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A tale of a harrowing failure and the worst bug the author thinks he ever wrote, followed by a glorious success – well, sort of, anyway.

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I don’t know what you were doing on 25th of December 2022. I was eating pierogis, while Ruby team did some epic sh***!

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Passage in Bamboo Annals describes a "five-colored light" in 10th century BCE.

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Computers, Machine Learning and non-machine learning

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Around 300 employees at the software company’s videogame unit ZeniMax have voted to organize with the Communications Workers of America.

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Change in Name Popularity

If you deal with Web Performance, you've probably heard about HTTP resource prioritization. This is especially true since last year, as Chromium added so-called "Priority Hints" with the new fetchpriority attribute, which allow you to tweak said prioritizations.…