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Context: The Missing Feature of Programming Languages
Modern computer hardware is so capable that we can often simply ignore its limitations when writing...
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The Woodpecker in Heat That Attacked and Delayed a Space Shuttle
Close-up perspective of the woodpecker holes in the External Tank (ET) foam insulation of STS-70. [Photo...
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Hands on with a Science Fair 160-1 electronic projects kit
This particular IC is not too interesting in modern times, it is fairly obscure, and many...
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Fast Virtual Functions: Hacking the VTable for Fun and Profit
Virtual functions have clear intrinsic value; using them can make architectures significantly more flexible and solve...
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I thought I understood Bitcoin, until now – by Jurjen Bos – Mar, 2024
I don’t do book reviews, but I am happy to make an exception for this one....
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The myth of natural talent. And why we still believe in it
Photo by Etienne Girardet on UnsplashYou have probably encountered some of the following sentences in your...
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Chicken Sexing and Knowing
·FollowDetermining the sex of a newborn chick has been a problem that has plagued the poultry...
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One Simple Prompt Boosts Claude3 and Mistral's API Calling Performance over GPT4
Subtitle: I Spent $100 to Compare the API Calling Capabilities of OpenAI’s Claude 3 and Mistral’s...
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Five Koans of Software Architecture (2022)
Random advice I find myself repeating a lot…Yoga meditation vector created by vectorjuice“Those who should decide...
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How a "dumbphone" made me better
·Follow94% of internet connections worldwide are made from a smart phone. In the US alone, 97%...
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Insanity in the Air: The crash of Pakistan International Airlines flight 8303
Charred wreckage fills a residential street in Karachi after the crash of flight 8303. (AP)On the...
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A Modern Car Runs on 100M Lines of Code – But Who Will Write Them?
Cars are very much rolling computers today. They contain a network of electronic control units (ECUs),...
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You Shouldn't Use VS Code
·FollowWe’re in the midst of midterm season and for computer science majors, that means doing what...
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Dora Metrics at Work
sourceImagine your team secured a budget for doubling the number of software engineers. That’s great! You...
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Researchers, please replace SQLite with DuckDB now
You are a researcher, potentially in the life or social sciences, and your organization offers you...
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MO| Why is shuffle support needed?
The basic principle of the shuffle algorithm is to bucket the input data, where each bucket’s...
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Postgres is eating the database world
PostgreSQL isn’t just a simple relational database; it’s a data management framework with the potential to...
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Dynamic Programming in Lisp Flavored Erlang
(See also: Part 1 and Part 3.)(Note: You can find the completed LFE code from this...
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Using Promise Theory to solve the distributed consensus problem
Whenever we try to fix something in one corner of IT, we seem to yank another...
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The minimum vi(m) you need to know
Vim or vi is a commandline text editor. And let’s just say, it can do a...
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Power Laws in Culture
The idea that the Internet would cause media fragmentation is almost as old as the modern...
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A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled Copyleft Trolls
Here’s a supreme irony: the Creative Commons licenses were invented to enable a culture of legally...