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The author shares a cautionary tale about their experience with Chase Bank freezing $180,000 of their money without warning, causing chaos for their business. They highlight the importance of diversifying banking partners and choosing financial institutions that support small businesses. The author also reflects on the lack of customer loyalty in modern banking and shares […]
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Author’s voice: The OpenSSH backdoor incident serves as a stark reminder of the risks involved in open source development and supply chain attacks. The attackers targeted the build system, making the attack hard to detect. The xz-utils backdoor, a recent case, was designed with precision and optionality, offering flexibility to attackers. The historical 2002 attack […]
NanoLog is a high-performance nanosecond scale logging system for C++, achieving over 80 million logs/second with a median latency of 7 nanoseconds. The system extracts static log information at compile-time, only logging dynamic components at runtime, and deferring formatting to an offline process. It shifts work out of runtime to improve performance. Comparative performance with […]
Surreal Engine aims to recreate key elements of the original Unreal Engine to allow for playing Unreal Tournament (UT99) maps. Currently, the engine is capable of loading and rendering maps, and has mostly completed the Unrealscript VM, but there are still some features and functions that are not fully implemented. The project can detect various […]
Deploying Kubernetes clusters for development and testing can result in unnecessary duplication. Kardinal’s open-source framework offers a solution by consolidating pre-production clusters into a single environment. This lightweight system isolates development and QA workflows, creating logical “environments” within one cluster. For example, the voting-app team can easily spin up isolated dev environments and test new […]
Welcome to Vittles! This week, Tim Anderson explores the trend of katsuification in Britain, where everything seems to have become katsu curry. McDonald’s and Burger King have joined in on the craze with unique offerings, showcasing a clever and exciting embrace of British tastes. From katsu curry crisps to katsu curry baby food, the phenomenon […]
The author watched a video about creating a fluid simulation in Unity and decided to give it a try in C++ using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH). This method requires estimating fluid properties for each particle, such as density, and moving particles in the direction of the density gradient. Optimization involves implementing a grid-based system to […]
This content focuses on the significance of hypothesis testing in scientific research using the example of the hyoscine clinical trial conducted by Cushny and Peebles at Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital. It discusses the misuse and misinterpretation of P-values in statistical analysis, highlighting common fallacies and presenting alternative methods such as Bayesian statistics and Expected Encompassing Intrinsic […]
LWN.net urges readers to subscribe to keep the publication going. Zettlr, created by Hendrik Erz, is a WYSIWYM editor ideal for writing various content including academic papers, blog posts, and personal journals. Zettlr is cross-platform, customizable, and supports creating projects for organizing work. The editor features real-time Markdown rendering, multiple themes including dark mode, and […]
Python has a powerful preprocessor allowing for custom encodings and configurations. Source code encoding is defined with magic comments. Additionally, Python can execute arbitrary code during initialization by creating a path configuration file. Custom codecs can be defined to preprocess source files. Unary increment and decrement operators can be emulated using assignment expressions. Brace scoping […]