Samsung is ready to dominate the PCIe 4.0 SSD market. | Continue reading
Learn how to write rate limiters using Erlang queues, GenServers and Task.Supervisor | Continue reading
Seven days into a new year and nary a SPLOT related blog post… what’s going on around here? Thar be rabbit holing in the code warren. I’ve still got a big surprise to add to SPLOT… | Continue reading
Walmart has announced the Walmart Advertising Partners program, which is accompanied by a new advertising API and four initial advertising partners. The announcement of an API-driven platform provides advertisers’ more direct access to their campaigns. | Continue reading
This study examines the association between antibiotic use in the first 6 months of life and the emergence of allergies in children in the first few years of life. | Continue reading
Show the number of visitors currently viewing your web page. | Continue reading
Vendors show off the first generation of Open Connectivity Foundation-compatible Internet of Things devices. | Continue reading
Google AI has open-source A Lite Bert (ALBERT), a deep-learning natural language processing (NLP) model, which uses 89% fewer parameters than the state-of-the-art BERT model, with little loss of accuracy. The model can also be scaled-up to achieve new state-of-the-art performance … | Continue reading
Who among us has never lost control and consumed, say, an entire carton of ice cream or an entire bag of M&Ms even though the nutritional information label specifically says that said carton or bag contains two or three servings? (And, like, three servings in one of those little … | Continue reading
[Edit May 11 2019: If you would like to contribute to further the development of this application, or to a similar future application to measure roast colorimetry, you can do so on my Patreon page.… | Continue reading
Portworx sponsored The New Stack’s coverage of KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America 2019. Now that organizations are starting to rely on Kubernetes and containers in general, performance becomes a major focus point for admins, particularly for public-facing high-use services, suc … | Continue reading
I recently read John Ousterhout’s book, Philosophy of Software Design (PoSD). This blog post includes my commentary on some parts that stuck with me. In the last post we talked about eschewin… | Continue reading
The Welsh language, spoken by around half a million people today, is expected to “thrive in the long term”, based on a model looking at how proficiency in languages changes over time | Continue reading
Me: I constantly feel anxious. It’s usually about nothing in particular. Just a feeling deep in the pit of my stomach about human existence. My doctor: I think you may be ready for an SSRI. Me: Give me 8 weeks. Just 8 weeks. My doctor: Good luck. For years, I’ve been told to try … | Continue reading
Integration of an ultrafast flexible rectifier made from a two-dimensional material with a flexible antenna achieves wireless energy harvesting of Wi-Fi radiation, which could power future flexible electronic systems. | Continue reading
All you need is a Raspberry Pi and a Windows or macOS computer! | Continue reading
The Mandalorian and Game of Thrones scored the most nods of the 2020 Visual Effects Society Awards nominees. Read the full list here. | Continue reading
Yesterday, I made a comment on Reddit that included a link to a screenshot I took using my personal screenshot hoster application. The comment was in a very active /r/worldnews thread about the Iranian missile attacks against US military bases, and it soon picked up a lot of stea … | Continue reading
As we enter a new decade, what new jobs will emerge? And how can we support workers to transition into the jobs of the future? | Continue reading
Find out what functional programming is, how it’s different from object oriented programming, and which are the most popular FP languages in our next post. | Continue reading
The list of curated resources and software engineering blog posts for 2020-01-08 | Continue reading
cgit, a web interface for git repositories, allows you to easily share your projects’ source code over a web interface. It’s running on my desktop right now, so you can see for yourself what it looks like. On Gentoo, the ebuild for this software can be found as www-apps/cgit. How … | Continue reading
It’s not just true and false that matter, the Berkeley professor argued. Everything in between does, too. | Continue reading
Tesla stock hit another all-time high on Tuesday. The shares’ persistent rise has made the electric vehicle pioneer the most valuable U.S. car company in history. | Continue reading
Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. | Continue reading
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s landscape of tools is vast and overwhelming. Yet some of that tooling must be valuable in the… | Continue reading
The attack on U.S. military facilities in Iraq comes days after the U.S. killed Iran Gen. Qassam Soleimani. | Continue reading
This article explains how you can use Istio in combination with ngrok to debug a service running locally on your machine while the production version of the service is running in the cluster | Continue reading
Flexible and adjustable for any occasion, whether you're on a plane, laying in bed, working at the office, cooking in the kitchen, or recording a little league game from the bleachers. | Continue reading
French distributor The Jokers and U.S. distributor NEON have released new Parasite movie art, one of which will be available for purchase as a poster. | Continue reading
"First-time marathon runners can 'reverse ageing' on blood vessels by four years," the Daily Mirror reports. | Continue reading
I first read Dostoyevsky’s final novel, The Brothers Karamazov (1880), on the recommendation of a young man. I was 18. He was two years older and more or less out of his mind. I recall the solemnity with which I told my mother I would love him forever. | Continue reading
As society moves away from fossil fuels, we will need more radical new technologies for storing energy to support renewable electricity generation. | Continue reading
My Facebook friends were outraged that Ivanka Trump had been asked to speak at the Consumer Electronics Show. How was her talk? A senior citizen white male programmer linked to “Ivanka Trump … | Continue reading
Created in direct response to the Australian Bushfire crisis, Darcy Prendergast's new film #TomorrowsOnFire is a rallying cry for hope, in a country increasingly… | Continue reading
We tend to assume things happen as a result of proximate causes. The case is often more complicated. | Continue reading