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The interaction between trivial relocatability and Bloomberg’s polymorphic allocator model, PMR, has sparked interest in recent paper submissions. PMR allows for the creation of local memory arenas that can be associated with a specific object upon creation, ensuring that all allocations related to that object come from the same memory arena. However, the PMR has […]
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The Nordic region is home to many successful startups, including Spotify, Klarna, and Unity. While Sweden usually gets the spotlight, other countries like Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Iceland also have their fair share of success stories. Iceland, in particular, has a vibrant startup ecosystem, with numerous new companies emerging and an increasing organization to support […]
Satirical article warns against using Managed NAT Gateway, a service that lets users egress traffic from a VPC to the public internet. The service costs $0.07 per gigabyte, and is sometimes not given much thought as a necessary expense. The author suggests using Tailscale exit nodes instead of Managed NAT Gateway for egress-heavy workloads. Additionally, […]
The article introduces a new decentralized application to query the complete dump of RARBG hosted on IPFS in a fully decentralized manner. Latency can be higher than usual, especially on the first use, and search rate-limiting by gateways might cause some consecutive searches to fail. The article suggests using Brave or Opera for browsers with […]
Researchers at ENSTA Paris have created a loudspeaker without a magnet or copper coil, instead using a simple dielectric elastomer membrane and a conductive grease. Through adding a transmitted electrical signal, the flexible material reacts causing the necessary vibrations to send sound waves, optimising efficiency, spectral balance, and linearity. The newly designed speaker is much […]
The cost of cleaning up almost a quarter of a million oil wells in California could be about $21.5bn, more than three times greater than the $6.3bn of estimated future profits from oil and gas production, according to a report commissioned by Carbon Tracker Initiative, a financial think tank. Author of the study, Dwayne Purvis, said […]
The CIA’s mind-control programs are connected to experiments on returning Korean War POWs in an untold history that is revealed in this article. Through extensive collaboration between CIA officials from Projects Bluebird, Artichoke and MKULTRA with U.S. biological warfare efforts, including the “processing” of high-ranking POWs who confessed to U.S. use of biological weapons, the […]
A study involving 18 epileptic patients has discovered that providing electrical stimulation to two particular areas of the brain during non-REM sleep can improve memory recall. Dr Itzhak Fried, a professor of neurosurgery at the University of California, Los Angeles, says some patients “improved by 10% or 20%; some improved by 80%”. The study’s findings […]
Self-driving cars may have faced setbacks in recent years, but some well-funded projects have continued to push for progress, according to journalist Alex Roy. Google offshoot Waymo and Cruise, backed by General Motors, are testing autonomous vehicles in Phoenix and San Francisco, with both expecting to expand service in the coming months. Cruise also plans […]
In this in-depth blog post, the author explores the various methods used in GPS positioning systems. They begin by explaining the simple method of positioning using just three reference points, and move onto using drones and even sound waves to measure distance. The author then delves into the challenges that arise when adding a third […]