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A lazy way to solve differential equations
Looking at Taylor series as streams of real numbers, solving differential equations becomes as easy as writing them.
2912
What’s Left in the Apple Silicon Transition
Over at MacRumors, Hartley Charlton pointed out something that hadn’t crossed my mind: Historically, Apple released at least one new Mac model every year in the fourth quarter that runs between October and December, starting in 2001 with the launch of the iBook G3. This means that there has been a new Mac toward the…
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Please don't be spooky
A piece of advice I wish I could give my manager is don't be spooky. My manager regularly messages me things like Hey, can you talk? or Got a minute now? ...
2915
Vulkan update: version 1.2 conformance for Raspberry Pi 4
For the last couple of years, we have been working with our friends at Igalia to bring Vulkan to the Raspberry Pi 4 platform, and today we're happy to announce that we have achieved Vulkan 1.2 conformance from Khronos.
2916
Libraries – how companies do not understand open spaces
Michał Tajchert — Chief Technology Officer. Mobile, platform & eCommerce engineering. Warsaw, PL.
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Feynman’s advice to W&M student resonates 45 years later (2020)
Early in her career as a William & Mary student, Beulah Elizabeth Cox turned in a physics exam that contained what became one of the most famous incorrect answers in science.
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I collect and read old computer manuals
It’s my ritual: every time I enter a secondhand bookshop, I go straight to the Sciences section and search for old computer …
2920
Recovering redacted information from pixelated videos
We explore the history of image unblurring and present a simple yet effective technique to get a high-resolution image from a pixelated video in order to recover redacted information (with no guessing involved).
2921
Improve Git monorepo performance with a file system monitor
Monorepo performance can suffer due to the sheer number of files in your working directory. Git’s new builtin file system monitor makes it easy to speed up monorepo performance.
2922
How to waste time and overcomplicate things
This post ended up being fairly popular on Hacker News and sparked conversations about project management and development in the IT industry. You can find the post here .
2923
Win16 Retro Development
Several months ago I had a go at producing a high resolution 256-color driver for Windows 3.1. The effort was successful but is not yet complete. Along the way I re-learned many things I had forgotten, and learned several new ones. This blog entry is based on notes I made during development.
2924
Solving some formal math olympiad problems
We built a neural theorem prover for Lean that learned to solve a variety of challenging high-school olympiad problems, including problems from the AMC12 and AIME competitions, as well as two problems adapted from the IMO.
2925
Finally, no bid on mortgage-backed securities
From my friend Kevin Oakley, I see this news on Twitter:
2926
How to sell tickets fairly
A proposal of how to sell a limited number of tickets to a live concert in a fair way
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Companies That Use Haskell in Production
Do you know why large companies like GitHub, Microsoft, Tesla, and Meta choose to use Haskell? Read our article on Haskell success stories to find out the answer.
2929
Removing HTTP/2 Server Push from Chrome
HTTP/2 Server Push will be disabled by default in Chrome 106
2930
Docusaurus 2.0
Today we are extremely happy to finally announce Docusaurus 2.0! 🥳️
2931
Wikimedia Enterprise announces Google and Internet Archive as first customers
Wikimedia Enterprise announced its first customers: multinational technology company Google and nonprofit digital library Internet Archive. Wikimedia Enterprise was recently launched by the Wikimedia Foundation as an opt-in product.
2932
The “agencies of one” storm is coming
Since a long time ago, companies hire agencies for help in design, accounting, social media management… you name it. While this was happening for a long time and is now considered the norm, t…
2933
Patents are out of control, and they’re hurting innovation (2017)
The government issues thousands of new patents every week — each one a new regulation — with little to no oversight or review.
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The phones of Ukrainian president Zelensky
Interesting telephone equipment in the offices of Ukrainian president Zelensky
2935
Nuclear power is too slow
One common and plausible argument against nuclear power is that it is too slow.
2936
Patch OpenSSL on November 1 to avoid “critical” security vulnerability
The GlobalSign blog is the top resource to see what's trending in public key infrastructure (PKI), SSL/TSL, digital signing solutions, cybersecurity & more!
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The Docker+WASM Technical Preview
Learn more about the Docker+Wasm Technical Preview that enables all developers to quickly & easily build applications that target Wasm runtimes.
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I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next (2020)
If you follow Gamefromscratch on Twitter, you may have already seen this tweet I put out last night about a blackmail demand that was made against our YouTube channel:First off, I really want to give a gigantic shout out to all of the people that helped get the message out, the tweets, retweets and even [...]
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Asahi Linux: July 2022 Release and Progress Report
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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The Life of Pi: Ten Years of Raspberry Pi
The most successful computer ever to come out of the UK celebrates its tenth anniversary this year.