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A Vickrey auction, also known as a sealed-bid second-price auction, is a type of auction where bidders submit written bids without knowing the bid of others. The highest bidder wins, but the price paid is the second-highest bid. This auction was first described by William Vickrey in 1961 and has been used since 1893 by […]
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The author reflects on their experience as a programmer and notes that programming languages have not seen significant improvements over the years. They mention that even popular languages like Java and Rust still have issues such as buffer overflows and unbridled messes with aliasing. However, the author has found a language called Dafny that amazes […]
Gravitational waves have been detected again, this time using a different technique than before. Instead of ground-based detectors, researchers have been tracking changes in the distances between Earth and pulsars, beacon stars in our Galactic neighborhood. These changes reveal how space is stretched and squeezed by the passage of gravitational waves. The latest discovery involves […]
I recently tried to release a game but ran into trouble with Steam due to the usage of AI-generated assets. Although I planned to improve these assets before the official release, I wasn’t aware that Steam had issues with such art. Steam informed me that they couldn’t ship my game as it contained AI-generated assets […]
Acerbis, the motorcycle manufacturer, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a remarkable achievement – it has set a new Guinness World Record for the greatest distance ridden on a single tank of fuel by a gas-powered motorcycle. The impressive journey covered 4,183.8 kilometers without refueling. To accomplish this feat, Acerbis’s technical team designed and built […]
Polyrhythmix (Poly) is a command-line assistant designed for musicians and composers working in genres such as modern progressive rock, metal, djent, fusion, and Indian Carnatic music. It simplifies the process of creating complex polyrhythmic drum patterns by generating MIDI files based on DSL input. The tool calculates when different drum parts will converge and can […]
The web content discusses the use of list comprehensions in the Elixir programming language. List comprehensions are a concise and powerful way to transform enumerable data structures. The content explains the use of generators, which loop over an enumerable and allow for pattern matching. Multiple generators can be used to generate permutations of values. The […]
The author shared their experience of looking for a simple smartwatch replacement after their old one broke. They only wanted basic features like phone notifications, step counting, and a long battery life, without all the extra fluff. However, they struggled to find a watch that met their criteria and ended up settling for a Garmin […]
Vaporwave is an art movement that emerged in the early 2010s, characterized by its exploration of nostalgia, dream states, decay, and the mundane. It can be seen as a meme, a critique of capitalism, or a medium of irony. The music of vaporwave samples sounds from the 80s and 90s, giving them a degraded VHS […]
TypeIDs are a modern and type-safe extension of UUIDv7, inspired by Stripe’s APIs. They consist of a type prefix, an underscore separator, and a 128-bit UUIDv7 encoded as a lowercase base32 string. TypeIDs have several benefits, including type-safety, compatibility with UUIDs, K-sortability, and thoughtful encoding that is URL safe and more compact than traditional hex […]