A misconception that I held for a really long time was that systems that use SQL (Structured Query Language) are by definition relational databases, and systems that don’t (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra) are non-relational. It’s easy to understand whether a database…

One of the biggest criticisms that I’ve levelled at the feet of Intel since it started talking about its hybrid processor architecture designs has been the ability to manage threads in an intelligent way. When you have two cores of different performance and…

If you're dead you can't own land - so if someone obtains your death certificate you could lose everything.

China's MingYang Smart Energy has announced an offshore wind turbine even bigger than GE's monstrous Haliade-X. The MySE 16.0-242 is a 16-megawatt, 242-meter-tall (794-ft) behemoth capable of powering 20,000 homes per unit over a 25-year service life.

Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON - johnkerl/miller

It’s been a long time since we announced the Turing Pi V2, but finally, we are ready to reveal all the details of the new cluster board. But first, we want to thank you all for your patience and for every feedback you gave us along the way. We appreciate…

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A catalog of naturally occurring images whose Apple NeuralHash is identical. - GitHub - roboflow-ai/neuralhash-collisions: A catalog of naturally occurring images whose Apple NeuralHash is identical.

Discover the user offboarding tactics used by Adobe and how to design a great subnoscription cancellation flows without relying on unethical dark patterns.

[Note 2017-12-29: the news.ycombinator.com
discussion of this post is unusually useful. You may want to read it
first.]

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U.S. drone pilot working at Afghanistan He admitted that he had accidentally killed two Afghan civilians and a child, and questioned the tactics used by his troops to complete the withdrawal. The pilot worked in Helmand in 2019, he told the website Veterinary…

How I became a self-taught programmer with online free resources without boot camps and having dropped out of campus.

A South Korean parliamentary committee voted on Wednesday to recommend amending a law, a key step toward banning Google and Apple from forcibly charging software developers commissions on in-app purchases, the first such curb by a major economy.

A bizarre leak from a powerful Senator made the Top Secret debate over building the hydrogen bomb part of national discourse — and doomed its direction.

A great feature that is available in almost every browser allows you to reject the cookie consent popup.

"Thank you to everyone for making your voices heard," the platform tweeted.

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