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All possible plots by major authors (2020)

the-fence.com

We praise canonical authors for their boundless imagination. Then why do all their plots feel the...
We praise canonical authors for their boundless imagination. Then why do all their plots feel the same? anthony trollope Your happiness is put on hold when it transpires your fiancé failed to correctly cash a cheque. This lasts for 130 chapters. Everyone else is ordained. evelyn waugh The spectre of God’s grace haun...
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Game dev shows how to do a PC port right, outlines 106 to 314 FPS improvement

tomshardware.com

Graphing of the FPS improvement from 106 to 314 in the same CPU-intensive scene following 4...
Graphing of the FPS improvement from 106 to 314 in the same CPU-intensive scene following 4 optimization runs. (Image credit: PH3 Games (PC port), Nihon Falcom (original devs)) Past modder and current CTO of PC port developer PH3 Games Durante detailed taking an intensive scene from Ys X: Nordics running at 106 FPS ...
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Cofounder Mode: My tactical guide to finding a cofounder

repromptai.com

Oct 10, 2024 The tactical guide I spent 9 months and almost 100 “cofounder dates” finding...
Oct 10, 2024 The tactical guide I spent 9 months and almost 100 “cofounder dates” finding my cofounder. It took way more time and effort than I was expecting. Since then, I’ve helped friends run a tight process to find their cofounder. Here’s the tactical guide I wish I had when I started. Define your ICP - your Ide...

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Meteorologists, please stop the fearmongering (2019)

lakeplacidnews.com

A snowplow makes its way down Main Street, Lake Placid, in November 2014. (News photo —...
A snowplow makes its way down Main Street, Lake Placid, in November 2014. (News photo — Andy Flynn)On Wednesday morning, Jan. 30, ever present on the Weather Channel’s screen to the right of meteorologist Jim Cantore reporting from Super Bowl headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, were the words “Frozen America: Life-thr...

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Forscape – A Language and Editor for Scientific Computation

github.com
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The Future of Big Iron: An Interview with IBM’s Christian Jacobi

substack.com

Any article about IBM’s big mainframe hardware waxes lyrical about the ‘good-old days’ of multi-generational backwards...
Any article about IBM’s big mainframe hardware waxes lyrical about the ‘good-old days’ of multi-generational backwards compatible processing that props up almost every key industry world-wide due to features such as 9x9 (99.999999%) uptime, security, and hardware focused on database and transaction processing. Rathe...
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Fable is winding down

fable.app

Today, after much consideration, we have made the difficult decision to wind down Fable. This post...
Today, after much consideration, we have made the difficult decision to wind down Fable. This post outlines what you can expect in the coming weeks, and why we made this decision.What to expect from hereSupport Availability: Our support team will be available until October 30 2024 to assist with any questions or if ...
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Show HN: MacProxy Plus – Surf the Modern Web on Vintage Computers

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Asterinas: OS kernel written in Rust and providing Linux-compatible ABI

github.com
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Safer with Google: Advancing Memory Safety

googleblog.com

Posted by Alex Rebert, Security Foundations, and Chandler Carruth, Jen Engel, Andy Qin, Core Developers Error-prone...
Posted by Alex Rebert, Security Foundations, and Chandler Carruth, Jen Engel, Andy Qin, Core Developers Error-prone interactions between software and memory1 are widely understood to create safety issues in software. It is estimated that about 70% of severe vulnerabilities2 in memory-unsafe codebases are due to memo...
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The Sundial Cannon of Åtvidaberg (2017)

amusingplanet.com

In the not-too-distant past, before the invention of modern timekeeping devices, noontime —the moment when the...
In the not-too-distant past, before the invention of modern timekeeping devices, noontime —the moment when the sun is at the highest position in the sky— held special significance. Unlike other cues like the rising and setting of the sun, or the moon, or the stars, whose time changes from day to day throughout the y...
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Show HN: I 3D scanned the tunnels inside the Maya Pyramid Temples at Copan

mused.com
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Zep AI (YC W24) Is Hiring AI Engineers and Dev Advocates

ycombinator.com
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Meta's open AI hardware vision

fb.com

At the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit 2024, we’re showcasing our latest open AI hardware...
At the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit 2024, we’re showcasing our latest open AI hardware designs with the OCP community. These innovations include a new AI platform, cutting-edge open rack designs, and advanced network fabrics and components. By sharing our designs, we hope to inspire collaboration and fos...
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A not so fast implementation of cosine similarity in C++ and SIMD

joseprupi.github.io

There isn’t much to see here, just me dusting off some old architecture knowledge to parallelize...
There isn’t much to see here, just me dusting off some old architecture knowledge to parallelize computations using SIMD, implement it in C++, and compare the results with Python. The task involved creating a vectorized version of the cosine similarity in C++ to compare its performance against Python, NumPy, SciPy, ...
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PEP 762 – REPL-acing the default REPL

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Show HN: Arch – an intelligent prompt gateway built on Envoy

github.com
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Court tells EPA to consider fluoride risk

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In Jordan, a ‘stunning’ discovery under Petra’s ancient stone

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Intel and AMD form advisory group to reshape x86 ISA

theregister.com

The shape of the x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) is evolving. On Tuesday, Intel and AMD...
The shape of the x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) is evolving. On Tuesday, Intel and AMD announced the formation of an ecosystem advisory group intended to drive greater consistency between the brands' x86 implementations. Intel and AMD have been co-developing the x86-64 instruction for decades. But while end ...
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A team paid to break into top-secret bases

bbc.com

Getty ImagesRed Teams try to break into high security facilitiesA crack team assembles and breaks into...
Getty ImagesRed Teams try to break into high security facilitiesA crack team assembles and breaks into a top secret military base or corporate headquarters - you've probably seen it in a film or on TV a dozen times. But such teams exist in the real world and can be hired to test the tightest security. Plenty of firm...
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The C23 edition of Modern C is now available for free

wordpress.com

The C23 edition of Modern C is now available for free download from https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02383654 This new...
The C23 edition of Modern C is now available for free download from https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02383654 This new edition has been the occasion to overhaul the presentation in many places, but its main purpose is the update to the new C standard, C23. The goal was to publish this new edition of Modern C at the same tim...
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Sqlite3 WebAssembly

sqlite.org

This site is home to the documentation for the SQLite project's WebAssembly- and JavaScript-related APIs, which...
This site is home to the documentation for the SQLite project's WebAssembly- and JavaScript-related APIs, which enable the use of sqlite3 in modern WASM-capable browsers. These components were initially released for public beta with version 3.40 and will tentatively be made API-stable with the 3.41 release, pending ...
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Python Inline Script Metadata

python.org

This specification defines a metadata format that can be embedded in single-file Python scripts to assist...
This specification defines a metadata format that can be embedded in single-file Python scripts to assist launchers, IDEs and other external tools which may need to interact with such scripts. This specification defines a metadata comment block format (loosely inspired by reStructuredText Directives). Any Python scr...
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