Clever tricks work around major hurdles, but it's not a route to high performance.

Part I - do we really know what can be done with our data and how it can be stolen?

The Slope programming language

Fred showing us how he actually got those ladders up the chimney. Part Two.

FAQ:
This was filmed early - mid 1990s when Fred was in his 50s.
He died in 2004 (not from falling off).
The chimney is Ena Mill (Atherton England) and is still standing.
Footage…

Link aggregator inspired by reddit and hacker news using ActivityPub federation.

One of the major new features of UDB and LiveRecorder 6.8 is an optimization called Parallel Search – this uses multiple CPU cores to provide speed-ups of up to 4x during time travel debugging

Some of the records relating to the Robb Elementary School shooting could be “highly embarrassing,” involve “emotional/mental distress,” and are “not of legitimate concern to the public,” the lawyers argued.

Experts at the University of Bristol have discovered that the scales on moth wings act as excellent sound absorbers even when placed on an artificial surface.

Eliminating use-after-frees vulnerabilities in Chrome with heap scanning.

I have some exciting news (for me, anyway). Starting next week, I’ll be going on leave from UT Austin for one year, to work at OpenAI. They’re the creators of the astonishing GPT-3 and …

A tool to help you find unsubscribe links in your emails - LGUG2Z/unsubscan

Sketches from the workshop of French engineer Gustave Eiffel suggest a different plan for Lady Liberty’s upraised arm

Identify Bird Songs and Calls



Sound ID listens to the birds around you and shows real-time suggestions for who’s singing. Compare your recording to the songs and calls in Merlin to confirm what you heard. Sound ID works completely offline, so you can identify…

In this episode Shahriar takes a look at one of the most advanced electrical test and measurement instruments ever created. The Keysight UXR-Series Real-Time Oscilloscope brings 110GHz of analog bandwidth and 256GS/s real-time sampling at 4-channels simultaneously.…