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Instant is a client-side database designed to simplify the process of building real-time and collaborative apps like Notion or Figma. It handles data fetching, permission checking, and offline caching for you. Every query is multiplayer by default, supporting features like cursors and online status. Through minimal code, you can create a real-time chat app with […]
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This post contains a Table of Contents for Ian Lance Taylor’s 20-part essay on linkers, compiled by the author for easy reference. The topics covered include dynamic linking, linker data types, shared libraries, symbol resolution, thread local storage optimization, and more. The author, Ian Lance Taylor, offers insights on various aspects of linkers and their […]
The web content delves into the controversial idea that “data” itself may be a bad idea, challenging conventional wisdom in technology. Renowned computer scientist Alan Kay sparked a conversation about the ethical dimensions of data and its potential negative impact on human identity. The discourse leads to exploring the political consequences of data automation and […]
The author has created a dataset called TFHQ that consists of 186 thousand high resolution face images extracted from movie trailers, aiming to address the lack of diversity in expressions in existing datasets like FFHQ. The process involved filtering out low-quality images, deduplicating similar frames, and associating different images of the same person. The dataset […]
Physiologists thought the human body’s limit for diving was 30 meters until Jacques Mayol dove to 70.4 meters in 1968, shattering this belief. Herbert Nitsch set a world record at 214 meters in 2007, challenging physiologists even further. Free diving involves descending and returning with one breath, facing extreme pressures and no access to oxygen. […]
The project aims to bring hardware virtualization to Haiku by porting NVMM, a hypervisor with QEMU support, from DragonFlyBSD. Completed objectives include porting NVMM frontend and VMX backend, adding EPT support to the kernel, and patching QEMU to support NVMM on Haiku. Unresolved issues include non-working SVM backend, OS compatibility problems, poor performance on real […]
Isaiah is a self-hostable web application that allows you to efficiently manage all your Docker resources remotely, inspired by the lazydocker command-line tool. With features like bulk actions for stacks, containers, images, volumes, and networks, Isaiah offers a user-friendly interface for Docker fleet management. Unique aspects include the ability to run in a single-file executable […]
TL;DR: Spending time focused on a subject improves discernment, vital for jobs. Reality’s detail is often undetected. A piano tuner reveals the complexity of tuning, highlighting deviating frequencies and overtones. Technology struggles to match human discernment in tuning. The debate of high art quality continues – rock vs classical. Intellects debate value; general public values […]
“Aerc is a TUI email client that has been ‘babied’ in its ~4 years of existence compared to veterans like Pine and Mutt. Initially skeptical due to a lack of features, a recent revisit pleasantly surprised me. Aerc’s inbuilt help feature is handy and the account configuration is straightforward with flexible folder mapping options to […]
In a previous post, I discussed the encapsulation of PDUs on trunk ports, focusing on three different Ethernet encapsulations: Ethernet II, 802.2 LLC, and 802 SNAP. Understanding the origins of Ethernet is crucial, dating back to the collaboration between Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs in the 70s, leading to the formation of the DIX consortium […]