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In distributed systems, selecting a leader is crucial to prevent multiple nodes from performing the same task. Implementing leader election using distributed locking is essential. Often, costly stateful services are used for this purpose, but with AWS S3 recently adding support for conditional writes, a simple and efficient leader election algorithm can be implemented. This […]
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Lem simplifies Common Lisp development with built-in LSP support for multiple languages. The editor is perfect for keyboard-oriented users, especially those coming from Emacs or Vim. The unique twist? John McCarthy supposedly shared alien technology with the world in 1958 when he introduced Lisp – a tradition Lem continues. With a GUI version available since […]
After 27 years of covering the world of computing hardware, AnandTech is sadly ending its publication journey. Starting with a review of an AMD processor and ending with the same, AnandTech has seen the evolution of technology from boxy desktops to pocket computers. The platform will keep its website and articles live, ensuring access for […]
CIEL 0.0-dev is an extended Lisp that is 100% Common Lisp with batteries included. It allows users to easily interact with APIs and perform tasks like reading JSON data from a website. The code snippet provided demonstrates how to retrieve product information from a fake store API using CIEL. To access the full documentation, users […]
Anthropic’s Prompt Engineering course aims to teach you how to create effective prompts in Claude. You will learn the basics, common mistakes, and advanced techniques to build strong prompts for various scenarios. The course includes hands-on exercises and examples to practice with Claude 3 Haiku model. Anthropic offers more advanced models like Claude 3 Sonnet […]
The post discusses tricks for jailbreaking hosts behind enterprise firewalls to facilitate inbound and outbound requests over any protocol. These tricks are beneficial for deploying software in hostile networking environments, especially for vendors selling on-premises software that needs to operate within restricted networks. The post outlines techniques such as forward proxies, reverse proxies, reverse tunnels, […]
The web content features a distraction blocking application called amine, which allows users to customize Pomodoro sessions, block distractions like key combinations and mouse movement, enforce fullscreen mode on chosen websites, and exit using a specific key combination. The STRICT version of the app does not have an exit mechanism. The application boasts a user-friendly […]
Summary: This file contains information about a project led by Evan Hemsley, with contributions from Caleb Cornett, Ethan Lee, Andrei Alexeyev, Bart van der Werf, Zakary Strange, meyraud705, Joshua T. Fisher, Topi Ritala, David Gow, and Ryan C. Gordon. It includes work on Metal port, console ports, production, QA, SDL_Render driver, D3D12 programming, bug fixes, […]
This web content showcases Google’s closure library, which has been archived by the owner on Aug 1, 2024, and is now read-only. The closure library was a common JavaScript library, but Google no longer sees it as meeting the needs of modern JavaScript development and recommends users to look for alternative solutions. The library had […]
The author delves into the balkanization of the internet due to bulletproof infrastructure and cloud providers deemed “too big to fail.” The historical context from 1995 to the present day is discussed, highlighting the evolution from non-commercial to commercial internet models based on surveillance capitalism. Unique insights include the challenges of interoperability between cloud native […]