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Extreme Multi-Threading: C++ and Julia 1.9 Integration
A guide to weaving C++ threads into Julia with the latest thread adoption feature in Julia version 1.9
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Japan’s silent movie culture is still going
There was a cultural divide in benshi preferences, rather like the difference in taste between those
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PostgreSQL Logical Replication Explained
Vigneshwaran C explained the internals of PostgreSQL Logical Replication during PGConf India - if you were not able to attend, you can read all here.
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Building Alex Taradov’s open-source USB sniffer
A couple of months ago I stumbled upon a post on Hackaday about an inexpensive open-source USB 2.0 sniffer created by Alex Taradov . This is a really cool project! Normally, USB sniffers like this can cost thousands of dollars, especially if you’re paying for fancy protocol decoding and also want high-speed 480 Mbps…
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Open source email pioneer Roundcube joins the Nextcloud family
Becoming a new steward for Roundcube, Nextcloud sets sail to foster the growth and improvement of the project.
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Our Journey with Apache Arrow (Part 2): Adaptive Schemas and Sorting
In the previous article, we discussed our use of Apache Arrow within the context of the OpenTelemetry project. We investigated various techniques to maximize the efficiency of Apache Arrow, aiming to find the optimal balance between data compression ratio and queryability. The compression results speak for themselves…
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US Smartphone Shipments Decline 19% in Q3 2023 as More Americans Delay Upgrade
Counterpoint Research Insight
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AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment
Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in unsustainable ways
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The Relativity of Wrong (1989)
I received a letter from a reader the other day. It was handwritten in crabbed penmanship so that it was very difficult to read. Nevertheless, I tried to make it out just in case it might prove to be important.
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Tailwind vs. Semantic CSS
Comparing two identically designed websites, their weight, amount of HTML and CSS, rendering speed, and best practices.
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Protocol Labs is laying off 21% of staff (89 people)
Protocol Labs is an innovation network driving breakthroughs in computing to push humanity forward.
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Potato Diet Riff Trial: Sign Up Now, Lol
When we finished the Potato Diet Community Trial, we found ourselves in a pickle. The diet worked — people lost 10.6 lbs on average over only four weeks — and we had basically no idea why. No idea …
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My views on NeoHaskell
A rundown and critique of the NeoHaskell project
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Firefox Money: Investigating the Finances of Mozilla
Connect with Lunduke and other members of Lunduke community
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How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything
In his TED Talk, Stephen Wolfram covers the emergence of space by the application of computational rules to spacetime, gravity and quantum mechanics to AI and LLMs. Computational irreducibility and the ruliad.
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You just gotta tell a good story
I’ve been studying storytelling for my whole adult life. Theatre, Film, Writing, Digital.. you name it, I’ve studied it. ( Literally I have…
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Efficiency trades off against resiliency
What’s the “right” level of CPU utilization for a server? If you look at a monitoring dashboard from a well-designed and well-run service, what CPU utilization should we hope to see, averaged over a day or two? It’s a very general question, and it’s not clear it should have a single answer. That said, for a long time…
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The secret life of fsync
Random thoughts on concurrency, databases and…2023124 points62 commentsSystems & Performance details
What kind of durability guarantees fsync system call provides in Linux? Let's find out.
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The heaviness of maintaining systems
Our systems and ourselves
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Using {blocks} in Rust and Go for fun and profit
Did you know you can just whip out curly-braces all over the place in Rust and Go?
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Webstudio: Open-source WYSIWYG adds Radix UI elements
Design unique user interfaces with dropdowns, dialogs, forms, navigation menus, tooltips, and more, all in a visual builder.
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What Will Transformers Transform?
Generative Pre-trained Transformer models (GPTs) are now all the rage and have inspired op-eds being written by everyone from Henry Kissinger (WSJ) to Noam Chomsky (NYTimes) in just the last month. That sure is some hype level.
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Blender moves from Phabricator to Gitea
Today Blender development is moving to a new platform, hosted on projects.blender.org.
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Haskell is not category theory
What, why, who?
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The Shitty Stack System
How Microsoft's ruthless employee evaluation system annihilated team collaboration.