You prefer books published before 2022 due to the manual effort involved in their creation, giving them more weight and credibility. This preference stems from valuing the human touch and effort that went into producing these works.
Finland's libraries are thriving as community service centers, offering more than just books, and promoting social inclusion and democracy. They are valued for their role in helping societies function, with over 700 libraries serving Finland's 5.6 million people.
The user discusses the differences between epoll and io_uring for handling asynchronous I/O on Linux, highlighting io_uring's efficiency and reduced syscall overhead. io_uring is recommended for modern Linux projects due to its improved performance and architectural changes.
SMPTE has made its entire Standards catalog freely available to the global media technology community. This move aims to accelerate adoption and implementation, strengthen interoperability, and drive innovation in the industry.
You're measuring time in requests or outages, but users like Alice and Alex experience time in seconds and minutes, leading to a discrepancy in perceived wait times. This is due to the inspection paradox, where users experience a time-weighted version of the latency distribution, resulting in a higher mean time to recovery than the actual MTTR.
visionOS receives X11 calls from clients and vintage machines, opening each top-level window separately. X authority cookies are generated on device and copied to clients for secure connections.
A benchmark was created to compare Postgres performance across various services, including AWS RDS, Aurora, and others, using a TPC-B-like workload. The results show that Postgres managed by ClickHouse outperforms others due to its NVMe-backed storage and architecture.
The F-15 Strike Eagle 2 reconstruction project has made significant progress, with all C code rewritten and data moved from assembly to C. The project is now open for testing and bug reporting, with the latest release v0.9.1 available for download.
Phoenix Semiconductor repackages off-the-shelf semiconductors to replace unavailable chips for the US Navy and other customers. The company aims to bridge the gap between high-mix, low-volume demand and large chip manufacturers.
To estimate the cost of serving AI models, we calculate the dollar cost-per-user based on GPU cluster scale, model architecture, and inference math. With a 32B model on a B200 GPU, we can serve 300 users comfortably, with a lifetime cost of $133 per user or $0.013 per user per hour.
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Dialog, a secret group led by Peter Thiel, has a 2026 retreat with 222 attendees including high-ranking officials and business leaders. The group's focus is on AI, longevity, and the near future, with some predicting societal degeneration and mass labor displacement.
Unauthorized alert with "misantropi4" message sent to cell phones in Brazil, suspected to be a hacker attack. Brazilian government is investigating the incident and restoring the National Civil Defense's warning platform.
StartupWiki is a community-driven AI-powered research directory of global startup ventures. Explore AI, Biotech, CleanTech, FinTech and more.
A marketing agency, Qontour, created an unauthorized website for The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, using AI-generated content and monetizing it with affiliate links. The site outranks the official site in search results, causing confusion over its authorship and potentially damaging the book's reputation.
Imagine you’re running late and rushing to the bank. Upon arrival, you’re immediately faced with an important investment decision. Here, your momentarily unrelated physiological arousal state, such as increased heart rate or rapid breathing, influences your choice, potentially leading to suboptimal decisions you might later regret. However, the same choice made calmly, under a more relaxed ...
make-look-scanned is a CLI and browser tool that degrades PDFs to look like physical scans. It uses Go and a C toolchain for the CLI and PDF.js for the browser build, both with AGPL-3.0 licenses.
Tesco sued Broadcom for breach of contract over VMware licenses, claiming it must pay excessive prices for software updates. Tesco warns that lack of support may impact its ability to supply groceries in the UK and Ireland.
South Korea's defense industry has grown rapidly, becoming the 9th-largest arms exporter in the world, with a projected combined revenue of $37 billion in 2026. The country's emphasis on speed, affordability, and technology transfer has made it a reliable alternative supplier to European NATO members.
The web is full of content but empty of people. TownSquare brings a little presence back. Visitors can see each other, say a few words, and share the same space. No accounts. No algorithms. Just the present. Click, tap, or use ← → to move · Press T or tap your name to say something · Press J to jump and H to high-five with someone “I haven't encountered something this fun and playful on ...
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Cloudflare updated Wrangler to allow agents to deploy code without signing up for an account. Agents can now use the --temporary flag to deploy code instantly, with a 60-minute claim window to make the account permanent.
A Stanford University study found that couples in excellent relationships were more likely to have their relationships improve during the pandemic, with mutual agreement on safety measures being a key factor. The study suggests that modern relationships require too much from partners, leading to tension and isolation, but also highlights the importance of shared meaning and mutual support in ...
Argusred is a free security scanner that runs locally on your machine, scanning your code for vulnerabilities and attempting safe reproductions of findings with exploit verification. It offers a free trial with 2M tokens, and scans can be run in two modes: Security Scan and Pen Test, with the latter requiring booking and authorisation.
Loupe is an iOS and iPadOS app that gives you a hands-on tour of the device fingerprinting surface. It reads real values from public iOS APIs, the same ones any third-party app can call, and shows them to you raw. The point is simple: see what your iPhone quietly exposes, and why each reading helps an app recognize you again. Trackers don't need your name, email, or location to recognize ...
Tiny is a concurrent language with a runtime system that compiles to bytecode and runs on a virtual machine. It features a multi-tiered execution model, direct OS-level parallel threading, and a built-in Language Server.
Pointe shoes have evolved over the past few decades with small adjustments and some manufacturers incorporating 21st-century technologies. Despite innovation, traditional aesthetics and limited financial resources hinder widespread adoption of new designs.
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Linux 7.2 has eliminated the deprecated strncpy API due to bugs and performance issues. It has been replaced with alternative functions like strscpy() and memcpy().
microcrad is a C re-implementation of Andrej Karpathy's micrograd, providing a tiny scalar-valued automatic differentiation engine with a small neural network implementation. It uses reference counting for memory management and supports a feed-forward network with a ReLU activation function.