A friend of mine recently pointed me at a well hidden command line tool. In the JavaScript framework used by Safari and other parts of Apple’s products, there is a tool called jsc. It’s a command line interface for JavaScript that uses the same code as the rest of the system. You can find the […]
The previous pages have explained three very different methods for defining a color: (1) the measurement of the color stimulus as a spectral emittance or reflectance curve in colorimetry ; (2) the proportional responses to the stimulus by the L , M and S cones, represented as a chromaticity diagram ; and (3) the…
Edit – I posted this on Hackernews and got some valuable feedback. Many brought up the fact that you should be able to reuse the internal state of the compressor instead of recompressing the training …
Myanmar citizens have used Proton tools to communicate securely and access the truth. But Apple has blocked us from sending out important app updates.
Nominet announces that four directors have been removed from their board seats as a result of a vote at today’s Extraordinary General Meeting.
This post is part of a series, you can see an overview of the whole series in [ rust-typestate-index ].
We’re excited to launch the Brex API this week! Now, customers can programmatically read their data, issue cards, invite users, send payments and much more.
Last week I gave a talk at the Open Source Firmware Conference about some of the work I’m doing at Oxide Computer, entitled On Hubris and Humility. There is a video of the talk if you’d like to watch it in video form. It came out pretty alright!
I wanted to share a story of a segmentation fault I helped track down this weekend. I thought the final root cause of the segfault was interesting because of how unrelated it was to the code I was trying to debug.
Lately I’ve been trying to learn more about Amazon Web Services (AWS) and some other popular technologies. Since I work at a large tech company, I spend a lot of my professional time using pr…
This blog post will take you through a VR frame’s lifecycle, explaining the end-to-end process from frame generation to final display.
Multiple Neighborhood Cellular Automata (MNCA) produce complex and robust emergent structures not commonly seen in simpler models
Just now, Avdi had a miserable experience buying curtains. He went to pick up an order that he placed last night, but Lowe’s didn’t have it. The order was sent to the wrong store and it…
The creators of Meow hash made security claims; we break them all.
Posted by John D. Co-Reyes, Research Intern and Yingjie Miao, Senior Software Engineer, Google Research A long-term, overarching goal of research i...
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
We have been discussing the expanding monitoring and sanctioning of teachers for their political commentary on social media. We have also discussed such actions taken against college, high school …
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Brave Wallet is a secure crypto wallet, built right into the Brave privacy browser. No extension required.
Notes that I mostly write for myself, but you can read if you want.
Or, why Keynesianism and functional finance demand politics.
Read candid takes on engineering culture: 10x myths, agile failure modes, and full-stack fantasies that quietly damage software teams at scale.
A primer and very high-level overview on what Golem Network is and what it can do.
This story has moved a lot since it was published – our update from March 3 tells the latest. Apple...
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International City Gaming Conference 2017 keynote.
