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Is there any point to the 12 times table?
Jon McLoone on why we learn times tables, whether knowing them to 12 is better than to 10, approximation multiplication, & education recommendations
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,692 posts.
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Appeals court denies judicial immunity to judge who personally searched home
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 10/30/2023 CONTACT: Phillip Suderman, psuderman@ij.org, (850) 376-4110 ARLINGTON, VA.—Today, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled in favor of Matthew Gibson […]
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Application Load Balancers enables gRPC workloads with end to end HTTP/2 support
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Application Load Balancers enables gRPC workloads with end to end HTTP/2 support
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Finding Signal in the Noise: Machine Learning and the Markets (Jane Street)
Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly.
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What Extropic is building
The demand for computing power in the AI era is increasing at an unprecedented exponential rate. Luckily, for the past several decades, the miniaturization of CMOS transistor technology following Moore’s law has allowed much of this exponential growth to be accounted for by increasing computer efficiency.
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Red Programming Language: Plans for 2019
The past year It has been a tough year 2018, filled with roller-coasters and instability. The constant dropping of the crypto markets has ...
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PowerShell 7.0
Today, we're happy to announce the Generally Available (GA) release of PowerShell 7.0! Before anything else, we'd like to thank our many, many open-source
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Crystal 1.2.0
We are delivering a new release with several bugfixes and improvements. Below we list the most important or interesting changes, without mentioning the several bugfixes. For details visit the release’s notes. Breaking changes are marked with ⚠️.
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How to speed up the Rust compiler
Rust is a great language, and Mozilla plans to use it extensively in Firefox. However, the Rust compiler (rustc) is quite slow and compile times are a pain point for many Rust users. Recently I’ve been working on improving that. This post covers how I’ve done this, and should be of interest to anybody else who wants…
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Why Single Sign on Sucks
A deep dive into the UX of current single sign-on and an overview of possible solutions.
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Rebranding FLoC Without Addressing Key Privacy Issues
The Topics API does not address the core harmfulness of FLoC: that it’s arrogant and dangerous for Google to be the arbiter of what users consider “sensitive” data.
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Nvidia to Acquire Run:AI
To help customers make more efficient use of their AI computing resources, NVIDIA today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Run:ai, a Kubernetes-based workload management and orchestration software provider. Customer AI deployments are becoming increasingly complex, with workloads…
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Exploiting the Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices
Posted by Gal Beniamini, Project ZeroEarlier this year we performed research into Broadcom’...
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All Rational Approximations of Pi Are Useless
Investigation to find a better rational approximation for pi. Can we get out more digits than we put in? Chance to win a prize if you can do bette
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Google Introducing New Visual Design Across All Products
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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HTTP/2 is not the future, it’s the present
Remember, in `may 1996`, the very first HTTP protocol version (HTTP/1.0) was born.
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Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots
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Optimising for Concurrency: Comparing the BEAM and JVM virtual machines
Explore the internals of the BEAM VM in comparison to the JVM, highlighting the significance of understanding these components.
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Kotlin 1.0.5 is here
We're happy to announce that we've just released Kotlin 1.0.5, which continues the series of bugfix and tooling updates for Kotlin 1.0. We'd like to thank our external contributors whose pull request
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“I-Cut-You-Choose” Cake-Cutting Protocol Inspires Solution to Gerrymandering
CMU researchers say getting political parties to equitably draw congressional district boundaries can be as easy as sharing cake.
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Announcing Xamarin 3
Use an agent skill to prepare your existing .NET MAUI app for Xcode 27, with the scene lifecycle changes and manual migration steps explained.
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Questions candidates can ask about equity compensation
It’s important to ask questions when you get an offer that includes any kind of equity. In addition to helping you learn the facts about the equity offer, the process of discussing these details can help you get a sense of the company’s transparency and responsiveness. Here are a few questions you should consider…