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The fastest way to heat food and drink might also rank as the fastest route to ingesting massive quantities of minuscule plastic particles, says new research led by Husker engineers.
High quality font rendering for WebGPU
Or: why you should be a lizard
The original specimen of the Dutch Fell Types, their digitisation by Igino Marini, and further enhancements by Lin Yangchen as a font for thesis typesetting in LaTeX.
We often romanticize the notion of programming, presenting it as an abstract form of art, a science, or even a form of magic. The truth, however, is much mor...
Today marks the 54th anniversary of the moon landing. In retrospect it has almost unanimous support and adoration in the US: pleasing the left as an example of the power of public funding and the right as a triumph of the capitalist west against the
We’re rolling out custom instructions to give you more control over how ChatGPT responds. Set your preferences, and ChatGPT will keep them in mind for all future conversations.
July 20, 2023 by Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, Daniel Rosenwasser, Pierce Boggan, Umesh Madan, Mike Hopcroft, and Gayathri Chandrasekaran
Significance of Apple's support for JPEG XL and what this means for the widespread adoption of this next-generation image compression format.
I've removed my website from indexing by Google . The proximate cause is Google's new effort to DRM the web ( archive ) but there is of course so much more.
Sometimes people will talk about Chesterton's Fence, the idea that if you want to change something—removing an apparently useless fence—you should first determine why it was set up that way: The gate or fence did not grow there. It was not set up by somnambulists who built it in their sleep. It is highly…
Go on an adventure. Find a New Thing™. Bring it back. Share it, and demonstrate why the New Thing™ is worth sharing.
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
Well that blew up, huh? If you follow emulation or just gaming on the whole, you've probably heard about the controversy around the Dolphin Steam release and the Wii Common Key. There's been a lot of conclusions made, and while we've wanted to defend ourselves, we thought it would be prudent to contact lawyers first…
Part 1 of a multi-part series on using LLMs securely within your organisation. This post provides a framework to categorize risks based on different use cases and deployment type.
"What are folks’ views on systems so large where cold-starting the whole system is almost impossible?"... — M'colleague, Shivam, In A Slackroom Next Door.
There are tons of blog posts on the internet about how frameworks differ and which one to pick for your next web project. Usually they cover a few aspects of the framework like syntax, development setup, and community size. This isn't one of those posts.
Using PostgreSQL as a full-text search engine is tempting because it requires less infrastructure. But is its set of search-related features enough to compete with the Lucene based alternatives?
A community and blog for embedded software makers
CVE-2023-38408 is a remote code execution flaw in OpenSSH’s forwarded ssh-agent. Get full exploit details, impact analysis, and Qualys detection guidance.
This 100-year-old binary classification of human interaction holds us back. It's time to move past it.
An article by Anonymous : Target's patented EasySweep device protects guests' data from skimmers.
Or: A comprehensive ecosystem of open-source software for big data management
GPUX is a distributed supercomputer.
Name: Comic Code, Comic Code Ligatures Type: Retail typeface Publisher: Tabular Type Foundry Release year: 2019 Purchase links: I Love Typography (both)
I’ve been saying the upcoming 0.11.0 release of Zig would have async/await/suspend/resume for 9 months now. You can probably find 10 different places where I promised in writing or in front of a camera that this next release would have this feature.
This blog has been moved to https://neeto.com/blog/neetocal-a-calendly-alternative-is-a-commodity-and-is-priced-accordingly .
Hello Rustaceans! Sometimes, good things come in many. For example: birthdays! 🎉 As it just so happens, we have 3 big things to celebrate: It's the 10th anniversary of Florian publicly posting his first Rust code on September 28th, 2013! Ferrous...
