Filipe Cruz (aka psenough) invited me to Inércia 2023, a local Demoscene event organized by the Associação Inércia that took place in the infamous Incrível Almadense. I’ve done my fair share of bouncing ball assembly demos in the 80s and others more recently, but I don’t qualify as a demoscener, not even by the lowest…
On the Herculaneum scroll and the underrated value of historical knowledge
Explore resources and tools created to inspire creativity, perform deep learning, and equip your company with Voice AI best practices.
Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket. Your car's digital infrastructure is a costly, dangerous nightmare – but for automakers in pursuit of postcapitalist…
Industrial production of readable insanity
David Patterson and team at UC Berkeley give RISC its name and make the first RISC microprocessor design.
This blogpost explores my journey of bringing higher level languages (in this case C) to console video-game modding, as an alternative to hand-tailored assembly mods.
Alan Turing, the pioneering Computer Scientist and World War II codebreaker, has a statue in Sackville Gardens in Manchester. On 23rd June each year, we surround it with flowers in his memory for his birthday.
Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust ! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @ThisWeekInRust on Twitter or @ThisWeekinRust on mastodon.social, or send us…
It has been 2 years since I published “CamelCase vs underscores: Scientific showdown”, and it still is easily the most visited article on this blog. Yesterday alone it got 2,614 views t…
Rheinmetall launches first pilot project for innovative curb stone chargers with the City of Cologne and TankE
This is how bubbles collapse: the "vital few" 4% sell at whatever the market will bear, pushing prices down, and the 64% awaken to the rapidly narrowing window for locking in bubble capital gains. Here's how we can tell if a speculative bubble is a bubble : everyone says it isn't a bubble --the market has reached a…
Cristiano Ronaldo makes 100 times more money than Pelé did in his prime. If you understand why, you’ll know when to expect an AI to take your job.
AI is finally useful for business, and everyone is likely underestimating its impact. But unless AI is open-source and truly owned by the end users the future for everyone but the software providers looks grim.
Subtitle: Yet Another Tech Interviewing Post There are hundreds and hundreds of blogs about how programming interviews suck, how they ask trivia questions or try to ask questions that only fresh graduates would know well (sort binary trees is the classical example). All these theories are correct, but I have
Upon seeing the adult world in detail, teens often lament “But it’s all so boring!” And in a standard trope of fiction, a spark of art infuses life, energy, and vitality into dull adults whose lives have lost all meaning.
This Sunday's Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams is expected to draw more than 100 million viewers, some of whom will have Alexa-enabled devices within range of their TV speakers. When Amazon's new Alexa ad airs, and Forest Whitaker asks his Alexa-enabled electric…
In the beginning, there was the egg. Then fictional people started eating that from different ends, and the terms of "little endians" an...
Connection and intimacy are still possible on the internet today.
Note: there's no hidden knowledge contained in this post, it's just a reflection on how reading someone's reaction to an analogous situation...
It′s mid-fall which means a new version of C# is coming soon. It′s time to find out what updates will soon appear in the language. Although C#12 has fewer features than previous versions, it still...
The Greatest business film ever made... in Canada
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Losing Signal par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
Grâce au dernier catalogue du satellite Gaia de l'ESA, une équipe internationale, conduite par des astronomes de l'Observatoire de Paris - PSL et du CNRS, obtient la mesure la plus précise de la…
Behind the scenes - how I'm making redblobgames.com - interactive explanations of game development algorithms and math
A comparative study of processor architectures.
Power-on self-test routines are widespread in electronics, and one of the oldest features in personal computers. Do Apple silicon Macs run them?
We look at the limitations of cron, examine systemd timers as an alternative, but in the end pick fcron as more user-friendly.
