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Mike Brixius is on a quest to finish his Commodore 64 CRPG, Digital Dungeon Master, which he started in 1984. Based on the Avalon Hill tabletop games and Telengard, the game boasted a limited line of sight and open-world inspired by Ultima IV. Brixius has kept all disks, tapes, notes, and hand-documented assembly code printouts […]
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The author conducts a performance analysis of the Intel AVX-512 sort implementation, comparing it to other generic sort implementations, such as std::sort and vqsort. The analysis aims to put the popularized “10~17x” number into perspective and look at how hardware specific manual vectorization with wide AVX-512 SIMD is not the only way to write efficient […]
Seagate has given an update on its heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology, revealing that it will release its first commercial hard drive using this recording method in Q3 2023, with a capacity of 32 TB. The new recording technology will allow for a relatively swift upgrade to a 40 TB capacity. Seagate says high-capacity HAMR hard drives […]
The latest episode of Manhattan explores the controversial possibility that Jean Tatlock, the daughter of a notable professor, may have been murdered by intelligence agents who were working for Manhattan Project security. The idea of this could be seen as a crazy conspiracy theory by some, but investigative authors Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin have […]
In Part 1 of this two-part article, the author explores the history of Japanese convenience stores and how they differ from their American counterparts. With over 56,000 stores across 47 prefectures, Japanese convenience stores go beyond selling food, drinks, and alcohol, doubling as ATMs, book stores, and even Amazon pick up points. The author delves […]
Over 100 subreddits have gone dark in protest of the app’s coming API changes which would force many third-party apps to shut down. Thousands more are expected to follow, according to Reddark, which is tracking the protests. Demonstration is primarily focused on changes to the API, which will force third-party apps to shut down, and […]
Gren is a simple and efficient programming language that is perfect for creating correct applications without the common runtime exceptions. With its strong static type system and managed side-effects, Gren offers a few easy-to-understand concepts that can work together to perform many different functions. The Gren compiler also acts as an assistant, detecting errors in […]
The author shares their experience of discovering two vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-30626 and CVE-2023-30627, in the open-source Jellyfin media server. They explain their approach and methodology of exploring the REST API in the server, and how they exploited a file write vulnerability in the devices section’s admin dashboard to perform a stored Cross-Site Scripting attack. They ultimately […]
The Tiny Awards is a new prize awarded by an online selection committee to the website that best represents the idea of a small, playful, and heartfelt web. There will be a $500 cash prize and a physical trophy engraved with the winner’s name. To be eligible, the projects must be non-commercial, exist on a […]
In this article, the author discusses the use of machine learning in Elixir and how it compares to Python. While the author acknowledges that Python is the default language for machine learning projects, they argue that Elixir offers strong advantages due to its powerful abstractions for distributing work, concurrency, and scalability. Additionally, Elixir’s focus on […]