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Introduction: Light manipulation is crucial in making optical technologies smaller. Traditional lenses are limited by thickness, leading to increased demand for flat lenses like metasurfaces. Metasurfaces consist of sub-wavelength structures that modulate light. Fabricating metalenses requires high aspect ratios through specialized techniques. New methods like nanoimprint lithography are being explored to simplify fabrication. Flat lenses […]
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The author suggests that an alternative ROCm binary release for “unofficially” supported GPUs could help resolve the device support mess. By providing this release with a disclaimer, AMD could address the issue of limited bandwidth for testing thoroughly. The author highlights the community’s contributions in making ROCm run on various GPUs through patches and workarounds. […]
In this revealing blog post, the author shares their journey of failures in life, particularly in their ambitious endeavors of becoming a tenured professor and founding a successful startup. The narrative unfolds with a humorous and reflective tone, highlighting the ups and downs of each pursuit. The author’s stories are filled with valuable lessons learned, […]
SRCL is an open-source React component and style repository that allows you to create web applications, desktop applications, and static websites with a terminal-inspired aesthetic. The action bar organizes primary and secondary actions with a monospace font, while the accordion components provide space-efficient layouts. Other features include action buttons for task-based interactions, action lists for […]
The photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, created using images from the Hubble Space Telescope, took over a decade and features 200 million stars, a small fraction of Andromeda’s trillion-star population. Edwin Hubble’s discovery a century ago that Andromeda was outside the Milky Way galaxy transformed our understanding of the cosmos. Andromeda continues to provide crucial […]
“I’ve been diving deep into Black Ops Cold War and uncovered some intriguing details about its user-mode anti-cheat system, TAC. Unlike Modern Warfare, TAC lacks a kernel-mode component. The game employs Arxan for obfuscation, making life harder for cheats and reverse engineers. With runtime executable decryption, entry point obfuscation, and pointer encryption, the game’s integrity […]
Rhia is an embedded scripting language and evaluation engine for Rust that allows easy and safe addition of scripting to any application. It supports all CPU and O/S targets of Rust, including WebAssembly. The language is simple, similar to JavaScript and Rust, with dynamic typing. It efficiently integrates with native Rust functions and types, allowing […]
Parinfer simplifies writing Lisp by adjusting parens automatically when indentation changes and vice versa. It aims to make basic Lisp-editing easier for beginners and experts while still accommodating more advanced plugins like Paredit. Through interactive demonstrations, Parinfer showcases capabilities like auto-formatting code, influencing nesting with indentation, and maintaining alignment when code changes. The system offers […]
The author reflects on their time at Y Combinator in 2015, highlighting the impactful mentorship and the pressure to succeed in the startup world. After their startup failed, they were “acquihired” by GitHub, providing a bittersweet ending to that chapter of their life. The author shares their journey of self-discovery, transitioning to being transgender and […]
In this blog post, we explore TypeScript enums, delving into their functionality, use cases, and alternatives. Enumerating members and exhaustiveness checks are discussed, showcasing the benefits of enums for defining fixed sets of values. The post also highlights the limitations of enums, such as only allowing numbers and strings as member values. Surprisingly, alternatives like […]