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My "laptop" only gets used on desks and my "desktop" sits under my table. Go figure.. He calls it a laptop since Framework calls its computers "laptops" and the whole setup is batt…

On my and my families windows machines, I try to follow the advice from Taylor Swift who seems to know what she is doing... https://decentsecurity.com/#/securing-your-computer/ In …

I am not exactly sure what they were working on, but I am not convinced that any code can be made non-allocating easily. For example, when you are building large trees with complex…

It was a talk by folks from this team: https://gradient.avast.io/people-behind/

I heard a talk from a large cybersecurity company that was using Julia for research and is apparently in the process of dropping Julia due to: - difficulty in hiring, apparently it…

I remember a class I had where we were shown a methods for exact PC arithmetic with integers, rationals (e.g., 1/2) and algebraic numbers (e.g., sqrt(2)). Only thing it couldn't de…

I really wanted to love syncthing a lot, I loved the idea, the interface, everything. But I would always get a number of errors on some files for whatever reason that I would have …

To be clear, in my browser, no article appeared, I only saw a single blinking eye in the middle of the screen. Together with the title in the link, I was appropriately confused/amu…

I think this is what a first rickroll must have felt like.

Regarding uranium extraction in Czechoslovakia, the Soviets later mined uranium in other sites by pumping sulfuric acid into the ground. This has caused a lasting ecological damage…

Kate Crawford is a famous researcher who focuses on social implications and ethics of AI, so kudos to her for being able to get her work into Nature so reliably! As an aside, that …

The linked discussion makes me wonder, how much of our existence on the internet is just an unintended consequence of some minor engineering decision? Whim of an unknown engineer c…

I don't have a strong opinion on this, but a comment in the article lead me to this discussion, which is just wild: https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/issues/1482 I get a sense t…

They have some in the news section: http://gpl-violations.org/news/