In this post we’re going to look at how Flare deserializes JSON documents stored on disk using a very fast bespoke, sparse, vectorized deserializer called squirrel-json.

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The need for signed integer arithmetic is often misplaced as most integers never represent negative values within a program. The indexing of arrays…

An intuitive explanation of how audio fingerprinting works helping users in identifying music from short snippets

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An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python - seemoo-lab/opendrop

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Some statistics to start the year:

During 2021 Bitcoin consumed 134 TWh in total, which is comparable to the electrical energy consumed by a country like Argentina.

Related CO2 emissions were ~64 Mt; enough to negate the entire global net savings from deploying…