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So far this year I’ve been bitten three times by compiler edge cases in GCC and Clang, each time catching me totally by surprise. Two were caused by historical artifacts, where an ambiguous specification lead to diverging implementations. The third was a compiler optimization being far more clever than I expected…
How to stream local files using Python and 11 lines of code.
Managing state in Kubernetes is difficult because the system’s dynamism is too chaotic for most databases to handle; especially SQL databases that offer strong consistency.
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
Concurrency Control is a mechanism that maintains atomicity and isolation, which are two properties of the ACID, when multiple transactions run concurrently in a database.
Last week, we received the following email from Amazon: From: [redacted], [redacted] <[redacted]@amazon.com> Subject: Notification of potential account suspension regarding AWS Service Terms Moxie, Yesterday AWS became aware of your GitHub and Hacker News/ycombinator posts des...
lambdaway is built on a wiki engine, lambdatank, and a small Lisp dialect, lambdatalk.
(UPDATED: updated to the PR are now reflected in the post) Something exciting is coming. Everyone is talking about WebSockets and their older cousin EventSource / Server Sent Events (SSE). Faye and…
Encryption for all GitHub Pages sites
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
Have you ever done a puzzle that has no beginning or end? Where you don’t know up from down? Get lost in the infinite galaxy puzzle. The infinity puzzles™ are a new type of jigsaw puzzle insp…
Today we’re announcing .app, the newest top-level domain (TLD) from Google Registry, created specifically for apps and app developers.
0xADADA produces code, essays, and films that explore…2018190 points88 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details
On the commodification of attention, the abuses of unpaid microwork and strategies of resistance.
As of March 31, 2018 we had 100,110 spinning hard drives. This review looks at the quarterly and lifetime statistics for the data drive models (Seagate, HGST, WDC, and Toshiba) in operation in our data centers.
SSH is everywhere in the development or operations world now. For development it’s what allows you to push to GitHub. For operations it’s what allows you to reasonably securely log into Linux servers.
Find out what your organisation must do to comply with the GDPR and learn how you can help individuals to exercise their data protection rights.
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…the bottom line is, the experience is simultaneously high-end luxury yet while staying informed and in control of the device.
Taking a look at MyRocks performance through some benchmark testing.
One of the biggest open questions for migrating to Scala 3 is what to do about macros. In this blog post we give our current thoughts. The gist is that we are trying to achieve full alignment between macros and Tasty.
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UML was created in 1994 by engineers at Rational Software to standardize system diagrams. Of the 14 UML diagram types, activity and use case diagrams handle 80% of real-world business process documentation needs.
Why using cryptographic hashes doesn't make data anonymous.
LLCs are the entity of choice for many small teams, side projects, and bootstrapped businesses.
NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs are now available in beta on Compute Engine and GKE, and NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs are now GA.
