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The Rust language ecosystem is expanding rapidly with its unique features of memory and concurrency safety at compile time, powerful build system, and a growing number of packages (crates). While the author primarily uses C++ for low-level system and kernel programming, Rust’s system programming capabilities compete with C/C++. The process of converting C types to […]
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+ years since C++ was first conceived, and it has evolved to address challenges. However, many developers still use outdated techniques. To build performant, type-safe, and flexible C++ software, key concepts like resource management, modularity, and generic programming are crucial. Ways to ensure code is contemporary include guidelines and profiles. Contrary to past practices, modern […]
Ops teams often find themselves dealing with manual procedures that are time-consuming and repetitive, such as modifying infrastructure or provisioning user accounts. These procedures can become overwhelming with multiple steps, branches, and special cases to track. The frustration of these manual slogs can be alleviated through do-nothing scripting, where each step is encapsulated in a […]
“The Deck” is a mobile multiplayer offline card games aggregator developed in Dart and Flutter. Inspired by the frustration of not having the necessary cards for a game night, the goal is to provide a user-friendly digital game environment for classic card games. A unique feature is the ability to assign one device as the […]
Illegal sand extraction has become a highly profitable and low-risk criminal activity throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, with powerful gangs engaging in the trade. In Brazil, groups like Zinho’s operate in this underworld, supplying sand to the real estate market and monopolizing services to residents of illegal buildings, resulting in collapses. The lack of […]
Summary (103 words): In this insightful webpage written by John Kerl, he emphasizes the importance of clear and distinct handwriting, particularly for technical disciplines like engineering, science, and math. He provides guidance on distinguishing between similar looking symbols in the Roman alphabet, digits, and Greek alphabet, to avoid confusion especially in mathematical expressions. Kerl points […]
Summary: Web browsing has become more developer-centric and less user-friendly, with browsers catering to companies and developers. The solution is for users to rebel and customize their browsing experience. By utilizing bookmarklets and web extensions, users can create a more personalized web experience, such as adding features like post interfaces and feed discovery. WebExtensions allow […]
ExpenseOwl is a straightforward expense tracking system with a minimalist monthly pie-chart interface. Designed for simplicity, it allows users to easily track daily expenses and visualize monthly spending patterns without the complexity of other tracking tools. The focus is on quick expense input and deletion, no editing required. Users can customize categories, currency symbols, and […]
In this paper, the authors explore the importance of scaling data and compute for the success of machine learning, emphasizing the need for predictability in performance. Contrary to common belief, they demonstrate that value-based off-policy RL methods can be predictable, challenging community lore. By analyzing the updates-to-data (UTD) ratio, they establish a Pareto frontier for […]
Over the past ~20 years, Mozilla has evolved its code signing process for Firefox, starting with detached GPG signatures and progressing to Authenticode signing. With improvements like automation, parallelized signing, and Autograph, signing becomes faster and more secure. Surprisingly, Windows builds were signed on Linux using mono’s signcode version. Notarization with rcodesign allowed for cloud […]