I learned a lot about the heart over the last 2 weeks, and discovered an amazing similarity between our heart and distributed computer systems. Let me show you how our heart deals with the CAP theorem.

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Starting in August, I increased my…

Welcome to acronym city! The Court of Appeal of Brussels has made an interesting ruling. A customer complained that their bank was spelling the customer's name incorrectly. The bank didn't have support for diacritical marks. Things like á, è, ô, ü, ç etc.…

Given a set $$$S$$$ of $$$n$$$ points in the 2D plane, the Voronoi diagram is a partition of the plane into regions. The region associated with a point $$$p\in S$$$ contains precisely the points $$$q$$$ such that $$$q$$$ is closer to $$$p$$$ than any other…

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Flawless is an execution engine for durable computation. It will run your code until completion even in the presence of hardware or software failure.

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In a randomized controlled clinical trial, heated yoga sessions led to reduced depressive symptoms in adults with moderate-to-severe depression.

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People who sit for long periods more likely to die earlier – but moderate-to-vigorous activity can eliminate risk

Browser extension that generates API specs for any app or website - AndrewWalsh/openapi-devtools

Ever since I joined Twitter in 2011, and then moved to Mastodon in 2022, I have been unhappy with the timeline view proposed by both of these communication platforms as their main interface. Now I have finally done something about it: I wrote my own Masto...

I often think about ancient civilizations. I’m sure you do too. I cogitate and ruminate on all the people who lived, loved, and died, and I’m saddened by the fact that we no longer remember their names. In many cases, we aren’t even aware that their civilizations…

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Huge analysis of RTS,S in Africa shows it decreased toddler deaths by 13%

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