Rana Creek Ranch is half the size of the city of San Francisco, with “the grandeur of many of California’s state parks.”

By request, my usual "the least interesting part about AVX-512 is the 512 bits vector width" infodump in thread form.

So here goes, a laundry list of things introduced with AVX-512 that I think are way more important to typical use cases than the 512-bit…

In December of 1979 Tyrgve Reenskaug, an employee of Xerox PARC, published a paper called MODELS-VIEWS-CONTROLLERS about a design pattern he had invented for developing applications with a graphica…

Multiple baggage handlers were involved in the years-long scheme, prosecutors allege.

Linux-based CPE for Telia's (AS3249) "Koduinternet" service - tonusoo/koduinternet-cpe

This article explains how to correctly handle filenames in Bourne shells (the primary shell of Unix/Linux/POSIX systems), based on the issues discussed in 'Fixing Unix/Linux/Filenames'. Many programs fail to work properly on filenames that include spaces…

When programming in Go, the amount of error handling is something that slaps you in the face. Most API’s you deal with will expose errors. It can become overwhelming, but with a few tips and a guiding principle we can make handling errors easy, keep our code…

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(Summer 2015) - In this essay, I begin by identifying the reasons that automation has not wiped out a majority of jobs over the decades and centuries.
Automation does indeed substitute for labor—as it is typically intended to do.
However, automation also…

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OLED and MicroLED are the future, but LCD isn't done yet

Those prone to napping had brains that looked up to six years younger than everyone else.

A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges

This is part 2 of a promised multi-part series on dynamic programming in Haskell. As a reminder, we’re using Zapis as a sample problem. In this problem, we are given a sequence of opening and closi…

Domains (including wildcarded domains) pointing to 127.0.0.1 are a commonly used developer feature. Some domains which use this are *.lndo.site, *.nip.io, *.xip.io, *.localho.st etc. Blocking DNS f...