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A few programming languages use a “defer” pattern for resource cleanup. This is a construct such as a defer keyword which schedules cleanup code to run at the end of the enclosing block (or function). This is available in Zig, Go and even in GCC C.
Code level discussion of web scraping, gray hat automation, growth hacking and bounty hunting
Most elementary school children probably already know that three apples plus two apples add up to five apples. However, what happens in the brain during such calculations is still largely unknown. The current study by the Universities of Bonn and Tübingen now sheds light on this issue.
You can't force luck. But you can increase your chances (by a lot) to get lucky. Here's how to do it with luck surface area.
Where did that memset come from?
Why does lining up two scales of a slide rule let you multiply numbers?
End-to-end encryption is the foundation of the Proton ecosystem. Here’s what E2EE means, and how it protects you.
Lisp-Stat Documentation
A deeper analysis of the events which caused a Kazakh airliner to go out of control over Portugal in November 2018.
We should encourage more public disagreement.
Implementing the execution functionality of the shell
What do we actually know about burnout? What does the research say? Is burnout preventable? All the research, in one free, updated place.
I joined Scale AI late last summer. It’s been a crazy experience — Scale is growing incredibly fast right now, hitting a valuation of over $7 billion last year and recently signing a $250 mil…
One of the most interesting pieces I’ve come across lately was Hugh Eakin’s piece on the backstory of one of Picasso’s most prominent works, Guernica. During the creative process for Guernica, Picasso created 45 different sketches before settling on the final direction of the painting: Guernica debuted in 1937 at the…
by Laurence Chen There is a famous quote: Programming is thinking, not typing. After doing this job long enough, sometimes, I feel I am doing too much typing. No matter whether...
The common way to talk about happiness is as a single scale: unhappy at one end, neutral in the middle, happy at the other end. I think that model is wrong.
Graphists, animators, game programmers, font designers, and other graphics professionals and enthusiasts are often working with Bézier curves. They're popular, extensively documented, and used pretty much everywhere. That being said, I find them being explained almost exclusively in 2 or 3 dimensions, which can be a…
How to use Nom to parse binary protocols at the level of individual bits
Microsoft Security Response Center Blog2022105 points24 commentscited by 3Security & Privacy details
Today, Arm announced that the first silicon supporting the Morello prototype architecture, a research project led by Arm, Microsoft, University of Cambridge and others, is now available on a limited run of demonstration boards, which are being shipped from today to industry partners for testing. Morello is the first…
Finalist #15 in the Book Review Contest
Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) has grown to be very popular in public-key cryptographic systems, most popularly used in Bitcoin. ECC is…
Not participating in the hype around Wordle seemed wrong, and what better way to do it than to create it cleanly at compile time in C++20? Introducing Wordlexpr!
Schaeffler Website
Picking a tech stack for your startup isn’t something to do lightly. It’s a choice that will shape the future in many ways: how will the tech enable your emerging product and business, what talent can you attract, and how future-proof is the tech stack?
Many people believe some transactions are final. The reality is a bit more complicated, and involves technical, social, and legal factors.
I’ve been playing with GitHub Copilot, an IDE extensions that uses GitHub’s vast knowledge of how people code to suggest what you probably meant to type next. I’m running it through Visual Studio Code, but it also runs in JetBrains and Neovim.
Stripe now reaches a majority of the globe: 4.4 billion people in more than 110 countries can receive funds in local currencies or crypto.
