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PHYS771 Lecture 14: Skepticism of Quantum Computing
PHYS771 Lecture 14: Skepticism of Quantum Computing
Announcing “Code” 2nd Edition
I am overjoyed to announce that the 2nd edition of my book Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software will be published by Pearson on August 19, 2022. As you can see, the covers of the two editions are nearly identical except that the 2nd edit…
If OpenSSL were a GUI
"When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical." - Jony Ive
Challenge
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MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips – TechCrunch
MIT researchers uncover vulnerability in a hardware-level security mechanism utilized in Apple M1 chips called pointer authentication codes, or PAC.
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ZpqrtBnk - Software Ektropist
Are You Suffering from Toxic Productivity?
Toxic productivity happens when your desire to get things done goes to an extreme. Here’s how to escape your productivity addiction.
New Python Set-Up Tool for VS Code: 'What Would Brett Do?' -- Visual Studio Magazine
Very opinionated tool is named after its creator, Brett Cannon, engineering manager for the Python extension who is also a member of the Python Steering Council.
Delegate, Action, Func, Lamdba expression - What the heck!?
C# offers a lot of utility especially around the delegate topic. So let's see what exactly a delegate is and how the distinct types like delegate, Action, Func, Predicate, anonymous function, lambda expressions and MulticastDelegate behave. A lot to digest an…
A Google Cloud employee set a new record calculating the 100 trillionth digit of pi
Emma Haruka Iwao has seen further than any previous human into the never-ending number.
Hubble Determines Mass of Isolated Black Hole Roaming Our Milky Way
Astronomers estimate that 100 million black holes roam among the stars in our Milky Way galaxy, but they have never conclusively identified an isolated black hole. Following six years of meticulous observations, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has, for the…
GitHub - iorate/ublacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results - GitHub - iorate/ublacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
Linux Production Diagnostics
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Why Software Engineers like Woodworking
The smell of fresh pine sawdust filled the air, with more floating up as I sanded the last rough corner of the stool. My toddler was happily sanding her own block off to the side. Woodworking was a new hobby I'd picked up. My old ones, coding, reading, writing…
High performance .NET: Building a Redis Clone–Architecture
My previous attempts to write a Redis clone were done in about as straightforward a way as possible. Open a socket to listen on, have a separate Task for eac...
Support Survivors of Trafficking
Help Deployed Ltd raise money to support Helen Bamber Foundation
csharplang/numeric-intptr.md at main · dotnet/csharplang
The official repo for the design of the C# programming language - csharplang/numeric-intptr.md at main · dotnet/csharplang
Weekly Update 299
WHAT’S IN THE BOX?! (and Other EOFY Tech Spending); Apple Watch Fall Detection; A Basic Finance Lesson; Indonesian Gov on HIBP
You need to know what right-half-plane zeros are
"I need to know about what now?!" Right-half-plane zeros. Or at least, I want you to know about them, because there's a really critical one that's about to play out and could affect the well-being of a lot of people. So what am I talking about exactly?
Important PostgreSQL 14 update to avoid silent corruption of indexes - MigOps
PostgreSQL announces an important update to avoid silent corruption of indexes upon rebuild using concurrently for PostgreSQL 14.0 until 14.3
HTTP/3 becomes a standard, at last
Faster traffic, more encryption.
Episode 100 - Celebratory Ask Me Anything
In celebration of the 100th episode, we asked the community of listeners to send in any questions that they had about the show, it's host, production, or anything. This episode answers those questions
I refuse to display meta data for other platforms
Nope. Not doing it. Always own your platform.
Radix Sort in C# - Code Maze
Radix sort is an efficient sorting algorithm that sorts numbers by checking their digits one at a time. Let's implement it in C#.
Invoke platform code in a MAUI app using the built-in Dependency Injection
I recently started to port my internal MVVM libraries over to .NET MAUI. It did not take long until I reached the point where I needed to invoke platform code. This post is about my experience with that.
100 Days of TypeScript (Day 10)
In the previous article, I started describing how I had built a more complex TypeScript web application that retrieves data from a separate API and displays the data in a relatively visually pleasi…
Blazor - End of Support for .NET 5
As you may already know, the Microsoft .NET team has announced the end of life support for the .NET 5 framework
CSS modules | Barbarian Meets Coding
A collection of notes about CSS modules
Mobile-First CSS: Is It Time for a Rethink?
Is mobile-first CSS always the best option? Patrick Clancey explores the pros and cons of the classic methodology, as well as when other solutions might work better.
GitHub - JByfordRew/BlazorStyledTextArea: A textarea with style!
A textarea with style! Contribute to JByfordRew/BlazorStyledTextArea development by creating an account on GitHub.
Your content & Restricted Mode
Restricted Mode is an optional setting that has been available since 2010. It's used by a small subset of users, such as libraries, schools, and public institutions, who choose to have a more limited
What’s after agile?
We put more value in agile than we could ever possibly gain from it. Agile started as a lightweight development methodology to compete with waterfall. What is it now? It’s everything and everywhere…
GitHub - mayuki/Cocona: Micro-framework for .NET console application. Cocona makes it easy and fast to build console applications on .NET.
Micro-framework for .NET console application. Cocona makes it easy and fast to build console applications on .NET. - GitHub - mayuki/Cocona: Micro-framework for .NET console application. Cocona mak...
GitHub - mimoo/narwhaml
Contribute to mimoo/narwhaml development by creating an account on GitHub.
Shotcut - Home
Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor for Windows, Mac and Linux
On BFT Consensus Evolution: From Monolithic to DAG
The collapse of complex software
In 1988, the anthropologist Joseph Tainter published a book called The Collapse of Complex Societies. In it, he described the rise and fall of great civilizations such as the Romans, the Mayans, an…