~lobsters | Bookmarks (1991)

The Secret Behind Valve's Flickering Lights - Alan Zucconi

alanzucconi.com

This article will explore the origin of the popular flickering light effect, seen across many of...
This article will explore the origin of the popular flickering light effect, seen across many of their titles including “Quake”, “Half-Life”, “Half-Life: Alyx” and “Portal”. A Unity package to use this very effect can be download at the end of the article. Not long ago the Internet has gone crazy upon discovering th...

graphics historical
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GitHub - rudyrucker/chaos: James Gleick's Chaos: The Software

github.com

art historical math
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Protecting Signal Keys on Desktop

sandboxaq.com

cryptography hardware privacy
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Buggy code is biased code

johndcook.com

programming quality
1
Garnix Blog: Incremental builds in Nix and garnix

garnix.io

linux nix
1
Making robots plan faster with SIMD and Rust

claytonwramsey.com

Clayton Ramsey - 2024-06-08 Systems programming and data structures meet to make instant collision-checking. I'm now...
Clayton Ramsey - 2024-06-08 Systems programming and data structures meet to make instant collision-checking. I'm now wrapping up the first "real" research project of my Ph.D., which is both exciting and very stressful at the same time. I got to experiment with a lot of really cool things, but most of them didn't act...

performance robots rust simd
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SuperC: parsing all of C by taming the preprocessor

paulgazzillo.com

pdf
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An Introduction to Residuality Theory - Barry O'Reilly - CPH DevFest 2024

youtube.com

practices scaling science & technology video
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Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary

youtube.com

games gaming historical video
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The Monads Hurt My Head --- But Not Anymore | The n-Category Café

utexas.edu

John, right now my brain hurts because I’ve been up all night, but maybe I’ll have...
John, right now my brain hurts because I’ve been up all night, but maybe I’ll have a crack at the first one, about tensorial strength, and hopefully others will chime in about some of the others. Or if not, I can come back to it later. (I ignored your advice and listened to the young lady before 7:30, which I began ...

math
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Implementation of an Out-of-order RISC-V Vector Unit- Roger Espasa, SemiDynamics Technology Services

youtube.com

hardware performance science & technology video
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Exploring Effect in TypeScript: Simplifying Async and Error Handling

tweag.io

Effect is a powerful library for TypeScript developers that brings functional programming techniques into managing effects...
Effect is a powerful library for TypeScript developers that brings functional programming techniques into managing effects and errors. It aims to be a comprehensive utility library for TypeScript, offering a range of tools that could potentially replace specialized libraries like Lodash, Zod, Immer, or RxJS. In this...

javascript
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Maybe Bluesky has “won”

anderegg.ca

distributed
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Huawei develops massive 72TB SSD-tape hybrid storage device — first-gen MED drive targets warm and cold storage

tomshardware.com

This has the same energy as using an old steam locomotive boiler to drive a generator...
This has the same energy as using an old steam locomotive boiler to drive a generator powering an electric motor. Having said that, I would buy one. Comments

hardware
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Retrofitting spatial safety to hundreds of millions of lines of C++

googleblog.com

Attackers regularly exploit spatial memory safety vulnerabilities, which occur when code accesses a memory allocation outside...
Attackers regularly exploit spatial memory safety vulnerabilities, which occur when code accesses a memory allocation outside of its intended bounds, to compromise systems and sensitive data. These vulnerabilities represent a major security risk to users. Based on an analysis of in-the-wild exploits tracked by Googl...

c++
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What To Use Instead of PGP - Dhole Moments

soatok.blog

It’s been more than five years since The PGP Problem was published, and I still hear...
It’s been more than five years since The PGP Problem was published, and I still hear from people who believe that using PGP (whether GnuPG or another OpenPGP implementation) is a thing they should be doing. It isn’t. The part of the free and open source software community that thinks PGP is just dandy are the same k...

cryptography security
3
Gliimly official web site

gliimly.github.io

api programming
2
Thoughts on Django’s Core

buttondown.com

November 1, 2024 To tie-in with the upcoming elections for Django's Steering Council, I wanted to...
November 1, 2024 To tie-in with the upcoming elections for Django's Steering Council, I wanted to think again about Django's Core, let's call it Batteries Included Revisited. Django’s surprising longevity Django will be 20 years old next birthday 🎂 — I don’t think I’m really going out on much of a limb to say it got...

python
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Fuzzing the PHP Interpreter via Dataflow Fusion

arxiv.org

PHP, a dominant scripting language in web development, powers a vast range of websites, from personal...
PHP, a dominant scripting language in web development, powers a vast range of websites, from personal blogs to major platforms. While existing research primarily focuses on PHP application-level security issues like code injection, memory errors within the PHP interpreter have been largely overlooked. These memory errors, prevalent due to the PHP interpreter’s extensive C codebase, pose significant risks to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability...

pdf php security testing
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Implementing Type Systems as Macros

lambdaland.org

computer-science lisp macros plt programming-languages
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</> htmx ~ You Can't Build Interactive Web Apps Except as Single Page Applications... And Other Myths

htmx.org

Tony Alaribe September 20, 2024 I often encounter discussions on Reddit and YCombinator where newer developers...
Tony Alaribe September 20, 2024 I often encounter discussions on Reddit and YCombinator where newer developers seek tech stack advice. Inevitably, someone claims it’s impossible to build a high-quality application without using a single-page application (SPA) framework like React or AngularJS. This strikes me as odd...

web
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Announcing Prometheus 3.0 | Prometheus

prometheus.io

alerting devops monitoring monitoring system prometheus
1
How Westwood VQA works

30fps.net

In which I investigate a 30-year-old video format. Imagine if you could watch movies on your...
In which I investigate a 30-year-old video format. Imagine if you could watch movies on your computer. With the arrival of CD-ROM discs in the 90s, many game developers were dreaming of this. With hundreds of megabytes to spare, you could finally make your game a cinematic multimedia masterpiece. One of those game d...

graphics retrocomputing
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What are you doing this weekend? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help...
Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

ask programming
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