Before T-Mobile acquired Sprint, activists, consumer groups, and deal critics (including me) warned repeatedly that the telecom sector megadeal would result in layoffs, less competition, higher pri…
techdirt.com·Thu, May 16th 2024 05:24am -
Karl Bode··4-5 minutes
Today is the last day when the number of people alive will start with a seven. Sometime late Tuesday afternoon, or perhaps early Wednesday morning, the population will cross the eight billion mark. When I was a kid, the number they taught us in school was five…
This may be obvious to many people already, but I recently thought about this in a few scenarios and figured it may be valuable to articulate it clearly. One note before the main discussion is we s…
EVM simulation engine is a core component of any competitive MEV strategy. In this tutorial, I'll describe how to use Anvil and its lower-level counterpart REVM to detect UniswapV3 MEV arbitrage opportunities. We will implement a working proof of concept using…
Thoughts on the implications of multiscale competency architecture of living organisms for the concept of death and specifically recent data on the thanatotranscriptome.
Managing SEO for your [Astro](https://astro.build/) website just got easier with [@zfben/astro-head](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@zfben/astro-head). This pac
Neovim 0.10 was the longest release cycle since the heady days of the 0.5 release. There are a ton of new features in this release (as well as some breaking changes), so be sure to check the full release notes. You can view the release notes directly in Nvim w…
Ideally, compilers can build a program for a wide variety of hardware without the need to change a single line of its source code. While there are exceptions and corner cases, this holds in the majority of cases. Which means that if the input code uses somethi…
An overivew of the evolution of the electrical system in Italy throughout its history, including the voltage and frequency change and the ongoing move to a different standard of plugs.
New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.
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As founder-friendly as VCs claim to be, they remain investment professionals. Many first-time founders are oblivious to this nuance, and are in for a rude awakening when they start their raise.
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Tired of being underserved and overbilled by shitty regional broadband monopolies, back in 2002 a coalition of local Utah governments formed UTOPIA — (the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastr…
techdirt.com·Wed, May 15th 2024 03:40pm -
Karl Bode··5-6 minutes
Datomic is a temporal Entity-Attribute-Value OLTP database which supports non-interactive transactions on top of pluggable storage engines. It offers a variety of query mechanisms across thick and thin clients, including Datalog, graph traversal, and an ODM-st…
Wolverine has the ability to schedule the delivery of messages for a later time. While Wolverine certainly isn’t trying to be Hangfire or Quartz.Net, the message scheduling in Wolverine today…
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This change upstreams llamafile's vectorized expf() functions. This lets us compute softmax and silu more accurately than the short[65536] lookup table that GGML previously used to make this operat...