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A simple semi-space collector – wingolog

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Good day, hackfolk. Today’s article is about semi-space collectors. Many of you know what these are,...
Good day, hackfolk. Today’s article is about semi-space collectors. Many of you know what these are, but perhaps not so many have seen an annotated implementation, so let’s do that.Just to recap, the big picture here is that a semi-space collector divides a chunk of memory into two equal halves or spaces, called the...

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Who Really Wrote the Bible: The Story of the Scribes

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How Tailscale's infra team stays small

tailscale.com

When I talk to other infrastructure folks at tech conferences, they’re usually shocked to hear that...
When I talk to other infrastructure folks at tech conferences, they’re usually shocked to hear that Tailscale’s infra team is just three engineers. Companies of similar size often have multiples of that. How do we manage to get by with so few people?The honest answer is that we at Tailscale use Tailscale in nearly a...
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Oral History of Nolan Bushnell [video]

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Chinese hackers preparing for conflict, US cyber official says

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UK sees privatisation 'opportunities' in Ukraine war

declassifieduk.org

Zelensky meets Starmer and NATO secretary general Mark Rutte. (Photo: Simon Dawson / No 10 handout)Amid...
Zelensky meets Starmer and NATO secretary general Mark Rutte. (Photo: Simon Dawson / No 10 handout)Amid the devastating war in Ukraine, British economic aid to the country is focused on promoting pro-private sector reforms and on pressing the government to open up its economy to foreign investors. Recently-published...
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Americans see their savings vanish in Synapse fintech crisis

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Oscar Wong | Moment | Getty ImagesFor 15 years, former Texas schoolteacher Kayla Morris put every...
Oscar Wong | Moment | Getty ImagesFor 15 years, former Texas schoolteacher Kayla Morris put every dollar she could save into a home for her growing family.When she and her husband sold the house last year, they stowed away the proceeds, $282,153.87, in what they thought of as a safe place — an account at the savings...

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My new POWER Indigo 2

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Lazy Docker: The lazier way to manage everything Docker

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Computer Networking Fundamentals – Learning Series (2023)

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The Neuroscience Link Between Neuroticism and Social Media Addiction

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Danielle BerninzoniLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Introduction Personality is defined as the combination of...
Danielle BerninzoniLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Introduction Personality is defined as the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual’s distinctive character. Everyone is considered to have a different and unique personality, based on personal experiences and different mo...
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Scientists Clone Two Black-Footed Ferrets from Frozen Tissues

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Antonia, one of the new black-footed ferret clones. The first black-footed ferret clone was born in...
Antonia, one of the new black-footed ferret clones. The first black-footed ferret clone was born in 2020. The two new ferrets are the second and third successful clones. Roshan Patel / Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute Researchers have cloned two black-footed ferrets from preserved tissue samples in an effo...
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An Analysis of the Performance of WebSockets in Various Programming Languages

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Samurai: Adapting Segment Anything Model for Zero-Shot Visual Tracking

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Oncall shift should be Tuesday to Tuesday

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Normally when developers/SWEs/SRE/IT are oncall for a project, the oncall is from Monday of one week...
Normally when developers/SWEs/SRE/IT are oncall for a project, the oncall is from Monday of one week to Monday of the following week. This is sub-optimal. Instead it should be Tuesday to Tuesday. This is a 0 cost improvement to everyone’s quality of life and improves schedule accuracy. Background Stuff goes wrong wi...
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Quake 3 Source Code Review: Network Model (2012)

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The network model of Quake3 is with no doubt the most elegant part of the engine....
The network model of Quake3 is with no doubt the most elegant part of the engine. At the lower level Quake III still abstract communications with the NetChannel module that first appeared in Quake World. The most important thing to understand is: In a fast paced environment any information that is not received on fi...
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How to Create (Lots of) Sample Time-series Data with PostgreSQL (2021)

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As the makers of TimescaleDB, we often need to quickly create lots of sample time-series data...
As the makers of TimescaleDB, we often need to quickly create lots of sample time-series data to demonstrate a new database feature, run a benchmark, or talk about use cases internally. We also see users in our community Slack asking how they can test a feature or decide if their data is a good fit for TimescaleDB. ...

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Microsoft's New PC Looks Just Like a Mac Mini but Serves a Whole New Purpose

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Three years after Microsoft announced the Windows 365 Cloud PC, an enterprise-focused cloud computing service that...
Three years after Microsoft announced the Windows 365 Cloud PC, an enterprise-focused cloud computing service that allowed users to log in to a virtual computer from any device or location, the company has come up with a physical manifestation of the same. At the ongoing Microsoft Ignite conference, Microsoft took t...
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Are at-home genetic tests worth it? As an oncologist, here's my advice.

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Ask HN: Best non-fiction book you read in 2024?

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Casio to Release Ring Watch

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Tjq: Giving Types to Jq

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Why the next leaps towards AGI may be "born secret"

roadtoartificia.com

Did you receive this forwarded from a friend? [Note: I had planned to publish a piece...
Did you receive this forwarded from a friend? [Note: I had planned to publish a piece on battles over AI in the legal and political arenas, but there was a significant development regarding the U.S. government’s role in pursuing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) on Tuesday Nov. 19th that is too important not to ...

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MaXX Interactive Desktop -- the little brother of the great SGI Desktop on IRIX

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MaXXdesktop v2.2.0 (alpha) running in Modern Look & Feel with Indigo Magic SGI Scheme (4K @120Hz)...
MaXXdesktop v2.2.0 (alpha) running in Modern Look & Feel with Indigo Magic SGI Scheme (4K @120Hz) Introduction The MaXX Interactive Desktop a.k.a. MaXXdesktop is the continuation of the 5Dwm project released many years back. So don't be mistaken, there is only one real re-implementation of the IRIX Interactive Deskt...
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