Amazon memo: Here’s why we should acquire Ring

October 10, 2017

Fermat's Library is a platform for illuminating academic papers.

The U.S. has successfully tested a Raytheon air-breathing hypersonic weapon capable of speeds faster than five times the speed of sound, making it the third successful test of that class of weapon since 2013.

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Fellow core developer and Canadian, Mariatta, asked on Twitter about python -m pip and who told her about that idiom along with asking for a reference explaining it:

I learned sometime ago that we should be doing
`python -m pip install ...` instead of simply…

Google announces its new Quantum Virtual Machine

Ruby and Python are quite similar but what makes Ruby more readable?

A custom-built CHIP-8 hand-held gaming console powered by a STM32 microcontroller. - GitHub - kurtjd/CHIPnGo: A custom-built CHIP-8 hand-held gaming console powered by a STM32 microcontroller.

How CockroachDB delivers fast, consistent reads in every region for read-mostly data. Understanding two-phase commit (2PC), uncertainty intervals, and how to deal with clock skew.

I can only make an assumption, in the spirit of the same Russian propaganda and in a language they understand, that Putin is a sent…

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N64 development cart using a Raspberry Pi RP2040. Contribute to kbeckmann/PicoCart64 development by creating an account on GitHub.

What do we actually know about burnout? What does the research say? Is burnout preventable? All the research, in one free, updated place.

The authors of a large review say there is no support for the hypothesis that depression is caused by lowered serotonin activity or concentrations, and have questioned the reasons behind high prescribing rates of antidepressants.

They say the chemical imbalance…

Nostalgia for another way of working

This is the 4th post in a series on System Design. Nearly 3% of infrastructure at Twitter is dedicated to application-level caching Link In an application, caches can be found in many places. CPUs that run your applications have fast, multilevel hardware…

A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore

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Nature Energy - The maritime shipping industry is heavily energy-consuming and highly polluting, and, as such, is urgently seeking low-emission options. Here the authors examine the feasibility of...