TL;DR: bamboo wood doesn’t exist, and bamboo is not very good at replacing real wood in most situations. Okay, here is the long answer. Bamboo is the collective name for several dozen genera of grasses, all in the Bambusoideae branch of the “BOP” ...

History of the Plan 9 kernel (1990 - 2003). Contribute to 0intro/9hist development by creating an account on GitHub.

Huawei announced the industry's highest-performance Advanced RISC Machine (ARM)-based CPU. Called Huawei Kunpeng 920, the new CPU is designed to boost the development of computing in big data, distributed storage, and ARM-native application scenarios.

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One thing I should have learned before (but didn’t) and hope I’ve learned now is to photograph sysadmin work. If you work as a sysadmin you probably have a good phone, if you are going …

We shipped Planetary Annihilation on Win, Mac, and Linux. Linux uses we're a big vocal part of the Kickstarter and forums.

In the end they accounted for <0.1% of sales but >20% of auto reported crashes and support tickets (most gfx driver related).

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Alan R. Pearlman, engineer and founder of the pioneering synth manufacturer ARP Instruments, died yesterday at the age of 93.

My quest for relearning C++ started in November 2018. I have been reading + blogging + writing C++ from then. I would like to reflect on my journey a bit. Before I begin, I would like to state that th

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Jamie lives in a large city in the midwest. He's a copywriter for an advertising firm, and he's good at it. He's also good at thinking of reasons why he ought to be happy with his life. He has health insurance, and now savings. A lot of his friends have neither.…

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Using SQL databases is not an impediment to doing DevOps. Automating schema management and a little developer discipline enables more vigorous and repeatable testing, shorter release cycles, and reduced business risk. When you can confidently deploy new releases…

In this tutorial we’ll discuss the ideas and concepts behind rendering water and then talk through some demo code.