under the hood: Columnar engine
In this technical deep dive, we take a look at the columnar engine that delivers industry leading query performance for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL.
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The billable hour is a trap into which more and more of us are falling
It will take about three minutes to read this column. Whether it’s worth three minutes depends on me, of course. I will do my best. But it also depends on you, on your attitude to time and, perhaps…
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Removing blur from images – deconvolution and using simple image filters
Left: Original image. Center: Blurred through convolution. Right: Deconvolution of the blurred image. In this post, we’ll have a look at the idea of removing blur from images, videos, or games thro…
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Low-cost gel film can pluck drinking water from desert air
More than a third of the world’s population lives in drylands, areas that experience significant water shortages. Scientists and engineers at The
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Mental model examples and their explanations
50+ mental model examples and their explanations. There are five categories: success, decision-making, biases, business, and human nature:
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The end of big data
Databricks, Snowflake, and the end of an overhyped era.
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What Happened to Perl 7?
With Perl 5.36.0 just around the corner, we thought that this is a good time to clarify plans for the future of the Perl programming language. We realised that the future was hammered out in a number of steps, across several months. This meant that there hasn't been a single statement we could refer people to. This…
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Open call – your field recordings of obsolete sounds wanted
Recordings of disappearing, obscure and obsolete sounds wanted for new global collaborative sound project Obsolete Sounds.
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I was forced to be a child star. It was never my dream or my idea
I can't remember specifically when I first said "I just want to be a kid," but I can still see the late 70s smog, and smell the exhaust all around us as I begged her for what feels like years to stop making me do this, while we sat in traffic on the freeway after school, going to and from auditions, day after day…
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What is end-to-end encryption and how does it work?
End-to-end encryption is the foundation of the Proton ecosystem. Here’s what E2EE means, and how it protects you.
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Original Pong did not have any code or even a microprocessor
Here is a link to full schematics. Thanks to whoever made this. I just found a few issues with it. The CLK input to the 7474 on page 2 should be HRESET, not CLK. Pin 5 of the 555's on pages 5 and 6 should be connected to the capacitor. Also some of the nodes are inconsistently labeled.
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Nvidia adds liquid-cooled GPUs
A liquid-cooled NVIDIA A100 PCIe GPU is the first in a line of GPUs for mainstream servers responding to customer demand for high-performance, green data centers.
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Parsing JSON faster with Intel AVX-512
Many recent Intel processors benefit from a new family of instructions called AVX-512. These instructions operate over wide registers (up to 512 bits) and follow the Single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) paradigm. These new AVX-512 instructions allow you to break some speed records, such as decoding base64 data at…
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Missing link between Alzheimer’s and vascular disease found?
A gene called FMNL2 may explain why people with hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, or obesity have a greater risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.
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Plans to Re-enable the GitHub Integration
Update on plans to re-enable the Github integration from Heroku Product Management and Heroku Principal Architect.
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Bolt announces layoffs
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