Vaclav Kosar is a senior software developer. This blog is focused on interesting technology, tips and news.

The College Board plans to assign an adversity score to every student who takes the SAT to try to capture their social and economic background, jumping into the debate raging over race and class in college admissions.

Canada is not Google's lab rat, say those protesting against plans to build a smart city in Toronto.

In this C++ code, sorting the data (before the timed region) makes the primary loop ~6x faster:
#include <algorithm>
#include <ctime>
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
// Gene...

In a secret recording from 2017 obtained by DER SPIEGEL, Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache of the far-right Freedom Party is heard discussing a deal with a purported Russian millionaire to trade state contracts for campaign support. By DER…

As entertainment and shopping moves online, states and cities are looking to the digital world for potential revenue

Enel Group says Google refused to allow a mapping app for finding charging stations

One of my favorite openings is the King's Gambit. It is extremely aggressive, and makes for a sharp tactical game without sacrificing too much material. It isn't played much at the highest level at

Donald Knuth is a computer scientist who is so committed to the correctness of his books that he offers one US hexadecimal dollar ($2.56, 0x$1.00) for any “bug” found in his books, where a bug is anything that is “technically, historically, typographically…

The flight simulators are unable to accurately replicate the difficult conditions created by a malfunctioning system on the jet, which played a role in two fatal crashes.

Come back capitalism, all is forgiven

Recently at I gave a short talk noscriptd "Linux at Cloudflare". The talk ended up being mostly about BPF. It seems, no matter the question - BPF is the answer.

Here is a trannoscript of a slightly adjusted version of that talk.

Amber Brown of the Twisted project shared her criticisms of the Python standard library. This proved to be the day’s most controversial ta...

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Our reporter went undercover at Foxconn’s giant Zhengzhou plant, where the scars of a small downturn in Apple’s iPhone sales are impossible to ignore.

Artisanal versions of Twitter and Facebook hope to keep the good while jettisoning the bad.

Entrepreneurs are taking up the search for a near limitless energy source and seeking investors willing to put money behind a long-shot bet against climate change.

Cats can really get around in Switzerland.