Source: How Standard Ebooks serves millions of requests per month with a 2GB VPS; or, a paean to the classic web – Alex Cabal
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Cool CV page
Curriculum Vitae (CV) of Eddie Antonio Santos, software developer and computer science educator Source: Curriculum Vitae — Eddie Antonio Santos Manpage original formatting language is quite esoteric, I was thinking to just rely on pandoc, so I was looking for a template MardDown file of a manpage. It happens that Eddie Antonio Santos wrote one.…
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Researchers prove that navigating certain systems of vectors is among the most complex computational problems.
Source: An Easy-Sounding Problem Yields Numbers Too Big for Our Universe | Quanta Magazine
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Elite: “The game that couldn’t be written”
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godbolt.org Compiler Explorer
godbolt.org/ : Run compilers interactively from your web browser and interact with the assembly
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Why?
DBUS is approximately 18 times slower than CORBA From CORBA, DCOP and DBUS. A performance comparison So why has everyone dropped Corba?
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A nice Gnome theming
Mohamed Dali (on FB) proposes his “perfect gnome setup”: a “windows-like” desktop environment with chromeOS material design UI. He used all those extentions, themes and the like:
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36% efficiency. Wow.
Perovskite silicon tandem solar cell technology is a mouthful, but it’s basically perovskite crystals layered on top of silicon cells. The combination Perovskite silicon tandem solar cell technology sounds like a mouthful, but it’s basically perovskite crystals layered on top of solar cells. The combination captures more energy from the sun than traditional silicon cells,…
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Does AMD’s Threadripper 7000 make a good compiling workstation?
AMD’s Monstrous Threadripper 7000 CPUs Aim For Desktop PC Dominance (pcworld.com) 22 AMD’s powerhouse Threadripper chips are back for desktop PCs. … AMD announced three new Ryzen Threadripper 7000-series chips on Thursday, with up to 64 cores and 128 threads — and the option of installing a “Pro”-class Threadripper 700 WX series for a massive…
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Orwell e Huxley
Orwell temeva coloro che avrebbero bandito i libri. Huxley temeva che non ci sarebbe stato bisogno di bandire i libri, perché nessuno sarebbe stato più interessato a leggerli. Orwell temeva coloro che ci avrebbero privato delle informazioni. Huxley temeva coloro che ci avrebbero sommerso da così tante informazioni da ridurci alla passività e all’egoismo. Orwell…