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Unix shells used to be a reliable method of access control, allowing for specific administrative shells to be assigned to logins. These shells could provide helpful messages as to why a particular login was not allowed to use the system. However, in modern Unix environments, this method no longer works due to two core problems. […]
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In this episode of Goldman Sachs Exchanges: Great Investors, Renaissance Technologies CEO Peter Brown discusses his career and the growth of the hedge fund company. He shares insights on how the firm managed through market crises like the “quant quake” and the Global Financial Crisis, and emphasizes the role of computer models and algorithms in […]
Summary: In 1955, the author graduated from Burbank High School and began working at Walt Disney Studios as an inbetweener and breakdown artist on “Sleeping Beauty”. In 1974, they designed the space ship exterior for the film “Dark Star”, and in 1975, they collaborated with H.R. Giger on designs for “Jodorowsky’s Dune”. The author also […]
The FAIRness Project is introducing a draft update to the Data Catalog (DCAT) standard for the United States called “DCAT-US v3.0 Schema.” This update is based on the requirements received from agencies, data creators, providers, and users, as well as the lessons learned from the implementation of the Project Open Data Metadata Standard. The goal […]
Kargo is a new application lifecycle orchestrator that aims to revolutionize CD pipelines for the cloud-native era. Developed by the creators of the Argo Project, Kargo offers first-class GitOps support and progressive delivery features, making it a powerful tool for continuously delivering and promoting changes through environments. Unlike traditional CI/CD pipelines, Kargo takes a different […]
The OpenRA team is excited to announce the release of Playtest 20241228, featuring important fixes and minor features. Notable changes include the ability for Saboteurs to cloak while moving, an improved map editor with a delete area button, and fixes for various bugs including issues with harvesters and game window glitches on Windows 10. Also, […]
Before the dissolution of US crypto export regulations, Lotus Notes had a key escrow/backdoor feature called differential cryptography. The export version included 64-bit crypto, with 24 of those bits encrypted for the NSA’s public key. The remaining 40 bits could be brute-forced to obtain the plaintext. It was discovered that the NSA public key had […]
In this thought experiment, the author explores the idea of using SQLite as the basis for the OpenDocument file format, specifically the “ODP” OpenDocument Presentation format. The author highlights the benefits that this change would bring, including smaller file sizes, faster save and startup times, and better memory management. The author emphasizes that this is […]
Satellite observations of an ecological experiment on the island of Borneo have found that replanting logged forests with diverse mixtures of seedlings can accelerate their recovery. The experiment, conducted by the University of Oxford’s Professor Andy Hector and his colleagues, involved assessing the recovery of different plots in an area of logged tropical forest that […]
Enums in Rust can lead to significant memory fragmentation because the space allocated needs to accommodate the largest variant. This can be a problem when collecting a large number of enums into a Vec or HashMap. The padding can be dealt with using struct of arrays (SoA) transformation, but reducing variant fragmentation is more challenging. […]