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Small websites often struggle to gain visibility on the internet, as they are difficult to find through mainstream channels like Google or Reddit. This lack of traffic leads to a decline in visitors, resulting in a vicious cycle of limited exposure. Blogs rely on RSS and Atom feeds, which can be stifling and homogenizing. While […]
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Scientist is a Ruby library for refactoring critical paths. It allows you to compare the current and refactored behaviors of a large web app under load. The library provides a way to wrap code in use and try blocks, measure the durations of the behaviors, compare the results, and publish the information. You can also […]
In this web content, the author reflects on their journey of building their programming language, Inko, since 2013. They experimented with various languages before settling on Rust as the foundation for Inko. Over the years, Inko has evolved from an interpreted language inspired by Ruby and Smalltalk to a statically-typed language that compiles to machine […]
In this blog post, the author explores the future of cloud data services, specifically focusing on large-scale and multi-tenant architectures. They discuss the benefits of serving customers over large resource pools, such as simplicity, reliability, durability, scalability, and low price. The author is conducting a survey of real-world serverless, multi-tenant data architectures in various systems […]
Detexify is a Mac app designed to simplify the process of finding symbols in LaTeX. It allows users to draw the symbol they are looking for and provides results based on their drawing. However, the unlicensed version of the app includes a reminder to purchase a license. Users can also contribute by training Detexify or […]
GPT-4 was used to analyze the existence of unused three-letter and four-letter acronyms (TLAs) in the English language. The analysis revealed that there are still many TLAs and four-letter acronyms that have not been used in a nontrivial way. The first unused TLA is ‘CQK’, and there are 2,684 unused TLAs and 392,884 unused four-letter […]
The FCC Commissioners have unanimously voted to amend the Amateur Radio Service rules, replacing the baud rate limit with a 2.8 kHz bandwidth limit, allowing for greater flexibility in data communications. The FCC aims to incentivize innovation and experimentation in the amateur radio bands by removing outdated restrictions and allowing licensees to use modern digital […]
Machine Learning for Beginners is a 12-week, 26-lesson curriculum offered by Azure Cloud Advocates at Microsoft. The curriculum focuses on classic machine learning using Scikit-learn as a library. It does not cover deep learning, which is included in another curriculum called ‘AI for Beginners’. The lessons in this curriculum incorporate data from different areas of […]
We have discovered a CPU vulnerability that occurs when redundant rex prefixes are added to an optimized rep movs operation. This glitch can cause unpredictable behavior such as branches to unexpected locations, ignored unconditional branches, and inaccurate recording of the instruction pointer. When multiple cores trigger this bug, the processor can report machine check exceptions […]
Apologies are in order, my dear hackfriends. I must confess that I have created yet another Scheme implementation, which may seem unnecessary, but hear me out. You see, I’ve been working on a new garbage collector called Whippet for Guile, a project I co-maintain. Whippet is meant to be embedded in the project itself, eventually […]