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    Babylon 7.0 Is Out

    Our mission is to build one of the most powerful, beautiful, simple, and open web rendering...

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    I have been scammed in the Booking.com Internal Chat System

    ·FollowSince 2023, a new type of scam has emerged, scams in the Booking.com internal chat system....

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    Backpressure explained – the resisted flow of data through software

    Backpressure (or back pressure) is something nearly every software engineer will have to deal with at...

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    We Bet on Scala at SwissBorg

    Scala has been with us since the company’s inception, and we are really satisfied with how...

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    CFEngine's Star Trek and AI Origins (2023)

    CFEngine is 30 years old this year. For a piece of software, that’s been quite a...

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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...

  • 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...

  • Dynamic Programming in Lisp Flavored Erlang

    (See also: Part 1 and Part 3.)(Note: You can find the completed LFE code from this...