I do understand that today designs tend to put less emphasis on conservative memory usage but that’s pretty outrageous. A simple search into node’s package manager ate one gigabyte and half of main memory having to deal with a simple question like npm find foobar more speficically GNU time told me that it took 48…
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xkcd: Matrix Transform
Sometimes a little joke on coordinate transformation made using a matrix is needed. Sorgente: xkcd: Matrix Transform Yet it’s only a simple rotation. There’s no translation neither skew…
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No source, no trust
Microsoft brings Office to Android smartphones for free No, thanks, I rather prefer not to use software that I cannot trust. You may offer it for zero money but as there’s no sources to inspect I cannot trust it. No source, no trust. It’s that simple. Sorgente: Microsoft brings Office to Android smartphones for free
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AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Review: Fiji And HBM Put To The Test
The Fiji GPU is comprised of roughly 8.9B transistors Almost nine billion transistors…. sounds like science fiction for the child in me that once played with Commodore 64, powered by the almighty 6510 which has a transistor count of around 3,500. From: AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Review: Fiji And HBM Put To The Test
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Look, dad!
I’ve read from time.com “The War on Pink: GoldieBlox Toys Ignite Debate Over What’s Good For Girls“, as Slashdot gained my attention with “Are Girl-Focused Engineering Toys Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes?“. Being an engineer and father of two wonderful girls I am quite interested in the matter. Quite obviously my wife and me wish the best…
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Se ci pensate è maledettamente vero: la maggior parte di aziende che spendono molto in pubblicità sono aziende che andrebbero evitate.
Think about it, it seems quite true: companies spending a lot in advertizing are those that should be avoided.
Source/Sorgente: Alla Rovescia!: sito fesso 5
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xkcd: Free Speech
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Yes, I’m using my WordPress blog and its PressThis as something akin to Google+. I’m trying to regain control on my online presence.
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Email programs are another way to access the same email accounts you can access in a browser (like Gmail), but provide extra features.
Reading tenses like this (from Email Self-Defense – a guide to fighting surveillance with GnuPG encryption) makes me feeling old. When I got on the net