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Linux: We need Tiling Desktop Environments

linuxblog.io

linux
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Teaching Concurrency (2009)

lamport.azurewebsites.net

education formalmethods pdf
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Thoughts on finding the essential elements of a set - The Old New Thing

microsoft.com

programming
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Wrap your dependencies

thoughtbot.com

We stand on the shoulders of giants. We use libraries and tools that other people created...
We stand on the shoulders of giants. We use libraries and tools that other people created to speed up our work. That’s a good thing! But before you take a new toy and start using it in your code, consider wrapping it. Here are some ways you can do that: Wrapping behavior into a function Say we are using HtmlSanitize...

practices
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Parsing tiny and very large floating-point values: a programming-language comparison – Daniel Lemire's blog

lemire.me

c++go
1
Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part One, 1982)

youtube.com

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Leader Election With S3 Conditional Writes

morling.dev

To address this situation, you can add another attribute to the lock file format, defining for...
To address this situation, you can add another attribute to the lock file format, defining for how long it should be valid: 1 2 3 4 { "validity_ms" : 60000, "expired" : false } In this example, the lock should be valid for 60 seconds. For each file, S3 provides the last modification timestamp, specifying when it has...

distributed
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Using search as a primary datastore since the docs said not to | nicole@web

ntietz.com

Look, I'm sorry, but if the docs say not to do something that's like catnip. Then...
Look, I'm sorry, but if the docs say not to do something that's like catnip. Then I just have to do it. So when I saw that the Typesense docs say not to use it as a primary datastore? Well well well, that's what we'll have to do. I spent a little bit of time figuring out what a bad but plausible use-case would...

databases
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Don’t use complex expressions in if conditions

maximullaris.com

August 2024 Let’s consider a piece of code below. It belongs to a notification sub-system of...
August 2024 Let’s consider a piece of code below. It belongs to a notification sub-system of some hypothetical application. The code determines if the notification should be sent to any particular user or not. if ((((reservationId && notification.reservationId == reservationId) || (facilityId && notification.facilit...

practices programming
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What are you doing this week? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to...
What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.

ask programming
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Fixing a Bug in Google Chrome as a First-Time Contributor - Casey Primozic's Homepage

cprimozic.net

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Using an Old Android as an E-Reader: A More Secure and Flexible Device than a Boox Palma - DrkPxl

drkpxl.com

The internet is currently abuzz with talk about the Boox Palma, a sleek $300 e-reader that...
The internet is currently abuzz with talk about the Boox Palma, a sleek $300 e-reader that runs a very outdated version of Android. It’s praised for its ability to run Android apps, unlike the Kindle, which means you can read your favorite news sites, newsletters, and more. However, for me, the outdated Android vers...

android hardware
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If pg_dump is not a backup tool, what is?

xata.io

We all remember the sad day when Pluto was decommissioned as a planet. I’ve always liked...
We all remember the sad day when Pluto was decommissioned as a planet. I’ve always liked Pluto—maybe it’s the name, or maybe it’s because it was the smallest, and I like supporting the underdog. Either way, it was sort of my favorite planet. Recently, while writing about the vulnerability affecting pg_dump, the topi...

databases
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Git Super-Power: The Three-Way Merge | Quentin Santos

qsantos.fr

tl;dr: git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3 In my previous post, I preached about the one true...
tl;dr: git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3 In my previous post, I preached about the one true way to merge MRs in a git workflow. The answer is obviously to rebase for conflicts, and a merge commit for posterity of the MR. What I did not talk about is that there is a reason that push so many people to here...

vcs
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JS Dates Are About to Be Fixed | TimeTime

timetime.in

Of all the recent changes coming to ECMAScript, my favorite by far is the Temporal proposal....
Of all the recent changes coming to ECMAScript, my favorite by far is the Temporal proposal. This proposal is very advanced, and we can already use this API through the polyfill provided by the FullCalendar team. This API is so incredible that I will likely dedicate several blog posts to highlighting its key feature...

javascript
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Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka » Blog Archive » Pavel Durov and the BlackBerry Ratchet

oblomovka.com

privacy
2
Linux Pipes are Slow | Quentin Santos

qsantos.fr

linux performance
3
live-bootstrap/parts.rst at master · fosslinux/live-bootstrap

github.com

compilers linux programming
2
Why am I writing a Rust compiler in C?

notgull.net

rust
2
Why is a Guillotine blade diagonal?

pepijndevos.nl

history math mathematics
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Advanced Python: Achieving High Performance with Code Generation

medium.com

Note: This is an advanced technique and I’m going to assume you’re fluent in Python before...
Note: This is an advanced technique and I’m going to assume you’re fluent in Python before trying this. If the phrase “hand-rolled bytecode” makes you laugh maniacally, this article is for you. If it makes you think “this is almost certainly a terrible idea,” then you have the right level of caution to be considerin...

high performance programming python software engineering
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CORS is Stupid - Kevin Cox

kevincox.ca

security web
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Fair Source licensing is the worst thing to happen to open source-definitely maybe

archive.org

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Programming With ChatGPT

henrikwarne.com

Using ChatGPT when I code has been a real productivity boost for me. Instead of reading...
Using ChatGPT when I code has been a real productivity boost for me. Instead of reading an example on Stack Overflow and figuring out how to adapt it to my particular case, I immediately get code tailored to my specific needs. I my mind, generating code is a perfect use case for LLMs, since I will always test the ge...

ai programming
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