The capabilities and limitations of Large Language Models have been sketched out in great detail in recent years, providing an intriguing yet conflicting picture. On the one hand, LLMs demonstrate...

Another big milestone has been reached by Valve with their handheld Linux gaming PC, with the Steam Deck hitting 17,000 games rated playable or verified.

The endless battle over his legacy testifies to his great authority – and the power of his thought to make the world better

According to the Justice Department, Joanna Smith-Griffin raised millions of dollars from investors after lying about nearly everything.

Inspired by Jack Wrenn’s post on Undroppable Types
in Rust, I set out to see if it’s possible to create types that must be used exactly
once. From my understanding, those things are called linear types, but
don’t quote me on that1.




Unless…

OrioleDB is a storage extension for PostgreSQL which uses PostgreSQL's pluggable storage system. Designed as a drop-in replacement for PostgreSQL's existing Heap storage, OrioleDB aims to overcome scalability bottlenecks and fully utilize modern hardware…

In this third part of the series, I will show how we can implement a durable, distributed, and highly available log using S3

Update 2024-12-02 : There was a lively discussion about the post on Hacker News you might also find interesting: link to thread.

At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain. Find our highlights of what lies in store for 2025 here.

How to program the Commodore 64 in BASIC, Assembly or C using Microsoft Visual Studio Code on Mac, Windows and Linux!

The Central Dogma is not a 'dogma,' and it has never been broken.

An operational calculus converts derivatives and integrals to operators that act on functions, and by doing so ordinary and partial linear differential equations can be reduced to purely algebraic …

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After more than 37,000 votes on our shortlist, we're pleased to announce that the Oxford Word of the Year for 2024 is 'brain rot'.

On all Unix-like operating systems, sudo is often provided as the standard package for executing commands as superuser (or an alternative user). When sudo is invoked by the user for the first time,...