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An article by Wharton professor Ethan Mollick explains how the modern economy relies heavily on a single road in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, leading to a Sibelco facility mining ultra-high-purity quartz crucial for refining silicon wafers. This unique location is the sole supplier of the quartz needed for semiconductor production. Should anything happen to disrupt […]
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pyenv is a simple Python version management tool that allows you to switch between multiple versions of Python. It follows the UNIX tradition of single-purpose tools and was forked from rbenv and ruby-build. pyenv lets you change the global Python version on a per-user basis, support per-project Python versions, and override the Python version with […]
Flatito is a tool similar to grep, specifically designed for YAML and JSON files. It allows users to search for a key and retrieve the associated value along with the line number it’s located on. Interestingly, “Flatito” is the singular past nominal passive participle of “flati” in Esperanto. The installation process involves adding the gem […]
The programming language Go offers easy building using Goroutines and channels. Katherine Cox-Buday’s book emphasizes mastering concurrency with Go’s design. Memory leaks are common, illustrated by Uber’s LeakProf system and personal experiences. Leaky Goroutines, like those due to incorrect channel handling, can be identified and fixed using pprof and tools like goleak. Pyroscope provides visual […]
nano-web is an ultra-minimal low-latency webserver using fasthttp. It pre-caches, compresses, and templates resources into memory for reduced latency. It supports Brotli and gzip compression, designed for Docker or nanovm unikernel use. It has runtime templating for environment variables, supporting configurable prefixes. The SPA mode serves 404s as indexes to enable client-side routing. It includes […]
Jampack is a post-processing tool that optimizes static websites for the best user experience and Core Web Vitals scores. It is not a bundler or framework, but rather works with the output of Static Site Generators. Jampack can make images responsive with dimensions and multiple formats, optimize CDN images, and compress assets for faster loading. […]
Eric Ghost’s unique LSD packaging from the 1960s cleverly disguised the psychedelic substance as film stock, reflecting the era’s counterculture vision. Ghost, also known as Eric Brown, was a former military man who believed in LSD’s potential to improve individuals and society. He revolutionized LSD distribution by creating the first mechanically produced blotter paper dosed […]
This web content discusses how to invoke a method on a class using a pointer to a method and the operator. The code example provided shows how to define and use the <- operator for this purpose, allowing you to call a method on a class with a pointer to the method. This unique approach […]
The content discusses a unique programming language called “Written in Itself”, highlighting its macro as the compiler feature. It is described as an actor language with concurrent and distributed capabilities, supporting metaobject protocol, class-based object orientation, runtime specialization, and integrated foreign function interface. It is a modern scheme implementation that adheres to current standards and […]
The content provides quick links to satellite imagery and numerical forecasts from various sources. The College of DuPage site is favored by storm chasers for its frequent updates and useful features, while Windy.com is popular for eclipse chasers. The US National Weather Service GOES Image Viewer offers comprehensive coverage, with the best long-range predictions from […]