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See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20524867

At the end of 2021, the three-year MALT project, working to rationalise the provision of software licences at CERN, ended. The important lessons learned from this project will now …

"geeks" -> https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Introduction.html#D...

The first 30 minutes is an Introduction panel with the first 5 names in the Featured Speakers section. Then there's a 30 minutes interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, where among oth…

In this podcast episode ( https://reverseengineering.libsyn.com/014-ferrycast ) they mention the dirtyPCB's service mentioned in the other comment and some other similar ones. I'd …

I own one 8XX model (~3 years old, I think) and can attest that "Roomba proofing" the spaces prior to operation and having furniture with high clearings and basic shape legs are ki…

The original document by G. Bergenroth mentioned in the link provided by jeioncs is supposed to have a description of the original procedure. I don't know how/if you can get a docu…

That lap in particular was a coordinated team effort where Alonso's car was "launched" by his team mate drag effect in the first part of the circuit. I would expect that the whole …

It's not really necessary because as you say, there are other ways. But it's useful if what you want to do is create a simple API to access your data. If your use case includes bui…

Yes, we found the same issue. We worked around this by organizing our application (an admittedly basic REST API) in two layers. The external one exposed to API consumers, developed…

Do you have any insight about the mention in the slides of Google having a 10kb solution?

I'm also curious about the commute time estimation. I've been playing with the app around the Geneva area where I live and work and I think the commute times are a bit too optimist…

This happens in my country every New Years Eve with the telephone/cell networks. Communication networks are in general designed for a certain base capacity and foreseen spikes with…

Well, there's plenty of legacy code laying around that may be easier to improve and fix than completely rewrite. In fact, I just presented this tool to my co-workers as a suggestio…

Coming from Spain, I had the same feeling when I got to that part :s

If the whole database is 2GB, can you get a server big enough to have all your data in memory, or at least the hot part of your data? That would be better.

I would suggest that anybody interested in performance test these claims in their own setup. I ran tests doing binary swapping binaries when the releases of both were around 5.5.34…

A secure mail startup founded by CERN and MIT scientists in 2013.