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The author starts by acknowledging the success of Philips Hue devices in the home automation market, praising their reliability and integration with the Apple Homekit ecosystem. However, they highlight the negative changes that have occurred due to the management’s decisions. These changes include requiring upgrades and accepting new End User License Agreements (EULAs) to access […]
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Radar offers industry-leading geofencing solutions with unlimited geofences and polygon geofences, among other features. Their product also includes trip tracking, live ETAs, arrival detection, and routing for pickups and deliveries. They have a comprehensive points-of-interest (POI) dataset with chains and categories to detect visits to millions of places. Radar’s Maps Platform is a cost-effective alternative […]
Luciano Pollastri, a devoted Zwift user, stumbled upon a cheating discrepancy while comparing power recordings on the platform with another cycling app. He found that the power recording on Zwift was significantly higher. This discovery led Pollastri to investigate further and he uncovered a variety of cheating methods being used within the Zwift community. When […]
Prophet is a powerful procedure for forecasting time series data developed by Facebook’s Core Data Science team. It uses an additive model to fit non-linear trends with yearly, weekly, and daily seasonality, as well as holiday effects. Prophet excels with time series data that have strong seasonal effects and multiple seasons of historical data. One […]
On Google’s 25th birthday, the company is celebrating the journey of answering people’s questions and satisfying their curiosity. From its humble beginnings of simple search queries, Google has evolved to become a technology giant that has shaped the way we find information. The company recognizes that its success is thanks to its employees, partners, and […]
TL;DR: OpenTofu is an insurance policy and having options is a smart strategy. The author appreciates the overwhelming support and criticism they have received for their project. They address criticism that questions why people should care about the license change. While it may not directly affect individuals, the existence of the project positively affects everyone. […]
The DuckDB team is excited to announce the release of DuckDB version 0.9.0, named Undulata after the Yellow-billed duck from Africa. This release includes several exciting new features, such as Out-Of-Core Hash Aggregate Storage Improvements, Index Improvements, DuckDB-WASM Extensions, and more. One notable improvement is the support for disk-spilling techniques in out-of-core hash aggregates, allowing […]
The author discusses the development of stack protection mechanisms in OpenBSD, specifically focusing on the stack protector and RETGUARD. The stack protector was initially implemented with a 16-byte heuristic to protect functions with sufficient local storage, and the check function was located in libc. Over time, improvements were made to the stack protector, but it […]
The goal of this web content is to introduce a new Java class-file API that provides a standardized way of parsing, generating, and transforming Java class files. The motivation behind this API is the need for a reliable and up-to-date class-file library that can keep pace with the evolving JVM and class-file format. The content […]
Apple’s senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue, is set to testify in the ongoing trial where the US Department of Justice accuses Google of monopolizing online search through licensing agreements. The focus of the scrutiny is a deal in which Google pays Apple billions of dollars to be the default search engine on the […]