Rustc_codegen_GCC can now run libcore’s tests and pass most of them
Antoyo's Personal Blog
Dynamic Linking Best Practices
In this article we’ll learn how to build shared libraries and install them properly on several platforms. For guidance, we’ll examine the goals and history of dynamic linking on UNIX-based operating systems.
Don't Be Anti Car. Be Pro Something Else.
People hate change. They have something of a tendency to dig their heels in and be against it just because it is new and different. They as...
Study: Most Dog Breeds Highly Inbred
UC Davis study shows most dogs are highly inbred, which affects health.
Why we don’t understand heavier-than-air flight
If you've been reading popular science websites or magazines lately, then you may have heard the news: we don't understand how airplanes work. For example:…
Why the Substack hype is much ado about very little
Previously published at GBH News. I have nothing against Substack. The newsletter platform seems like a clean, simple tool aimed at helping independent writers charge subscription fees for their wo…
Material You – The next stage for Material Design
Announcing Material You: The latest release from Material Design. Learn about the next stage for Material Design.
Lee Ross and the “Fundamental Attribution Error”
...and to the psychologist who put it on the map.
Distribution of JVM Desktop Applications
This is the 6th post in the The state of JVM desktop frameworks focus series.
Why Read Classic Books?
This is my first attempt to “think out loud” about the question I get most often: why bother reading the Classics? This is still very much a work in progress: I think people don’t consider and adapt their own beliefs often enough (see also: mental liquidity ). I consider my opinions here to be very much loosely held…
How factories were made safe
The fundamental cause was a wrong attitude towards the core question: who is responsible for safety?
What's New in PHP 8.1
PHP 8.1 adds support for PHP enums, as well as readonly properties, Fibers, performance improvements, new in initializers, and more.
How to Review Code as a Junior Developer
Emma Catlin | Software Engineer
Fedora Linux 34 is officially here
Fedora Linux 34 is released and ready for you to install or upgrade today.
Unusual login activity was due to bug
As part of our commitment to security, we regularly monitor our services for actual, suspected, or attempted malicious or unusual activity. We recently investigated reports of an uptick of users recei[..]
Watermelons
This week we nerd out on watermelons (available May to October). All living beings on Earth constantly search for water—tree roots grow into cracked or leaky underground pipes to access the water they carry, camels can go a full week without drinking thanks to the unique water-storage capacity of their oval-shaped red…
What's New in ClickHouse 21.12
What’s New in ClickHouse 21.12
Implementing strict three-point perspective
Implementing strict three point perspective is ridiculous. You’ll never need it. Let’s do it anyway.
New algorithm flies drones faster than human racing pilots
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How to exfiltrate code from Bitbucket
Every year or so, something compels me to start over with a fresh OS image. Most recently, that something was an unfortunate water bottle incident. Once again, I need to pull down my digital life from the internet. The code and assets for this blog currently live in a 500 MB Git repository, which was hosted on…
Our journey from a Python monolith to a managed platform
Dropbox, to our customers, needs to be a reliable and responsive service. As a company, we’ve had to scale constantly since our start, today serving more than 700M registered users in every time zone on the planet who generate at least 300,000 requests per second. Systems that worked great for a startup hadn’t scaled…
The Poincaré Conjecture, Explained
Poincaré began working on what is now considered to be the foundation of topology and algebraic topology in the 1890s with the work Analysis Situs (1895) and five later supplements (1899; 1900, 1902a, 1902b, 1904).
A simple 11.2 GHz radio telescope (Hardware) (2020)
Abstract : In this post we describe the construction of a small amateur radio telescope operating at
Is Your Linux Version Hiding Interrupt CPU Usage from You?
TL;DR: Some Linux distros and even different kernel versions within a distro have disabled IRQ time accounting. In such case, your monitoring tools will report zero time spent in hardware interrupt handlers (shown as %hi, %irq, hiq, etc). It’s easy to check how your kernel is behaving by looking at /proc/stat and you…