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Emily Grosvenor, a feng shui consultant and design magazine editor, provides advice on how to incorporate a love of books into life while acknowledging the human desire for balance, beauty, and space. Grosvenor recommends that book lovers let their space dictate how many books they have and which books should stay in physical form rather […]
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OceanGate’s tourist submarine, Titan, has gone missing with a crew of five aboard during an expedition to the Titanic shipwreck site. The non-standard design of the craft included steering apparently handled by an obsolete $30 Logitech F710 wireless PC game controller from 2010. Deep-sea rescuers fear for the safety of those on board as the capsule is bolted shut […]
Linen, a search engine friendly Slack alternative for communities, has launched its Mac and Windows Desktop clients built on Tauri, an open-source Electron alternative that is built on Rust. Compared to Electron, Tauri promises more performant and secure desktop clients by using a Webview that allows native browser’s webviews instead of shipping with Chromium. While […]
Using the “exit trap” pattern in Bash scripts can make them more reliable. By trapping the pseudo-signal “EXIT”, code placed in a “finish” function can ensure necessary cleanup operations are always performed, even in the event of an unexpected error. Without this pattern, there is a risk of resource leaks and other maintainability problems. The […]
DevPod is an open-source platform built by developers for developers. It offers a client-only environment with no vendor lock-in or server-side setup. It provides customization with its unopinionated support for any infrastructure, IDE, and programming language. DevPod helps to spin up dev environments based on the devcontainer.json file or by project analysis. With powerful desktop […]
Regular expressions are a powerful tool that can be used in different programming languages. A regular expression in Perl, /^1?$|^(11+?)1+$/, can be used to check if a number is prime or not. Although skeptical at first, someone tested the regular expression in Ruby and found that it also works in that language. The regular expression […]
Stack Overflow Labs is a new space for Stack Overflow, its community, and its customers to explore the future of knowledge sharing together. Stack Overflow for Teams sits at the intersection of curiosity and innovation, providing a space to ask and answer questions from peers, learn from experts within the company, and keep up with […]
The debate between using native enums or regular string columns with CHECK constraints in PostgreSQL has been settled in favor of the latter. While native enums come with ordering, type safety, and space efficiency, they also have limitations, such as the inability to remove an existing value. Updating an enum would require creating a new […]
Hash functions are integral in every programmer’s work, from optimizing database queries to securing data. But what exactly are hash functions and how do they work? This post breaks down the basics of hash functions, including how to measure their effectiveness and what makes them good. The article provides visualizations to demonstrate concepts such as […]
Benzene exposure has been linked to metabolic disorders, but its effect on adipose tissue had not been fully understood until a recent study, which discovered that exposure to the ubiquitous pollutant could induce lipodystrophy and disturb endocrine function of white adipose tissue. Adult mice exposed to benzene displayed decreased body fat content as well as […]