To speed-up memory operations and reduce fragmentation Python uses a special manager on top of the general-purpose allocator, called PyMalloc.

Although the default answer to almost every question, request or suggestion is a disheartening ‘non’, a ‘oui’ is often hiding in the context of what is being said.

The first season of Calculus, now streaming on Geogebra!

This is an introduction to the main ideas of Calculus 1: limits, derivatives and integral…

As I focus on becoming a better manager of engineers, I have been reflecting more and more on the advice that produced a 10X boost in my…

The site is a venue for extremists to test out ideas, share violent literature, and cheer on the perpetrators of mass killings.

This is Part 1 of a series. I am not claiming to be an expert by any means, this is just an effort for me to internalize things I’ve learnt.

Inventing Monads | Kabir Shah's blog on design, the web, servers, databases, systems, algorithms, artificial intelligence, cryptography, and ideas.

A recent article in the Boston Globe Magazine, 15 Things to Love and 11 Things to Loathe about Boston, labels the newest glassy section of the city “soulless” something people “lo…

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Disclaimer: I’m an Android developer, I have ~1000 stars in GitHub from projects using Kotlin and I love Kotlin. I also hate both Android…

Welcome to the second installation in my series on taking the Practical Networked Applications in Rust course, kindly provided by the PingCAP company, where you develop a networked and multithreaded/asynchronous key-value store in the amazing Rust language.…

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A yearlong U.S.-China trade war boiled over on Monday as Washington accused Beijing of manipulating its currency after China let the yuan drop to its lowest point in more than a decade.

Startup companies, government agencies and academics are racing to combat so-called deepfakes, amid fears that doctored videos and photographs will be used to sow discord ahead of next year’s U.S. presidential election.

When we optically tested the Sony FE 135mm f/1.8 GM we were mighty impressed. Then I threw up in my mouth a little when I read a couple of reviewers comment on the build quality. Because holding a lens gives you not the slightest idea about the build quality.…

Complete Guide on understanding the Syslog protocol, syslog message format as well as log forwarding. Best practices included!