An open ocean rendering experiment in Godot Engine uses the inverse Fourier transform of directional ocean-wave spectra for realistic wave generation, allowing real-time modification via scriptable parameters. This method surpasses Gerstner waves in simulating choppy surfaces and leverages FFT for efficient GPU computation, enhanced by features like sea spray particles, adaptive wave ...

Amusing Ourselves to Death" contrasts Orwell's fear of information deprivation and truth concealment with Huxley's fear of overwhelming, trivializing distractions leading to passivity. Postman suggests Huxley's vision of pleasure-induced control may be more accurate than Orwell's pain-based tyranny.

Discord migrated from Cassandra to ScyllaDB for better performance and reduced maintenance. Rust-based data services improved concurrency control, enabling efficient handling of trillions of messages with significant latency reductions.

Python 3.13 introduces major changes: an optional Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) for improved multi-threading and an experimental JIT compiler for potential performance boosts, marking significant advancements in Python's execution efficiency. These enhancements aim to better utilize multi-core processors and pave the way for future performance improvements in Python applications.

SpaceX launched a rescue mission to retrieve two astronauts stranded at the ISS due to Boeing's Starliner issues. The downsized crew, led by NASA's Nick Hague and Russia's Alexander Gorbunov, will bring the astronauts home in late February after more than eight months in space.

Gentoo faces challenges transitioning 32-bit systems to 64-bit time_t due to ABI breakage risks. Proposed solutions include changing the platform tuple, libdir, and preventing accidental mixing of time32/time64 binaries to ensure a safer upgrade path.

The UK government bought a semiconductor factory in Newton Aycliffe to bolster defence supply chains and secure up to 100 jobs. This move ensures the production of vital gallium arsenide components for military use, enhancing national security and industrial capacity.

Notion, a tech product facing mid-life crisis, reminisces about past successes and contemplates future prospects in a dive bar. The author shares diverse experiences from learning Google Cloud to participating in BSidesSF's CTF, addressing fears about AI impact on software engineering and discussing various programming languages and technical topics.

Received an F-4 fighter's three-axis attitude indicator, disassembled and fixed its 1960s circuitry. The complex mechanism uses two hemispheres rotating around internal motors controlled by servo loops, with slip rings preventing wire entanglement.

To improve in music, practice diligently and learn from experts. Ericsson's studies on expertise highlight the importance of deliberate practice and problem-solving in mastering skills.

SunVox is a portable, modular synthesizer with a pattern-based sequencer, suitable for composing music on various devices and systems. It features optimized synth algorithms, generative music capabilities, and extensive built-in modules for complex sound creation.

Autossh v1.4, built with autoconf, monitors and restarts SSH sessions as needed. It uses a monitoring port for traffic checks and offers various options including background operation (-f) and customizable behavior via environment variables.

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An implementation of Pie is available from the Racket package system. To install Pie, first install a recent version of Racket. Open DrRacket and select "Install Package" from the "File" menu. In the package name field, type pie and then click the "Install" button. There are known errata.

Text editors for developers have consistent default settings, possibly due to habit or lack of awareness. This article explores these choices and suggests alternatives without endorsing any specific option.

htmgo is a lightweight pure go way to build interactive websites / web applications using go & htmx. By combining the speed & simplicity of go + hypermedia attributes (htmx) to add interactivity to websites, all conveniently wrapped in pure go, you can build simple, fast, interactive websites without touching javascript. All compiled to a single deployable binary.

Meta was fined $101.5 million by Ireland's DPC for storing users' passwords in plain text since 2012, violating GDPR rules on data breach notification and security measures. The breach affected up to 600 million accounts, with passwords accessible to 20,000 Facebook employees but not external parties.

Torchao is a PyTorch native library that makes models faster and smaller by leveraging low bit dtypes, quantization, and sparsity with minimal drops in accuracy. It provides easy-to-use APIs for inference and training, including quantization, sparsity, and low-precision compute, with extensive benchmarks and integrations with popular projects.

mtCellEdit is a lightweight, customizable spreadsheet program for GNU/Linux, designed to handle simple tasks efficiently. It uses a portable TSV-based file format and a shared C/C++ library for easy data manipulation across various platforms.

23andMe faces delisting, layoffs, and potential sale amid leadership turmoil. Customer DNA data's misuse risk heightens without HIPAA protection if sold.

R and Saira Rao gained fame in 2020 for hosting dinner parties where they addressed unconscious biases among wealthy white women, leading to emotional confrontations and media attention. Their work culminated in the film "Deconstructing Karen," highlighting the complexities of liberal white women's roles in perpetuating racism.

To simplify recycling schedules, a user created a customizable "rubbish clock" with a seven-day mechanism instead of opting for high-tech solutions. The clock face, generated via code for easy printing and assembly, indicates which bins to put out each day without needing frequent updates or complex configurations.

Iceoryx2 v0.4.0 is a fast, modular IPC library with advanced features like zero-copy communication and language bindings for C/C++. It offers customizable service attributes, dynamic payloads, health monitoring, and detailed documentation for efficient inter-process communication.

Dart now has a REPL, enabling interactive coding similar to other languages. It supports imports, rich grammar, redefining classes/methods, and using package dependencies interactively.

Eight potential bird-flu cases in Missouri may signal the first U.S. person-to-person transmission, raising concerns about easier human infection. Investigations continue to confirm if H5N1 virus is responsible, urging caution but not panic.

A linguist argues that Middle English is not a creole language due to its complex grammar and history. The definition of a creole language is disputed among scholars, with some arguing it's a matter of degree and others that it's a sociohistoric concept.

Four more healthcare workers fell ill after treating a Missouri H5N1 patient, raising concerns of person-to-person spread. CDC is monitoring the situation but maintains public risk remains low; blood tests are pending to confirm infections.

Ex-Westwood developer Bob Koon, who worked on the original Amiga version of Dune II, is recreating it from scratch to address past regrets and enhance gameplay with modern features like multi-unit selection and improved audiovisuals. Despite having no initial game development experience, Koon aims for a definitive Amiga release that honors the game's legacy while ensuring a polished floppy ...

Mitata is a versatile benchmarking tool for JavaScript and C++, offering high-resolution timings, automatic garbage collection, and support for various runtimes. It simplifies creating complex benchmarks with ranged arguments and provides detailed performance insights through visual plots and summaries.

Internal tech emails reveal urgent calls to quickly ship a photos app due to competitive threats from Instagram and Google, alongside discussions on acquisition strategies for companies like DoubleClick and WhatsApp. These documents provide insight into strategic decisions within major tech firms like Meta and Google.

I built a Savitzky-Golay filter (fancy name for a dot product with some known constants on a rolling window) and tried to optimize the crap out of it. It's fast, it was fun, and I want to share the tools that helped me see where I was missing perf like cargo show asm, cargo remark and divan.

To reduce variance in A/B testing, increase sample size, use an even split between groups, winsorize outliers or measure the median, break down metrics into components with lower variances, and employ stratification or CUPED. These methods enhance long-term decision-making by providing more accurate results.

The "x-hack" in shell scripting, prefixing values with "x" to avoid parsing issues, was crucial for handling bugs in early Unix shells but became mostly obsolete by the mid-1990s. Despite its historical usefulness, modern shells adhere to POSIX standards, making the x-hack unnecessary and leading tools like ShellCheck to suggest retiring this practice.

Many immigrants want to get citizenship in time to vote in the upcoming election. The Biden administration says the uptick in new citizens is due to efforts to reduce a backlog of applications that mounted during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ente is thrilled to join Mozilla's Builders Accelerator, focusing on Local AI for privacy-respecting features. They anticipate significant growth and learning from the collaboration.

Better Auth is a comprehensive, framework-agnostic TypeScript library for authentication and authorization, offering extensive features and a plugin ecosystem to streamline development. It prioritizes best-practice defaults over deep customization and is free under the MIT License.

Tech CEOs are using AI to generate code, resulting in bloated, complex systems with hidden errors. This makes maintenance and improvement difficult, leading to bugs and system downtime.

Allow Copy enables text selection, right-click functionality, and copying on restricted websites with one-click activation. It boosts productivity without interfering with normal site functions and is free to use.

An engineer replaced an inefficient Python script with a C++ utility, saving tens of thousands annually. Benchmark tests showed the C++ solution was over ten times faster on an M2 MacBook.

A study by Uplevel found no significant productivity gains from GitHub Copilot, with even more bugs introduced. However, some firms like Innovative Solutions report substantial productivity increases using coding assistants, though they caution against unrealistic expectations.

Apple has decided not to invest in OpenAI's $6.5 billion funding round, ending previous discussions. Despite this, Apple will integrate ChatGPT into iOS 18 without financial exchange, valuing the partnership for mutual exposure.

ViewComfy converts ComfyUI workflows into web apps via drag-and-drop. It offers ViewMode for playground access without the form editor and supports custom file paths via environment variables.

Former UBS analyst created PingPod, 24/7 automated ping pong venues, now a sports-tech company with over 70 locations globally. Autonomous model reduces costs and enhances user experience, leading to $50M valuation and $10M in funding for expansion.

Studies show that judgments of learning (JOLs) can be overconfident due to the presence of information during study that isn't available during testing, leading to illusions of competence. This bias is more pronounced for items with strong a posteriori associations relative to a priori associations, affecting learners' ability to accurately predict future recall.

Researchers studied sea robins, fish with leg-like fins, to understand their unique trait. They found the fins are sensitive to touch and chemicals, and are used for digging and finding prey.

Chicago faces losing its sole intercity bus terminal, impacting low-income and minority travelers. Greyhound's lease expiration threatens a nationwide trend of declining bus services, with advocates pushing for public solutions.

The early 80s computing era is popular due to nostalgia, its representation in media, and the balance of challenge and affordability it offers for hobbyists. This period's unique mix of innovation, accessibility, and the shift from mainframes to personal computers continues to captivate both those who experienced it and younger generations curious about computing history.

Residents in Tampa, Florida, are experiencing a new reality where distant storms cause significant damage. Recent hurricanes, including Hurricane Helene, have brought flooding to neighborhoods that had never seen it before.

To maximize review benefits, use spaced and interleaved retrieval practice. This enhances complex generalizations and discrimination learning more than massed practice.

Exploring a multithreaded asyncio event loop for educational purposes, with a basic FastAPI server example using Python 3.13. Encourages community contributions for testing and issue reporting.

Jeremy Clarkson, known for his controversial opinions on cars, criticized modern vehicles as "all shit now" during a "Grand Tour" watch party, preferring older models like the Lancia Montecarlo. He also expressed hope that Amazon finds younger, knowledgeable hosts for future car shows.

WordPress community faces turmoil due to a company's predatory behavior, with minimal contributions despite high revenue. Automattic's CEO, Matt Mullenweg, publicly called them out after private efforts failed, emphasizing the need for transparency and fair contribution to sustain the open-source project.

AMCI's extensive real-world test of Tesla's Full Self Driving (FSD) software revealed frequent human intervention needs and potential safety risks, casting doubt on its reliability ahead of Tesla's RoboTaxi presentation. Despite being in "beta," FSD's issues highlight ongoing controversies and criticisms surrounding Tesla's approach to autonomous driving technology.

Ruby 2.2 introduced RincGC, an incremental garbage collection algorithm by Koichi Sasada, reducing GC pause times significantly compared to Ruby 2.1. RincGC interleaves fine-grained GC processes with Ruby execution, minimizing individual pause lengths despite maintaining similar total pause time, enhancing performance in interactive web applications.

Yale researchers found that unexpected sounds before decisions lead to riskier choices due to dopamine bursts, potentially impacting understanding of mental illnesses like schizophrenia and depression. Their experiments showed a 4% increase in risky decisions after rare sound sequences, suggesting environmental sounds might subtly influence daily choices.

Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis EVs are targeted by high-tech thieves using a $25,000 "Game Boy" hacking tool to steal vehicles in seconds. This escalates the digital arms race between automakers enhancing security and thieves developing advanced methods for theft.

Learned Go routing and SQL query optimizations while working on a personal website project. Also, adjusted Go's garbage collector settings to prevent OOM kills in low-memory VM environments.

Free, encrypted, no-logs DNS blocks tracking, ads, and phishing; supports DoH, DoT, DoQ, DNSCrypt & Anonymized proxy.

@lethic1 and his amazing humanoid robotic at the @OpenAI humanoid robotic Meetup

update the version to match what is reflected in /lmdb/libraries/liblmdb/lmdb.h for MDB_VERSION_(MAJOR | MINOR | PATCH) before deploying.

The FreeBSD Foundation has committed $750,000 to improve laptop support, focusing on wireless, power management, and graphics. This investment aims to make FreeBSD a more viable choice for users and enterprises, enhancing its stability, security, and performance.