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To save C, we must save ABI
After that first Firebrand of an article on Application Binary Interface (ABI) Stability, I’m not sure anyone expected this to be the title of the next one, huh? It seems especially bad,
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Little rant about GNOME's file manager (a.k.a. Nautilus)
A few thoughts you're free to ignore
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The harsh truth of video games programming
I've been interested in games programming since I started learning programming as a teenager more than 25 years ago (gasp!) I started with Qbasic and Gorillas.bas, but never understood the code. Of course, I didn't get anywhere at the time, beyond very basic games. I wrote a simple Shoot
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The Oceanic+ app comes to Apple Watch Ultra
Today, the Oceanic+ app comes to Apple Watch Ultra, turning Apple’s most rugged watch into a fully capable, easy-to-use dive computer.
3517
iOS 16 to support Web push notifications in 2023
iOS 27 with all-new Siri AI powered by Apple Intelligence and new features for a more responsive, delightful experience.
3518
The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2
It does everything differently, because of course it does.
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No safe efficient ways to do three-way string comparisons in Go
Golang online books, articles, tools, etc.
3521
Upcoming changes to user limits on Free tier of Gitlab SaaS
5 user limit per top-level group on GitLab SaaS Free tier
3522
A Twitter Off Ramp: A Tutorial for Getting on Mastodon
A tutorial for getting on Mastodon
3523
“I survived the TCP transition” (2013)
This year we invited Vint Cerf to tell the story.
3524
CircleCI Announces Support for Gitlab
Learn how teams using GitLab SaaS can build, test, and deploy on CircleCI.
3525
Using WebTransport
The WebTransport API offers low-latency, bidirectional, client-server messaging. Learn about its use cases, and how to give feedback about the future of the implementation.
3526
What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Encodings (2011)
If you are dealing with text in a computer, you need to know about encodings. Period. Yes, even if you are just sending emails. Even if you are just receiving emails. You don't need to understand every last detail, but you must at least know what this whole "encoding" thing is about. And the good news first: while the…
3527
More than you cared to know about PC fans
Fans, an active cooling element, move air in a system. Heat must be removed from the site of its production, and from the system as a whole. A fan increases heat convection with surrounding air via airflow. Air is at its highest pressure immediately in front of the fan, and at lowest pressure immediately behind it.
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Cloudflare announces fourth quarter and fiscal year 2021 financial results
Fourth quarter revenue totaled $193.6 million, representing an increase of 54% year-over-year; fiscal year 2021 revenue totaled $656.4 million, representing an increase of 52% year-over-year Record dollar-based net retention of 125%, representing an increase of 600 basis points year-over-year, driven by continued…
3529
Attacking Titan M with Only One Byte
Following our presentation at Black Hat USA, in this blog post we provide some details on CVE-2022-20233, the latest vulnerability we found on Titan M, and how we exploited it to obtain code execution on the chip.
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How do transistors work, anyway?
The internet is littered with explanations of how transistors work. Most of them don't really explain anything.
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Apple neglects to patch two zero-day, wild vulnerabilities for Big Sur, Catalina
Apple has chosen to leave Big Sur and Catalina (around 35 to 40 percent of all Macs) in danger of actively exploited vulnerabilities that have only been patched for macOS Monterey.
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Quaternions: A Practical Guide
AnyLeaf Articles: Quaternions: A practical guide
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Things we finally know about network queues (2017)
How big should your queue be, and what should you do when it fills up? Many times, we implement or even deploy a networking system before w...
3535
Index Merges vs. Composite Indexes in Postgres and MySQL
Composite indexes aka multi-column indexes are about 10x faster than index merges. In Postgres, the gap is larger than in MySQL because Postgres doesn’t support index-only scans for queries that involve index merges.
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Transformers for software engineers
Ever since its introduction in the 2017 paper, Attention is All You Need, the Transformer model architecture has taken the deep-learning world by storm. Initially introduced for machine translation, it has become the tool of choice for a wide range of domains, including text, audio, video, and others. Transformers…
3537
I'm Too Risk-Averse for Index Investing
Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Stock Market
3538
-h –Help -help Help –? –?
-h --help -help help --? -? ????
3539
Can a Tarot card reading be defamatory?
Crazed Tik-Toker's Tirade Against University Professor Raises Fact v. Opinion Issue
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Boston Fed releases report, source code of digital currency prototype study
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Digital Currency Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today released the findings of their initial technological research into a central bank digital currency, or CBDC. The published research describes a theoretical high-performance and resilient…