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In the latest release of Firefox, version 115.0, a new “feature” has been introduced that allows only certain extensions monitored by Mozilla to run on specific websites. While I understand the importance of giving users control over their extensions, this new feature gives Mozilla too much remote control. Safari and Chrome do not have this […]
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The author discusses the rewrite of Rust’s regex crate, which aims to improve internal composition and make it easier to add optimizations while maintaining correctness. This led to the creation of the regex-automata crate, which exposes the regex crate internals as separate APIs. The post highlights the problems that prompted the rewrite, including difficulties with […]
In Phoenix, Arizona, air conditioning is a necessity to survive the scorching heat and prevent emergency room visits due to heat-related illnesses. However, the increasing demand for air conditioners is exacerbating climate change, both through the use of fossil fuel-intensive electricity and the release of greenhouse gas refrigerants. To combat this, innovators are focusing on […]
In July 2021, Transair Flight 810, a Boeing 737-200, experienced an engine failure shortly after takeoff from Honolulu. As the pilots attempted to turn back to the airport, their second engine also failed. They executed a successful ditching at sea and were rescued. The National Transportation Safety Board’s final report revealed that the pilots did […]
In a surprising move, Canonical has decided to remove the LXD project from the LinuxContainers community and take it under its own wing. After 8 years of collaboration, the LXD project will now be found directly on Canonical’s websites. While the LinuxContainers team is saddened by this decision, they respect Canonical’s choice and are currently […]
No one enjoys hearing about other people’s dreams, but for some reason, people love talking about their own dreams. The dreams of artists, like writers, are particularly interesting. In a letter, Katherine Mansfield recounts a dream she had about Oscar Wilde, where they meet in a café and Wilde is dressed oddly. Vladimir Nabokov dreams […]
The author of this content discusses their needs and preferences for a desktop environment. They want a minimalistic desktop that doesn’t have a 1990’s feel but still provides good text rendering and rounded corners for windows and buttons. They praise GNOME for being ahead in terms of functionality, high-DPI display support, and integration with other […]
This web content introduces a project that explores the limits of TypeScript’s type system by implementing various functions and algorithms purely on top of the type system. The goal is to catch bugs and errors in code as it is being written, rather than waiting for them to appear when the code runs. The project […]
suc is a Simple Unix Chat system that offers core features similar to Slack, Mattermost, and IRC. It achieves this with just five lines of bash code. The simplicity of suc is in contrast to the massive line counts of other chat systems like Mattermost, which has over half a million lines of code. Suc […]
In this article, we explore the optimization techniques used to enhance the compression ratio and memory usage of Apache Arrow in the OTel Arrow protocol. We discuss the benefits of optimizing schemas in terms of memory usage and the various approaches to handle recursive schema definitions. We also highlight the importance of sorting in enhancing […]