Work to develop a reusable engine for European rockets is progressing, with full ignition of an early prototype of Prometheus. These images were taken on 22 June 2023 at ArianeGroup’s test facility in Vernon, France during a 12-second burn.
How understanding cognitive load and team capacity can help you decide on an architectural style
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This week I finally moved my gaming/Linux PC into my little office rack—it's that 2U box above the UPS at the bottom: I remembered seeing Linus Tech Tips' 4U build in a video a couple years ago—but he has a full 42U rack in his basement. I don't have that much space—just 2U (technically 3U if I wanted) in my little…
The massive false positive rate of general AI detectors had a devastating effect on freelance writer Michael Berben: being falsely accused of cheating, he lost his job.
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Without maintenance, most digital information will be lost in just a few decades. How might we secure our data so that it survives for generations?
Read about why we built a resource-efficient alternative for Zookeeper from scratch in C++, what our next big step with it is, and how you can join the Keeper community.
It’s 1995 and I’ve been nearly two years in the professional workspace. OS/2 is the dominant workstation product, Netware servers rule the world, and the year of the Linux desktop is going to happen any moment now. If you weren’t running OS/2, you were probably running Windows 3.1, only very few people were using that…
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Ready, set , begin… (you don’t know how hard I tried to resist to making that pun). We begin our inquiry with the theory of sets. Set theory and category theory share many similarities. We can view category theory as a generalization of set theory. That is, it’s meant to describe the same thing as set theory…
Your entire worldview changes when you realize you can create luck.
A reflection on the 50th anniversary of my friend's death.
The following is based upon systems of equations found in "Symmetry in Chaos, A Search for Pattern in Mathematics, Art, and Nature" (the second edition) by Michael Field and Martin Golubitsky. They ask the question whether there are aperiodic chaotic attractors that generate symmetric patterns? Can there be order…
I managed to exploit the Nintendo DSi browser 15 years after it was released in Japan. This post will go over the journey and the technical details.
How I detected that Let's Encrypt issued 645 non-compliant certificates
Utah's Google search volume for "VPN" is soaring following PornHub's decision to shut down access for the state in response to strict ID laws.
You had things running with occasional glitches and there was always an excuse “It works in my machine” as there is rarely identical…
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The mineral content of wheat and rice is lower today than sixty years ago. Why is that and what does it mean for how we eat?
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Why generative AI tools can be so difficult to use and how we might improve them
Biologist’s innovative research on how cells rebuild themselves could be the future of regenerative medicine
It’s time to move from Buffer to Uint8Array.
The `ldd` utility is more vulnerable than you think. It's frequently used by programmers and system administrators to determine the dynamic library dependencies of executables. Sounds pretty innocent, right? Wrong! In this article I am going to show you how to create an executable that runs arbitrary code if it's...
To learn how optimizing compilers are made, I built one targeting the 6502 architecture . In a bizarre twist, my compiler generates faster code than GCC, LLVM, and every other compiler I compared it to.
I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have been running the open-source recreation Haiku for many years. I think it’s interesting to explore the “alternative OS” world and consider some great ideas that for whatever reason never caught on elsewhere. The way Haiku handles package management and its alternative…
