Waverley, the last seagoing paddle steamer in the world, recently offered a unique two-hour voyage along the Thames Estuary to Tower Bridge for just one pound. This historical vessel has a rich past, spending over 20 years on Loch Long before being saved by the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society in 1974. With various hospitality options, […]
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Today, a Russian YouTube channel called Wylsacom uploaded an unboxing video featuring an alleged 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M4 chip. This video has since been connected to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman on social media, adding credibility to the leak. The box suggests significant upgrades to the base model, including a 25% faster M4 chip, 16GB […]
Ants have been farming with fungi for millions of years, way before humans. This sophisticated form of agriculture involves different ant species cooperating with specific strains of fungi by providing them a home, nutrients, and harvesting them for food. The relationship between ants and their crops likely began after the mass extinction that killed the […]
Google’s NotebookLLM is a groundbreaking AI podcast generator that can create podcasts based on web pages or documents. It’s impressive, but also vulnerable to manipulation. The author tricked the AI by creating a fake story about riding a bike to the moon. This highlights the potential for malicious actors to influence AI-generated content by providing […]
The SQLite library is condensed into one large C-code file named “sqlite3.c”, also known as “the amalgamation”, making it easier to embed SQLite into applications. This single file can be optimized by compilers for faster performance, between 5% and 10%. The library consists of 133 source files, 75% C code, 25% C header files, and […]
This web content provides source code for classic titles like “Beneath Apple Manor,” “Pinball Construction Set,” “Prince of Persia,” and more, all published by their original authors. The site also includes disassemblies of various games, such as Apple /// system sources, “Choplifter,” and “Lode Runner” as a “literate programming document.” Most notably, there are also […]
Octothorpes are versatile tools that combine aspects of hashtags and backlinks to connect URLs and resources across the web. By registering with an Octothorpes Ring, individuals can create hashtags on their sites and link to other sites, allowing for a diverse and interconnected online community outside of traditional platforms. Each domain in the Ring adds […]
This post is aimed at enthusiasts of SIMD CPU programming and veteran Amiga programmers struggling with calculating “minterm” blitter values. The author was inspired by a talk on AVX-512 ISA design and an obscure AVX instruction called vpternlogd. This instruction allows complex bitwise logic operations on 512 bits at once with three inputs. Instead of […]
The post discusses the advantages and disadvantages of hashmaps compared to ordered data structures like b-trees. It highlights various benchmark tests on different structures in Rust, Zig, and the author’s own implementation. Surprisingly, hashmaps show slower performance in some cases than b-trees due to the lack of speculative execution. String keys have a significant impact […]
sq is a versatile open-source tool for data manipulation. It allows users to inspect, query, join, and export data with ease. The installation process is straightforward, and multiple options are available. Users can use sq to compare database tables, import Excel worksheets into Postgres tables, view metadata, get column names in MySQL tables, and execute […]