9 October 2021

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The Poly Network Hack Explained

Intro  Unless you’re living under a rock, you might have read that last Tuesday the largest “crypto hack” in history targeted Cross-chain decentralized finance (DeFi) …

Open Problems Related to Quantum Query Complexity

Way back in 2005, I posed Ten Semi-Grand Challenges for Quantum Computing Theory, on at least half of which I’d say there’s been dramatic progress in the 16 years since (most of the cha…

On SQL…

10 years and a few months ago I started a new job working on a website with an extremely normalized MySQL database. Prior to this, I'd never written a query with a single JOIN, let alone the query gymnastics happening in this code base. I initially hated the …

Last Year I Started Reading a Physical Newspaper

I subscribe to a lot of local and national news outlets, and as most people do these days, I read the news on a screen, because well, I'm a 30 year old millennial and it's 2021 and not 1980. But last September, out of a mix of both idle curiosity, anemoia, and…

CURIA - Documents

Language of document : ECLI:EU:C:2021:811

Enable tab completion - .NET CLI

This article teaches you how to enable tab completion for the .NET CLI for PowerShell, Bash, zsh, and fish.

Ireland joins OECD International Tax agreement

The Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe, has today (Thursday) received Government approval to join an international agreement to reform the international tax rules to address the challenges arising from the digitalisation of the global economy.