A 1953 training film for a mechanical fire control computer aboard Navy Ships. Amazing how problems of mathematical computation were solved so elegantly in "permanent" mechanical form, before microprocessors became inexpensive and commonplace.

As I write this, world leaders are gathering in Glasgow for COP26, the international climate change conference, in the attempt to halt (or at least slow down)

Not all instructions on modern processors cost the same. Additions and subtractions are cheaper than multiplications which are themselves cheaper than divisions. For this reason, compilers frequently replace division instructions by multiplications. Roughly…

Writing a simple VM for LC3 in less than 125 lines of C

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More insight into the timeline behind the recent release of Grafana 8.3.1, 8.2.7, 8.1.8, and 8.0.7 which include a high severity security fix.

It's just not. Here's a deep dive into why, exactly, I think that.

Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala left behind a one-of-a-kind object that undermines the crónicas de Indias.

This document exists to lay out some general principles of running a small social network site that have worked for me. These principles are related to community building more than they are related to specific technologies.

Dracula is a color scheme for code editors and terminal emulators such as Vim, Notepad++, iTerm, VSCode, Terminal.app, ZSH, and much more.

🍓 Jam is your own open source Clubhouse for mini conferences, friends, communities - jam-systems/jam

The Yamaha DX7 digital synthesizer (1983) was the classic synthesizer for 1980s pop music. It used two custom digital chips to generate so...

Rust async runtime based on io-uring. Contribute to bytedance/monoio development by creating an account on GitHub.