Old offpunk repository

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Restaurants say blue “order online” button saps profits, diverts customers.

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Google Cloud is adjusting infrastructure product and pricing structure to give customers more choice in how they pay for what they use

by Jean-Louis Gassée

So Oxide is making some cool stuff huh? Big metal boxes with lots of computer in them. Servers as they should be! Too bad I can’t afford to buy one for myself… but wait, they’re open-sourcing the software they’re writing to do it. Mom said we can have Oxide…

This project serve HTML files (and a few more) saved in your computer with a UI suitable for Kindle web browser. On top of that, it include a Read Mode (thanks to ReadabiliPy) to display the text ...

In the cheeps, trills and tweets of birdsong, scientists find some parallels with human speech

India may take up a Russian offer to buy crude oil and other commodities at a discount, two Indian officials said, in a sign that Delhi wants to keep its key trading partner on board despite Western attempts to isolate Moscow through sanctions.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is announcing it will support additional fertilizer production for American farmers to address rising costs, including the impact of Putin’s price hike on farmers, and spur competition. USDA will make…

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As I already mentioned in earlier posts, vectorization is the holy grail of software optimizations: if your hot loop is efficiently vectorized, it is pretty much running at fastest possible speed. So, it is definitely a goal worth pursuing, under two assumptions:…