23 May 2020

23 links · Saturday

SCM Marchant Cogito 240 Electronic Calculator

This ten-key, non-printing electronic desktop calculator performs the four arithmetic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The factors and results are stored in three registers, two of twelve-digit capacity and the third, of twen…

Optimizing for the Radeon™ RDNA Architecture

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Catalina is checking notarization of unsigned executables

This is a follow-up to Allan Odgaard's excellent article macOS 10.15: Slow by Design. I want to talk specifically about the first section "Spawning a new Process", because there has been widespread misunderstanding of this. Odgaard provides a simple test to sh…

Jepsen Disputes MongoDB’s Data Consistency Claims

In an article, MongoDB claimed their database passed “the industry’s toughest data safety, correctness, and consistency Tests”. In response, Jepsen published an article stating that MongoDB 3.6.4 had in fact failed their tests; the newer MongoDB 4.2.6 has more…

User authentication with passwords, What’s SRP?

The Secure Remote Password (SRP) protocol is first and foremost a Password Authenticated Key Exchange (PAKE). Specifically, SRP is an asymmetric or augmented PAKE: it’s a key exchange where only one side is authenticated thanks to a password. This is usually …

React and Serverless - Webinar

Want to know how to combine React and Serverless to build fullstack applications? In this webinar, I will show you how to do just that using React and hosting serverless functions in Netlify! Go to https://www.jamesqquick.com and subscribe to the newsletter t…

HTTP Server - LanguageTool Wiki

LanguageTool comes with its own embedded HTTP/HTTPS server so you can send a text to LanguageTool via HTTP and get the detected errors back as JSON. This embedded server can be started like this.