This is Part 1 of a series of posts. Part 2 is available here: Building a baseline JIT for Lua automatically It is well-known that writing a good VM for a dynamic language is never an easy job. High

That's probably greater than direct FTX-related losses.

Layoffs reportedly hit the Alexa team hard as the company's biggest money loser.

I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in.

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An interactive learning platform to teach the Ada and SPARK programming languages.

The latest RISC-V Vector spec offers organizations like NASA an extremely efficient alternative to packed-SIMD and GPUs.

A story that theoretically could’ve triggered armed conflict between NATO and Russia required less than ten minutes, one anonymous source, and just over a dozen Slack messages for the wire service to publish.

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I've kept this updated since 2017, and everything has improved in the shell game! Keyboard fans are better off today than ever before.

Rust is awesome, for certain things. But think twice before picking it up for a startup that needs to move fast.

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The fruits of academic research mostly take the form of articles that are published in specialised journals. The majority of these journals are owned by a small number of commercial publishers, who benefit from public money to achieve record profits. This…

The Department of Defense released its Zero Trust Strategy and Roadmap and intends to implement distinct capabilities and activities as outlined in the strategy by FY27.

[Note that this article is a trannoscript of the video embedded above.] In February 2021, a winter storm that swept through Texas caused one of the most severe power crises in American history. The cold weather created shockingly high electricity demands…

Perhaps they are—which will not please their owners