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On one hand I hear that quantum computers will crack factorisation and discrete logarithms, on the other that the max number factorised is 15 and that 21 might not even be feasible…

> partially because Intel didn’t see a market I saw some articles saying that Intel saw the market very well, they just could not deliver and rather than admit that, they claimed t…

The English word bit has the same meaning in French as word Coq has in English.

I think NM translation was broken all along. Not in the neural network part but in choosing the right answer. https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.398.pdf

We, humankind managed to get a good optimisation for this problem by using spaces between words. When trying these algorithms for searching a word in a string of text, I was surpri…

Given that the GitHub repo is almost three years old, I expect Martin Fowler to already have Dada Patterns, Refactoring in Dada, Dada Distilled, Dada DSL and Dada Best Practices re…

They don't allow development on GNU/Linux.

Tried it and it feels slow. I opened a Rust project and after a long wait to index crates, I opened a file and deleted a commented line. It took a few seconds to display the annota…

Tokio uses a pool of threads for disk I/O because it uses the synchronous calls of the operating system.

> I’m curious though… are people using it in production much? Here's Daniel beating his own drum: https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/curl/

> the noise level of the keyboard made it difficult for my colleagues to focus Had the same issue in the past but nowadays everyone is wearing noise cancelling earphones

Can you implement a web shop like Amazon using Rama?

Rust deadlocks just fine.

link to the Pakistani bloke?

That explanation irks me a lot because it implies Eratosthenes knew the Sun was so far away, the rays reaching the earth are practically parallel. And while it might sound a like a…

If the Pareto principle is always true, just keep on firing 80% of the remaining engineers until the company runs without developers.

I was under the impression you can opt to simply download the epub and send it to Kindle yourself but the website will not let me do anything before I set up the Kindle upload.

Can anyone speculate why there's so much crypto using Rust as opposed to everybody else? I am afraid crypto will end up giving Rust a bad name.