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It's hard to get much more accurate than Chrony with NTP. Even real-world PTP implementations don't often aim for more accuracy than is possible with Chrony. Because it turns out N…

They mention it, but Chrony is really amazing as a time sync solution for most environments. I've used most open source (and some proprietary) implementations of NTP and PTP over t…

In the secondary market, securities are sold by and transferred from one investor or speculator to another. It is therefore important that the secondary market be highly liquid (or…

Humans tend to think we’re adept at the games we create, but computers have proven time and time again that we’re just not fast enough to stay on top. Machines have defeated us in …

In January 2019, DeepMind introduced AlphaStar, a program playing the real-time strategy game StarCraft II. AlphaStar uses a reinforced learning to learn the basics of the Protoss …

FUSE is particularly useful for writing virtual file systems. Unlike traditional file systems that essentially work with data on mass storage, virtual filesystems don't actually st…

There are many uses for podcasting for the classroom. They can be used to convey instructional information from the teacher or trainer, motivational stories, and auditory case stud…

The onboard passive hydrogen maser and rubidium clocks are very stable over a few hours. If they were left to run indefinitely, though, their timekeeping would drift, so they need …

The EU's stance is that Galileo is a neutral technology, available to all countries and everyone. At first, EU officials did not want to change their original plans for Galileo, bu…

Thanks, I gave up too early.

There was a mistake with acceptance/rejection emails for Startup School (not YC core) and so they accepted everyone. We were one of those that was meant to be rejected.

Congrats to Geoff. He, along with others, has done a great job with Startup School. I would suggest that the YC core program could learn a lot from the Startup School program. For …

Momentum! At least for me, productivity requires momentum and being at a standstill feels like quite a hurdle. So at least at first, work on something you're really excited about. …

Very exciting stuff. I hope this experiment is successful and it paves a way towards a completely open model. It seems only logical that any startup should be able to enter the are…